2009 North Atlantic Regional Conference

Public Policy, Planning, Paradigms, and Partnerships

 

March 18–20, 2009
The New School
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New York, NY (USA)

 

Conference Proceedings

Updated as of May 12, 2009

(PL-01) Transformations to Create 21st Century Colleges and Universities
 Lloyd JacobsEva Klein Presenters: Lloyd Jacobs, President, The University of Toledo; Eva Klein, President, Eva Klein & Associates, Ltd.
An update on the Pre-Conference Workshop that was led by Eva Klein, Eva Klein & Associates Ltd. and Dr. Lloyd A. Jacobs, President of The University of Toledo. Representatives from New York City's Mayor's Office, City Planning, EDC, and Revolutions2 provided brief presentations focused on New York City economics and policy that are shaping and redefining Higher Education within NYC. Break-out sessions will be focused on applications to the participants' institutions. In a final wrap-up, the session leaders challenged the participants to form actionable conclusions for future strategies.

(PL-02) Planning and Policies that Create an Environment for Student Success
 Presenters: Cathryn L. Addy, President, Tunxis Community College; Mary Anne B. Cox, Assistant to the Chancellor/System Advancement & Communication, Board of Trustees of Community-Technical Colleges; Gail O'Keefe, State Director of Workforce Development, Connecticut Community College System
The challenges faced by the student populations served by Connecticut's Community Colleges in the state's highly competitive Knowledge Economy require a new, technology and service-rich learning environment to overcome "gaps" in the academic preparation needed to succeed at college-level work. The Student Success Agenda, the national Achieving the Dream initiative, and the strategic priorities of the Connecticut system of community colleges that are creating a new learning environment that encourages and supports student success, and grant making strategies to increase funding support, will be explored.

(PL-03) "The Water is Wide and I Cannot Cross Over..."
 Richard PattenaudePresenters: Richard Pattenaude, Chancellor, University of Maine System
The rapidly changing policy, planning, and program world in which we work calls for far greater partnerships. Resource constraints, project complexity, and urgent deadlines make old habits and patterns a risk to accomplishing our goals. This is true for each of us unless we make better use of authentic partnerships. This presentation challenges us to reflect on the principles and practices that will carry us together across the water to achieve an effective integration of policy, planning, and paradigms.

(CC-01) Campus and Community Collaboration - Shifting Paradigms in Planning(proceeding not submitted)
 Presenters: Minakshi Mani Amundsen, University Planner, Cornell University; Emily B. Marthinsen, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Physical & Environmental Planning, University of California-Berkeley
Two non-traditional planning efforts in two very different contexts look inward and outward acknowledging the mutual dependence that campus and community have in each other's success and the impacts that they invariably impose on one another. Two University Planners address the interdependence and relationships between campus and community, especially where institutions and communities are collaborating to maintain their competitive edge in the global economy. The intended audience is campus planners, senior administrators and planning consultants.

(CC-02) Public Policy Implications of NIH Funding for Academic Health Centers
 Presenters: Michael Fisher, Director, Massachusetts General Hospital
From a public policy perspective, the future of America's biomedical research enterprise is in jeopardy since the funding required to sustain it is becoming more difficult to obtain. America's position as the international leader in this area is threatened by the ongoing stagnation of available federal funding. Advocates and experts familiar with the dangers of reducing funding for biomedical science must frame the question for discussion; becoming passionate proponents for creation of public policy that will address the identified deficiencies.


(CC-03) New School Fogelman Library - Urban Case Study of the New Library Experience
 Presenters: Lia Gartner, Vice President for Design, Construction, & Facilities Management, The New School; Colin Koop, Associate, Skidmore, Owings & Merril LLP; Christopher McCready, Associate Director, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
The Fogelman Library project meets a unique challenge of incorporating the New School library into an existing media technology building through innovative reinvention of spaces to optimize resources. The new library design is incorporated within the New School's existing media center, the Arnhold Knowledge Center. Traditional functions of the library overlap with zones for interactive learning and expand the potential of technological resources to create new activated space types that enhance multiple methods of scholarly engagement.


(CC-04) Making Trees Part of the Plan (proceeding not submitted)
 Presenters: Chris Cowles, Senior Consulting Urban Forester, The Care of Trees–Tree Preservation & Land Restoration Division; David Zeitlin, Director, Tree Preservation & Land Restoration-The Care of Trees
Mature trees are an invaluable part of our campuses, both aesthetically and culturally; yet they are often neglected during capital improvement projects. With an upward trend in campus improvements and redevelopment, and in an era dictating "green" and "sustainable" development; incorporating trees into the planning process early on is essential to insuring aesthetic, heritage, and green goals are met. Fortunately with proper attention, teamwork, and new technologies; preserving these assets can become a standard part of any capital improvement plan.


(CC-05) Didactic Landscape: Planning an Integrated Site and Buildings That Teach
 Presenters: Manisha Kaul, Associate, Andropogon Associates, Ltd; Lani Ravin, Associate Planner, University of Vermont; Jean Sleeman, Principal, Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Co
The design of physical campus environments is the most obvious way designers can foster effective learning outcomes. Integrated sites and buildings that demonstrate natural processes, explain building systems, raise awareness of sustainability or models of behavior, planners and designers stimulate learning in the three-dimensional classroom of site and building.

This session will review a project that accepted this challenge at the University of Vermont: the University Heights residential community, which houses the Greenhouse Residential Learning Community and the Honors College.


(CC-06) Adaptive Use: 19th Century Asylum becomes 21st Century Medical School (proceeding not submitted)
 Presenters: Clay Palazzo, Associate, John G. Waite, Associates, Architects; David Smith, President, SUNY Upstate Medical; John G. Waite, Senior Principal, John G. Waite, Associates, Architects
Using as an example the restoration of the former Inebriate Asylum in Binghamton, NY, attendees will gain insight into the possibilities for being culturally, economically, and environmentally sustainable through historic preservation and adaptive use. Working with JGWA to restore an otherwise abandoned National Historic Landmark, SUNY Upstate Medical University is creating an educational facility that will be used as a clinical campus, where medical students will train and a community desperately in need will receive health care.


(CC-07) The Middle College: A Model of Partnership and Planning
 Presenters: Susan Huard, Dean of Learning and Student Development, Quinebaug Valley Community College; Lenell Kittlitz, Director/Facilities Planning & Board of Trustees, Connecticut Community Colleges; Robert E. Swain, Principal, Amenta/Emma Architects
Community Colleges are serving not only as the higher ed institution for record numbers of adults but also as the shared location for innovative high schools. Session will present the vision, philosophy and collaboration of public partners that founded the new Quinebaug Valley Middle College High School in rural northeastern Connecticut on the campus of Quinebaug Valley Community College. Target audience of Administrators and Planners will learn about the successful partnering and physical planning implementation of this innovative school.


(CC-08) Values, Campus Planning and the Sustainable Phenomenon (proceeding not submitted)
 Presenters: Zachary R. Heineman, Student, Yale University; Steven Johns, AIA, KieranTimberlake Associates LLP; William Sweeney, Project Executive, Shawmut Design and Construction
Colleges and Universities across the nation have embraced sustainability as a core value - driven from the top down executive leadership, and bottom up by students demanding their institutions of higher education endorse socially responsible building and waste management practices. Once considered a trend, it is becoming a benchmark requirement. This presentation will explore how sustainability can shape your campus and future generations through capital projects. This session is intended for university presidents, executive leadership, planners, architects, and engineers.


(CC-09) Sustainable Campus Planning for an Environmentally Focused Curriculum (proceeding not submitted)
 Presenters: Barbara D. Chernow, Vice President, Facilities & Services, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Laura Hansplant, Associate, Andropogon Associates, Ltd; Lissette Mendez, Associate, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP; Martin AA Schoonen, Interim Dean, Stony Brook Southampton
The session will focus on the challenges and opportunities a reclaimed university campus faces as it begins to develop a curriculum based on environmental sustainability in tandem with planning and developing a sustainable campus. After a brief overview of the challenges and opportunities faced by the university, participants will be asked to role play a particular stakeholder. Through this exercise, participants will learn how to build on the assets of three principle stakeholder groups - students, administrators, and faculty - and apply them to a new paradigm of campus planning that incorporates sustainability and leverages it as an important element of curriculum and real world experience.


(CC-10) Student Learning Environments established through Partnerships, Economic Contributions and Vision (proceeding not submitted)
 Presenters: Victoria L. Bozzuto, Allied Health Division Director, Gateway Community College; Stevanie Demko, Principal, Perkins + Will Northeast; Sheila B. Solernou, MSN, R.N., Division Director, Nursing, Gateway Community College
Gateway Community College in New Haven, Connecticut developed a Nursing and Allied Health Program through outreach to the community for current and future needs of local health institutions. Working with Yale and St Raphael's hospitals along with others our team developed and designed training programs matching clinical settings while vastly expanding current programs, much of which was done prior to the establishment of funding. Vision among the team with aligned values built a leading edge curriculum and program that rivals many throughout the country.

(CC-11) Getting Green Together–Town/Gown Sustainability Planning
 Presenters: Robert C. Hicks, Senior Project Manager, Symmes Maini & McKee Associates; Mark J. Zarrillo, Principal, Symmes Maini & McKee Associates; Peter D. Zuraw, Assistant Vice President/Management & Planning, Wellesley College
Higher education is at the forefront of the sustainability movement, but colleges and universities are located in cities and towns which often have their own sustainability efforts. To achieve the long term goal of climate neutrality, institutions cannot work in isolation, but must involve their neighbors. Learn how by working together and recognizing the shared goals which benefit both town and gown, true sustainability can be achieved.


(CC-12) Public Health Process Provides New Paradigm for Planning and Design (proceeding not submitted)
 Presenters: Mary Jo Olenick, Principal, The S/L/A/M Collaborative; P. Dean Surbey, Associate Dean, Emory University; Sidney Powell Ward, Architect & Principal, The S/L/A/M Collaborative
Collaborative research and discovery processes associated with the public health disciplines were used as a PARADIGM for the PLANNING and design of the new facility at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. The team took a research-based approach similar to the form of inquiry pursued by public health investigations, taking advantage of a unique opportunity to develop an iterative approach that could keep ideas "in play" long enough to evaluate their contribution to the OUTCOME.

(CC-13) Creative Financing for a Town and Gown Partnership (proceeding not submitted)
 Presenters: Richard Friedson, Principal, Friedson Architects; Weston Johnson, Project Manager, CSL International; Jay Kahn, Vice President /Finance & Planning, Keene State College
With fund-raising becoming more difficult, it has become especially challenging for colleges and universities to engage in much needed building projects. Thus, institutions are seeking creative methods to beat the funding gap. This session illustrates how Keene State College, Antioch University NE, the City of Keene, the State of New Hampshire, and local businesses developed an innovative partnership and utilized creative financing mechanisms to plan a new "off-campus" multipurpose field house and ice arena for the college and the community.


(CC-14) Planning Practices for Partnership Use
 Presenters: Frances Halsband, Partner, Kliment Halsband Architects; Michael A. Nieminen, Partner, Kliment Halsband Architects; John Tooze, Vice President for Scientific and Facility Operations, The Rockefeller University
With funding for new buildings dwindling, and the ever rising cost of operating buildings, looking for opportunities to maximize utilization of space by coordinating resources and schedules is becoming more attractive to institutions and their funders. This presentation illustrates techniques for gathering relevant planning information, and includes several current projects where partnerships have an impact on space sharing. Learn how institutional leaders and design professionals can reinvent patterns of space use to make the most of available resources.

(CC-15) Hunter School of Social Work: From Leased Facilities to a Permanent Home
Presenters: Jennifer Friedman, Director Public/Private Partnerships, CUNY, The City University of New York; Scott Newman, Partner, Cooper Robertson & Partners; Scott Page, Educational Planner, Scott Page Architect; Iris Weinshall, Vice Chancellor for Facilities Planning, Construction and Management, The City University of New York
Hunter College School of Social Work's long term lease in a building on East 79th Street, in Manhattan, has been an under utilized resource for many years. CUNY has created a project that will house the School of Social Work in a University owned building, designed specifically for the School by leveraging the building through a public/private partnership. This session will cover the decision making process, the programming and design efforts, and lessons learned from this project.