CONFERENCE NEWS & FEATURES

SCUP 2013 Pacific Regional Conference
PLACE MAKING: Strategic Identity + Creation
March 24–27, 2013
Auraria Higher Education Center
Denver, CO

Pacific Region 2013 Professional Development Assistance Scholarship Program:
Deadline for Applications is JANUARY 21, 2013

SCUP is pleased to be able to continue its scholarship program for the 2013 regional conference. Participation of institutional members at the SCUP regional conferences and events is a high priority for the SCUP pacific region. The SCUP Pacific Regional Council recognizes the financial hardships experienced by institutions of higher education in the current fiscal environment. In order to provide support to members interested in continuing their professional training and development and to promote participation in regional activities, the SCUP pacific council has set aside scholarship funds to defray the cost of attending the SCUP 2013 Pacific Regional Conference. Application forms and more details are available on the conference website.

Tours

The Denver local host committee has put together an exciting list of campus TOURS that will contribute to understanding the conference theme of “Place Making”. Campuses create powerful memories. The places and spaces of the institutions on the tour list foster social networks and initiatives that encourage interaction and social sustainability, as well as inspirational education. Denver campuses and the regional campuses offer a wide variety of tour opportunities. In fact, the 6 tours that SCUP will provide are only part of what you can see on your own in the Metro Denver area and beyond. SCUP is putting the finishing touches on the tours and will have them available for registration soon. An alert will be sent to let you know when they are available for registration.

Sunday Afternoon

The Colorado School of Mines campus in Golden, Colorado was founded in 1873 to serve the mining industry. It has now expanded to its current focus of understanding Earth, harnessing energy, and sustaining the environment. The tour will highlight the historic sense of ‘place’ of this campus as well as three recently completed projects which demonstrate the evolving mission of the institution.

You also can sign up for a two-hour walking tour of Lower Downtown Denver’s Historic “LoDo” District. You will get to see the city’s original 1858 commercial and warehouse district, go through the Larimer Square block that saved the historic fabric of LoDo, through the hugely successful loft district, and then to the historic Union Station-now expanding to be the multi-modal transportation hub of Denver and the center of a multi-billion dollar buildout of mixed use development. The tour will end at the Wynkoop Brewery.

Monday

Two full-day tours of Colorado State University are on the agenda. Track 1 will focus on ‘A Day in the Life of a CSU Student’. New styles of housing, athletic and recreational facilities, academic residence halls, and the University Center for the Arts will be seen on this track. Track 2 has a theme of ‘Research in the Rockies’. You will see CSU’s engine research lab, the campus solar plant, the biomass boiler, and the new Engineering II bio-engineering research building. After lunch this track will continue with the Diagnostic Medicine Lab and the Animal Cancer Center. Both tracks will cross paths for lunch at the RamsHorn Dining Center where you will see presentations on the campus capital construction process and the future of the University.

A morning tour will go to the prestigious campus of the University of Denver. This private university has worked diligently to become one of the top 100 higher learning institutions in the United States. The presentation and tour will focus on how combining budget planning, maintenance planning, and fundraising leadership, along with a concerted architectural effort, allowed for DU to gain this prominence.

An afternoon tour will visit the campus of Johnson & Wales University, the Western campus of the growing institution for hospitality and food service, offering a variety of 4 year degrees. This campus was previously the Colorado Women’s College, established in the late 1800’s as the first women’s college west of the Mississippi. JWU acquired the campus in 1999 and has created a new sense of place for their specialty programs and students, while holding onto the traditions and architecture of the historic campus. The tour will focus on how to acquire an existing institution and create a cohesive campus of a university with multiple locations.

Wednesday Afternoon

This tour will travel to the Anschutz Medical Campus of the University of Colorado for an overview of this large and rapidly growing ‘new’ campus. In 1998 the then University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the University of Colorado Hospital Authority underwent an unprecedented planning exercise to move to the former site of the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in the eastern Denver suburb of Aurora. In doing so, they were committing to building a Health Science City from nearly the ground up. Today the campus has 8.2 million square feet of space, employs 16,000 people and is the home of a huge economic engine for the State of Colorado providing education, research, service and patient care. The tour will stop at some of the more notable buildings but also examine some of the many challenges that the campus faced and still faces as it plans for an ever-growing future.

Learn more and register today!

Recapping the November 2012 Pacific Symposium
“Funding Campus Growth Today: What Are the Options?”
November 1, 2012, Davis, CA, on the University of California – Davis Campus

Funding campus growth today can be complex and challenging, but also full of opportunity. SCUP’s One Day Symposium offered perspectives of representatives from the UC, CSU, and CA Community College systems.

A special thanks to our planning committee who have worked hard to bring this symposium to you:

SCUP Regional Council - Professional Development
Lauren Cooper
San Diego State University

Davis One-Day Symposium – Planning Committee Chair
John Long
Perkins + Will

Davis One-Day Symposium - Local Host Chair
Clayton Halliday
University of California, Davis

SCUP One-Day Symposium Planning Committee Members
Rob Barthelman
ARCHITECTURE/vbn

Molly Thomas
WRNS Studio, LLP

Cindy Gibson
University of California - Davis

Thanks to our regional sponsors!

The Pacific Region membership continues to growth at healthy rates; in fact, we are at 62% of our goal for the year! Please be sure to refer your colleagues to the many benefits of SCUP membership.

Did you know that an institution with a group membership will be allowed to send anyone from their campus, including nonmember administrators, faculty, staff, and students, to a SCUP event at the member rate? Sign up now for the 2013 SCUP Pacific Regional Conference!

MySCUP

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Calendar of Events
Calendar for February 2013 – April 2013 Events

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

February 2013

February 1
Student Retention Myths: 
Debunking Mistruths, Developing Strategies for Success
San Diego, California

February 11–12
The Higher Education Women’s Leadership Summit: Emerge: Leadership Skills for Sydney
New South Wales, Australia

February 14–15
The International Conference on Climate Change and Local Wisdom:
Living in Harmony within our Built Environment
Makassar, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia

February 14–16
Educating for Creative Minds: Using Brain Science to Ignite Innovation and Imagination
San Francisco, California

February 19
SCUP 2013 Southern Symposium
Catching Up to LEED Buildings
Austin, TX

March 2013

March 7
SCUP 2013 Southern Symposium
Emerging Forces in Campus Planning
Tampa, FL

March 18–22
International Workshop on Smart Environments and Ambient Intelligence
San Diego, California

March 21–23
Educating the Future: Architectural Education in International Perspective 2013
Istanbul Kultur University Atakoy Campus

March 21–24
ACSA 101: New Constellations/New Ecologies
San Francisco, California

March 24
SCUP Planning Institute - Step I
Denver, CO

March 24–27
SCUP 2013 Pacific Regional Conference
Place Making: Strategic Identity + Creation
Denver, CO

April 2013

April 2–4
Early Education and Technology for Children (EETC) conference
Salt Lake City, Utah

April 7–9
SCUP 2013 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
Academic Relevance - Is Higher Education Still the Gateway for Opportunity in America?
Washington, DC

April 8–10
11th International Built Environment Postgraduate Research Conference
Salford, UK

April 17–19
International Academic Research Conference
Scottsdale, Arizona

April 25
SCUP 2013 North Central Symposium
Integrated Processes
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