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Addressing the Demographic Cliff: Community College Perspectives

Delivered July 22, 2024
Presented by Abigail Dohanos, Dean for the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences | Woody Giles, Senior Associate | Yogesh Saoji, Planning and Urban Design Leader | John Wiggins, FMP, Associate Vice President of Facilities and Construction
Planning Types: Campus Planning

Community colleges are facing enrollment declines and demographic shifts. To overcome these challenges, Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) and Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) are implementing innovative initiatives, partnerships, and projects that address declining enrollments and surplus space through integrated planning. In this session, we'll show how urban community colleges are working to attract and retain students while using spatial re-organization to deal with surplus space and leveraging vacant and aging facilities for student services and community spaces.

  1. Discuss enrollment challenges and the extent of surplus spaces with the context of community colleges and their mission and vision.
  2. Communicate the extent to which the demographic cliff creates surplus spaces on campus in order to empower stakeholders and begin building consensus.
  3. Explore innovative approaches, solutions, projects, and partnerships for oversized facilities to repurpose, renovate, and replace aging facilities.
  4. Build on strong institutional culture in your planning processes to continue momentum through institutional complexity and organizational structures.

Presenters:

Abigail Dohanos, Dean for the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Cuyahoga Community College District
Woody Giles, Senior Associate, DLR Group
Yogesh Saoji, Planning and Urban Design Leader, DLR Group
John Wiggins, FMP, Associate Vice President of Facilities and Construction, Community College of Philadelphia

Delivered 07/22/2024.

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