One Day Symposium, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Friday, October 8, 2010

Uncovering Patterns in the Sustainability Maze: An In-Depth Discussion

Join your colleagues for this SCUP Pacific one-day symposium in Albuquerque, planned with lots of local input from the region, which boasts many successes. We will discuss extant systems of environmental sustainability metrics to assist planners and policy analysts with their stewardship choices. Sustainability metric systems and design choices will be compared, pros and cons, so that attendees can evaluate the options and determine which is likely to be most appropriate for their university or system.

Due to the hot air balloon festival at the same time, we recommend you obtain your hotel room soon.

Preliminary Program

A panel of speakers from across the West will offer various perspectives on the topic in the morning. Concepts pulled from the morning discussion will form the basis for an interactive session in the afternoon. The afternoon session will seek to share and record participants’ perspectives, advantages, shared objectives, and determine next steps for achieving environmental sustainability in design and construction. The day will then wrap up with recommendations that seek to address:

• Options for achieving shared objectives
• Is there an ”ideal” sustainability system metric that would work better for campuses?
• Ideas on how to better achieve a sustainable environment
• What are the next steps?

SCUP−45 & SCUP−46

The SCUP–45 page now contains:

• 25 YouTube videos, mostly interviews, from the conference;
• A link to the conference proceedings (slide show). They are available to SCUP members and to nonmembers who attended the conference; and
• A link to the final List of Registrants (PDF) (attendees only).

The SCUP−46 Call for Proposals is open now, and until October 1.

Decide now to share with your colleagues and peers what you have learned about higher education planning under the rubric of “Integrated Solutions: How & Now," at the National Harbor resort in Maryland, within minutes of Washington, DC and Alexandria, VA. Note that SCUP’s 2011 annual, international conference and idea marketplace is much later than usual: It is July 23−27, 2011.

2011 Pacific Regional Conference Spotlight

"[T]he word community is derived from the Latin communitas (cum “with/together” + numus “gift”), a broad term for fellowship or organized society.” (OED Online, July 2009, Oxford University Press)

This SCUP Pacific Region event will explore how campus planning fosters the creation of community within the institution, the neighborhood, the city, and beyond.

Community at all levels⎯campus, city, region, the world⎯is central to human endeavors and individual well-being. Institutions of higher learning are comprised of a multiplicity of communities whose purposes are to educate students, develop new knowledge and foster relationships. Creating and participating in a variety of communities is a major focus of campus life, both facilitated and complicated by the increasing use and numbers of technological tools and innovations.

Fostering and sustaining community in a climate of increasingly constrained fiscal resources, a changing sense of social responsibility and digital distractions is the challenge we will address.

Plan to be a part of this exciting conference by showing your colleagues what your institution has done to create this sense of community, at all levels, by submitting your proposal!

Learn more, visit the 2011 Pacific Region Conference website.

Happenings 

What’s happening at your institution? Our 360 newsletter is hoping to feature regular segments sharing information across institutions throughout our region, to help build connections and share ideas as higher education institutions face a multitude of challenges in the future. In our last newsletter, we featured an article on sustainability initiatives at CU-Boulder. This time, we’d like to offer up a pilot calendar of events.

This schedule includes SCUP events in addition to other activities that may interest SCUP members. If you’d like to see an event at your institution listed here, or if you know of events that you believe would be of interest to all SCUP members, please submit content to: jacqueline.p.ashby@gmail.com.

Calendar of Events August 2010 – December 2010