Member Profile: Are You A SCUPer? 

What Is a SCUPer?

SCUPers are SCUP members.

Who Are SCUP Members?

SCUP members are:

• Chancellors, presidents, principals, and partners
• Vice presidents, deans, and provosts
• Chief academic, business, or planning officers
• Strategic planning and institutional research directors or managers
• Campus planners and architects, facilities directors or managers, and campus construction managers
• Project managers
• Architects, engineers, contractors, and environmental planners

Where Do SCUP Members Work?

In a variety of work environments:

• 60%—Public and private institutions of higher education of all types and sizes, including research institutions, liberal arts colleges, multi-campus institutions, technical colleges, community colleges, even seminaries and military schools. It also includes systems offices and governing boards. Anyone who works for a postsecondary institution would benefit from joining SCUP.
• 38%—Consulting, design, and architectural firms and other organizations that support excellence in planning for higher education.
• 2%—Foundations and non-profits, as well as federal, state, and local government agencies.

What type of planning do they do?

SCUP members are involved in a variety of planning activities across campus:

• Academic Planning
• Campus/Master Planning
• Capital Planning
• Community Relations (town/gown)
• Emergency Planning
• Enrollment Management
• Facility Planning
• Financial Planning (budget/fiscal)
• Institutional Research Planning
• IT or Technology Planning
• Learning Spaces Planning
• Open Spaces/Landscape Planning
• Parking/Transportation Planning
• Policy & Governance
• Residential Life Planning
• Space Management Planning
• Strategic Planning
• Student Housing Planning
• Student Services/Life Planning

Come join our community dedicated to bringing integrated planning to higher education campuses!