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	Campus Design Richard P. Dober, 289 pages, 2003, $28 USD Members/$35 USD Nonmembers—In the new foreword, Dober notes that "there is an ever-widening realization that a distinctive sense of place can have a positive impact on recruiting and retaining students, faculty, staff, trustees, and governing boards." That makes the reprinted-in-full edition of this 1992 campus planning classic a required reference for all who care about the planning and development of an institution's buildings, grounds, and surroundings. Put it on your shelf or coffee table! Purchase online right now

	Campus Heritage An Appreciation of the History and Traditions of College and University Architecture by Richard P. Dober, $40 USD Member/$50 USD Nonmembers, SCUP 2005 This monograph offers ideas, insights, and information about campus heritage. It describes and illustrates the contributions campus heritage can make to promote, strengthen, and support institutional goals and objectives and outlines suggested methods of incorporating campus heritage in campus plans, facility plans, and campus design concepts. Purchase online right now

	Campus Planning Richard P. Dober, SCUP 1996, $28 USD Members/$35 USD Nonmembers— This book thoroughly reviews the fundamentals of campus planning. It is divided into three sections: "Prospectus," "The Campus and Its Parts"—such as instructional facilities, housing, and parking and circulation—and "Campus Plans"'such as expanding the campus, building a new campus, and renovating. It is rich in concepts and specific solutions, with hundreds of photographs and drawings. It should be on the bookshelf of any campus planner. This classic was first printed in 1963 and is the work of Richard P. Dober, a charter member of SCUP, who influenced campuses worldwide as a planner and consultant to more than 350 educational institutions. Purchase online right now

	Doing Academic Planning: Effective Tools for Decision Making Edited by Brian P. Nedwek, 1996, $32 USD Members/$40 USD Nonmembers— This book tells how planners can best situate themselves and their organizations in the emerging network of collaborative resources. The book is organized into the following sections: "Environmental Scanning," "Curriculum Planning," "Enrollment Management," "Human Resources Planning," "Planning for Information Technology," "Student Services," "Academic Planning Within the Larger Context," and "Linking Quality and Accountability." Purchase online right now

	Educational Environments Edited by Roger Yee, 2002, $32 USD Members/$40 USD Nonmembers— The mission of this full color book is to present examples of the nation's most innovative new educational facilities to those in the process of developing educational facilities. The outstanding architecture and interior design featured in the book illustrate how educational facilities create value for their owners, making long-term investments in building projects, interior furnishings and technological infrastructure to establish enduring physical assets that optimize life cycle costs. The book highlights educational projects that are exceptionally functional, economical, energy conserving, easily maintained, adaptable, and appealing. Educational Environments is a valuable planning and design resource to guide the people who must preserve, enhance and convey America's intellectual leadership to future generations. Purchase online right now

	Financial Planning Guidelines for Facility Renewal and Adaption (PDF)* Prepared by John A. Dunn, Jr., 1989, $25 USD Members/$35 USD Nonmembers— Skillful management of an institution's physical assets is crucial to the institution's financial well-being. This publication provides executive managers and trustees with guidelines for long-term financial planning for plant renewal and adaption. It provides these strategic decision makers with a better understanding of the financial planning requirements necessary to protect the value of their institution's plant assets in relation to evolving institutional missions by giving them a clearer way to think about those assets. Readers are furnished with guidelines, examples of campus plans that incorporate them, and analytic tools. *This PDF is searchable. Purchase online right now



	A Guide to Planning For Change Edited by Donald Norris and Nick Poulton, 2008, $35 USD Members/$45 USD Nonmembers— this book combines the practical insights of Norris and Poulton's earlier work in A Guide for New Planners with future vision and insight. It takes the reader back through the history of planning and strategy execution in higher education by outlining its many eras and stages of development; highlights the latest thinking and writing on the topic; summarizes the new and emerging challenges facing leaders of colleges and universities; and discusses new techniques and tools (most notably, analytics) to create an enhanced model for planning in higher education. This model recognizes the many internal, external, up, down, and sideways forces, challenges, and opportunities facing higher education and that, ultimately, it is the successful, expeditionary execution of strategy that will have a lasting impact on the institution. Purchase online right now

	Innovation in Student Services (PDF)* Edited by Darlene Burnett and Diana Oblinger, 278 pages, 2002, $25 USD Members/$35 USD Nonmembers —This excellent collection of case studies "provides tangible evidence that only when silos become integrated 'touchpoints' will the significant outlays of financial resources for new technologies and the mission-based reshaping of higher education organizations make a worthy difference in higher education." -EDUCAUSE Quarterly. *This PDF is searchable. Purchase online right now

	In Sync: Environmental Behavior Research and the Design of Learning Spaces by Lennie Scott-Webber, $25 USD Member/$35 USD Nonmember, SCUP 2004 Clearly, space affects learning behavior. Yet even in this new Knowledge Age, designers go back constantly to familiar Agrarian and Industrial Age learning space models. For the past decade, SCUPer Lennie Scott-Webber has worked assiduously to comb through the latest behavioral and sociological research relating to how people interact with the built environment. She's taken what used to "sit on shelves in the ivory halls of academe" and has applied it to the physical design of interior learning spaces. Her work, shared in this elegant book with clear and over-sized diagrams and charts, establishes five different archetypal environments that support knowledge sharing. Purchase online right now

	Integrating Higher Education Planning and Assessment: A Practical Guide by David Hollowell, Michael F. Middaugh, and Elizabeth Sibolski, $40 USD Member/$50 USD Nonmember, SCUP 2006 SCUP's most recent publication Integrating Higher Education Planning and Assessment: A Practical Guide provides insight on the higher education assessment process with an emphasis on planning and metrics. Using their extensive experience on the University of Delaware campus the authors give numerous examples of the integrated nature of planning. Intended for anyone on campus who is involved with the planning or accrediting process, this book provides a useful resource. Purchase online right now

	Non-Architect's Guide to Major Capital Projects by Phillip S. Waite, $32 USD Member/$40 USD Nonmember, SCUP 2005 The book is an outgrowth of Waite's popular SCUP workshops and webcast. In his preface, Waite explains that "[N]on-architects are often placed in positions of leadership or responsibility in a capital project process. Administrators, managers, and academics, while no doubt experts within their own specialties, often have little or no training to prepare them for a role in a major capital project. The purpose of this book is to provide the non-architect with a broad framework of understanding in the steps, phases, and sequence of planning, designing, and delivering a capital project." Although written focused on the higher education environment, the lessons to be learned from this book are as pertinent in the K–12 and corporate world as they are in the realm of colleges and universities. In addition to appealing to "non-architects," this book should also appeal to architects who (a) may wish to understand what those non-architects are learning from this book and (b) may wish to purchase for distribution to clients or potential clients as part of the information process. Purchase online right now

	Old Main by Richard P. Dober, 2007, $40 USD Members/$50 USD Nonmembers— This companion piece to Campus Heritage is published by SCUP and the Association of University Architects (AUA). It describes the forms, fame, and fate of Old Main, arguably higher education's iconic architecture. These edifices came into being as intentional examples of institutional aspirations and accomplishments, track stories of neglect and renewal, illustrate how some lost through human and natural disasters are now remembered with inspiring campus designs, offer reasons why Old Main and comparable buildings and landscapes deserve a prominent place in comprehensive campus plans, and outline workable methods to achieve that objective. The accompanying graphics, including a visually delightful collection of historic picture post cards, help support the premise that a rounded view of America's collegiate enterprises would be incomplete without understanding and acknowledging the contributions these magnificent masterworks have made to campus development. Purchase online right now

	Planning for Student Services: Best Practices for the 21st Century (PDF)* edited by Martha Beede and Darlene Burnett, 1999, $25 USD Members/$35 USD Nonmembers— In light of globalization, technology advancements, decreased funding, and changing demographics, colleges and universities today face the challenges of transforming their institutions for the future. Through use of case studies, this book demonstrates how several institutions are transforming their traditional model for student services into a learner-centered model. The institutions, all participants in IBM's annual Innovation in Student Services Forum, provide a pragmatic view of how they have brought their vision to a reality. And with this book, you'll be ready to respond to these trends on your campus. *This PDF is searchable. Purchase online right now

	Sustainability: Taking the Long View Edited by Camille Kirk, 230 pages, 2003, $25 USD Members/$35 USD Nonmembers—Our present land use and consumption patterns present a challenge with regard to the future. These nineteen articles, and additional resources, address why higher education has a special obligation to answer this challenge—it plays a role in producing the leaders, policy makers, and citizens of the world, and it uses a large share of resources to do so. Purchase online right now

	Technology Driven Planning: Principles to Practice (PDF) edited by Judith V. Boettcher, Mary M. Doyle, and Richard W. Jensen, 2000, $25 USD Members/$35 USD Nonmembers — Because technology is moving at a rapid pace, institutions are rethinking how they approach planning. Accelerated life cycles demand that attention be paid to planning on a continuous basis rather than on a "once every so many years" model. This publication, sponsored by Datatel, provides planners with a set of guiding principles as well as case study illustrations that put these principles into practice. If you need to know how technology is changing the way we plan for higher education, read this book and benefit from experts who have addressed today's challenges. Purchase online right now

	Transforming e-Knowledge (PDF)* Donald Norris, Jon Mason, and Paul Lefrere, 164 pages, 2003, $25 USD Members/$35 USD Nonmembers—Internationally, this is the must-read higher education book for 2003. With authors from three continents, Norris, Mason, and Lefrere capture some exciting futures for higher education. "Between now and the year 2010, best practices in knowledge sharing will be substantially reinvented in all settings—education, corporations, government, and associations. That is our vision. This transformation is underway today." *This PDF is searchable. Purchase online right now

	Transforming Higher Education: A Vision for Learning in the 21st Century (PDF) Michael G. Dolence and Donald M. Norris, 1995, $25 USD Members/$35 USD Nonmembers— As we enter the twenty-first century, we face the uncertainty of the changes that mark our transformation from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. How we meet the challenges of that transformation will determine our ability to succeed in the new age. This book, which became a national best-seller, provides readers in the field of higher education with insights into how they can meet the challanges. The following chapters are included: "Paradigm Lost, Paradigm Found," "What Is Transformation?" "Realigning with the Information Age Environment," "Redesigning to Meet the Needs of Information Age Learners," "Redefining Roles, Responsibilities, and Productivity," "Reengineering Organizational Processes," and "Introducing a Transformative Model to Your Campus." Purchase online right now