IN APPRECIATION

SCUP’s Pacific Region sets the bar for sponsorship support!

First and foremost, we would like to offer a heartfelt thank you to all of our Pacific region corporate sponsors! The support and generosity that exists in the Pacific region enables us to continue our tremendous track record of outstanding conferences, symposiums, and events, and it helps to support all the exceptional resources that SCUP provides for our members. As of September 30, 2012, our fiscal year end, the Pacific Region's sponsorship contributions accounted for over 33% of the sponsorship goal that is set up for the five SCUP regions as a whole. Our region's sizable contribution to the well being of our organization is the highest of all regions across the country, and we appreciate all the support we receive.

We have some exciting events planned for the upcoming year and we will be once again relying on the support of our sponsors to make these events the best they can be. As we are in the budgeting time of year, we ask that all you please account for the continued support of SCUP in your budgets for next year. There are many benefits associated with your SCUP sponsorship and the support we receive will not only be appreciated, but will be put to very good use.

Please feel free to contact Bill Kent, Pacific Region Sponsorship Chair, bill.kent@mortenson.com at any time with any questions you might have about sponsorship opportunities.

CONFERENCE NEWS & FEATURES

SCUP 2012 - Pacific Regional Symposium
Thursday, November 1, 2012
UC Davis | Davis, California

Funding Campus Growth Today: What Are the Options?

Onsite registration will be available the day of the symposium.

Tour

UC Davis West Village is a new campus neighborhood located on UC Davis land adjacent to the core campus in Davis, California. It is designed to enable faculty, staff and students to live near campus, take advantage of environmentally friendly transportation options, and participate fully in campus life.

Panel Discussion

Today’s college and university campuses must accommodate and address new learning styles, technical innovation, resource conservation, aging infrastructure, and changing student expectations. Students expect healthy, safe, flexible, and nurturing environments that foster collaboration and support education anywhere, anytime. During the past decade, campus planners have developed long-range strategic plans and master plans that translate these trends into 21st Century learning environments. However, with the decline in public funding levels, construction has slowed to a trickle on many campuses, challenging planners to identify and secure alternative financing to implement their plans.

Join our distinguished panel of speakers as they explore this topic:

Frederick E. Harris
Assistant Vice Chancellor, College
Finance & Facilities Planning
California Community Colleges
Chancellor's Office

Mary Hayakawa
Executive Director, Real Estate Services
University of California-Davis

Emily B. Marthinsen
Assistant Vice Chancellor, Physical & Environmental Planning
University of California-Berkeley

John A. Meyer
Vice Chancellor, Resource Management & Planning
University of California-Davis

Roshni A. Thomas
Executive Director, Capital Planning
University of California-Oakland

The symposium schedule is now posted – visit the SCUP website for the agenda and tour times.

SCUP 2013 Pacific Regional Conference: PLACE MAKING: Strategic Identity + Creation

March 24–27, 2012
Auraria Higher Education Center
Denver, CO

Register Now!

Strategic Identity: Imagination, Immersion & Investment
Campus cultures create powerful memories. Public memory incorporates shared time that generates mutual understanding of which spirit and memories are made. A unique place fosters successful social networks and initiatives that encourage interaction and social sustainability. Truly integrated planning leads institutional direction by responding to societal demands, financial realities, educational paradigms and changes in technology. In a campus, shared identities are derived from the intertwining of historic structure, cultural diversity and social interaction. Communities develop within defined and undefined boundaries, providing a sense of belonging and experience in our lives.

Strategic Creation: Curiosity, Culture & Community
The formation of powerful places is guided by their use over time and is informed by social encounters, adapted to changing demographics and transformed by atmosphere of locale. Authentic communities are built through an integrated process that connects creative and cultural resources. The making of place goes beyond the physical construction of building, plaza or development. It is an intersection where people enjoy the social attributes of human contact, enabling them to transform the spaces in which they live and learn. Place making capitalizes on the community’s assets, inspiration and potential, ultimately creating a valuable setting, real or in the mind, promoting health, happiness, and well-being.

Once again, SCUP has received an outstanding array of proposals for this year’s conference. Look for a taste of session topics in the next 360 Newsletter.

Scholarship Program

The SCUP Pacific Council is pleased to be able to offer seven scholarships this year to help our institutional members defray the cost of attending the 2013 Pacific Regional Conference. The application deadline is January 14, 2103. Don’t forget to file your applications! Details are posted on the conference website.

Have you heard about SCUP’s MOJO?

SCUP's MOJO is a virtual community of SCUP members and others, which changes its overall theme every three months with each new issue of our journal. MOJO is an acronym for Multilevel Online Journal Odyssey, an intentional riff off of the acronym for the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that have been evolving for a decade or more, and are now mainstream thanks to their deployment by elite institutions and new for-profit companies.

This fall, the theme is Campus-Space and our Mojo will feature 9 week-long MOOC-lites, each topic defined to include 1–4 of the 20 articles to be published this fall.

Check it out!

Volunteering

How to Get Involved

The communications committee is specifically looking for volunteers in every state and country of our region. We want to be able to better connect our members by featuring articles and updates from members in all parts of our region and are looking for volunteers interested in bringing news from their state or country into the newsletter and other forums.

Interested? Learn more below:

SCUP - Communications Committee Volunteer

Mission of the Communications Committee:

To enable members to better utilize and navigate all of the information and benefits SCUP offers – draw them in – and connect members within the region to each other – draw them together, using a variety of media including the 360 Newsletter, local events, and social networking.

About SCUP:

The Society for College and University Planning(SCUP), which was established in 1965, is a community of senior, higher education leaders who are responsible for, or are involved in, the integration of planning on their campuses and for the professionals who support them. SCUP is an affiliate of the University of Michigan's School of Education.

Members look to SCUP to find ways to successfully integrate their institution's mission into their academic plan, and then seek to integrate all other kinds of planning on campus in support of the academic plan.

Primary Functions:

• SCUP 360 Newsletters
• Support the Communications Committee’s mission
• Contribute information and utilize LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social media outlets

Responsibilities:

• Write and edit articles for the SCUP newsletter
• Contact members for articles and interviews
• Networking within the industry and Institutions
• Ideas for furthering the Communications Committee mission statement
• Knowledge of social media outlets and ideas of how to integrate SCUP into more social media

Skills/Qualifications:

• Outgoing with a willingness to reach out to SCUP members and institutions
• Works independently, quickly and meets deadlines
• Strong verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Planning and organizational skills
• Composition and proofreading skills
• Responsible, detail oriented, and dependable

If you’re interested, please contact our volunteer coordinator, Myrna Wagner, mwagner@swinerton.com who will help connect you to the communications committee.