Agenda for Sunday

NOTE: Step I registration is not included in the price of the 2013 Pacific Regional Conference registration. This workshop requires separate registration.

Cost:
$275/$300 Member
$375/$400 Nonmember

Planning is about developing an explicit way for making choices. An effective planning process focuses the campus, and the various constituencies and players, on what the choices are and how to make them in an integrated way. Choices made in this way include careful consideration of the real costs and a commitment to allocate the necessary resources to bring them to fruition. What integrated planning truly fosters is a culture of planning that allows institutions to be nimble enough to respond to unanticipated threats and opportunities.

Participants in the initial workshop in the series of three use SCUP’s Walnut College case study to apply the basic elements of integrated planning. The value of evidence-based planning is emphasized, as is the central place that the academic mission holds in focusing and driving campus decisions. Integrated planning promotes institutional distinctiveness that is sustainable.

1. Whom do we wish to serve?
2. What programs and services will reinforce our distinctive image?
3. How do we want to be perceived?
4. How will we know we are succeeding?

Step I models the elements of effective planning by creating a collaborative environment through the delivery of the workshop content. It ensures that participants have the opportunity to address the questions they brought, to build national networks for ongoing discussions, and to understand how integrated planning addresses issues of accountability and accreditation.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Define the basic elements of planning.
2. Practice integrated planning in the context of higher education, using exercises and a case study.
3. Discuss the social and political context of integrated planning within higher education.
4. Analyze the value of evidence-based planning and leave prepared to apply evidence-based planning in a real-life context.

Founded in 1873 to serve the mining industry, Colorado School of Mine's (CSM) mission has expanded over the years to its current focus on understanding the Earth, harnessing energy, and sustaining the environment. The tour will highlight historic components of the campus as well as three recently completed projects that demonstrate how the campus is evolving:

• Maple Street Plaza is the most recent addition to a long-standing process on campus of changing city streets into pedestrian walkways. The plaza has been recognized nationally for its creative use of a porous paver system that mitigates Colorado’s challenging precipitation issues. The plaza is anchored at the south end by an expanding residence life district with a new residence hall and another one on the way.
• Brown Hall is an extensive addition and remodel of the engineering building. It was recently awarded an AIA Colorado Merit Award, recognized in part for its collaboration and informal study areas, which are planned around the changing ways in which students work and learn outside of the classroom.
• Marquez Hall is the new home of petroleum engineering. It is the first building on campus funded largely by private alumni and industry donations, with an attached classroom wing that is funded by bonds paid for by student fees. New research space helps to attract strong faculty as well as raise the profile of the university.

Tour guides will include the CSM's campus architect, Chris Cocallas, and Paul Haack, principal at Anderson Mason Dale Architects, who are the architects of record for Maple Street Plaza, Brown Hall, and Marquez Hall.

Optional Event: Requires Registration $50 (includes transportation and boxed lunch)

Learning Outcomes:

1. Integrate a physical campus expansion with the existing campus and surrounding neighborhoods.
   
2. Recognize the value and challenges of campus density.
3. Discuss the variety of funding mechanisms available, including private alumni and industry donations.
   
4. Incorporate public space, collaboration space, and flex space into academic facilities.

This two-hour walking tour explores Denver’s Lower Downtown ("LoDo") historic district, the site of the city’s birthplace in 1858 and its original downtown commercial and warehouse district. By the 1960s, the district had become the city’s skid row with deteriorating buildings, crumbling infrastructure, vagrants, weeds, and litter. Sparked by the creation of the Lower Downtown Historic District in 1988, the warehouse/loft conversion craze, and the prospects for a major league baseball stadium, the district exploded with redevelopment and investment throughout the 1990s and 2000s, and today stands as one of the greatest urban revitalization stories in the nation’s history. Meanwhile, anchoring the western end of LoDo sits Denver’s historic Union Station depot which is currently undergoing a half-billion dollar renovation and expansion as the multi-modal hub for the region's burgeoning transit system. Surrounding Union Station are blocks of former rail yards now starting a multi-billion dollar buildout of new mixed-use development.

Optional Event: Requires Registration $15

Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate the effectiveness of using historic designation to maintain an area’s character but allow redevelopment.
2. Identify how public investments in infrastructure lead to surrounding private sector investment.
3. Discuss the importance of connectivity between downtown, a major transit station, and an institution of higher education and how it can be improved.
4. Explore the steps required to create a major regional transit hub and what will likely make it successful.

Join your colleagues, friends, and fellow SCUPers at Wynkoop Brewery for a fun evening of billiards and great company. It will be a great opportunity to catch up with contacts and enjoy yourself before the conference starts in earnest on Monday. Wynkoop Brewery is a short, 10- to 15-minute walk from the conference hotels. All new SCUP members are highly encouraged to attend. Attendees are responsible for food and beverages.