Conference Proceedings

Plenaries
Roger J. Thompson, Vice Provost, Enrollment Management, Indiana University
"Tomorrow's Students, Today's Implications"

So What Will You Do Tomorrow?
Presenter: Jeanenne LaMarsh, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, LaMarsh & Associates

As this conference comes to a close you go away filled with ideas that can help you and your organization. That's one of the key reasons you came. As we close, Jeanenne LaMarsh, Founder and CEO of LaMarsh & Associates, will share with you her thirty years of experience with organizations filled with good intentions on what to change and the lessons they have taught her about how to change. Just because you have the right solution doesn't guarantee that it will take root and grow. What are the secrets to beating the gravity of the status quo and actually executing a sustainable solution?

Case Study
(CC-05) Supporting the Pedagogy: Science Facilities that Embody Today's Science Teaching
Presenters: James Baird, Principal, Holabird & Root Architects; Brock Spencer, Kohnstamm Professor, Chemistry, Beloit College

Gone are the days of the standard model of science and research buildings. Today's college and university planners need a deeper understanding of developments in teaching and technology in order to create dynamic, interdisciplinary science facilities that support inquiry-based learning. Additionally, new technologies allow for buildings to be sustainable well into the future. James W. Baird and Dr. Brock Spencer will discuss how these technologies are translated into buildings, using Beloit College's Center for the Sciences as a case study.

Case Study
(CC-07) Integrated Planning at the University of Wisconsin River Falls: A Case Study in "Smart" Change
Presenters: Teresa M. Brown, Interim Provost & Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, University of Wisconsin-River Falls; Connie Foster, Interim Provost, University of Wisconsin-River Falls; Kristen Hendrickson, Budget Director, University of Wisconsin-River Falls; Lisa Wheeler, Interim Vice Chancellor, Administration & Finance, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

The University of Wisconsin-River Falls is in the midst of substantially revising its budget process to align decisions about resources with strategic priorities. Members of the leadership team will share lessons learned in the implementation of "smart" change. The session will share successful tools for implementing change on other campuses, as well as specific strategies for working with people to implement institutional change. It is intented for campus leadership, including vice presidents, deans, department chairs, budget directors, campus planners, institutional research and assessment directors.

Case Study
(CC-10) Change Happens: Spurring Campus & Economic Growth Against the Odds
Presenters: Mike Montgomery, President, K.R. Montgomery & Associates Architecture & Interior Design; Charles Staley, CEO of Flagship Enterprise Center/Special Asst. to the President (Anderson University), Flagship Enterprise Center AND Anderson University; Winifrid Williams, Architect, Associate Principal, K.R. Montgomery & Associates Architecture & Interior Design

Universities are always seeking creative ways to further their mission of education, yet their big visions sometimes seem nothing short of a fairytale in light of the realities of scarce resources. Anderson University had a vision for helping reverse the economic downturn of their community by forming strategic partnerships with industry, city officials, and Purdue University. The result was an entrepreneurial center that provides incubation for emerging businesses, academic programs, residential apartments, and a state-of-the-art conference center for professional development.

Case Study
(CC-11) Grand Valley State University: Managing Change in a Limited Economy
Presenters: Cory Gallo, Urban Designer, JJR; Mary Jukuri, Principal, JJR; James R. Moyer, Assistant Vice President/Facilities Planning, Grand Valley State University

The postwar period in the twentieth century brought a great expansion in the number of college and university campuses in the country. Unlike their nineteenth century predecessors, campuses in the 1950's and 60's began with a modern approach to teaching methodology, planning, and campus structure.

As a postwar campus that has outgrown its original master plan, Grand Valley State University provides an excellent case study for mid-twentieth century campuses facing continued growth beyond their original vision, and how to manage change with limited public resources.

Case Study
(CC-13) Five Landmarks, Five Historical Eras: A Model for Preserving Campus Landscapes
Presenters: N. Jill Coleman, University Landscape Architect, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Peter Schaudt, Partner, Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architecture

As the country's first state University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been subject to five eras of landscape design. To document its physical and cultural evolution and to identify significant remnants from each era, the University produced a Historic Landscape Preservation Master Plan. This plan, partly funded through a Campus Heritage Grant from the Getty Foundation, is a compelling model for assessing the significance of campus landscapes. University planners will learn a creative process for balancing preservation with the practicalities of campus growth.

Panel Discussion
(CC-14) Economic, Institution and Community Revitalization Through a New Urban Campus
Presenters: Clyde El-Amin, President, City Colleges of Chicago Kennedy-King College; Paul A. Hansen, Principal/Architect, VOA Associates Inc; Christopher Lee, Principal & Architect, Johnson & Lee, Ltd

The new Kennedy King College opened in the fall of 2007. As a complete replacement of an inner city campus complex a few miles away, this new campus presents hands-on study of flexibility and adaptation to change in the institution. The entire campus was programmed to eliminate the flaws and problems of the existing campus and to take advantage of new teaching paradigms developed since the original campus was built. The success of the campus is illustrated clearly by a 50% increase in enrollment in its first year of operation. Even with these gains, however, there are many lessons to be learned as the faculty, staff and student body started using the new facility. Join in a lively discussion with the design team of successes, large and small and some failures in adapting to their new home, utilizing the facilities in academic as well as student life components of the campus.

Case Study
(CC-15) Advancing Change: Facility Design Facilitates Collaboration and Social Enterprise to Improve Research and Teaching
Presenters: Kim Dale Hassell, Partner, Plunkett Raysich Architects; Steve Roloff, COO, Chief Structural Engineer, Arnold & O'Sheridan Consulting Engineers

The Microbial Sciences Building at the University of Wisconsin, a recently completed 330,000 square foot world-class research center, is the first of a new generation of facilities that is changing the way in which teaching and research is being conducted at leading academic institutions across the country. The design organized the research suites into five "neighborhoods" on various floors with numerous interactive meeting spaces adjacent to the six-story atrium to promote more social contact among researchers to encourage scientific collaboration.

Panel Discussion
(CC-16) Are All the Good Sites Taken? Expanding Without Space
Presenters: Trevor Calarco, Architect & Associate, Flad & Associates; Mark Corey, Principal, Flad Architects; Mike Cox, Assistant Chair, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

To attract and retain professors and students at the top of their fields, universities must continuously reinvent their facilities. As campuses become increasingly dense, this presents significant challenges. New building projects must meet departmental needs, work within the campus master plan, maintain necessary proximity with related programs, be financially achievable, and make maximum use of existing space. This presentation will explore creative solutions to these problems. The intended audience includes academic administrators, deans, professors, architects, and facilities planning personnel.

Case Study
(CC-17) Success Despite the Odds–From Master Plan to Completed Projects
Presenters: Patrick Calhoun, Planner, SHW Group, LLP (formerly DSA Architects); Daniel Phelan, President, Jackson Community College

After nearly 80 years, Jackson Community College embarked on a mission to reinvent itself. Through integration of Strategic Plan, Master Plan, and Facility Condition Assessment, JCC has created an environment changing the nature of campus life, community relations, and education at JCC.

Daniel Phelan, President of Jackson Community College, and Patrick Calhoun, Planner and Architect at SHW Group, will present this review of campus planning, obstacles overcome, resulting projects, lessons learned, and benefits realized for the College.

Case Study
(CC-18) Scenario Planning:Springboard for Transforming University Planning and Budgeting
Presenter: William D. Maki, Vice President/Finance & Administration, Bemidji State University

Bemidji State University used a scenario planning process to transform its planning structure and to improve campus-wide communication. The results created new bridges of understanding about the university's external realities and helped set the stage for comprehensive budgeting restructuring–which included a new master facilties plan, adoption of a new mission and vision statement and adoption of the 2008-2013 strategic plan. The presentation will discuss what worked well and what did not.

Case Study
(CC-20) Fossil Fuels Are for Dinosaurs: How the University of Minnesota Morris is Adapting its Campus for the 21st Century
Presenters: Lowell Rasmussen, Associate Vice Chancellor, University of Minnesota–Morris Regional Fitness Center; Joshua W. Stowers, Associate, MS&R, Ltd.

The University of Minnesota Morris (UMM) is abandoning its dependence on fossil fuels and creating renewable, environmentally responsible electricity for the campus through wind turbines and biomass gasification. Bringing energy independence to an historic campus poses many obstacles. The least among which is applying 21st century technology and construction techniques to historic buildings. The buildings, which are deeply rooted in campus tradition and history, are the largest consumers of energy and fossil fuels for the campus. Learn how the UMM is balancing history with the future.

Case Study
(CC-21) Planning and Building Residence Hall Space at the University of Wisconsin System. The Transition from the 1960's to the 21st Century.
Presenters: Maura Donnelly, Senior Architect & Planner, University of Wisconsin System; Jeff Janz, Executive Director, Residence Life, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; Jonathan Parker, Principal, Eppstein Uhen Architects

The University of Wisconsin System is one of the largest systems of public higher education in the country. In the past ten years, $149M of construction built 3,200 beds for various campuses. Currently there is $230M worth of construction either in planning or design for an additional 2,600 beds. This recent wave of construction has been in response to the fact that the majority of student housing at UW-System was built prior to 1970. Individual campuses are increasingly relying on market studies along with architect firms to help them and the UW-System make decisions on student needs, what configuration to build, what to do with existing housing and what can both public and private sector support. This session will explain the analysis and planning that is done at the campus level, including examples of master plans and building designs and will explain how the UW-System guides and responds to this process.