SCUP Webcast

Trends in Campus Housing:
A Critical Component When Planning Your Campus' Learning Environment

Co-sponsored by the Association of College & University Housing Officers–International (ACUHO-I)

Join us as we examine emerging trends and design concepts driving campus living today and in the future.

As the college campus evolves into a single grand educational experience, the lines between classrooms, residence halls, administration, and student services blur. Learn about the multiple trends that are impacting campus housing and residential life—and how those trends are being articulated in the design of residential housing facilities.

It is no longer enough for a college or university simply to provide students with four walls and a bed. Students, parents, administrators, and public officials are demanding more from the campus living environment. Campus planning and design administrators, along with housing and residence life professionals, must be prepared to identify, analyze, and produce solutions that respond to the changing economic, demographic, and technological changes that face higher education.

This webcast will also share the award results of the first phase of the 21st Century Project, sponsored by the Association of College and University Housing Officers–International (ACUHO-I). The 21st Century Project is a multi-phased initiative leading to the construction of new, state-of-the-art residential facilities for colleges and universities. In addition to creating one or more prototype residential facilities on several campuses, the project will assist colleges and universities in designing new residential facilities, or renovating existing facilities, that reflect the ever-changing roles that residences play in the collegiate experience. The first phase of the design competition was the design of the individual student living unit of a residence hall of the future. You will see the concepts submitted by the eight finalists, and the winning design submitted by Jonathan Levi Architects (JLA) of Boston, MA.

Discussion Points:

• Examine the emerging trends in residence life and housing and how they influence student populations. Learn more about planning and design elements including flexibility, demographics, economics, privacy, flexibility, sustainability, and more.
• Investigate the impact of educational outcomes on planning and building principles.
• Review selected design concepts that highlight sustainability, flexibility, use-consolidation, and technology in planning residential facilities.

Who Should Attend?

Campus housing officers, facilities officers, planners, architects, business officers, consultants, program planners, and others who are responsible for facilities, building, sustainability, and campus planning.

How to Participate in the Webcast

You will need two components: a telephone and Internet access. One registration purchases a single link to the broadcast. A data projector and sound amplification can be used to share the presentation to a larger group under that single connection.

After you register, you will be forwarded instructions on how to join the webcast several days before the broadcast. Watch for an email titled, "Seminar Materials." It will contain information about how to test your computer in advance and how to dial in to the audio for the program. It will also give you a link where you can print out a PDF of supportive materials for the program.

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To learn more about the webcast's co-sponsor, please visit:

Association of College & University Housing Officers–International

Panelists:

Michael Coakley is the associate dean of student affairs and the executive director of university housing at Arizona State University (ASU). Coakley is also the coordinator for ACUHO-I's 21st Century Project. Coakley's responsibilities at ASU include housing and residential life; campus dining; the student union including student activities and greek affairs; academic support services; the Center for Off-Campus and Commuter Student Services; and multicultural student services. Prior to Coakley's current position, he served as assistant vice president for student life at Northern Illinois University (NIU) and executive director of Student Housing and Dining Services at NIU for ten years. Coakley also has worked at Wright State University (OH), Western Michigan University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Coakley has over twenty-eight years experience in student development, housing operations, auxiliary services, residential life, judicial affairs, and greek affairs administration at the university level and has academic experience as an instructor and a clinical faculty member. Coakley served as a clinical faculty member for the College of Education at Northern Illinois University teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses.

Coakley is an active participant in the ACUHO-I having served as program chair for two international conferences, chair of the ACUHO-I Foundation; the Great Lakes Association of College and University Housing Officers (GLACUHO) as president, secretary/treasurer, editor, and twice as program chair and host; and advisor to the Great Lakes Association of College and University Residence Halls (GLACURH). Coakley has served as a consultant for multiple institutions and businesses concerning student housing. Coakley has a MS from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and a BS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Jane Cady Wright is president and CEO of Hanbury Evans which serves colleges and universities across the country and abroad. As an architect and planner, Wright is involved in research, strategic planning, and design of award-winning campus housing and student life facilities, and the firm has worked on more than 80 campuses throughout the US. Wright teached and lectures frequently on issues related to campus architecture and student life—including programs for ACUHO-I, SCUP, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), APPA, and Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

Wright has had numerous publications in higher education associations and Architecture Magazine. Wright serves on the board of directors for the Virginia Center for Architecture, and the ACUHO-I Foundation. She has been engaged in ACUHO-I's 21st Century Project. In 2005, Wright was awarded the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award from Rhodes College for her leadership in transforming their campus. Wright is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Moderator:

Fran Gast recently retired from her position at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she served as their associate vice president of facilities planning, with additional responsibility in operations. She began her career there in 1981, as director of planning and research. Over the succeeding 25 years she continued in her planning role increasingly in the area of facilities and capital planning, while also managing non-financial operations such as human resources, the college store, and dining services. She most recently managed the transformation of a 12-story 1917 bank building into a living/learning center housing 500 students as well as the college's library. Gast received her bachelor's degree in history at the University of Rochester, and a master's in administration, planning, and social policy from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard. She spent several years doing educational research for a federal policy research firm.

AIA Members and Continuing Education Opportunity:

SCUP is a registered provider of continuing education units for the American Institute of Architects (AIA). If you are eligible to earn continuing education units from AIA, sign the AIA report form that will be sent to each listening site in advance of the program, and fax it back to the SCUP office at 734.998.6532. SCUP will submit completed session forms to AIA for you. This webcast offers one and a half hours of continuing education units. Anyone attending the live broadcast may request a certificate as a record of his or her attendance.

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Questions? Please contact Kathy Benton, SCUP's associate director of education and product development, at 734.998.6966 or kathy.benton@scup.org