Agenda for Monday

If you are a new member, please join us for a new membership orientation lunch to learn more about SCUP and how you can get involved in our various programs and activities. A light lunch and refreshments will be served.

Tour participants may attend one of the following concurrent tours: Research and Science Buildings; Undergraduate Learning and Student Life; Sustainability, Landscape and Public Art.

Tours are part of the conference program, so there is no additional cost to participate. However, please choose the tour you wish to attend during the registration process; this will help us determine the audience size per tour.

Iowa State University has recently completed construction on two new research buildings that have focused on integrating sustainable design principles and flexible spaces in research buildings. This tour provides attendees with insight on two new facilities.

The Hach Hall Chemistry building co-locates undergraduate teaching labs with research labs. The building is organized to facilitate collaboration and idea sharing among students and scientists. The building achieved LEED Gold Certification and features energy efficiencies, extensive day lighting, and water reuse.

The Biorenewables Complex is the first phase of a multi-building facility located on the west side of campus. The Biorenewables Research Laboratory (BRL) is a multi-disciplinary research facility that supports scientists from over ten departments across campus. This project integrates research programs in an exciting way, applying science with practice with transparency. Scientists model concepts, apply bench science and small product testing, and transfer to model scale test production facilities on a remote site that allows for integration with farming practices and product delivery.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify opportunities for water reuse in research facilities.
2. Describe the benefits of co-locating undergraduate teaching labs with faculty research space.
3. Discuss the implications of using daylight as a major light source in research facilities.
4. Explain the importance of providing facilities for 'scaling up' applications of renewable bio-energy, as they emerge from bench science.

Iowa State University recently completed several projects that transition traditional learning environments to interactive learning spaces. This tour provides attendees the opportunity to observe new construction and re-purposed spaces that respond to the changing learning needs of students. Featured spaces include an auditorium, teaming spaces, and academic and learning support services.

LeBaron Hall is a uniquely designed 380-seat auditorium that accommodates flexible lectures and small group discussions in one space. Parks Library has recently re-purposed spaces that support new library concepts that accommodate media-enhanced, collaborative and team-based learning, team presentation practice rooms, and socializing spaces, such as a coffee shop. The final component of the tour will feature the Hixson-Lied Building, which focuses on a variety of services to strategically support and increase academic achievement and retention for all students, with a focus on academically vulnerable students, first generation students, and student athletes.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Review the present-day learning space needs of students.
2. Describe ways to update spaces to better reflect the need for collaborative and interactive learning spaces.
3. Evaluate the benefits of enabling both lectures and small-group discussions in a single auditorium.
4. Discuss the ways in which space can be designed to positively influence the delivery of  services that increase academic achievement and retention, particularly for vulnerable students.

Iowa State University is an 150-year-old institution that was initially planned around a large (24 acre) central green space. The principles established then have, and continue to, influence campus development and character. As the campus has expanded and new initiatives have been identified, planning and practice have incorporated new elements of sustainability and an extensive public art collection—recently recognized as the nation’s largest campus public art collection through a national survey conducted by the University of Connecticut. This tour provides attendees with an overview of the integration of master planning principles with an evolving campus environment and a special focus on sustainable practices and integrated public art. Projects of interest include King Pavilion (LEED Platinum), Biorenewables Research Laboratory and Hach Halls (LEED Gold), and Morrill Hall (LEED Silver, re-purposed 1891 original construction). Art installations include work from Grant Wood, Christian Petersen, Albert Paley, Manuel Neri, Luis Jimenez, Bill Barrett, and Stephen De Staebler.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the ways in which historic buildings can become more sustainable through renovations that achieve LEED® certification.
2. Evaluate the influence of an original large, central, green-space on campus master planning.
3. Discuss the value of public art on campuses.
4. Review the importance of a commitment to sustainable practices in any master planning process.

“We are educating for careers that have not been created, using technology not yet invented to solve problems that haven’t been discovered.”  This UTube quote from “Shift Happens” describes the reality of the educational enterprise.  It reflects the constantly changing nature of higher education today and in the future.  This presentation will focus on four key challenges in the next decade:  student demographics, a completion agenda, sustainable funding models, and scaling innovation.  A discussion of future trends on the horizon will make for a provocative opening for the North Central SCUP Regional Conference.

Join your colleagues Monday evening for music by the Ames Jazz Quartet, hors d'oeuvres, and a cash bar.