Space Planning

Managing campus space is a lot like herding cats. The nature of academia and the distributed management of schools, colleges, departments, and campuses make measuring, planning for, and managing space a formidable task.

Related terms: space management, space utilization

Related SCUP Resources

SCUP's Space Management Knowledge Community: This topically-related email discussion list is open to all.

This link is to the results page of a search of scup.org for the term "space."

Articles from Planning for Higher Education

The articles listed here can be accessed, full text, online by SCUP members. Others can purchase PDFs of these, and other articles, in SCUP's online store. There are many older, related articles that can be located by searching here.

Ben Huey and JoAnne Valdenegro. 2006. Improving Assessment of Space Utilization in a Transdisciplinary Research Environment. Planning for Higher Education. 34(4): 24–34.

Ira Fink. 2004. Research Space: Who Needs It, Who Gets It, Who Pays for It?. Planning for Higher Education. 33(1): 5–17.

Lynda Alexander and Tim Lewis. 2000. Development of a Statewide Space Model . Planning for Higher Education. 29(1): 31–38. Buy Now!

Steve Brigham. 2000. Open Space: An Innovative Technique for Participatory Planning. Planning for Higher Education. 28(4): 35–41.

David Paul Helpern, Margaret Castillo, and Stephen Engblom. 2000. How Universities Adapt Grand Old Homes to Gain Both Space and Grace. Planning for Higher Education. 28(3): 16–29.

Featured Other Resources

Postsecondary Education Facilities Inventory and Classification Manual (FICM)—"describes standard practices for initiating, conducting, reporting, and maintaining a postsecondary institutional facilities inventory. It is designed to be useful to both specialized staff and generalists and to be applicable to institutions with sophisticated information needs as well as to those with more basic facilities information needs."

National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF)—"Created in 1997 by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF) provides information on planning, designing, funding, building, improving, and maintaining safe, healthy, high performance schools."

Related Organizations

In addition to SCUP, there are shigher education associations with any focus on managing campus space.

APPA: Serving Educational Facilities Professionals—APPA's members share an interest in space management with SCUPers. Its magazine, Facilities Manager, publishes a theme issue on space management about once every two years.

CEFPI: The School Building Association—"The Council is a professional association whose sole mission is improving the places where children learn. CEFPI members individuals, institutions and corporations are actively involved in planning, designing, building, equipping and maintaining schools and colleges."

CFTA: Campus FM Technology Association—"focus[es] on the development and application of the tools of technology across multiple disciplines" for the planning and management of campus space.

AUA: The Association of University Administrators (UK) —"AUA is committed to raising the profile of the profession and developing best practice and the highest standards of professionalism in higher education management and administration."

Search Higher Education Media

Enter your terms in the box above to search several higher education news media publications, trade magazines, and websites, including: American School & University, The Chronicle of Higher Education, College Planning & Managament, Inside Higher Ed, Today's Campus, and University Business.