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Conference ProceedingsConference proceedings are available to all members and conference attendees. Plenary Sessions
Sunday, July 11, 2010, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM There are no proceedings for this session as there was no visual component. Jerome Ringo became National President of the Apollo Alliance in 2005 as a dedicated champion of environmental justice and vocal advocate of clean energy. He has first hand experience of the challenges we face after working for more than 20 years in Louisiana’s petrochemical industry.His career include years in drilling and offshore production in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as process operations in the refining industry. More than half of that time was spent as an active union member working with his fellow members to secure a safe work environment and quality jobs. Louisiana’s petrochemical industry focuses on the production of gasoline, rocket fuel, and plastics – many of which contain cancer causing chemicals. As he began observing the negative impacts of the industry’s pollution on local communities – primarily poor, minority communities – Jerome began organizing community environmental justice groups. Jerome’s experience organizing environmental and labor communities and his drive to further diversify the environmental movement bridges many of Apollo’s partners to create a broad based coalition to provide real solutions for our energy crisis. In 1996, Ringo was elected to serve on the National Wildlife Federation board of directors and, in 2005, Jerome became the chair of the board. In so doing, he also became the first African American to head a major conservation organization. Jerome was the United States’ only black delegate at the 1998 Global Warming Treaty Negotiations in Kyoto, Japan, and represented the National Wildlife Federation at the COP 15 talks in Copenhagan, Denmark. He also served as a representative at the United Nations’ conference on sustainable development in 1999. Jerome inspires audiences around the world to create a new clean energy economy. Some of his most notable speaking appearances include: the Montreal Climate Summit in 2006, the United Nations African Climate Conference in Nairobi, Kenya in 2006, the Kyoto Plus Conference in Berlin Germany in 2007, and the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver Colorado. In 2006, Jerome was a McCloskey Fellow and Associate Research Scholar at Yale University; in 2008, he was a Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Bren School of the Environment. Jerome is co-author of Diversity and the Future of the U.S. Environmental Movement (published in 2007) and The Green Festival Reader (published in 2008.) Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Sustainability, Social Justice, Environmental Equality Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 8:30 AM–9:45 AM The US education trend data are not pretty. The challenges around college completion in particular are real and growing. However, an optimist might look at this opportunity and take heart in the rising embrace of innovative technologies, creative techniques, and transformative models and say there is hope on the horizon. In this presentation we’ll outline the challenges and explore the opportunities we’ll face together in the education world on the road ahead. Mark David Milliron serves as the deputy director for postsecondary improvement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, leading efforts to increase student success in the US postsecondary education sector. He is an award-winning leader, author, speaker, and consultant well known for exploring leadership development, future trends, learning strategies, and the human side of technology change. Milliron founded and served as CEO for the private consulting and service group, Catalyze Learning International (CLI). In addition, he previously served as an Endowed Fellow, Senior Lecturer, and Director of the National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin; Vice President for Education and Medical Practice with SAS, the world's largest private software company; and President and CEO of the League for Innovation in the Community College While teaching at Arizona State, Milliron received the International Communication Association's Teaching Excellence Award. More recently, the University of Texas at Austin's College of Education honored him as a Distinguished Graduate for his service to the education field. In 2005, PBS named Milliron the recipient of its annual O'Banion Prize for transformational work in support of teaching and learning. And in 2007, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) presented Milliron with its National Leadership Award for his outstanding accomplishments, contributions, and leadership. Follow the blog he authors and moderates: Catalytic Conversations Blog Also, visit www.scup.org/page/annualconf/45/Plenary/Monday/Resources to explore the books and resources referenced in the presentation. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Information Technology, Innovation, Student Learning Continuing Education Credits:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 11:00 AM–12:15 PM Proceedings for this session were not shared. There is much ado today about social media and the changing landscape of human interaction brought on by the revolution in network-based communications. No doubt this revolution is powerful, far-reaching, and impacts our daily lives in direct and tangible ways. What is not so evident is the revolution quietly occurring in the way buildings are being conceived, a revolution that will impact the way we plan, design, implement, and manage the campus facilities portfolio forever. Technologies such as building information modeling, cloud computing, mesh networks, and digital media are being realized in new ways to optimize energy consumption, usage efficiencies, user comfort, security, and human communication. At what point do buildings become self-aware? When do they inter-operate? And how might we plan for the emerging intelligent campus? This presentation will take a look over the horizon of possibilities. Mark Valenti is an expert in digital media technologies, architectural acoustics, psychoacoustics, and market trends in the multimedia industry. He understands the engineering behind designing truly rich classroom learning environments, blended with the online tools that students and instructors love. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Technology Trends, Technology In Facility Function, Sustainability, Building Information Modeling Continuing Education Credits: Concurrent Sessions
Monday, July 12, 2010, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM There are many planning studies and campus plans that claim sustainability as their underpinning. However, the meaning of "sustainable" can be quite widely interpreted. This session outlines a plan for a campus of 15,000 FTE seeking to be holistically green--in planning, infrastructure, buildings, and landscape. By setting the metrics of sustainable development in tangible economic, social, and technical terms, this plan shows what a truly sustainable campus might look like. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Sustainability, International, Integrated Planning, Master Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM The University of Vermont has embarked on an exciting initiative to restore, renovate, and expand a local landmark as an important new point of campus connection for visiting alumni. This creative design offers a home base for alumni activities, opportunities for revenue-generation, outreach to the surrounding city, and administrative space for development and alumni relations. This session will address the project's complex planning and design process, financial modeling, strategies for phased construction, neighborhood concerns, endowment opportunities, and sustainable strategies for historic structures. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Renovation, Town/Gown, Facility Design, Facility Type Alumni Center Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM Limited resources are not a new reality for higher education, but how we design for these constraints can be. A focus on first cost, rather than on life-cycle cost, has defined a performance path with ever-increasing operational costs. This session illustrates how San Diego Community College District and other institutions are utilizing net zero approaches to design away operating costs, control capital costs, and push LEED certification to the highest levels. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Community College, Sustainability, Operational Planning, Facility Design Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM This interactive presentation addresses implications of current trends and considers possible senarios that community colleges must consider as part of their integrated planning process. Integrated planning at any institution is a challenging process; however, environmental, social, and political forces offer some unique factors for community colleges. These include mission (open door access), defining the college's role (assist remedial students, prep students for four-year colleges, economic development engine), the community's expectations (partnerships, respond to employers' workforce needs, course offerings), funding sources (state and county contributions), and institutional leadership (anticipated retirement of 75 percent of community college presidents by 2012). Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Community College, Planning Theory And Research, Trends, Integrated Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM A microcosm of our world today exists in the richness and diversity of the new Health and Human Services Building at Coppin State University. Challenges of integrating multiple academic departments consisting of nursing, applied psychology and rehabilitation center, sociology, criminal justice and an early childhood development center with a community health clinic and pharmacy can also be considered as providing great opportunities for collaborative learning that is reinforced through architecture and the use of technology rich environments. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Facility Type Health, Facility Design, Town/Gown, Public Comprehensive Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM Can you maintain your assets with less dollars and fewer personnel? Can technologies such as CMMS/SCADA/GIS help you bridge the budget/responsibility gap? We will analyze how technologies being used by colleges and universities are either helping with or not contributing to the institutional performance. Learn how to apply lessons learned to your institution. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Information Technology, Performance Measures, Budget/Resource Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM The Fogelman Library project realized a new paradigm for the university’s library and an innovative model for others, integrating technology, print media, food service and informal study opportunities within an intensely-used existing academic building known as the Arnhold Knowledge Center. Throughout the building, spaces were clarified, connected and revitalized, creating a dispersed yet cohesive library, with access to specialized media technology already present in the building, thereby multiplying and enriching both the new and old learning resources. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Facility Type Library, Information Technology, Student Learning, Facility Design, Renovation Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM Athletic and recreation buildings are some of the largest, most energy-intensive buildings on a campus. Factor in fields and outdoor venues and the impact becomes even more significant. With increasing demand for intramural and club sports and expectations for ever more sophisticated facilities for athletics, team sports and human performance research, institutions are working harder than ever to plan appropriately for the future. This session will look at planning strategies that maximize space and land area with a sustainable, long-term focus. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Facility Type Athletics, Trends, Sustainability, Open Space, Master Planning, Student Life Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM Understanding what students should know and be able to do as a result of their experiences in learning spaces is a critical starting point for planning such spaces. Findings from cognitive science research, expectations of learning outcomes from academic, disciplinary and societal communities, and explorations of how and where today’s students learn, inform the work of those responsible for the quality and character of 21st century learning spaces. In this interactive session the focus will be on how to use engaging learners as a planning tool and goal. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Learning Space Design, Student Learning, Performance Measurement, Demographics, Research On Learning/Pedagogy Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM The knowledge economy predicted by Peter Drucker in 1968 has arrived. Paul Lingenfelter will reflect on its implications for higher education, and more broadly, for the sustainability and quality of human life. He will consider: the re-alignment of national economies, the imperative for mass higher education, and the challenges posed by global competition for quality assurance and the delivery of higher education. A fourth topic is the implications of resource scarcity on the business model of higher education – Can we, and should we move from a model that competes not just on quality, but also on productivity? Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Environmental Scanning, Economics, Global Education, Resource Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM The University of Idaho undertook a Program Prioritization Process in the 2009-2010 academic year. The outcome of that process was the elimination or reorganization of 49 degree programs and the structural elimination of seven academic departments. In parallel with this effort was a Strategic Innovation Initiative process that asked the faculty and staff to offer new ways to rethink the structure and functioning of the university. These processes were built on a foundation of three years of strategic plan implementation and involved broad collaborations with faculty, staff, and students. In this talk, the process, timelines, metrics, and culture for these transformations will be discussed. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Academic Program Prioritization, Change Management, Collaboration Faculty Staff Student, Integrated Planning, Strategic Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM A gift of adjacent land and a building seemed like good news to rapidly growing Ivy Tech Community College. The easy solution would be to demolish the building and start over, but the building became important to historic preservation enthusiasts. Meanwhile, legislative priorities and a roller coaster economy constantly altered the realities for this project. This session explores two years of community consensus building to find an educationally sound and creative solution the community loves. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Community College, Town/Gown, Historic Preservation Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM York University is a large comprehensive university with over 50,000 students located in northwest Toronto. Each of York's ten faculties is steeped in rich individual tradition and enjoys a high degree of autonomy. However, the financial pressures of recent economic turmoil have forced the university to dramatically step up its efforts to control costs while still providing a high-quality education and these efforts have involved harmonizing processes between faculties. Learn how a combination of organizational realignment, process changes, and custom software integrated with enterprise systems radically improved the university's planning, budgeting, and resource cost tracking capabilities. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, International, Information Technology, Performance Measures, Change Management Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM After struggling with pedestrian/vehicular conflicts, ruined landscape, and a desire to remove vehicles from the campus core, the University of Connecticut decided that it needed an access management plan. Learn about the university's decision process leading to its request for an access management consulting study, the particulars of data collection and plan preparation, the reaction from campus departments and vendors, the issues involved in plan implementation and buy-in, and the benefits realized. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Transportation Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM Several years ago, the University of Washington invested in a centralized, experimental technology-enhanced conferencing space to provide faculty and staff opportunities to collaborate over long distances. The experience gained was leveraged towards the design of two additional, larger facilities. As a result of the curtailment of travel, two additional facilities are being planned. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the form and function of these facilities, describe usage experiences, and address the on-going challenges of support, maintenance, and renewal. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Information Technology, Facility Type Distance Conferencing Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM Adequate movement, even while seated, promotes both physical health and academic progress. Students forced to remain still in a physically static environment become more uncomfortable, more tired, and less productive. In fact, the number of students who develop sitting-related musculoskeletal symptoms and disorders continues to increase. Research has shown that giving students increased opportunities to move while seated triggers increased levels of attention and concentration during test taking. This presentation will show how this can be achieved. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Student Learning, Theory And Research Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM It has been said that "Culture eats strategy for lunch." Well-designed and well-intentioned strategic plans are gobbled up and spit out by a university culture that has no appetite for change. Organizational culture can facilitate as well as impede the ability to pursue strategic actions. An understanding of the foundational concepts of organizational culture, especially the culture of the university, can guide successful change. Using the University of Wisconsin-River Falls as a case study, this session will illustrate intentional strategies for managing institutional change within the confines of academic culture. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Comprehensive, Change Management, Integrated Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM Colleges and universities have a large variety of building stock. Some were built at a time when there was little regard for energy consumption or knowledge of best practices for moisture control. Schools must provide desirable and healthy housing and academic facilities to attract students. When resources are tight and conservation is paramount, re-cladding can preserve the value of existing structures while overhauling their performance and aesthetics and extending their lives to the end of the century. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Sustainability, Student Retention, Renovation, Facility Design Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM In 2003, Franklin and Marshall College made a commitment to their liberal arts mission by adopting a comprehensive College House Residential Program for their 2000 undergraduate students. The purpose was to create an experience that would join life outside the classroom with the essential intellectual and community values that guide the two-hundred-year-old college. Learn about the process to initiate and develop the program, as well as the creation of a masterplan of renovations, additions, and new buildings to support it. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Small Private Liberal Arts, Renovation, Student Learning, Master Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM The Bluegrass Community and Technical College Master Plan consolidated programs from three existing campuses, while redeveloping the oldest continuing psychiatric hospital campus in America. Located in a distressed neighborhood, the project integrated academics, operations, sustainability, historic preservation, and community needs. Focusing on 48 acres adjacent to downtown Lexington, the planning team collaborated with KCTCS, Finance Cabinet, faculty, staff, city, and historical society representatives to create a mixed use campus vision for 10,000 students that links institutional and community priorities. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Community College, Historic Preservation, Master Planning, Town/Gown, Sustainability Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM Space is a valuable campus resource. Too little space hampers the ability to accomplish a unit's objectives; too much space wastes institutional assets. Creating an equilibrium balance of space, between too little and too much, requires managing space on a campus. Explore new methods that campuses across the US are now using to project space needs, measure the amount, distribution, and use of space, and allocate space equitably among academic, administrative, and support units. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Space Management, Space Utilization, Performance Measures Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM At Purdue University's Discovery Learning Center, researchers are encouraged to collaboratively explore ways to not only meet students' changing needs, but also to help them thrive in academic environments. In this session, a post-occupancy evaluation of the Discovery Learning Center will focus on the facility's unique educational practices and innovative learning environments. Projects within the facility will explore novel technologies and pedagogies designed to enhance learning at all levels. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Learning Space Design, Student Learning, Facility Type Science Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 3:15 PM–4:45 PM As communities, schools, and workforces become increasingly diverse, cultural competency and the elimination of cultural and personal bias become correspondingly important issues. What are some of the new skills and perspectives needed to meet the challenges of a more diverse population? Through personal stories, group exercises, and films, participants will learn that cultural competency requires awareness of cultural differences, cross-cultural communication skills, community development expertise, and an understanding of social issues and contexts. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Diversity, Change Management, Student Retention, Faculty Recruitment, Faculty Retention, Student Recruitment Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 3:15 PM–4:45 PM Social networking presents new ways to enhance staff development and meet organizational goals. Social networking tools, already in widespread use, create virtual communities and link people and ideas across regions and time in an interactive, participative way. Tech-savvy organizations can reap the benefit of these collaborations without investing in significant infrastructure. What social networking trends exist? What challenges should be considered? We explore how leaders can thoughtfully leverage social networking to enhance collaborations, manage change, and lead organizations. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Information Technology, Student Learning Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 3:15 PM–4:45 PM Learning can take place anywhere. This session shares the result of a student video contest that was designed to give students a voice, inviting them to share with us their favorite learning space and explain why it makes a difference. The contest, titled "Where do you learn best?" encouraged students to document areas on or off campus that best support their learning. This session will focus on the top contest submissions, presented by the student winners. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Learning Space Design, Student Learning, Student Recruitment, Student Retention Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 3:15 PM–4:45 PM In 2005, California Polytechnic State University requested proposals for the state's largest student housing project. Originally developer-financed, the project was repositioned as design-build. Working together, the University and the Design/Build team, comprised of over 30 professional entities, creatively met the proposed budget while exceeding the proposal commitment of LEED certification, achieving LEED Gold. In 2009, Poly Canyon Village welcomed students to a 2,670 bed, 1.4 million gsf, sustainable, adaptable environment. Learn how the project team met current market expectations, maximized the budget, and brought the best green building practices to campus housing. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Student Residences, Sustainability, Facility Type Student Residences, Design/Build Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 3:15 PM–4:45 PM Most institutions are able to develop a strategic plan. But the implementation of the strategic plan will only occur if it is operationalized through a clear identification of outcomes, accountabilities, financial implications, timelines, and assessment. At multiple institutions, the presenters have developed a process and a system to translate strategic plans into dynamic operational plans that drive performance objectives and assessment measures for the entire institution. The process and samples of operational planning will be shared in this case study. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Integrated Planning, Strategic Implementation/Execution, Operational Planning, Performance Measures Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 3:15 PM–4:45 PM Developer-led and financed projects enable universities to achieve projects they otherwise could not afford--sometimes losing the intense client-architect interactions essential for architectural excellence. A process led and financed by the developer, American Campus Communities, equally involved Arizona State University's Barrett Honors College dean, administration, faculty, student leadership, ASU residential life, and associated architects. This unique partnership to create a seven-building, multi-courtyard campus met the college's academic and social mission, and achieved architectural excellence, all within a developer budget. Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and define the historically contradictory values and goals in a complex project with an unconventional development process. TAGS: Large Public Research, Partnerships, Student Learning Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 3:15 PM–4:45 PM Awards programs are a way to not only recognize and applaud those individuals and organizations whose achievements exemplify excellence, but also to provide learning opportunities for everyone whose lives and passions involve higher education. The 2010 jurors will talk about their observations and elements from this year's entries during the first 60 minutes. They will talk about the winning entries and hand out certificates during the last 30 minutes. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Facility Design, Open Spaces Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 3:15 PM–4:45 PM Participants will discover solutions on this topic by comparing and combining their current experiences with both current and timeless literature. The facilitator will provide the literature in the form of a set of readings from a variety of disciplines and the participants (and the facilitator) will provide the experiences. There will be a brief presentation to set the stage, some leading questions, and the rest and vast majority will be a structured exchange of insights, ideas, and practical suggestions among experienced professionals. The goal is to provide an intellectual experience, but with an emphasis on the practical application of what's discussed. (For advanced planners and administrators with 3+ years of experience - first 50 people) Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Theory And Research In Planning, Integrated Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 3:15 PM–4:45 PM The University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology and the Oberlin College Sustainable Arts District are two recent projects with high goals for environmental sustainability and energy use reduction. The design of these campuses and their built environments provide teaching and learning tools in both the sciences and arts. These two case studies demonstrate how to
extend the efficacy of construction funds by conceiving facilities that go beyond functionality to active engagement of the curriculum. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Sustainability, Learning Space Design, Small Private Liberal Arts, Large Public Research, Integrated Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 3:15 PM–4:45 PM In a state with the highest unemployment in the nation, with limited state funding support, Michigan State University created a new center for medical education and research. This is the multi-year story of building community, community partnerships, creativity, and project delivery that made this new center possible. The story will be told by a diverse group of panelists, from community leader to research dean, academic administrator to architect—each of whom was instrumental in creating and realizing the vision. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Facility Type Health, Partnerships, Town/Gown, Resource/Budgeting Continuing Education Credits:
Monday, July 12, 2010, 3:15 PM–4:45 PM The vision and beauty of a plan is achieved through the joy of a collaborative process. This begins with the ability to respect what is, develop a shared understanding of the institution's vision and make decisions that serve both human activity and the human spirit leading to an embrace that everything is related in a campus "ecology." This mini-workshop explores plans that mirror these qualities, and teaches techniques that empower all levels of leadership to achieve joyful, fun and durable collaborative planning. Proceedings may be viewed here: http://prezi.com/oftl6cw6h9zp/scup-svigals-final-download-this-one/. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Master Planning, Change, Open Space Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Responding to this years ARRA grant funding opportunity necessitated using every approach of "rapid conceptualization" available: defining, illustrating, and packaging applications for projects of significant complexity. Researchers, campus planners, architects and engineers worked in concert to complete applications within as little as eight weeks. We will present three stories from the aspect of the university architect, office of the Dean, and the architects/engineers. Each presenter will give their account of the roles and activities. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Funding, Project Management Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM The pressure to be accountable and demonstrate organizational performance and student success continues to increase. To meet this challenge, institutions need to develop new approaches that align strategies, resources, people, and measures with strategic goals. Learn how Rochester Community and Technical College (MN) has created an integrated planning and accountability system linking college, division, and academic and nonacademic dashboards to assess and track performance supporting continuous improvement and innovation. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Community College, Performance Measures, Change, Integrated Planning, Assessment Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM This session will present SCUP's Getty Foundation-funded Campus Heritage project, its purpose, and its findings of value to campus planners. Presenters will showcase model projects from SCUP's campus heritage website. Drawing from grant recipients' experiences, the panel will include lessons learned from projects of various types, including landscape preservation planning, integration of heritage plans with master plans, documentation methodologies, policy, and maintenance manuals, and engaging the campus, its communities and decision-makers. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Historic Preservation, Master Planning, Open Space Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) and Virtual Design Construction (VDC) are the buzz of the A/E/C industry. This presentation will explore IPD including how it is implemented, contract structures, team arrangements, and processes. The UW-Madison Wisconsin Institute for Discovery | Morgridge Institute for Research (WID|MIR) and University of CO Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus Research II will serve as case studies for an exploration of the challenges and benefits of implementing IPD on projects. In addition, the role of VDC in facilitating the IPD process will be presented in detail. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Facility Type Science, Facility Type Research, Theory And Research, Project Management, Facility Design Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Has your campus had to face the question of how to provide space or facilities for diverse religious groups such as Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, etc.? This presentation will identify the space needs and illustrate how five institutions have provided for these diverse needs. Topics will include the juxtaposition of spaces for religions that have histories of conflict, the lack of comprehensive guidelines, the difficulties of finding appropriate plumbing fixtures for different cultural ablution requirements, and the benefits/drawbacks of shared space. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Facility Type Religious Spaces, Diversity Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Carleton's academic vision for its proposed Arts Union is "to relocate the arts physically and intellectually in the curriculum... by creating an environment that fosters creativity, critical thinking, collaborative working skills, and cross cultural exploration." The site for this ambitious vision is an off-campus accreted middle school complex dating from 1910, 1934, and 1954. This session will illustrate how nontraditional, unlikely, messy spaces can be an ideal place for creative, cross-disciplinary, and collaborative learning. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Small Private Liberal Arts, Facility Type Arts, Learning Space Design, Preservation Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM How can a library sustain growing engineering programs, connect disparate buildings and groups on an emerging campus, house 50% of the university's books and journals, and support a diverse user base in a signature building? To answer this question, NC State worked with Snøhetta, PBC+L, and DEGW in an innovative planning process that resulted in a network of spaces to foster learning, discovery, and interaction; strategies for sharing spaces across groups; and a space-saving Automated Retrieval System (ARS). Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Comprehensive, Facility Type Library, Facility Type Engineering, Project Management Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM As universities and colleges face ever-increasing expectations and demands from many constituencies, it is imperative to find new ways to organize and manage the change process and to promote broad application of "smart" or transformational change principles throughout our institutions. This session will examine how a set of common system-wide strategic directions can articulate effectively and productively with the institutional challenges, priorities and identities of the campuses that make up the Minnesota State College and University System (MnSCU). Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Higher Education System, Change Management Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM As a panel of experts who represent a cross-section of planning, design and construction team members, we will present three scenarios that get to the heart of the economic reality of declining resources. Topics will include
declining staff, reduction in pre-established project budgets, and indefinite suspension of projects. Through role playing, attendees will participate as trustees, planners, architects, builders, or facilities managers to solve one of three case studies profiling these and similar current issues. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Trends, Scenario Planning, Project Management Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Participants will discover solutions on this topic by comparing and combining their current experiences with both current and timeless literature. The facilitator will provide the literature in the form of a set of readings from a variety of disciplines and the participants (and the facilitator) will provide the experiences. There will be a brief presentation to set the stage, some leading questions, and the rest and vast majority will be a structured exchange of insights, ideas, and practical suggestions among experienced professionals. The goal is to provide an intellectual experience, but with an emphasis on the practical application of what's discussed. (For advanced planners and administrators with 3+ years of experience - first 50 people) Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Theory And Research In Planning, Integrated Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Sustainability isn’t just about doing the right thing; it’s about doing the smart thing. And doing the smart thing as a planner means treating sustainability as a strategic imperative that’s woven throughout your short and long-term plans, rather than as a separate priority. Peter Bardaglio, co-author of Boldly Sustainable: Hope and Opportunity for Higher Education in the Age of Climate Change and former provost at Ithaca College, will explain how such an approach can improve organizational effectiveness, making your institution more resilient and competitive. He will then facilitate a series of exercises you can bring back to your campus to help your colleagues understand what it means to make sustainability central to strategic planning rather than just an afterthought. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Sustainability, American College And University Presidents Climate Commitment, Acupcc, Stars Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM Clemson has set out to fundamentally redevelop its campus core. The presentation focuses on this ambitious transformation. It explores innovative mixed-use planning approaches; assesses bold, but careful, proposals for increased density; reflects campus design principles for social and intellectual interaction, respect for campus culture and history, and commitment to sustainability; and describes how housing, academic, dining, and student life programs can be combined into a dynamic center of campus life for a public school poised to break into the top-twenty. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Public Research, Sustainability, Facility Type Student Center, Master Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM Drawing on literature and client work, we will outline the internal and external variables that contribute to institutional risk in support of the creation of a weighted “Risk Scorecard” as part of a comprehensive situation analysis. In building the scorecard, we will examine such internal variables as leadership, visioning and strategic planning, governance, finance, and discount rate. We will then look at level of competition, differentiation, demography, student recruiting, state support, and donor support. These datasets will be arrayed in a Risk Scorecard. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Risk Management, Budget/Resource Planning, Performance Measures, Organizational Effectiveness Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM BIM (Building Information Modeling) is commonly used to coordinate and document virtual building models, but greater potential exists for carrying information generated during programming and planning through facility management, incorporating information gathered such as strategic decisions, area drivers for space, lease durations, adjacency/spatial relations and user preferences for layout, which benefits facility owners. We will illustrate this innovative application of BIM in the early phases of a project through a nearly complete case-study. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Building Information Modeling, Performance Measures, Project Management Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM How can campuses be shaped to positively influence human health, and specifically alleviate stress? Clearly the environment plays an important role in well-being. We often visit special places or landscapes to recharge or get away from our daily troubles. Research supports the idea that certain environments can aid in our recovery from stress and mental exhaustion. Stress not only impacts a student's physical and psychological well-being, it may hurt academic achievement and grades. In a 2007 University of Minnesota Boynton Health survey, 70% of students reported being stressed, and of those who were stressed, 33% said that stress was impacting their academic performance. SCUP Past President Clint Hewitt's former landscape architecture student explores research on healing/mental restoration and the environment and its application to campus design. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Campus Open Space And Health, Campus Design And Health, Student Retention Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM The University of the District of Columbia has provided both two year and four year programs. A new UDC administration decided to create a separate community college within the UDC system. The new community college CEO will describe the planning taking place to create the two year college. The architectural and planning consultants to UDC and CCDC will describe the very accelerated process that is being undertaken to quantify the districtwide needs and evaluate the first CCDC site location. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Community College, Master Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM A university's strategic plan sets the direction of the institution in accordance with its mission and vision, provided the people, culture, and processes attend to its directives. The reality, however, is that institutions and plans need some flexibility due to unknowable obstacles, just as much as they need structure and continuity to advance the implementation and reassure stakeholders. We'll describe Widener University's use of well-planned transitional phases that have allowed us to engage different stakeholders, adjust expectations, recommit to our ultimate goals, and celebrate our successes in our 10-year strategic plan. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Private University, Strategic Planning, Organizational Effectiveness Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM There are many reasons to replace a legacy computer system with an integrated student information system, but the hurdles can be substantial. Resistance from IT staff invested in the legacy system they built, in addition to resistance from faculty and other staff who do not want to change from the familiar to the unfamiliar can present obstacles which are difficult to surmount. Learn how one university focused hundreds of stakeholders to move from a 45-year-old legacy system to a modern, integrated student information system through a clear vision, open and frank communication, and a strong commitment to temporarily forego some bells and whistles in favor of a working enterprise-wide solution in a relatively short period of time. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Comprehensive, Information Technology, Change Management Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM Funding for campus enhancement will continue to be a challenge in this economy. Discover how creative real estate and campus planning can unlock resources to maximize the campus experience when addressing operational, infrastructure, and capital initiatives. Best management practices will be identified to assist institutions in identifying and implementing sustainable enhancement opportunities on their own campuses. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Town/Gown, Real Estate, Resource Planning, Partnerships, Master Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM Perspectives from education, sustainability, and design will demonstrate ways in which multidisciplinary learning and domestically-formatted learning environments may deinstitutionalize the educational process and promote sharing amongst faculty members and their associated research groups. Incorporating sustainable classroom environments and pursuing an open and interactive design process for new classroom buildings promotes a creative, operationally-efficient, and more positive learning/teaching experience. The merit of these methods as implemented on recent projects will be presented and analyzed. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Private Research, Facility Type Science, Learning Space Design, Research Space Design Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM The Nanaimo Campus Master Plan is guiding Vancouver Island University in its successful emergence as a national leader in education, community development and environmental practices. Crafting a superior teaching and learning environment through holistic campus development is the result of a multifaceted consultative process that has its roots in deliberate and thorough pre-planning. How this planning can ensure the development of a functionally synergistic and operationally efficient campus will be discussed. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Innovation, Integrated Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 10:30 AM–11:30 AM Given the current economic climate and steady increase in student enrollment, how can colleges and universities keep pace with the demands of their residential life programs? What creative financial models, trends and partnerships are emerging? How can institutions use these models to ensure they respond appropriately and make the most of endowment dollars? What are the risks and benefits to a new construct in residence life planning and how can institutions respond quickly to the pressing needs of their constituents? Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Public Research, Student Residences, Budget/Finance, Student Services Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM Learning Outcomes: TAGS: Private 4 Year, Town/Gown, Facility Type Science/Engineering, Partnerships Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM Participating in large IT projects is similar to participating in large capital projects, and their success directly impacts an organization's goals. From designing the software to “going live” with a new system, the organization is invested in the outcome. The University of Illinois created a new web-based front end for HR, processing 15,000 transactions monthly using hundreds of complex business rules with unprecedented user satisfaction. This intense, challenging, and often provoking multi-campus collaboration is a model for effectively changing business processes. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Higher Education System, Information Technology, Administrative Systems, Performance Measures Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM The key to thriving as a campus - to survival and success - depends on finding the appropriate mix of continuity and change, of tradition and innovation. Penn State Brandywine has created a unified vision for both short and long-term goals, with scenarios that allow for unforeseen environmental changes. This planning approach takes into account a broad base of internal and external stakeholders, tests existing assumptions, produces cohesive themes and implementation strategies, and monitors ongoing activity in support of identified goals. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Comprehensive, Integrated Planning, Scenario Planning, Change Management, Academic Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM This session presents a streamlined method for analyzing and comparing the conditions of all state higher education facilities in order to prioritize funding for facility preservation and renewal. The legislature desired a better picture of the state's large facility inventory, but could not afford a condition study that relied on traditional survey methods. Instead, they developed a streamlined method that gathers the condition data from the various institutions then translates it to a common, comparative, qualitative-rating, and then statistically projects the backlog of maintenance and repair project costs. Since its development in 2002, the state has renewed this comparative framework database four times, using the information for budget decisions at both the state and the institutional levels. This session will describe the unique methodology for the collecting and projecting of facility needs at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. It will also discuss how the legislature, the govenor's budget process, and the institutions have since been able to use this information for planning and funding capitol projects. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: State System, Performance Measures, Operational Planning, Preservation, Finance/Funding Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM Lean economic times require aggressive pursuit of federal funding. The initial phase of the $500 million Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research project, an interdisciplinary, medical science facility, was supported by federal grants of $17 million. With a focus on grant writing and administration, this session offers inside perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of bringing together interdisciplinary research and federal funds at a major university, and integrating leadership across corporate, state, academic, and administrative lines. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Facility Type Research, Partnerships, Finance/Funding, Capital Projects Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM The University of Mississippi's (UM) enhanced energy management plan and recent deployment of smart grid technology has enabled the university to monitor energy consumption real-time, track building power performance over time, and archive data for future analysis and planning. Additionally, UM is utilizing social networking tools to engage students, staff, and faculty in a collective effort to reduce the campus' power consumption levels. Obtain the details on the overall energy management project, including the technology selection and implementation process, early success stories, challenges, and long-term goals and expectations. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Sustainability, Information Technology, Change Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM Academic analytics connect strategic management, metrics and measurement, business processes, quality improvement, and decision support using business intelligence methodologies and tools for collection, integration, and analysis of information. The session describes steps taken to implement academic analytics at the University of Minnesota, challenges to their acceptance and use, and recommendations for successful implementation. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Performance Measures, Academic Planning, Integrated Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM The Marine Science Campus at UC Santa Cruz is engaged in critically important research activity for the understanding and protection of coastal and marine habitat across the globe, especially adjacent to the site in Monterey Bay. Learn about the recent campus area plan that will guide specific development for the 98-acre site, inspired by its natural setting and aiming for a careful integration of the coastal ecosystem with new energy-efficient academic facilities and programs and alternative transportation. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Sustainability, Master Planning, Open Space Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM After expanding beyond the capabilities of their engineering research facility, the University of Notre Dame invested in a new teaching and research building. Learn how the team tackled the challenge of utilizing the latest advancements in technology, while maximizing space in an academic engineering facility. Hear the capital planning and departmental perspectives, and gain insight into how Notre Dame created a highly technical engineering building within a demanding architectural style. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Private Research, Facility Type Engineering, Capital Projects, Learning Space Design Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM Revenue reductions, combined with increasing student FTEs are forcing institutions to restructure their strategic planning and implementation to increase alignment between academic goals and finances. This impacts everything from academic planning to facilities. Learn how two different campuses, one on the west coast and one in the Midwest, used highly interactive, collaborative master planning and long-range goal setting to effectively develop projects that were financially feasible while maintaining continuity and focus, reducing waste and reinforcing campus identity. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Community College, Master Planning, Academic Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM Residence halls can be designed to provide for freshmen, upper-division and graduate student needs through this unique "Flex-Unit" concept. These sustainable residence life facilities can quickly adapt to all types of students and demographics over a 50-75 year life cycle thereby reducing the number of residence hall types needed on a campus and future landfill requirements. This unique "Flex-Unit" allows residence life staff to provide 18 distinct living unit arrangements within a 1,200 SF module. Multiple "Flex Units" can easily be arranged to develop communities of varying sizes within a residence hall and tracked through BIM software. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Public Comprehensive, Student Residences, Learning Space Design, Sustainability Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM In 2005 the University of Minnesota undertook a 75-acre campus redevelopment and expansion effort in conjunction with the construction of a new 50,000 seat football stadium. This session explores the iterative planning, design and construction process used to implement Phase I which included more than $400 million worth of capital improvements. Planning for Phase II, a $292 million Biomedical Discovery District, followed shortly after. Lessons learned in the course of implementing Phase I while simultaneously planning for Phase II will be shared. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Master Planning, Capital Projects, Project Management Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM In the 1990's Texas Christian University decided it would change the way it housed students. A Housing Master Plan was developed and a road map to change was created. Over the past nine years TCU has renovated five of their existing residence halls and over 1,000 beds and added another five halls with nearly 1,000 new student beds. This program will highlight the aggressive transformation of the student housing facilities at TCU. We will share the lessons learned as we take you on our journey creating an affordable, sustainable and livable campus. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Student Residences, Successful Client/Architect Relationships Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM Are health education programs really preparing students for the future? There is very little programmatic integration of health disciplines on an educational basis. Education in each health discipline is highly specialized and focused in order to implant as much raw knowledge as possible. Real integration of health disciplines happens during practice (internships, residencies). How can the health care industry move towards "patient-centered integrated care" if academic medical institutions continue to maintain their separate academic programs, research, buildings, and identity? Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Facility Type Health Care, Learning Space Design, Student Learning Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM New technologies are emerging and evolving almost faster than academic institutions can incorporate them into the built environment. Students demand new configurations and interrelationships for living and learning spaces and programs. The University of Michigan's North Quadrangle Residential and Academic Complex is an incubator and laboratory for how to flexibly plan a living-learning environment that fosters bold new synergies between technology, academic programs, living space, and the students who inhabit it, all taking place within a timeless and traditional exterior. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Student Residences, Learning Space Design, Student Learning Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM This session will provide real-world techniques and examples of feasibility and lifecycle cost analysis based on Butte College's 2-Megawatt solar power farm (the largest college campus solar project in California) and new 77,000 sq. ft. Instructional Arts project, which is pending LEED Gold certification and won the California Community College Chancellor's Office Energy Efficiency Partnership Program Best Practice Award in HVAC. Attendees will also see firsthand the process implemented for sustainability analysis during preconstruction. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Sustainability, Life Cycle Cost Analysis, Solar Power, Leed, Community College Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM Grant MacEwan University believes that it can best meet the needs of future generations by consolidating all of its existing four campuses onto its one downtown site. This new single sustainable campus project seeks to bring all of MacEwan's services back into one location, while growing its student population, improving the student experience, and tripling its existing square footage in the process. We will reveal an innovative strategy for sustainable growth in a very dense urban context. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: International, Public Comprehensive, Master Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM Research indicates that traditional forms of planning can be ineffective in today's environment because they focus on rationality, linear processes, quantification, and assume that fun, creativity, and qualitative approaches lack substance. New forms of planning should focus on employee engagement, integration of multiple planning strategies, organizational culture, creativity, fun, and serendipity. This presentation will highlight Joliet Junior College's evolution in shifting from a traditional, rigid planning focus to one that is more open, fun, and centered on employee engagement. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Community College, Change Management, Integrated Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM This session will focus on the internal constraints and opportunities that members of a small steering committee of faculty, staff and administrators faced during their first year of setting up a balanced scorecard approach to planning. The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey solicited input to its balanced scorecard planning process from its senior leadership, from two of its labor unions, and from all of its organizational divisions. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Public Comprehensive, Performance Measures, Operational Planning, Strategic Planning, Integrated Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM The session is a case study of the rehabilitation and adaptive re-use of a building on the national register of historic places. Examine the campus factors that lead to the abandonment of the facility and also review the design and construction decisions that provided the basis for a successful repurposing and rehabilitation project resulting in Iowa State University's first LEED® silver project. We will cover strategies, building performance and other possible funding criteria on similar buildings. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Historic Preservation, Sustainability, Large Public Research Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM With public funds for capital projects being scarce, The City University of New York (CUNY) created an innovative partnership with a private developer to help finance and build a new facility for CUNY's Hunter College School of Social Work and Public Health in Harlem. This project will be used as a case study to illustrate the key elements required to ensure a successful partnership, and the collaborative process necessary to achieve a successful outcome to the design and construction. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Large Public Research, Partnerships, Facility Type Graduate Education Continuing Education Credits:
Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:15 PM–3:15 PM With funding in higher education at a critical low and fiscal and human resources being depleted with lay-offs, furloughs, and mass budget cuts it is apparent that collaborative campus planning and shared resources is a must. Learn how CSU Channel Islands planned and implemented campus-wide strategic goals in a highly dynamic, flexible, and collaborative environment at one of America's newest emerging academic institutions. Discover the complexities and intricacies of planning, budgeting and implementing programs and facilities in the adaptive re-use and conversion of an eighty year old state hospital facility. Walk away with information on how to collaborate on successful planning outcomes while working with multiple campus constituencies. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Preservation, Integrated Planning, Adaptive Re Use, Renovation Continuing Education Credits:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 8:30 AM–9:30 AM Energy Benchmarking at 54 campuses was done throughout Minnesota by campus staff. Benchmark data resulted in clear, concise reports for overall energy/water use. Learn how to gather data, determine Energy Use Intensity (EUI) in kBtu/sf/year and water usage in gals/occupant/day. Data is critical to determine best use of capital expenditures to maximize energy efficiency. Examples from both high and low performers will be shared, with suggestions on how to improve campus energy consumption. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Higher Education System, Sustainability, Performance Measures Continuing Education Credits:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 8:30 AM–9:30 AM Learning is about discovery and change. As schools and universities look to the future they must provide environments which will facilitate collaborative learning and act as points for interaction and social activity. We will examine design initiatives that support adaptive and varied learning spaces and respond to new methods of curriculum delivery and will detail the transformation of an existing space.
Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Learning Space Design, Student Learning, Pedagogy, Facility Type Student Laboratories, International, Large Public Research Continuing Education Credits:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 8:30 AM–9:30 AM In 2007, the University of Washington Tacoma Campus began planning Phase 3 of its expansion, anticipating $60M in state funding. Three projects were identified to accommodate 600 additional students, and the designs were well underway when the state's budget crisis resulted in a reduction in funding allocations for the project. We'll review how the campus and design team analyzed the priorities for the expansion plans, and the creative methods UWT implemented to restore project funding. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Public Comprehensive, Master Planning, Funding, Capital Projects Continuing Education Credits:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 8:30 AM–9:30 AM For most higher education institutions, it shouldn't be about forecasting or predicting the future: there are way too many uncertainties and unknowns. The only real certainty is that there will be change, so it should be more about creating a culture in the organization to identify and respond to these changes. Yet few organizations understand how to adapt to change; their strategies for continued stability and success are constantly undermined by the unrelenting pressure and the pace of change . . . space and technology. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Learning Space Design, Technology And Teaching, Student Recruitment, Facility Design Continuing Education Credits:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 8:30 AM–9:30 AM Franklin College's campus planning case study will present a process model for linking 21st-century strategic objectives to an institutionally and contextually appropriate and sustainable plan. Franklin, a small, residential, liberal arts institution, has a long history of active engagement and innovation. The college's recent campus plan sustains the campus’ unique character and heritage by means of a disciplined study and interdisciplinary process. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Small Private Liberal Arts, Sustainability, Preservation, Master Planning, Strategic Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 8:30 AM–9:30 AM Discover a set of tools for assessing a college's array of academic programs in two dimensions: quality and marketing demand. Instead of institutional definitions of quality, we will examine such indicators as student satisfaction within the major, student evaluations, and job/graduate school placement. Marketplace demand indicators include student interest, job trends, and whether similar majors are offered by competitors. The data will be compiled into a quality/demand grid to help colleges do a better job predicting near-term enrollment. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Environmental Scanning, Performance Measures, Marketing, Demographics Continuing Education Credits:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 8:30 AM–9:30 AM With the current challenges facing colleges and universities, it is increasingly important to fully utilize technology and data in planning activities. Pima Community College, the eighth-largest multi-campus college in the US, has developed leadership-defined "Decision Support Data." These data have been established by utilizing new technology and they feed directly into the College's multi-year planning process. The presentation will provide an interactive overview of the data, the software used, and how the information has been seamlessly integrated into the planning process. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Community College, Performance Measures, Strategic Planning, Institutional Research Continuing Education Credits:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 9:45 AM–10:45 AM A year ago, we faced a crisis. Endowment earnings had plummeted, unemployment had skyrocketed, family incomes were falling, and state support for universities was dropping faster than at any time in living memory. A year later, despite some recovery in the value of endowments (now again under attack by a volatile equity market), the litany of the terrible continues. Yet a lot has changed. Enrollment at many universities and virtually all community colleges grew rapidly last year and promises to keep going up—and many of these students are from lower income families and are students of color, the very students whose success will drive the future of the American economy. Calls for accountability and demonstrated learning outcomes have continued despite financial problems for colleges and universities. What are colleges, universities, and states doing to prepare for a decade of deficits combined with a surfeit of students? What choices can be made that could lead to stronger institutions and better educated Americans? The perfectly good crisis continues—and might even become the “new normal.” What can and what should we do?” Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss the economic crisis and the opportunities this affords for institutional change.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 9:45 AM–10:45 AM Facility design in higher education is often caught in the cross fire between meeting a user’s functional program needs, and meeting the demands or desires of philanthropists and fundraising entities. The outcome is often a building designed for fundraising rather than occupancy quality or campus culture. In the absence of a rigorous process, this outcome in not unusual. Yet the ultimate success of the building is measured by the response of its users, who are only peripherally involved in the design process. Explore an evidence based design approach that allows both validation of building performance (perceptual comfort) and design quality (aesthetic meaning) from the user perspective, before the building is constructed. This process can dramatically improve the process of developing new facilities. Learning Outcomes:
Continuing Education Credits:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 9:45 AM–10:45 AM Indiana University is re-aligning its physical resources for a sustainable future. Explore the integrated master plan for the Bloomington campus through the lens of energy and water resources. Learn how the university can accommodate a projected 25 percent facility growth while reducing its overall environmental footprint. We will discuss achieving this goal using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies for an innovative Stormwater and Hydrology Plan and an unprecedented campus-wide Energy and Water Use Plan. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Sustainability, Large Public Research, Performance Measures, Master Planning, Operational Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 9:45 AM–10:45 AM This session looks at George Mason University's approach, successes, and failures in linking an overall strategic planning process with a strategic implementation process. You will see how significant follow-up mechanisms can spur individual units to relevant planning and provide assessment tools. Through candid exposition of the pluses and minuses of the Mason effort, the session will promote wider discussion of the development and implementation of strategic planning efforts. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Integrated Planning, Strategic Planning, Plan Implementation, Academic Planning, Performance Measures Continuing Education Credits:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 9:45 AM–10:45 AM With higher education funding becoming more uncertain, it has become daunting for colleges and universities to position themselves for the future. This session reveals the processes Ramapo College implemented to achieve higher levels of excellence with scarcer resources. Using Resources Allocation Mapping developed by KPMG Prager, Sealy and Co. in conjunction with the Robert Dickenson model, Ramapo will present how they implemented these models in order to invest limited resources to achieve strategic goals and connect the planning and budgeting process. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Public Comprehensive, Budget/Resource Planning, Integrated Planning, Strategic Planning Continuing Education Credits:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 9:45 AM–10:45 AM Simulation as a learning process is the next “must have” technology/methodology for campuses across the world. This shift in learning is changing teaching methods and the student experience, resulting in a new way of designing for and delivering education. Recent case studies from Stanford's new School of Medicine Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge and California Maritime Academy's Simulation Center will illustrate the different opportunities and technical and programmatic needs of simulated learning facilities. Learning Outcomes:
TAGS: Facility Type Simulation Laboratories, Student Learning, Learning Space Design Continuing Education Credits: |
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