Agenda for Monday

In 2005, University of Colorado, Boulder's housing and dining services faced a daunting challenge. Three dining centers needed renovation. Residence halls—most over 40 years old—were obsolete, enrollment growth required additional beds be built, and political support for traditional housing initiatives was non-existent. See how the department developed a 20-year plan to renovate and expand its housing facilities without privatization or substantial rate increases. The integrated planning approach has changed not only residential life, but also student services and academics.

Optional event. Additional fee required.

Cost:
$95/$120 Member
$120/$145 Nonmember

Fee includes transportation to/from workshop and lunch.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Distinguish the roles of integrated planning (strategic plans, academic planning, master plans, financial plans, implementation plans) in renewing a housing system.
2. Investigate how to renovate and expand a housing system without privatization.
3. Examine tools to use while evaluating and planning renovations of housing systems.
4. Explain the ways in which integrated planning can adapt to changing economic times.

Colorado State University (CSU) is a public research university located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The university is the state's land grant university, and the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. CSU was founded as Colorado Agricultural College in 1870, six years before the Colorado Territory gained statehood. It was one of 68 land-grant colleges established under the Morrill Act of 1862. Doors opened to a freshman class of 5 students in 1879. This day-long tour of CSU will consist of two tracks. Track 1 follows "A Day in the Life of a CSU Student,” starting with student housing and moving to athletics, recreation, dining, and academics. Track 1 will explore the integrated planning and funding strategies used by Colorado State University to redefine student life on the CSU campus. Visit CSU’s new and renovated Residential Learning Communities, athletic facilities, and recreation center.

Participants are limited to a single track.

Optional Event: Requires Registration $60 (includes transportation and lunch on campus)

Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate CSU's unique funding strategies and integrated planning efforts for adoption at your campus.
2. Assess strategies for redesigning your existing resident halls into vibrant residential learning communities, including lessons learned for residential learning community planning and design.
3. Discuss methods for balancing student athletics with academic rigor.
4. Explore approaches for balancing a campus's architectural legacy with its need to modernize for a changing student population.

Colorado State University (CSU) is a public research university located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The university is the state's land-grant university, and the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. CSU was founded as Colorado Agricultural College in 1870, six years before the Colorado Territory gained statehood. It was one of 68 land-grant colleges established under the Morrill Act of 1862. Doors opened to a freshman class of five students in 1879. This day-long tour of CSU will consist of two tracks. Track 2 will follow "Research in the Rockies." "Despite significant cutbacks in federal funding, Colorado State University still held its place as one of the top performing research institutions in the nation, growing annual research spending to about $340 million in fiscal year 2012. The research dollars set a new record high for the university and mark the fifth year in a row that spending has exceeded $300 million." (CSU Today, September 17, 2012) Track 2 will introduce you to some of CSU’s most unique research institutions. Visit four of CSU’s most prominent research buildings and learn about their work, sustainability efforts, and future research. This track will involve tours of the new labs and engineering building, as well as the campus sustainability initiatives. See why CSU’s Professional Veterinary Medicine program is currently ranked second in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and first in the country in federal research dollars, and don't miss the innovations at the award-winning CSU Powerhouse Energy Institute, where the school is developing technologies to reduce emissions from large industrial engines, defining future electric grids, and bringing clean energy solutions to the developing world.

Participants are limited to a single track.

Optional Event: Requires Registration $60 (includes transportation and lunch on campus)

Learning Outcomes:

1. Investigate how to create a unique energy institute that not only benefits the campus but also solves real-world energy problems.
2. Adapt strategies to maximize the impact of your campus's research.
3. Evaluate large animal research facilities, a learning environment vital to veterinary medicine.
4. Create campus sustainability plans that are unique to each campus, yet similar in goals, passion, and budget constraints.

The University of Denver (DU) is considered an exemplar for shifting a campus from a disparate hodge-podge of almost 150 years of competitive architectural fashions to a cohesive architectural vision. However, just as important are the budgeting and maintenance systems that allowed the university to move from deleterious practices, like selling land to make payroll in the late 1980s and putting minimal investment in maintenance, to ones that now support a vibrant academic community and a campus environment showcased during the first 2012 presidential debate. This tour will touch upon a wide range of program and project types—new, renovation, and restoration—to highlight how the university successfully integrated positive budget modeling and effective balancing of preventative maintenance and long-term project modeling to support the gradual improvement of the campus over the last two decades.

Our tour will begin at the Ritchie Center for Sports & Wellness, a landmark, multi-sport facility that encourages healthy activity across the entire campus and local communities. The Seventeenth Chancellor of the University, Robert Coombe, will welcome attendees and comment on his 30-plus years of perspective from being part of the DU’s faculty and senior leadership. Mark Rodgers, university architect, will briefly review the history of campus planning at the university.  From there, the tour will continue to the Ricketson Law Building, Colorado’s first LEED Gold certified building, then through the William T. Driscoll Student Center and on to the Joy Burns Center, home of the Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management, part of the Daniels College of Business.  Following a coffee break, presentations on the university's detailed budgeting and integrated facilities plan will be provided by Vice Chancellor of Business and Financial Affairs Craig Woody and Director of Facilities Management Jeff Bemelen. Then, the tour will proceed to the Anderson Academic Commons (opening in March 2012), home of the Penrose Library Collection, an early 1970's building renovated from a place to store paper into a vibrant student-focused facility.  Finally, the tour will culminate at the Robert & Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts. Throughout, the tour will emphasize how effective planning involves a wide cross-section of the campus community and a multi-decade commitment to enabling the vision.

Optional Event: Requires Registration $35 (includes transportation)

Learning Outcomes:

1. Collect strategies to combine budget planning, maintenance planning, and fundraising leadership along with a concerted architectural effort that can allow your university to effectively plan and, if necessary, lift itself from potentially negative circumstances.
2. Identify a wide array of methods to build a more cohesive architectural campus statement from a campus that is an eclectic collection of "competitive" building designs spanning the history of your institution.
3. Recognize that campus architecture can play a pivotal role in supporting an extensive shift in academic perception, both in faculty recruitment and attracting prospective students.
4. Summarize how to use a multi-year integrated facilities management plan to support program initiatives while addressing maintenance needs on a proactive basis.

Johnson & Wales University’s (JWU) Denver Campus opened in 2000. Previously, this campus was home to the Colorado Woman’' College. This tour will address how JWU acquired the campus and created new spaces that were designed to fit the needs of its students and programs. Through the investment of more than $80 million in facility upgrades, JWU was able to maintain many of the historic architectural details and continue several traditions and rituals of years past.

Optional Event: Requires Registration $35 (includes transportation)

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to create a cohesive campus from many existing architectural styles.
2. Explore how to create a local feel throughout a campus in a university with multiple national locations.
3. Incorporate old traditions from a previous institution into new traditions, both in special events and in architecture.
4. Discover alternative ways to create different layers in a sense of place.

Glen Hiemstra, internationally respected expert on future trends, long-range planning and creating the preferred future, will explore future trends as they impact the future of education. Demography, technology, society, economics, sustainability are but a few of the domains in which change is occurring, with implications for higher education. Although the Academy has been historically resilient, future challenges are very great. Education tomorrow will likely not resemble education today in a variety of ways. Technology is revolutionizing the way we teach and learn, presenting us with an unprecedented number of options. What is coming, what must be done? By imagining the preferred future of education, can we leave the future behind and achieve greater success in the present?