Registration
Now Open
Pacific Regional Conference

Learn about the benefits and opportunities alliance building can have for your institution by joining us at the 2007 Pacific Regional Conference, "Building Alliances," in Salt Lake City, UT (USA), March 11–13, 2007.

Register by February 2 and save!

Gain Recognition
2007 SCUP/AIA-CAE Awards
Call for Entries
Deadline: March 2

The 2007 SCUP awards submittal process is now open! If you are a professional service provider or institution that has prepared designs or plans for two-year and four-year colleges, universities, or academic medical and research centers and completed the project within the last five years, submit your entry today. To learn more about the awards program and submit your entry, please visit
www.scup.org/
membership/awards/call.html

Deadline to submit is Friday, March 2, 2007 .

2007 CFI Survey
Sign Up to
Participate

The 2007 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) Survey will open on February 5, 2007. If you would like to be invited to share your institution's data for use in the CFI 2007 Survey, please complete the SCUP Campus Facilities Inventory Invite Form .

Planning Institute
Steps II & III
May Offering

Registration is now open for the May offering of Step II & Step III of the SCUP Planning Institute. Save $25 on your registration if you register by March 21, 2007.

The deadline to make your hotel reservation at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis in Minneapolis, MN, is April 12, 2007. You must register by April 18, 2007. Onsite registrations will not be accepted.

SCUP—42
"Shaping the Academic Landscape:
Integrated Solutions"

July 7–11, 2007
Chicago, IL
Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Tower
Start planning for 2007!

Sponsorship Opportunities
Available

Idea Marketplace
Booth Space (pdf)

Idea Marketplace
Floor Plan

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Reserve Your Hotel Room
*All SCUP—42 events will take place at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers unless otherwise noted.

SCUP Portfolios

Assessment and Quality
	If your concerns are assessment and quality in higher education, you will find the new SCUP Portfolio, Assessment and Quality, to be indispensible. MORE
Budget & Resource Planning
	If your interest is budget and resource planning in higher education, you will find the new SCUP Portfolio, Budget & Resource Planning, to be indispensible. MORE
The Faculty
	If you care about faculty in higher education, you will find the new SCUP Portfolio, The Faculty, to be essential. MORE

The resources linked-to below were discovered for you by SCUP, but not operated by SCUP. It is the nature of the Web that links may not always work, or may be taken down.

Bombings Kill 60 at Mustansiriya University In Baghdad

The crisis for higher education institutions in Iraq continues: "The university's assistant president, Fadhil al-Amri, found a human head on the ground outside his office, next to a severed hand. 'No matter what I say to you, it is nothing like what happened. It is terrible,' Amri said. 'The terrorists are walking the streets in larger numbers than the policemen or the soldiers in the army. They can't do anything. There is no safety in this country.' About 24,000 students attend state-run Mustansiriya University's three colleges, in a middle-class Sunni Arab and Shiite Muslim neighborhood."

LAND Online: The ASLA's Landscape Architecture News Digest

The January 16 issue is available now.

The Changing Campus Scene: Recent News About the Built Environment

• Bold New Look on Campus: A+ or F? (Architects & Chicago Campuses)
• A "Transit Village" in Princeton, NJ?
• What's It Like to Live in the "Sponge" Dormitory at MIT?
• A New "Three-Building" Arts Configuration Planned at Hamilton College (NY): Teaching & Learning Museum, Studio Arts, and Theater
• Can Architecture Make (Your Students) Fat?
• The University of Wisconsin—Fox Valley: Approval for Communication Arts and Theater Building
• Boone Community College (NY): Proposed Communications and Technologies Building
• Southern University of Utah: Renovation of Old Main

College Learning for the New Global Century (PDF)

"To succeed in today's global economy, college graduates will need much more cross-disciplinary knowledge—in science, global cultures, technology, and society; an expanded set of advanced skills, including in communication, teamwork, and analytic reasoning; and much more practice in applying what they learn to real-world problems. *** The LEAP Council also released two national polls that explore how well schools are preparing the future workforce, both conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates.

Community Colleges Aim for More Respect

"Community colleges are becoming more aware of their shortcomings, experts say, in areas such as student advising, teaching methods, and the process of transferring academic credits. To address the latter, two-year and four-year institutions are collaborating on academic standards to ensure that key courses are transferable and are graded in a similar way."

Another Front on Accreditation

"Cynthia Davenport, executive director of the Association of Specialized and Professional Accreditors, said it would be a 'horrible waste of time' to have to go through negotiated rule making on accreditation twice, if Congress were to renew the Higher Education Act in the coming months. But she acknowledged that she and others had complained, in a highly critical letter in December about the department's efforts to change the rules for accreditors without involving them in the process. 'So if we can make s improvements in the prcess,' she said, 'that would be a good thing, I guess.'"

National Freshman Attitudes Report (PDF)

"The major finding of this annual national study is that today's entering undergraduates are arriving on campuses highly motivated to complete their college degrees. Yet at the same time, many admit they do not enjoy reading and bring less-than-ideal study habits to the classroom. … In another interesting finding, entering students as a whole report that they would welcome assistance in areas such as preparing for college exams, career guidance, math tutoring, and assistance with securing part-time jobs."

A Quiet Higher Education Crisis in India

India has 350 universities. A new national report says it should have 1,500 universities by 2015, that's only eight years from now.

Business Intelligence:

"'We were a very different university about one year ago,' says Keith Werosh, registrar at the National University of Health Sciences (IL). He is referring to the pre-BI. NUHS installed BI from Business Objects a year ago. 'Prior to having this system, we were departmentalized. Information was kept on spreadsheets throughout the university,' he says. The Registrar would have relevant data, but not related information. 'Paper touched hands a number of times. Other offices would even rekey the information,' explains Werosh. As a result, NUHS officials wouldn't have a picture of the enrollment process until weeks into a term."

Small Private Research Universities: The New Size of Critical Mass

"In recent years, many liberal arts colleges have inched upwards in size, with student bodies that were once 1,200 hitting 1,500. Officials cite a number of reasons—both educational and economic—for why the smaller sizes don't work as they once did. Now it appears that similar growth spurts are hitting research universities that are on the small side for that sector. The University of Rochester is making plans to increase its faculty size and undergraduate enrollment by about one-fourth. Rice University, one of the few research universities smaller than Rochester, is in the process of increasing its undergraduate enrollment to 3,800, an increase of 30 percent."

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