Report from One Day Symposium, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Friday, October 8, 2010

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

Moderated by Stacey White from Mode Associates, presentations from ZGF, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and University of Colorado Boulder filled the morning session. Topics ranged from exploration of an integrated approach to design, to strategic approaches for handling both new construction and operations and maintenance, to development and implementation of sustainable capital construction processes supporting the institution’s energy conservation and environmental stewardship goals. The morning’s presenters were joined in the afternoon by Tom Kennedy from the CSU Office of the Chancellor for a Q&A session to further explore, compare, and contrast each institution’s approach to defining and then achieving sustainability for each of their campuses or systems. The day closed with a tour of the University of New Mexico campus and a reception at the Tamarind Institute.

For more information on the presentations from the symposium, visit the conference website.

2011 Pacific Regional Conference⎯“Inspiring Community”

How many different “communities” and definitions of “community” exist and affect integrated planning at YOUR institution?

Those of us on the planning committee for the 2011 conference have been pursuing this very question. Following is OUR brainstorm. Does any of this resonate with YOU?

We’d love for YOU to join US here in Seattle March 21−23, as a “community of integrated planners” dedicated to advancing this valuable discussion.

OUR JOURNEY … FROM THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, TO THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY, AND BACK AGAIN!
Through our conference plenary sessions, we will be bringing you speakers who are exemplary in their inspiration of local community, global community, and in the creation (and inspiration) of “Third Places” that foster and support community interaction.

Please see some highlights of this journey below. We will continue to provide you with additional information and details on our plenary speakers at our conference website (www.scup.org/page/regions/pa/2011) as the date of the conference approaches. Stay tuned!

OPENING PLENARY: Stephen V. Sundborg, President of Seattle University (our local host institution)
Sundborg became president of Seattle University in July 1997. He leads a comprehensive, independent university of more than 7,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 1,000 faculty and staff members.

Since becoming president, Sundborg's key objectives have been to encourage student-centered education, enhance academic excellence, and develop resources to support a growing student population. During his tenure, Seattle University has built a new law school, a student center, and student residences. Sundborg is strongly committed to promoting social justice, a core value of the Jesuit Catholic education. He actively supports programs that encourage students, faculty, and staff to make a difference, whether in the local community or developing countries.

Biography excerpt courtesy of Seattle University, www.seattleu.edu/president/

“The third place is a term used in the concept of community building to refer to social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home and the workplace. In his influential book The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg (1989, 1991) argues that third places are important for civil society, democracy, civic engagement, and establishing feelings of a sense of place. Oldenburg calls one's ‘first place’ the home and those that one lives with. The ‘second place’ is the workplace—where people may actually spend most of their time. Third places, then, are ‘anchors’ of community life, and facilitate and foster broader, more creative interaction." - Wikipedia

Not only will we have a plenary dialogue on Third Place, the concept of Third Place will be woven throughout the conference, in ways that you can see, hear, feel, smell, and taste. Interested? Intrigued? We hope so, and we look forward to unveiling more about Third Place as the conference date approaches.

Recognition

Linda Baer:
Recognized for distinguished service serving as member-at-large on SCUP’s Board of Directors

Linda Baer
Senior Program Officer, Postsecondary Success
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation


Baer was senior vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (system) and served on the SCUP Board of Directors as an at-large member during 2009 and 2010. She recently accepted a position with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle Washington.

Baer was honored for her distinguished service during the SCUP annual Pacific Regional council planning retreat by her former board colleague and current Pacific Regional Representative John O. White, from UC Merced.

SCUP Awards Committee

Charge
Oversee and manage a prestigious awards program that recognizes high-quality planning, design, and service efforts, and disseminates lessons learned from these contributions regarding best practices and emerging trends for the advancement of integrated planning in higher education.

Committee Composition
The SCUP Awards Committee is made up of a diverse background of academic, facility, budget/resources, corporate, institutional campus, and consulting professionals. The committee has one chair and the chair of the awards jury sits on the committee for one year. Selection of new committee members is achieved by obtaining potential candidates from the regional representatives. The committee should be comprised of eight people plus a board member (ex officio) serving a three-year term with a possible one year extension.

Representing the Pacific Region on this committee is:

Robert Sabbatini, Robert Sabbatini AICP FASLA, Planning and Design
Corporate Representative, Pacific Region
Robert Sabbatini is a planner, landscape architect, and urban designer with 35 years of experience, sole proprietor of Robert Sabbatini AICP FASLA Planning and Design. This is Robert's first year serving on the Awards Committee.

SCUP Nominating Committee

Charge
Annually solicits and screens candidate nominations for open positions on SCUP Board of Directors, including officers. Recommends to the board, for their approval, a slate of candidates for the annual election. The committee is chaired by the immediate past president and includes two members from each region, one institutional and one corporate, as well as one other past president. The regional representative consults with the committee chair to select a member from his/her region to serve on this committee. The term of office for this committee is a single three-year term.

Representing the Pacific Region on this committee is:

Colleen Pike, University of Washington
Institutional Representative, Pacific Region
Colleen Pike is the director of capital resource planning at the University of Washington and is serving in her second year as representative to the committee.

Happenings

What’s happening at your institution? Our 360 Newsletter will 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.

Welcome to Happenings. This schedule includes SCUP events, in addition to other activities that may interest SCUP members. Do you have any institutional events you would like to include? Please contact Jacqueline at jacqueline.p.ashby@gmail.com for further details.

Featured October Event
The University of Colorado at Boulder Facilities Planning Department, invited members of SCUP, AIA, and AGC to an open house of its new Center for Community on Friday, October 22, hosted by Davis Partnership Architects and Saunders Construction. Guests toured the new facility, which combines Parking and Transportation Services, a state-of-the-art dining facility, and Student Affairs offices. They then enjoyed a reception in the breathtaking Flatirons Room. You can find our more about this UC project here: www.colorado.edu/centerforcommunity/.

	October – 2010
Oct 25–27	SCUP North Central Regional Conference 2010 North Central Regional Conference 2020 Vision: Planning for the Future Cincinnati, OH
Oct 25–27	EcoDistricts Summit Portland State University Portland, OR
Oct 28	Net-Zero Energy Buildings: High Performance Enclosure Design Calgary, Alberta
Oct 28	Transformational Lecture Series (Juneau): Featuring Tom Marseille Juneau, AK
Oct 29	AIA+2030: Achieving 2030 Goals on the Project and at the Office Seattle, WA Seattle AIA+2030 Professional Series
Oct 29	The Next Frontier - the American Suburbs Sacramento, CA APA California Chapter, Sacramento Valley Section
	November – 2010
Nov 3	Green Building Interest Group (GBIG) Portland, OR
Nov 5	Cascadia Green Skyline tour of the new LEED-Gold submitted Atrium building at 800 Yates Street in downtown Victoria. Victoria, BC November Green Skyline Tour
Nov 6	Natural Systems & Environmental Sustainability Rohnert Park, CA Sonoma State University
Nov 16	ELUG⎯Sustainable Neighborhoods/Transportation Oriented Development
Nov 17–19	Greenbuild 2010: Generation Green Redefining our Future International Conference and Expo Chicago, IL
Nov 19	SCUP 2010 North Atlantic One-Day From STEM to STEAM Troy, NY
Nov 19	Sustainable Planning, Environmental Site Design, and Development Sacramento, CA UC Davis Extension
Nov 30	Cities Alive Green Roof Conference Vancouver, BC
	December – 2010
Dec 2	Loca-Volts: Emerging Renewable Energy Sacramento, CA UC Davis Extension
Dec 3	World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day
Dec 8	A Low Impact Design Approach to Storm Water Management Davis, CA UC Davis Extension