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Space Management

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2007 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) Report

 How are institutions using their space? This report from the SCUP Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) aggregates space data submitted to the CFI survey from 2006 and 2007.
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2021 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) Report

 The 2021 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) report’s valuable facilities benchmarking data will help college and university leaders understand not only what they have now and how it compares, but also how things might change in the future.
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2022 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) Report

 The 2022 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) report’s valuable facilities benchmarking data will help college and university leaders understand not only what they have now and how it compares, but also how things might change in the future.
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2023 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) Report

 The 2023 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) report’s valuable facilities benchmarking data will help college and university leaders understand not only what they have now and how it compares, but also how things might change in the future.
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2023 SCUP Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) Review

 The 2023 SCUP Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) survey was the third iteration of the survey providing new insights about the current state of campus facilities and how institutions across the country are thinking about the future of campus and facility planning.
Conference Presentations

Addressing the Demographic Cliff: Community College Perspectives

 Community colleges are facing enrollment declines and demographic shifts.
Conference Presentations

Assessing and Relocating Administrative Workspaces, On and Off Campus
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Beyond Budget Cuts

 This webinar will demonstrate–with real-world data and examples–how real-time occupancy data is transforming higher ed space management, HVAC, and custodial cleaning strategies.
Conference Presentations

Data-Driven Design for the Evolving Academic Workplace

 Interpreting diverse perspectives and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative information are key to making impactful and informed long-term decisions that drive successful student, institutional, and facility development.
Conference Recordings

Data-driven Space Strategies for Research-intensive Institutions

 In this session, you'll learn multiple techniques—analytical, participatory, and action-oriented—that will help you enroll stakeholders, think strategically, and act more constructively to advance space management approaches at your institution.
Conference Recordings

Data-Informed Design Decisions

 Come learn how data-informed design can inform your next building project, guide space allocation, and minimize the need for new construction on your campus.
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Data-Informed Space Utilization

 This resource is designed to support business officers and other institutional leaders in developing data-informed space utilization practices.
Conference Presentations

Design, Assess, and Improve Learning Spaces With FLEXspace
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Diving Into Data

 Using data analytics and reviewing facility conditions helped Newberry College enhance space utilization and create a dynamic, adaptable campus.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Educational Innovation and Space Management
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From “What if?” to What’s Next?”

 In this session, we will explore how to plan a campus ecosystem that connects business with people, ideas, and resources to drive a new research and education model.
Conference Recordings

From Siloed to Sustainable

 In this session, you'll learn how to combine digital and physical environments, promote diversity and inclusion, and implement flexibility within campus spaces to prepare your institution for a more blended world.
Conference Recordings

From Siloed to Sustainable

 In this session, you'll learn how to combine digital and physical environments, promote diversity and inclusion, and implement flexibility within campus spaces to prepare your institution for a more blended world.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Good Academic Planning Is What Happens . . .

 The division of Academic Affairs at the University of West Georgia worked with SCUP to integrate academic planning with facilities, accreditation, budget, student affairs, and student success.
Conference Presentations

How to Craft a Living, Data-Driven Facilities Master Plan

 In this session, you will learn how the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor’s College of Engineering created this responsive master plan that acts more as an interactive set of tools than a static document.
Conference Presentations

Inside Out: Understanding Space and Building Consensus in a Dynamic Environment

 Building consensus is challenging, but planners who are empowered by knowledge of their campus's space can make informed decisions on how to plan for its most efficient usage.
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Kings of Infinite Space

 This book sketches an evolved comprehensive space planning practice, with its emphases on utilization, economic value, quality, and accountability both to the institutional mission and to stakeholders.
Conference Recordings

No Net New Space

 We'll share the process used at Longwood University to reallocate existing space to align with a new core curriculum centered on deep learning, creativity, and collaboration—and will demonstrate how your institution can use it to assess existing space, reallocate underutilized space, align budget, and advocate for student and faculty buy-in.
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Pandemic Space Planning for Now and the Long Term

 We will share approaches and tools to fulfill your institution's space needs in the current pandemic, and discuss how the pandemic may influence long-term campus space planning.
Conference Recordings

Planning Interrupted

 From the onset of COVID-19, Moore College has demonstrated how a dense urban campus can adapt to the new normal by transforming common space for maximum use to enhance the creative arts education pedagogy—join us to learn about their innovative strategies.
Webinar Recordings

Re-imagining Space Utilization

 Engage with Ohio University’s ambitious approach to right-sizing and aligning physical space to programmatic needs. If you are entertaining radical change, this session will help you understand where to start, how to deliver in practice, and how to identify and express impacts that are mission-aligned to gain stakeholder buy-in.
Conference Recordings

Reaping the Benefits of a New Building? Without Building New

 In this session, we'll demonstrate how to renovate your campus spaces to maximize programming and performance, using a planning approach that addresses the unique challenges of modernizing existing buildings, accommodating future-focused programming needs, and minimizing operational costs.
Conference Presentations

Research Space Utilization Metrics: Putting Them to Work for You

 The cost of building and operating research space continues to increase alongside the profile of these spaces on campus.
Conference Recordings

Revitalizing the Workplace

 Office space makes up about a third of all non-residential space on campuses.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Space Jam

 Much of the conversation around the return to campus this fall has focused on academic courses. But other events and meetings will also need to be accommodated.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Space Management

 To meet both a significant enrollment demand and the scheduling results from a quarter-to-semester conversion, university classroom capacity needed to be maximized.
Conference Presentations

Space Portfolio Planning Partnership

 This session will share a portfolio-based approach to space management as an institutional, governance-based framework for aligning space—its allocation and use—to meet priorities and program needs.
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Take It Outside to Help Solve Campus Space Shortages

 The expanded use of outdoor spaces can help meet a current challenge, but this should also spark a longer-term strategic effort to better utilize their potential for enhancing the student academic experience.
Conference Recordings

The Changing Academic Workspace

 In this session, we'll share how to develop a workspace roadmap that uses the lenses of people, space, culture, policy, and technology.
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The Connected Campus

 Campus environments play a vital role in student success. By making changes to their combination of spaces, institutions can respond to the shifts transforming higher education. Elliot Felix shares how colleges and universities can prepare for a more blended world by bringing together the digital and physical, enabling greater diversity and inclusion, and implementing flexible structures, staffing, space, and services. Sponsored Content: Knoll and brightspot strategy.
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The Final Frontier: Measuring Space Utilization and Implementing Bold Changes

 How can institutions measure the efficiency of campus space use and communicate to stakeholders to create buy-in and lead to better use of facilities and resources?
Conference Presentations

The Future is Hands-on: Repositioning a Polytechnic Campus

 As pedagogy and market demand shift toward experiential and applied learning, this session will demonstrate practical methods for evaluating and repurposing existing space and the benefits of optimizing underperforming facilities.
Conference Presentations

The Reactivated Campus: Do More With Less

 Post-covid, many campuses are still struggling with balancing in-person, remote, and hybrid student experiences.
Conference Recordings

The Spectrum of Space and Capital Planning in Florida and Georgia

 The Florida State and Georgia University Systems employ varied approaches to their space standards, planning, and capital programs. We’ll compare these approaches and discuss best practices for determining the effectiveness of space use and the planning process.
Conference Recordings

Using Metrics to Maximize the UW-Platteville Engineering Facility

 We’ll discuss how we leveraged metrics and space utilization studies to achieve a unifying one-building solution for all engineering programs at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville rather than the original master plan vision for three buildings.
Conference Recordings

Using Technology to Facilitate a Safe Return to Campus

 In order to facilitate a return to campus post-COVID, Penn State leveraged technology and cross-functional teams to successfully plan and implement safe social distancing measures across various rooms types using a decentralized management model.
Conference Presentations

Using Visualizations and Data to Inform Space Planning

 This session describes how we used data visualization to spark critical conversations as we evolved 1960s-era space guidelines into modern approaches.