Conference Proceedings

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(CC-02) Creating a Development Program—You have the Numbers, Now What?
Presenters: Robert C. Hicks, Senior Associate, Symmes Maini & McKee Associates; Alexandria Roe, Executive Officer/Planning & Technical Services, Connecticut State University System Office; Mark J. Zarrillo, Prncpl, Symmes Maini & McKee Associates
Making campus plans real means matching your strategic plan to an achievable development plan that is tailored to your institution's educational, financial, and social needs. Competition among learning institutions is placing more emphasis on the campus image and the development of new facilities. To stay competitive, colleges need to recruit top students, retain prestigious faculty, and capture lucrative research projects. In response, most college administrators have commissioned programming studies and benchmarking analyses to help define future needs. The result of these studies is a wealth of numbers, not immediately helpful to fulfilling the institution's strategic plan. Armed with this data, how can decision-makers best move ahead with a campus development program to create their desired future? What can they say to constituents—students, alumni donors, faculty, and others—to affirm that the development path taken will provide the specific facilities required to support the desired vision and image?
Convener: Kim Kingston, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc

(CC-05) How Harvard Collected Data to Support a Graduate Student Housing Plan
Presenters: Rena Cheskis-Gold, Principal, Demographic Perspectives; Alex Delaney Danahy, Planner/ Analyst, Harvard Planning + Allston Initiative; Susan Keller, Director of Residential Real Estate, Harvard University
In 2001 and 2005, Harvard Real Estate Services teamed with a demographer/survey researcher and an architect with a specialty in campus housing to prepare a comprehensive evaluation of the university's housing planning and program needs for graduate students. Together, the team developed a comprehensive student-survey and focus-group methodology. The research results served as the basis of an expansion plan to house a greater percentage of graduate students on campus and are now being used to program a new graduate housing development. The session will tell this story.
Convener: Rena Cheskis-Gold, Demographic Perspectives

(CC-07) Comprehensive Budgeting and Planning for Technology Projects
Presenters: William O Anderson, Chief Information Officer/ Professor of Business Administration, Saint Michael's College; Mary Jane Russell, Director of Finance, Saint Michael's College
Saint Michael's College is assessing a tablet computer requirement for first-year students to complement creation of its wireless network, using NACUBO's "Building Organizational Capacity" (BOC) framework to model the dimensions of interaction between the different campus offices and the tasks that make up the project. Using the BOC theory guides the project team to consider the complex interactions and communications necessary for project success and adds meaningful dimensions to the financial analyses and business case.
Convener: Jean Marie Gath, Pfeiffer Partners

(CC-11) Catching up from Incremental Planning—Master Planning for Educational Change
Presenters: Jon M. Boyd, Architect, Harriman Associates; Robert C. Klinedinst, Principal, Harriman Associates; Zark VanZandt, Dean & Professor of Human Resource Development, University of Southern Maine Lewiston Auburn College; Nancy Whitehouse, Curriculum Technology Coordinator, Chair, Building Expansion Team, USM-Lewiston-Auburn College
This session will give an overview of the creation of the Lewiston-Auburn campus of the University of Southern Maine and the recent master planning process undertaken for its expansion. The collaborative master planning approach that focused on interdisciplinary education, community, and the student experience made for a successful planning process. Recognizing that "form follows funding" led to a process that included the prioritization of work and design flexibility. New ideas and potential transformations that evolved during the process will also be shared.
Convener: Heidi L. Blau, Fox & Fowle Architects

(CC-12) Establishing Agile Support Functions Through Alignment of Roles and Responsibilities
Presenters: Paul J. Streeter, Director of Institutional Planning and Assessment, Cornell University
This session will share project planning information, insight, lessons learned, and continuing challenges from a recently completed initiative at Cornell University examining core support functions in a highly decentralized management environment. This initiative resulted in financial savings of over $15 million, it strengthened and aligned support activities throughout campus, but most importantly it began to break down organizational and cultural impediments and establish a foundation upon which improvements will continue to be achieved.
Convener: William C. Johnson, Haley & Aldrich

(CC-14) Loosening the Corset: Flexibility in Adaptive Reuse in Landmarks
Presenters: Arch Currie, Dir/Proj Mgmt, Yale University; Frances Halsband, Partner, R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects; Michael Nieminen, Partner, RM Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects
Historic landmarks on a campus are often seen as obstacles to progress, buildings which must be respected but cannot be changed. This session presents transformation of four landmarked buildings into vibrant flexible spaces for the twenty-first century. Learn how to work with state historic preservation officers and community preservation groups to realize your objectives for adaptive reuse and transformations. Learn to recognize and deal with legal requirements, protected features of buildings, and community sentiment in finding opportunities for flexibility and change.
Convener: Mary Talley, Voith & Mactavish Architects

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