Conference Proceedings

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 8:45 AM–9:45 AM
(PL008) Plenary Session | Globalization and Higher Education: Issues and Challenges
Presented by: Philip G. Altbach, Professor, School of Education, Director, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College

Globalization and internationalization have had a profound impact on higher education worldwide—and promise more surprises in the future. Globalization will be defined and its implications spelled out. Key elements such as the spread of English as the global mode of research communication and increasingly of teaching, the impact of the more than three million students who study abroad (and trends for future student mobility), the advent and current status of branch campuses and twinning arrangements, and the implications of the global knowledge network of the 21st century will be analyzed. The international impact of the current fascination with massive open online courses (MOOC)s will also be discussed.

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM
(CN023) Campus as a Catalyst
Presented by: Jonie Fu, Director of Urban Design, AECOM
The master plan for University of Pernumbuco in Recife, Brazil, presents two unequivocal opportunities to employ campus as a catalyst. First, it sits in a special district created for one of the new stadiums built for soccer's 2014 FIFA World Cup. As part of the legacy planning for the district, the new campus will be implemented to invigorate development activities in the new district. Secondly, it became the opportunity to build a new campus to unite the many satellite locations where the university currently serves its 10,000 students. The new campus will be a catalyst to institute changes in academic delivery and establish a new identity. This session will provide insight to the planning process of a new higher education international campus.

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM
(CN015) Global Strength in Northern Ireland | Queen’s University – From 1845 to the Age of the Invisible
Presented by: Gary Jebb, Director of Estates, Queen's University; Aaron Taylor, Principal and Education Sector Leader, Stantec Inc.
Queen's University Belfast, founded as Queen's College in 1845, is continuing on its journey to become a global presence within the world's top 100 academic institutions. With a campus that is steeped in history and located at the heart of Belfast city center, learn how the university is being transformed through an integrated planning strategy that champions its growing global presence and research expertise whilst also demonstrating the exemplary environmental credentials that are at the heart of every development.

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM
(CN018) Innovation and Incubation: Tales of Two Countries
Presented by: Stephen Johnson, Principal, Cannon Design; Mark W. Kirchner, Assistant Campus Architect, The College of New Jersey; Mark Whiteley, Principal, Cannon Design
The American University of Sharjah (AUS) is a 5,600 student, largely undergraduate campus. This team explored expanding the university as a graduate research institution in parallel with the development of an adjacent 420-acre AUS innovation park, becoming a primary driver in shaping the country's knowledge economy over the next several decades. Exemplars such as Technology Square in Cambridge, MA and Mission Bay in San Francisco will be investigated as benchmarks, and a new Education City in Mongolia will be discussed.

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM
(CN022) International Graduate Students On Our Campuses: Numbers and Needs in Cultural Context
Presented by: Rena Cheskis-Gold, Principal, Demographic Perspectives, LLC
International graduate students are often demographically different from US students, bringing different cultural expectations for many aspects of their student and campus experience. How aware are our campuses of these demographic and cultural differences, and are the different needs of international students front and center in campus planning? We will present interview and survey research from international center directors, housing and dining directors, deans of student services, campus architects, and international students. Then, participants in this session will collaboratively develop a list of questions to bring to campuses to appropriately guide institutional planning for international students.

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 11:15 AM–12:15 PM
(CN011) A View From King's College London and the UK
Presented by: Ian Caldwell, Director, Estates & Facilities, King's College London
Can the United Kingdom (UK) and North America learn from each other? This discussion session will consider how the UK is responding to the inter-connected agendas of internationalism and of localism and focus on two particular projects: first, the Quadrangle at King's College's Strand campus, including the methods and results of enhanced stakeholder and community engagement, use of an international architectural competition, and an enhanced focus on student learning and social facilities, and second, a potential new campus at Canada Water in East London.

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 11:15 AM–12:15 PM
(CN043) MIT - Skolkovo Educational Partnership
Presented by: Pamela Palmer Delphenich, Director, Campus Planning & Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 11:15 AM–12:15 PM
(CN013) What Considerations Are Critical in Operating a Global Branch Campus?
Presented by: Kathy Kilpatrick, Consultant; Dottie Milligan Lewis
A branch campus overseas is one solution to the need for globalization in higher education institutions. There are several different models used to set up a branch, including partnership with host government, national university, or local investors. Yet, some branch campuses have failed. What are the challenges that face these campuses? The presentation will discuss these challenges and the often resulting balances, compromises, and alignments made to ensure the overseas operation is meeting the initial project mission.

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 12:30 PM–1:00 PM
(PL007) Plenary Session | ICTs and Higher Education: Managing the Transformation Through Creative Physical Environments
Presented by: Anthony C. Masi, Provost, McGill University
Seismic shifts in information and communications technologies (ICTs) challenge universities and colleges to develop strategies to engage a world flooded by information—both authoritative and questionable—in ways that use and advance knowledge. Today’s "born digital" students learn differently than previous generations, and they have different expectations about what constitutes an engaging and productive educational environment. In this new and changing context, institutions of higher education need to create innovative physical environments to integrate ICTs in ways that advance teaching and learning. Such spaces must be designed to harness the potential inherent in the wide variety of new and yet-to-be-developed tools that range from technology-enhanced classrooms to online course systems, from mobile technologies to social media and the blogosphere. Existing space must be converted into wired, innovative classrooms in which research about learning will inform current pedagogy in real time. As physical library volumes are replaced with electronic access to a vast array of content, library buildings need to be repurposed, redesigned, and renovated into new learning environments. The role of college and university planners in these efforts is paramount.

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM
(CN029) Collaborative Models: New Science Campuses in Paris and North Carolina
Presented by: Andrea Leers, Principal, Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects; Winifred A. Stopps, Associate Principal, Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects; Anna A. Wu, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Facilities Operations, Planning & Design | University Architect, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Two new science campuses on two different continents both look to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kendall Square model, but the results vary due to cultural experience. Both the Campus Paris Saclay, on agricultural land close to Paris, France, and University of North Carolina's Carolina North, on a decommissioned airfield, will bring academic and industry research facilities together on a new campus to create a focus of collaborative research. As the master planning phase concludes and the first buildings at each site begin design, culture-based differences are emerging.

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM
(CN024) Globalization as Object and Agent: Using Integrated Planning for Globalization and Leveraging Globalization to Advance Integrated Planning
Presented by: Lisa Ijiri, Associate Provost, Academic Program & Resource Planning, Lesley University
Comprehensive globalization is not only the desired outcome of integrated planning, it's also a powerful lever for advancing such planning. Using Lesley University's comprehensive globalization initiative as a platform for discussion, this session weaves together theories of change management and organizational development with multi-tiered internationalization goals for curriculum, partnerships, and student/faculty experiences. This session explores the impact of regional accreditation, strategic planning, and a global education center in the planning process and supports participants to find ways for academic leaders to advance similar efforts within their unique local contexts.

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM
(CN038) Measuring Up Against World Universities, Integrating the World University Rankings to a Strategic Planning Process
Presented by: Roland Proulx, Consultant, Institutional Planning & Strategic Intelligence, University of Montreal

Recent studies related to the influence and impact of the world university ranking systems on higher education conclude that the league tables have been mostly used for promotional and reputational purposes. The author argues that the rankings cannot fully impact higher education policy-making unless the universities go beyond the overall scores and use the various individual indicators behind the rankings. This session proposes a three-step approach allowing universities to benchmark and compare with peer world universities (at the institutional, field, and subfield levels), measuring up against global benchmarks and strategically positioning their institution. Rankings could then be used as powerful diagnosis tools, effective guides for specific goal setting, and strategic devices for global higher education.

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM
(CN040) Transforming to Knowledge-Based Economy: Qatar’s Case Study
Presented by: Ahmed Hasnah, Associate VP for Higher Education, Qatar Foundation

Relying solely on natural resources as means of income and development for any nation is risky today and it becomes a challenge for a nation to diversify its development apart from these natural resources. Today, knowledge has become a priceless commodity and the knowledge society and economy have become the way of the future.

Thursday, May 2, 2013, 3:15 PM–4:15 PM
(PL005) Plenary Session | The Road to Academic Excellence
Presented by: Jamil Salmi, Independent Expert for Education

The presentation will start by offering an operational definition of the success factors that distinguish a great university from a regular university. It will then outline and analyze possible strategies and pathways for establishing such universities with excellent results. Finally, it will share lessons of experience based on recent work with countries and institutions that are keen on establishing high quality universities, identifying in the process some of the challenges, costs, and risks associated with these attempts. The presentation will also ask the question of what this all means for developing countries, for regional and local development, and what role internationalization plays.

Friday, May 3, 2013, 9:00 AM–10:00 AM
(CN030) Campus as World-Class Urban District: Catalyzing Community, Innovation, Investment
Presented by: Benjamin M. Carlson, Associate, Goody Clancy; David Dixon, Principal, Planning & Urban Design, Goody Clancy; Robert Francis, Vice President, University Facilities, Drexel University
Drexel University's growing international profile is shaping its master plan implementation, evolving its setting into a cohesive, vibrant district to promote collaborative innovation; attract top students, faculty, co-op employers, and staff from around the world; strengthen research; advance smart growth; and increase Drexel's value as an economic engine. City streets become campus spaces. Nearby development incorporates academic facilities below housing and hotels. University and community housing serve comprehensively to create a more vital international community of learning and revitalize neighborhoods.

Friday, May 3, 2013, 9:00 AM–10:00 AM
(CN017) Leveraging Local Resources to Enhance "Glocal" Competitiveness: UConn's Technology Park
Presented by: Meredith L. Bostwick-Lorenzo Eiroa, Associate Director, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; Christopher P. Cardany, Senior Associate, Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, Inc.; Frances M. Gast, Retired Planner
In collaboration with the state and its regional industries and entrepreneurs, the University of Connecticut (UConn) is planning a first of its kind community of innovation. Projected to enhance Connecticut's global competitiveness in advanced manufacturing and materials, and create new jobs, the UConn Technology Park will secure UConn's position as a regional leader in innovation. This session presents strategies that leverage the university's intellectual resource, translate a 333-acre site into a wellspring of innovation, and create a flexible plan for world-class research.

Friday, May 3, 2013, 9:00 AM–10:00 AM
(CN035) Student Panel: University as Microcosm—Succeeding in a Small World Far From Home
Presented by: Waleed Abdulaal, VP Social Events, Concordia International Students Association, Concordia University-Montreal; Mathilde Cornil, VP Communications, Concordia International Students Association, Concordia University-Montreal; Surena Hesami, VP Exchange, Concordia International Students Association, Concordia University-Montreal; Morgane Rame, VP Finance, Concordia International Students Association, Concordia University-Montreal; Alba Tinoco, Co-President, Concordia International Students Association, Concordia University-Montreal
A global context for higher education requires, at minimum, an exchange of students. High concentrations of students from across the globe at a single institution create a microcosm that can pose unique challenges for students, but also provide great opportunities. Concordia University welcomes over 5,500 international students from over 150 different countries, representing nearly 13% of its student body. Many more students are permanent residents of Canada who are also new here. The student panel will exchange on why they chose to study abroad at Concordia, what it was like learning to live, learn, and study in an environment where not only do they study in a second language, but do so where the official language of the province is yet a third. Finally, they will outline and discuss the challenges and opportunities they have experienced in the context of their studies.

Friday, May 3, 2013, 10:15 AM–11:15 AM
(CN033) Exploring the Local Impacts of a Global Transformation: Northeastern University Campus Master Plan
Presented by: Nancy May, Vice President for Facilities, Northeastern University; Kathy A. Spiegelman, Vice President & Chief, Campus Planning & Development, Northeastern University; Patrick Tedesco, Principal, NBBJ
Northeastern University’s current master plan seeks to satisfy an ambitious academic plan with an emphasis on inter-disciplinary research, innovation, entrepreneurship and expanded Masters and PhD programs.  The session will demonstrate how the Master Plan accommodates considerable academic growth needs to serve these aspirations while navigating the physical, political and social complexities of the campus’ urban context.  The transformation envisioned by the Master Plan is a continuation of the previous ten year vision that set the framework for Northeastern’s evolution from a campus serving a large commuter population to one that now houses a significant on campus residential community.  The master plan includes a complex community benefit package negotiated with four distinct abutting neighborhoods with different interests and demographics.   The session will explore the challenges of planning to satisfy global aspirations within the context of complex local conditions and considerable demands on an aging inventory of academic facilities on a dense urban campus

Friday, May 3, 2013, 10:15 AM–11:15 AM
(CN036) Greening McGill: Building a Culture of Sustainability
Presented by: Paul Guenther, Physical Planner, McGill University; Lilith Wyatt, Sustainability Projects Fund Administrator, McGill University
Inspired by community initiative, McGill University aims to transform its campus to reflect the sustainability priorities expressed by the McGill community. This transformation has not only manifested itself through physical infrastructure, but also in all aspects of the university's management and operation practices. McGill hopes that the campus can act as a model of sustainability  and further inspire its community to take these priorities with them wherever they go. This presentation will look at the greening of McGill's downtown campus and McGill's $3M Sustainability Projects Fund, examining a number of policies, funding models, and infrastructure projects that reflect this transformation.

Friday, May 3, 2013, 10:15 AM–11:15 AM
(CN039) McGill University Life Sciences Complex
Presented by: Carmen Lampron, Director Project for the Life Sciences Complex, McGill University; Peggy Theodore, Associate, Diamond Schmitt Architects

The McGill University Life Sciences Complex—the largest construction project in McGill history—was designed to house research teams from a multitude of disciplines under the same roof to foster scientific advancement.

Friday, May 3, 2013, 11:30 AM–12:30 PM
(PL006) Plenary Session | Resisting the Rear-View Mirror
Presented by: Alan Shepard, President and Vice Chancellor, Concordia University-Montreal

It’s time to rethink our model of the 21st century university. Rapid and profound changes in demographics, communications, learning technology, and rising individual mobility are challenging the way universities function. Our solutions have to meet these challenges as universities increasingly compete globally for students, faculty, and staff, providing the human capital needed to drive knowledge-based economies locally. So far, experiments in taking the modern university model and brand worldwide have included leveraging the benefits of local growth to build international satellite campuses, shared programs, and cross-border research partnerships.