SCUP 2023 Annual Conference

SCUP Commons | Hall C

Join us for trivia, drinks, prizes, snacks, and great conversations!

Open to all new members, first-time attendees, SCUP Emerging Leaders, regional council, board of directors, and the membership committee.

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Leading Innovation & Effective Culture Change

Presented by: Jonah Berger, World-renowned Expert on Innovation and Change, Best-selling Author, Wharton Professor, Wharton University of Pennsylvania

Based on his groundbreaking research on organizational communication and word of mouth, Jonah Berger examines the science behind leading effective change in an era of dramatic technological and business transformation. Why is it so difficult to promote change in the first place? How do you grease the system to make people more likely to adopt positive behaviors and ignore negative ones? How do you push past mental barriers that insist innovative practices are impossible or fraught with risk?

Jonah Berger offers audiences practical strategies for leading change in a clear and actionable way that encourages buy-in and drives results. He shares how to overcome reticence to change, how to avoid the “curse of knowledge,” and how to build a movement that shifts your audience from passive listeners to active participants, who become a powerful channel for diffusing your message. If your organization is looking at getting change to catch on, this is a talk for you.

Dr. Berger is a world-renowned expert on natural language processing, change, word of mouth, influence, consumer behavior, and why things catch on. He has published over 80 articles in top‐tier academic journals, teaches one of the world’s most popular online courses.

He has published four books including, The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

New to SCUP or a seasoned SCUPer, this is a great opportunity to start connecting with the community!

SCUP Commons | Hall C

SCUP Fellow Presentation | Adaptation and Resilience: Public Higher Education in Today’s Climate Crisis

Presented by: Tamara Wallace, SCUP Fellow, Sustainability Programs Manager, Capital Planning, Design, & Construction, California State University-Long Beach

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In recent years, extreme weather events have had significant, if not catastrophic, impacts on critical infrastructure, presenting vulnerabilities in more than half of California State University (CSU) campuses. CSU both depends on and directly impacts surrounding communities, which requires close alignment in climate resiliency planning efforts. This session will explore recent work from the CSU climate-informed design-day guidelines for infrastructure to identify the intersectionality of university and surrounding community climate resiliency planning. A key outcome of this project will be the creation of a campus-community action plan for climate resilience to bridge campus implementation strategies and community governance activities.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss the experiences of peer institutions in regards to climate change and extreme weather events impacts.
2. Identify opportunities for campus and community partnerships to plan for climate resilience.
3. Apply model practices for strategic planning and investment in university activities that address campus adaptation and resilience.
4. Describe the importance of climate resiliency planning alignment between the campus and surrounding community to create a safer, more adaptable environment.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C0005)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change
Tags: Crisis and Disaster Management; Energy Infrastructure; External Collaboration / Partnerships; Resiliency; Sustainability (Environmental)

Braving Space: Setting Goals for Equity and Inclusion in Design

Presented by: Renee Cheng, John and Rosalind Jacobi Family Endowed Dean, College of Built Environments, University of Washington-Seattle Campus | Billie Faircloth, Partner, KieranTimberlake

Many institutions are engaged in an urgent dialogue to transform their campus spaces by instilling messages of equity, identity, and belonging through design. To successfully design an inclusive building, planners must have the literacy, confidence, and agency to determine how physical spaces can best support a diverse campus community. This session will demonstrate how to identify the intersection between people, identities, and design decision-making and opportunities to create truly inclusive built environments. Come learn how to articulate a value argument for investing in community engagement, initiate process improvements in your engagement strategies, and design workflows for greater inclusivity and wellbeing.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop opportunities in your work to plan and design inclusive built environments that improve the wellbeing of your campus community.
2. Describe robust community engagement frameworks that assemble the voices and resources necessary for deep engagement during the design process.
3. Apply the principles of ‘brave space,’ ‘equity by design,’ and ‘design for equitable communities’ to expand equitable practice, design excellence, and community wellbeing in your campus projects.
4. Translate four integral themes of equitable and inclusive design—access, representation, resources, and values—into actionable strategies for project delivery and design to create safer, more welcoming spaces.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2058)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning
Challenges: Engaging Stakeholders
Tags: Collaborative Design; Community Engagement; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Facilities Design

Community College Integrated Planning Efforts Begin to Bear Fruit

Presented by: Melissa Beardmore, Vice President, Anne Arundel Community College | Mike Daly, Senior Associate, rpkGROUP | Tanya Millner, Provost, Anne Arundel Community College

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Now more than ever, thoughtful and actionable planning is essential for community college health. At Anne Arundel Community College (AACC), we put everything on the table for review and emerged with a roadmap to financial sustainability, good stewardship, and culture change. AACC is on a multi-year journey of integrated planning, covering all academic and administrative areas. The results are starting to bear fruit and we’re eager to share from our experiences. Join us to discover what worked, what didn’t, and where we are now as a result so that you can leverage our lessons to enhance your own planning efforts.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize that the most important thing you can do is start the integrated planning process, even if the start is small.
2. Identify existing opportunities that you can build on to help gain momentum towards more comprehensive planning initiatives.
3. Prioritize inclusivity when building a planning team so that it’s cross-functional, multi-disciplinary, and a diverse representation of students, staff, and faculty.
4. Discuss strategies for measruring the results or establishing key performance indicators (KPIs) for understanding the success of your efforts.

Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Building (or Writing) the Plan; Community College; Planning Processes; Selecting Metrics; Team Building

Cross-Pollination Planning for Institutional Effectiveness

Presented by: Ellen Koski, Institutional Researcher II-Strategic Planning Coordinator, Northern Michigan University | Jason Nicholas, Asst. Provost and Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Northern Michigan University

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At the direction of the Northern Michigan University (NMU) President and Board of Trustees, the university made improvements to its strategic planning processes and materials to facilitate high-level leadership transitions and foster a culture of planning. The establishment of an institutional effectiveness office through a process of cross-pollinating strategic planning, institutional research, accreditation, and assessment allowed for accelerated and effective work in meeting this critical challenge. We’ll share the successes, missteps, and lessons learned from creating a plan in short order, leading to board approval of not only an interim strategic plan, but also complimentary action plans with metrics.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate the value of integrating strategic planning with institutional research, accreditation, and assessment under one institutional effectiveness office.
2. Leverage institutional effectiveness office talents and skills for planning engagement activities, setting and measuring outcomes, team coordination, and campus communications.
3. Outline a process for deploying student workers to create engaging listening sessions for participants while also providing a rich student learning experience for micro-credentials.
4. Describe how a strong campuswide engagement and listening system can curate qualitative feedback leading to rapidly-refined themes and strategy statements.

Planning Types: Institutional Effectiveness Planning
Challenges: Engaging Stakeholders
Tags: Engaging Stakeholders; Institutional Effectiveness; Leadership; Planning Processes

Faster, Bigger, Greener: Lessons from Developing a Future-proof Research Campus

Presented by: Carlos Cerezo Davila, Environmental Design Director, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates | Jill Lerner, Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates | Josh Meyer, Managing Principal, Jacobs | Wei Shyy, President, 2018–2022, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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As science and research trends rapidly evolve, the need for international cooperation in research is growing. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Guangzhou’s interdisciplinary curriculum supports a strategy that is poised to solve the world’s biggest problems. This session will share lessons learned from HKUST’s integrated planning process to design, build, and future-proof its new net-zero-ready Guangzhou research campus in just three years. Discover how you can apply HKUST’s techniques in your campus planning projects, including how to assemble an agile team to shape a new curriculum, prioritize and integrate sustainability, and accommodate an unprecedentedly fast delivery.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to develop a new curriculum to support interdisciplinary research.
2. Prioritize future-proofing in your design process to prepare for the unknown.
3. Address the need for a more holistic and integrated approach to planning by adopting a forward-looking pedagogy based on transforming siloed departments into ‘hubs.’
4. Describe a framework for long-term campus decarbonization.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2361)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change
Tags: Interdisciplinary; New Campus; Planning Processes; Sustainability (Environmental)

Haves and Have Nots: Enrollment Challenges at Small vs. Large Institutions

Presented by: Radhika Aravamudhan, Dean, Osborne College of Audiology, Salus University | Richard Michal, Senior Vice President, Purdue Research Foundation

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Small private, non-profit, tuition-dependent institutions are distinctly vulnerable to the current downward trends in the higher education market due to their high dependence on tuition dollars. At the same time, many large, public flagship research institutions are experiencing substantial growth in enrollment and other revenue streams. While larger institutions appear to be in a much better position in terms of enrollment and finances, both institution types face their own competitive challenges associated with the changing demographics and higher education market. This session will share insights from research studies regarding enrollment challenges and competitive strategies of these two institution types.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Gain insight into enrollment challenges across higher education.
2. Describe how different types and sizes of institutions use competitive enrollment strategies.
3. Identify potential unintended consequences of different enrollment strategies.
4. Discuss the impact that leadership changes have on enrollment management.

Integrating Campus Performance Data to Support Decision Making

Presented by: Liza Hurd, Strategic Lead, Estate Initiatives, University of Melbourne

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This session will delve into the transformational design and development of an integrated dashboard and data management system that enables the University of Melbourne to appropriately assess project and planning needs across a diverse and complex portfolio. The performance dashboards contain calibrated, consistent, and coordinated property performance data and provide the user with a reliable ‘single source of truth’ for a range of business analysis purposes, including actual utilization. Find out what data you need to answer your institution’s fundamental questions regarding efficiency, prioritization of capital expenditure, and affordability.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify which metrics are most useful in understanding campus performance and recognize appropriate stakeholders to engage across the university for gathering the right data sets.
2. Make the case for better data integration for evidence-driven decision making and identify an approach for granular data aggregation to assess space utilization.
3. Demonstrate how integrated data can help with the assessment and validation of business cases and how data can be harnessed for additional insights and detail of the process to encourage adaptation.
4. Show how other institutions can adapt an integrated data approach with lessons learned for data collection and applications for efficiency.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2321)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Dashboards; Data; Decision Making; Facilities Assessment; Metrics

The Future of Food on Campus

Presented by: Mary Fischer, Associate Director, Sustainability, Brandeis University | Joseph Flueckiger, Executive Director of Dining and Hospitality Services, Amherst College | Marissa Lisec, Senior Associate, Sasaki | William Massey, Principal, Sasaki

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The on-campus food and dining experience is at a pivotal inflection point. Students are highly attuned to the food choices they make, which correlates directly with environmental impacts and student health. Institutions are adapting to a growing diversity of student nutritional needs and exploring a more holistic approach to the purchase, delivery, and disposal of food on campus. This panel will discuss dining innovations for a healthier, more sustainable campus environment as well as share an interactive tool that allows planners to create a digital model combining a dining commons, community spaces, nutrition stations, experiential gardens, and teaching kitchens.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate different approaches for addressing how food impacts health and climate on your campus, ranging from policy, production, delivery, preparation, consumption, and disposal.
2. Review and update purchasing strategies around food on your campus to procure more local-based foods, reduce carbon impacts, and improve student health.
3. Consider modifications to improve existing dining facility experiences around food offerings, food production, seating options for more inclusive dining, food waste, and disposal.
4. Educate your campus community around food and ways to improve nutritional wellness as it relates to dietary options and food quality.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2272)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Dining Facility; Facilities Planning; Health and Wellness; Planning Technology; Sustainability (Environmental)

Improving Accreditation Planning for Positive Organizational Impact

Presented by: Lisa Ijiri, Clinical Professor of Higher Education, Boston University

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Accreditation visits can be time and resource-intensive endeavors with high-stakes outcomes, but with the right tips and strategies, higher education planners can leverage accreditation visits for long-term positive impact. Accreditation provides an urgent and important opportunity for building camaraderie and allowing the next generation of campus leaders to participate in improving the day-to-day work of those in accreditation leadership. This interactive session will provide your with hands-on activities to improve integrated planning across functional areas in preparation for an accreditation visit, including seizing it as an opportunity to develop rising academic leaders.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Construct a revised timeline for accreditation activities that incorporates multiple open review opportunities.
2. Identify two or more new members to invite to participate in the accreditation process as a professional development activity.
3. Identify four key data points for focusing the narrative of the self study.
4. Create a bulleted list of key strengths and areas for improvement by accreditation standards.

Planning Types: Institutional Effectiveness Planning
Challenges: Accreditation Pressures
Tags: Accreditation; Leadership; Professional Development

Integrated Tech Tools to Revolutionize Your Strategic Planning

Presented by: Robert Brodnick, Founder, Sierra Learning Solutions | Robert DiCenzo, Dean, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences | Tim Gilmour, Principal and President Emeritus, Strategic Initiatives, Inc. | Donald Norris, President and Founder, Strategic Initiatives, Inc.

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Institutions are revolutionizing strategic planning and implementation by integrating a virtual engagement layer of collaboration tools, reinvented planning tools, and active, virtual facilitation. This integration fundamentally transforms the dynamics of planning and implementation. It results in the engagement of much larger communities of participants, more robust sharing of information, continuous adaptation, more efficient use of meeting time, reduction of process cost, and a more egalitarian process. In this session, you’ll learn how you can apply these strategic planning tools to significantly improve outcomes in turbulent times.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explore online tools that are increasingly being used in strategic planning, including Zoom, Miro, MURAL, and a range of AI tools.
2. Discover how incorporating a fully integrated, virtual engagement layer can democratize strategic planning and implementation processes, increase engagement, energize participation, enable continuous adaptation, and build buy-in.
3. Examine examples of virtual strategic planning and implementation in action from different institutions, and how these tools accelerate strategy crafting, reduce time, effort, and cost while producing superior dynamics, experiences, and outcomes.
4. Discuss how the integrated engagement layer enables the dynamics of “active facilitation” and how it can transform traditional implementation of strategy into “orchestration of transformative change”.

Mass Timber: The Future of Carbon Neutral Campuses

Presented by: Carol Phillips, Partner, Moriyama & Teshima Architects | Nerys Rau, Senior Project Manager, Waterfront Development, George Brown College | Ted Watson, Partner, MJMA

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Education embodies the future, perpetuating progress and our bettered existence. As such, institutions have a duty to lead the way in widespread adoption of carbon-sequestering mass timber while continuing to deliver an enriched student experience. We’ll share how mass timber can support a more sustainable and healthy campus and discuss its significant benefits, challenges, mitigations, and integrated delivery through two leading-edge examples. Come learn about our integrated processes that can help you to lead, advocate for, and manage mass timber and advanced sustainability efforts on your campus to deliver healthier carbon-neutral environments.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain the health and environmental value of mass timber construction.
2. Describe effective applications of mass timber on campus and provide persuasive arguments around health and sustainability for its adoption.
3. Identify the challenges associated with mass timber in the academic typology and be able to provide mitigating approaches to limit risks.
4. Explain how to best structure an integrated planning and design process for a mass timber project to maximize health and sustainability outcomes.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2314)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change
Tags: Carbon Neutral; Health and Wellness; Resiliency; Sustainability (Environmental)

Metrics for Research Space Productivity and Needs

Presented by: Greg Aldridge, Lab Planner, HDR, Inc. | Stan Klonowski, Assistant Director Research Space Planning, Arizona State University

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Research labs are often the most expensive spaces on campus, and when this space is underutilized, it becomes a liability and presents an opportunity cost. Active management of research space optimizes productivity and reduces the need for new construction. This session will share a procedure for calibrating research space productivity targets, determining space needs, and identifying specific areas for further analysis, all within the institution’s unique context. Come learn about a framework for performing your own analyses, including data sources and procedures, that you can apply to establish criteria and set targets for making informed space decisions at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Find and use publicly-available and institutional data to inform your space analysis and planning.
2. Customize your space analysis to your institution based on your own criteria and goals.
3. Target the buildings, spaces, research fields, or other specific areas that present the greatest opportunity at your institution.
4. Discuss methods for optimizing your institution’s use of research space.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2519)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Data; Laboratory Facility; Metrics; Science / Engineering; Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM); Space Assessment; Space Management

Stanford Center for Academic Medicine: Addressing Burnout in the Workplace

Presented by: Julia Cooper, Principal / Director of Consulting, HOK | Niraj Dangoria, Associate Dean, Facilities Planning and Management, Stanford University | Paul Woolford, Senior Principal and Design Principal, HOK

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This session will explore an integrated planning and design process for the academic workplace that focuses on the issue of burnout, providing easily translatable concepts to address the universal challenge of retention in higher education. Through a highly integrated planning process, Stanford University School of Medicine’s (SoM) Center for Academic Medicine achieved a new, specialized academic workplace that aims to reduce the growing concern of physician burnout and improve inclusivity for faculty. We’ll share cutting-edge academic workplace trends to provide you with applicable tools, including an analytical phenotyping process that identifies specific user needs and defines levels of future flexibility.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss an inclusive integrated planning process that identifies institutional and project goals and works collectively to develop effective, comprehensive solutions.
2. Prioritize inclusion, wellbeing, and equity as guiding principles when developing your integrated planning process.
3. Identify sustainable design strategies that reduce energy use and support carbon neutrality for a healthier environment.
4. Consider how the physical environment positively effects wellness and campus community when developing planning strategies.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2505)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Student Success, Retention, and Graduation
Tags: Carbon Neutral; Facilities Design; Faculty; Health and Wellness; Medical / Allied Health Education; Medical / Allied Health Facility; Sustainability (Environmental)

Strategic Doing: Going Beyond the Plan to Build Purpose

Presented by: Michael A. Baston, President, Cuyahoga Community College

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Dr. Michael Baston, the fifth president of Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C), will present on strategic doing in higher education planning. He will showcase the transition from traditional to purpose-driven approaches. Real-world examples and practical strategies will inspire you to adopt a dynamic, collaborative process to achieve meaningful outcomes. You’ll gain insights into strategic doing principles and learn how to foster purposeful engagement, collaboration, and adaptability in your planning efforts.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss the limitations of traditional planning methods and recognize the need for a purpose-driven approach.
2. Gain insights into the principles of strategic doing and its relevance in higher education planning.
3. Apply practical strategies to foster purposeful engagement and stakeholder collaboration in planning processes.
4. Identify techniques for embracing adaptability and responding effectively to planning initiatives in complex and rapidly changing environments.

The Challenges of an Integrated Approach to Institutional Effectiveness

Presented by: Robert (Joel) Farrell, Vice Provost of Institutional Effectiveness, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

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New approaches to institutional effectiveness reliably confront leadership challenges across any institution. While institutional data and information comes from traditionally siloed areas, planners can use an integrated approach to provide a holistic view that bridges across institutional functions. This session will address the primary challenges that planners face when implementing integrated approaches to planning and institutional effectiveness. Come learn how planners who practice an integrated approach can lead change from an advisory role and overcome communication barriers with faculty, leadership, and stakeholders to promote the value of data-based planning.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the holistic perspective of an integrated planning approach to institutional effectiveness.
2. Assess the leadership challenges that integrated effectiveness approaches face as well as opportunities for implementing those approaches.
3. Explain how to communicate with faculty, leaders, and stakeholders to impress the importance of integrated planning with data.
4. Challenge institutional structures, attitudes, and perceptions to lead change management from an advisory role.

Planning Types: Institutional Effectiveness Planning
Challenges: Change Management
Tags: Change Management; Engaging Stakeholders; Institutional Effectiveness; Leadership; Leadership Attitude Toward Planning; Organizational Change; Planning Processes

Activating a Transformational Framework for Campus Planning Collaboration

Presented by: Jim Hundrieser, Vice President, Consulting and Business Development, National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) | Lander Medlin, President & CEO, The Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (APPA) | Mike Moss, President, Society for College and University Planning | Pete Zuraw, Vice President, Market Strategy and Development, Gordian

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A collaborative team from SCUP, APPA | Leadership in Educational Facilities, the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), and Gordian are creating a framework for leaders in facilities, business and finance, and campus planning that can help an institution move from a siloed to an integrated planning model. Come learn how this campus planning framework builds upon post-pandemic influence to practice integrated planning that, when activated, will transform how an institution reaches its potential.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Detail the framework’s guidelines for stimulating engaged and collaborative discussion to prioritize campus programs and facilities as well as aid in decision-making.
2. Assess how your institution collectively manages facilities, finance, and planning actions as either a lagging response or a leading planning element.
3. Consider your campus facilities infrastructure in terms of embodied debt, risk exposure, future program compatibility, and adaptability.
4. Identify ways to use the framework to initiate an engaged dialogue on your campus.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C0006)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

An Indigenized Approach to Integrated Strategic Planning

Presented by: Rashed Al-Haque, Education Policy Specialist, Camosun College | Jennifer Stone, Executive Director of Strategy, Planning and Transformation, Camosun College

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This session will showcase a thoughtful approach to developing an integrated strategic plan that includes the voices of equity-deserving groups and aims to strengthen the institution in a changing world. We’ll provide tools and strategies for developing an integrated strategic plan for a community college with a focus on engaging marginalized and underrepresented groups to lead to college-wide culture change. Come learn about strategies for developing an inclusive strategic plan that reflects the diversity of the college and address the unique needs of underserved groups.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Build relationships and linkages between priorities and goals within your strategic plan.
2. Create time and space for integrating marginalized and underrepresented voices into the strategic planning process as decision makers.
3. Develop progress measures through a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) lens.
4. Recognize the local postsecondary context and landscape with respect to dominant and minority demographics.

Planning Types: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning; Strategic Planning
Challenges: Student Success, Retention, and Graduation
Tags: Community College; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Organizational Change; Organizational Culture; Student Demographics; Student Engagement; Student Recruitment; Student Retention

Charting a New Course: Welcoming, Inclusive, & Collaborative Academic Libraries

Presented by: Alex O’Briant, Principal, Ennead Architects, LLP | Abigail Smith Hanby, Strategy Director, brightspot strategy | Martha Whitehead, Vice President for the Harvard Library, Harvard University

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The academic library is in a period of transition. With careful planning universities can become cultivators of curiosity instead of gatekeepers, improving access, supporting open and global knowledge networks, and fostering more diverse scholarship. In our era of decentralized digital information, what keeps an academic library at the heart of the academic enterprise? Harvard University has a plan to make its main libraries more accessible, more welcoming, and central to global knowledge. Join us to discover how institutions can forge connections between the traditional academic library’s value and a new frontier of possibilities.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss a strategic framework for creating a more welcoming academic library environment that advances open knowledge through increased accessibility, charismatic collections, digital scholarship, and open collaboration.
2. Identify the important elements of an academic library that move and inspire people in order to capture that essence in the planning of a new facility.
3. Improve user experiences through strategic modifications to existing library services and facilities.
4. Engage library stakeholders in determining institution-specific needs and objectives.

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Fuse at Mason Square: A Vision for Innovation Through P3

Presented by: Robert McClure, Innovation & Strategy Design Principal, Design & Expertise, Page Southerland Page, Inc. | Brian Naumick, Vice President, Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate | Cathy Pinskey, Capital Program Director, George Mason University

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With today’s limited resources, institutions must find creative ways to realize capital projects. To support the vision of delivering a talented workforce, George Mason University (GMU) started a public-private partnership (P3) for their Fuse at Mason Square project, which supports Virginia’s goal to add 32,000 advanced technology graduates by 2039. Panelists will share their three key ingredients for promoting talent via a successful innovation ecosystem that comprises economic, physical, and networking assets. You’ll hear about experiences throughout the P3 process, including the challenges of coming to a collective vision as well as insights for making informed decisions about navigating P3s.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate the pros and cons of the P3 project delivery method and thoughtfully explore the possibility of choosing it for future projects on your campus.
2. Apply Mason Square’s lessons learned about implementing a P3 teaming approach, including how to structure a team, manage consensus building, and assure continuous involvement to activate a robust innovation ecosystem.
3. Engage a broader spectrum of stakeholders on your campus and beyond to gain diverse perspectives that will allow your capital projects to meet the unique goals of the local, regional, and global communities.
4. Help your institution realize an innovation ecosystem by facilitating the connections between research, capital, and private industry before, during, and after the delivery of the project.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2374)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Funding Uncertainty
Tags: Capital Funding; Capital Planning; Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Funding; Innovation; Public-Private Partnerships (P3)

How an Innovative Integrated Approach Propels First-Year Student Success

Presented by: CortneyJo Sandidge, Associate Vice Provost for Student Success, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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First-year student retention is typically the top priority for any college or university. The students that begin their education at our institutions are the students we want to graduate from our institutions, and the first year is critical to reaching this achievement goal. This session will discuss the new and innovative approach the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville took during a nationally and globally challenging time to encourage students to stay engaged and motivated to succeed in their first year. Join us to discover how this approach continues to help students thrive three years later.
Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain the value of collaboration among key campus partners and how this works to improve student success.
2. Focus on the importance of the full first year student experience and not only moments or points in time.
3. Discuss why helping students to understand their unique goals and experiences can help them to persist in their education.
4. Prioritize academically engaging students in a proactive and intentional manner.

Key Strategies for Ensuring Integrated Planning in a Budget Crisis

Presented by: Katie Linder, Associate Vice Chancellor for Digital Strategy and Learning, University of Colorado Denver | Beth Myers, Associate Vice Chancellor, University of Colorado Denver

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Institutions are managing pressures to grow in strategic areas while simultaneously cutting budgets due to increased education costs and the enrollment impact of the pandemic and ensuing demographic cliff. Strategic growth requires strategies for ensuring integrated planning, particularly during budget crisis management. This session will highlight the University of Colorado (CU) Denver’s use of shared leadership collaboration, transparency, strategic communications, and triangulation of data to make decisions. Come learn how you can apply strategic planning, a digital strategy, strategic enrollment management, and academic planning, all integrated to address a budget crisis at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe a process for integrated planning that engages all constituents at your institution, even during times of crisis.
2. Explain how shared leadership collaboration can enhance integrated planning and continue to be a key strategy during crisis management.
3. Apply the strategies of transparency and strategic communication in integrated planning.
4. Outline a plan to use data for decision making in crisis and planning situations.

Planning Types: Academic Planning; Strategic Enrollment Management Planning
Tags: Budget Planning; Crisis and Disaster Management; Data; Decision Making; Disruptive Change; Enrollment Management

Strengthening Campus and Community in Tacoma: Timber, History, and Mission

Presented by: Craig Holt, Project Executive, Andersen Construction | Steve Tatge, Executive Director, Project Delivery, University of Washington-Seattle Campus | Kim Yao, Principal, Architecture Research Office

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This session offers University of Washington (UW) Tacoma’s new mass timber Milgard Hall as a case study in interdisciplinary collaboration where history, design innovation, business equity, and technology meet to strengthen the campus, education, and community growth. Design-build, integrated planning, and target value design strategies allowed the project team to mold and maintain a dynamic culture, ensure environmental and financial resource-efficiency, and support the university’s mission. Come learn how a healthy, equitable, and integrated design process is essential for creating and completing capital projects that promote engagement and collaboration, supporting students and local communities alike.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate strategies for conducting a thorough project definition phase to establish a clear project governance structure and an effective collaborative workflow on a large project team.
2. Identify steps for building a team that bolsters the local economy and creates opportunities for underrepresented businesses to achieve high business equity goals on a design-build project.
3. Discuss how to structure and complete a project that demonstrates interdisciplinary and cross-country team engagement to promote and ensure team health.
4. Describe how the project’s impact on the physical site and local community are intrinsically linked to the new building’s health and how integrating healthy design principles and sustainable mass timber can improve occupant comfort and wellness.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2378)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Community Engagement; Design-Build; Economic Development; Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Design; Interdisciplinary; Interdisciplinary Learning Environments; Team Building; Workforce Development

SCUP Commons | Hall C

A Library Dean Roundtable on the State of the Academic Library

Presented by: John Culshaw, Jack B. King University Librarian, University of Iowa | Harriette Hemmasi, Dean of the Library, Georgetown University | Bryan Irwin, Principal, SCB | Torsten Reimer, University Librarian and Dean of the University Library, The University of Chicago | Kevin Smith, Michael & Eugenia Wormser Director of Libraries, Colby College

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The campus library is common ground for all academic disciplines and departments. How has the library met the challenges of supporting seismic shifts in teaching and learning? What can it do better? In a roundtable discussion, library deans from four diverse institutions will seek to answer these questions as they relate to the state of the library post-pandemic. Join our panel of library leaders to learn about the forces impacting library services and the opportunities and initiatives they created in response to an evolving campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Advocate for initiatives that have proven successful in strengthening and enhancing the role of the library in academic life.
2. Identify ways in which the library can support the values and mission of an institution and its community.
3. Enhance research initiatives and academic achievement through new library partnerships and forms of service.
4. Expand engagement with the full range of staff, services, and resources.

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Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Planning; Informal Learning Environments; Library; Library Planning; Student Services; Teaching and Learning

Destination 2030: Planners as Transformation Architects

Presented by: Lynn Akey, Vice President for Student Success, Analytics and Integrated Planning, Minnesota State University-Mankato | Linda Baer, Principal, Strategic Initiatives, Inc. | Edward Inch, President, Minnesota State University-Mankato

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The future requires planners who can enable accelerated transformation that advances institutional and student success. This session will showcase a transformation architect approach to ‘Destination 2030’ institutional planning with case studies that demonstrate the application of models, skills, and strategies for transformational change. Join us to discover how you can make the jump shift from planner to transformation architect, developing the necessary skills to meet the challenges ahead and bring your institution into a stronger future.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply a transformation model, skills, and strategies to your institutional planning processes.
2. Foster a climate of change conducive to institutional transformation.
3. Discuss strategies for building relationships, aligning functions, and advancing change.
4. Identify performance measures to monitor progress and gauge outcome achievement.

Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Challenges: Change Management
Tags: Organizational Change; Organizational Culture; Professional Development

How Inclusive Engagement Fuels Healthy, Equitable Campus Cultures

Presented by: Patricia Bou, Education Practice Leader, CannonDesign | Adrienne McCray, Principal, Landscape Architect, Lee and Associates Inc | Jason Soileau, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Campus Planning, Texas Christian University | Aisha Torrey-Sawyer, Director of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives, Texas Christian University

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Institutional cultures, buildings, and missions have long existed in healthy tension. With inclusion more paramount than ever, Texas Christian University (TCU) demonstrates how intentional engagement can drive healthy, equitable campus cultures. This session will detail how TCU transformed student union space into a dynamic Intercultural Center and re-envisioned the Founders Statue as part of its Race and Reconciliation Initiative, proving that new futures can emerge in existing buildings and spaces. We’ll demonstrate how transparent and intentional engagement can transform your campus spaces to reshape culture and share strategies for aligning solutions with updated institutional trajectories.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Make the case for evolving planning approaches to focus on renovation and redesign of existing spaces to empower more inclusive, healthy campus cultures.
2. Articulate the value in designing hubs for inclusivity and wellbeing and the importance of infusing these priorities throughout campus planning.
3. Identify new ways to execute diverse student, faculty, and staff engagement for more equitable and healthy design approaches.
4. Detail a process for institutional leaders to promote planning as a means for better diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) outcomes on every campus project.

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Planning Types: Campus Planning; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning
Tags: Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Racial Equity; Renovation; Student Center / Union

SCUP Excellence Awards | Observed Themes in Higher Education Planning and Design From the 2023 Excellence Award Entries and Recognition of Winners

Presented by: Tom Fortier, Managing Principal, HDR, Inc. | James Moore, Landscape Architect, Vanderbilt University | Marilia Rodrigues, Principal, KieranTimberlake

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Awards programs are a way to not only recognize and applaud those individuals and organizations whose achievements exemplify excellence but also to provide learning opportunities for everyone whose lives and passions involve higher education. The 2023 jury members will share observations and trends from this year’s entries and acknowledge award recipients. Award certificates will be distributed at the end of the program.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discover ways in which campus projects can articulate an institution’s mission.
2. Recognize innovation in planning, architecture, and landscape architecture.
3. Discuss how the effective use of materials and aesthetic choices demonstrate design’s highest qualities.
4. Identify opportunities to apply new innovations on your own campus.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Reimagining Planning With Cross-functional Teams and a DEI Focus

Presented by: Starnell Bates, Vice President for Institutional Support, Midlands Technical College | Kevin Bray, Director, Assessment, Research and Planning, Midlands Technical College | Ronald Rhames, President, Midlands Technical College

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Cross-functional collaboration can revitalize the strategic planning process. This session will illustrate a fresh approach to team structure in re-thinking processes and emphasizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through research-based decisions to advance positive change. As two-year institutions face an increasingly uncertain future, they require a planning process that prioritizes and refreshes actionable goals, ensures inclusive stakeholder engagement, and addresses the tangible need for adaptability and rapid change. Come learn how to apply actionable strategies, build cross-functional teams, and use DEI data to identify methods for integrating values, principles, and goals into your institution’s next strategic planning cycle.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize the impact of a changing learning environment and ensure internal and external participation in a revitalized strategic planning process.
2. Detail a structured, timely team input system to foster free thinking and promote imaginative solutions.
3. Explain how to create and deploy a DEI survey instrument that reflects the culture of your institution and its stakeholders to facilitate enhanced participation and equitable practices.
4. Translate planning metrics into specific actionable strategies that will grow and improve your institution.

Planning Types: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning; Strategic Planning
Challenges: Engaging Stakeholders
Tags: Adaptable Plans; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; Planning Processes; Team Building

Silo-Busters: Advancing Systemic Change Through New Campus Collaboration

Presented by: Matt Marcial, CEO, National Association of College Auxiliary Services (NACAS) | Chris Moody, Executive Director, American College Personnel Association (ACPA) | Mike Moss, President, Society for College and University Planning | DJ Pepito, Senior Director for Research and Innovation, Society for College and University Planning, Society for College and University Planning | Lynn Priddy, President & CEO, Claremont Lincoln University

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As challenges on campus increase in number and complexity, the departmental silos that once provided focus and efficiency for our work now often divide the higher education community. Working smarter now means we must work together; We must be silo-busters in order to make real systemic, equity- and human-centered changes on campus. This session brings together leaders from three organizations – ACPA (student affairs and services), NACAS (auxiliary services), and SCUP (campus planners) – to imagine and implement association-led solutions and resources to address the overdue and urgent need for systemic transformation in higher education. Many campuses experience recurring challenges between these institutional functions: Campus protests, student and faculty concern over business practices, space planning and allocations, rate setting, accessibility and universal design, sustainability, etc. By participating in this session, you will join a team of thought leaders to examine the pressures, priorities, perspectives of other parts of campus administration and to envision and recommend ways to collaborate with each other through these challenges. Our future is together.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Participate in a cross-association, cross-functional area collaborative project aimed at creating system-level, structural changes in higher education becoming a more equitable and justice-focused industry.
2. Engage in small group and collective discussions about reinforced silos in higher education, as well as other barriers, the challenges created by those silos, and ways to provide resources and community in addressing those challenges.
3. Reimagine and reframe our work in higher education as a human-centered enterprise.
4. Become motivated to transition away from toxic competitiveness and unnecessary battles of scarcity within campuses and across higher education toward a mindset of abundance.

The Intersection of Campus Sustainability and Inclusion

Presented by: Alicia Drumm, Architect, William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc. | Robert Easter, Chair of the Department of Architecture, Hampton University | Sarah Felton, Deputy Director, Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management | Nea Maloo, Lecturer, Howard University

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Architects, owners, and educators must work together to create more sustainable, inclusive built environments instead of relying on others to affect meaningful change. This session will demonstrate how to respond effectively to this multi-faceted campus design challenge by engaging in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) conversations, practicing universal design, and generating sustainable solutions. Join us to discover how institutional clients, architects, and educators can collaboratively design and build projects that balance the combined challenges of DEI implementation and sustainability principles for a healthier, more inclusive campus environment.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Tap into the synergies between sustainability and inclusion in your campus projects to quickly identify and settle issues of incompatible solutions.
2. Discuss how educators can better prepare design students to address competing and time-intensive agendas of implementing universal design and sustainable solutions into their academic work before they enter the field.
3. Explain how institutions can set DEI and sustainability agendas early in the planning process and establish clear lines of communication with design teams to prioritize goals for sustainability and wellbeing.
4. Evaluate methods for expanding project goals in the areas of DEI and sustainability nimbly and responsively.

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Planning Types: Campus Planning; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning
Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change
Tags: Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Sustainability (Environmental)

Tribal Colleges and Universities: Research to Drive Institutional Sustainability

Presented by: David Sanders, Oglala Lakota, VP for Research, Evaluation and Faculty Development, American Indian College Fund | Natalie Youngbull, Cheyenne & Arapahoe Tribes of Oklahoma, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Oklahoma

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Despite over fifty-years’ existence for tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) the higher education landscape is largely uninformed about their tenuous existence, the influence of locality, and the important role they play in the future of tribal nations and native nation building. An important new study investigated three areas of inquiry: student success, program development and review practices, and institutional sustainability at five TCUs located in Arizona, New Mexico, and North Dakota. Taken together these studies inform the field of higher education on the unique situation of TCUs. This research also provides a way to think about the multifaceted influences that shape TCU existence and provides an organized framework to conceptualize which factors are necessary to attend to as TCUs contemplate their existence and role in tribal nation building.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize TCUs as unique institutions of higher education even among other minority-serving institutions because of their political nation building functions and grassroots origins.
2. Identify institutional sustainability for TCUs as an interlocking set of concepts and working areas that include adequate funding, effective leadership, supportive tribal nations, stable student enrollments, and strong mission and vision statements.
3. Explain how TCUs use their dual mission of providing education to their local communities and supporting tribal nation building to create and review academic programs that balance adherence to a regional accrediting organization with local needs.
4. Discuss how TCUs support student success through support services, approaches, and programs that are holistic, tailored to each individual student, culturally-based, family-centered, and community-focused.

A Strategic Planning Framework: Engagement, Collaboration, and Celebration

Presented by: Brittany Cipollone, Director of Integrated Planning & Effectiveness, Augusta University | Mickey Williford, Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness, Augusta University

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A strategic planning process that prioritizes stakeholder engagement and the synchronization of other planning activities is critical for cohesion, collaboration, buy-in, and current and future success for all involved parties. Augusta University developed a strategic planning process by collaborating with an external firm, using project management tools and techniques, equipping a core team to engage stakeholders, finalizing the plan, and then celebrating the achievement. You’ll walk away from this session with effective techniques and tools for developing a strategic planning process, which you can use to foster engagement and intentional conversations at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Engage stakeholders and leaders to seek their feedback throughout the process of updating a strategic plan.
2. Identify opportunities to equip a strategic planning core team for stakeholder engagement.
3. Strengthen collaborative efforts and enhance the culture of planning to create a more unified entity focused on achieving the institutional vision.
4. Evaluate strategic planning timing and activities against other institutional activities to synchronize and align processes.

Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Challenges: Competing Priorities; Engaging Stakeholders
Tags: Building (or Writing) the Plan; Engaging Stakeholders; Leadership; Mission / Vision / Identity; Planning Processes

Advancing Building Technology and Sustainability Through Integrated Design

Presented by: Dennis Carlberg, Associate Vice President, Boston University | Elizabeth Lamour Croteau, Consultant, Acentech | Joshua Michaud, , BR+A Consulting Engineers | Paulo Rocha, Partner, KPMB Architects

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Boston University (BU) created the Center for Computing & Data Sciences for a new interdisciplinary program to advance hybrid learning and sustainability through an integrated planning and design process. The integrated plan achieved three major project drivers: the convergence of multiple educational disciplines; an iconic, fossil fuel-free building aligned with BU’s Climate Action Plan; and updated classroom technology for hybrid learning. Join us to gain a greater understanding of integrated design and discover how university leadership collaborated to complete the new center after years of strategic discussion, planning, sustainability reviews, and approvals.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Share details on how integrated planning and strong design and engineering teams can create a highly sustainable building that supports a new, interdisciplinary academic program.
2. Reassess your institution’s campus sustainability goals and consider whether they are in sync with current building operations and plans for future developments.
3. Identify opportunities for interconnectivity of academic programs within buildings or areas of your campus that would benefit from consolidation.
4. Assess your institution’s technology needs and goals and determine the potential to employ new concepts in hybrid learning.

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Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change
Tags: Facilities Design; Hybrid Learning; Information Technology; Science / Engineering Facility; Sustainability (Environmental); Technology Infrastructure

How Vanderbilt University Overcame a $90-million Budget Overage

Presented by: David Bailey, Principal, Hastings Architecture | Robert Grummon, Project Manager, Vanderbilt University | Walt Massey, Principal, Founder, Covalus

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In the midst of a volatile construction market with rampant escalation, budget adherence is a constant challenge for campus building projects. This session will illustrate how Vanderbilt University employed a set of tools to overcome a $90-million budget overage on new residential colleges without sacrificing programming or quality. Join us to learn how you can apply these useful tools during your planning and design process to evaluate and reconcile large budget overages in your campus’s student life construction projects.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss the inherent financial challenges of residence hall programming and how changing pedagogies are influencing student life design budgets.
2. Define and apply the concept of Target Value Design (TVD) and the process of evaluating cost optimization for your campus projects.
3. Identify structured areas for cost savings without sacrificing impactful programmatic elements of the design.
4. Gauge and apply metrics of success and discover how you can implement the TVD process in an ongoing capacity, establishing a system for future success.

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Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Funding Uncertainty
Tags: Budget Planning; Capital Funding; Capital Planning; Facilities Funding; Student Housing

Manufacturing Workforce Development Through Retrofit Transformations

Presented by: Sylvia Kowalk, Director of Interior Design, Legat Architects | Michael Lundeen, Principal / Director of Higher Educucation, Legat Architects | Ali O’Brien, Vice President of Community, College of Lake County | Carli Sekella, Studio Director, Legat Architects

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One of the most sustainable, effective, and economical integrated planning and design strategies for expanding educational space is to retrofit existing vacated facilities into dynamic technology and economic development career centers. This session will discuss the integrated planning process of an adaptive reuse project that converted a big box retail facility into the College of Lake County’s (CLC) Advanced Technology Center, a regional training engine for both students and companies. Come learn how to promote a modern image of manufacturing at your institution by transforming existing buildings into clean, high-tech, safe environments for high-skilled, high-wage professional learning.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Make a case for thinking beyond your campus to existing vacated facilities within your community that provide economical expansion of educational space and enhance community connections.
2. Focus on community and workforce partnerships and connecting employers to well-trained future employees by providing flexible teaching facilities that are adaptable to future community needs and changes.
3. Identify integrated planning strategies, including key stakeholder engagement (students, business leaders, community leaders, and faculty) and cross-functional collaboration.
4. Detail a process for design collaboration that leads to sustainable and economic decisions in the best interest of the project and diverse stakeholders.

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Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Adaptive Reuse; Collaborative Design; Community College; Economic Development; Engaging Stakeholders; External Collaboration / Partnerships; Flexible Learning Spaces; Learning Environments; Renovation; Workforce Development

Mixed-use Flexible Environments for Experiential Learning

Presented by: Adam Caruthers, Senior Associate and Project Manager, Community Studio, Little Diversified Architectural Consulting | Amy Pace, Senior Campus Designer, Northeastern University | Melanie Reddrick, Team Leader, Little Diversified Architectural Consulting

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The Northeastern University (NU)-Charlotte campus project is a story of creating flexible environments, navigating space use changes, and providing mixing spaces for both students and faculty to share. Breaking the mold of university facility design, NU Charlotte transformed an office space facility within a business and entertainment district into a mixed-use flexible environment that’s prepared for future change. Come learn how to analyze your facility needs and space-use so that your campus can support experiential learning through an academic environment that doesn’t look or feel like one.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze your facility needs and consider flexible design strategies that maximize space usage.
2. Recognize new design opportunities for creating mixing spaces that encourage collaboration and socialization between students and faculty.
3. Develop strategies for converting high-rise office space into instructional space and for integrating space into the fabric of an existing neighborhood.
4. Develop strategies for future-proofing spaces, allowing for in-person, hybrid, and remote learning.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2415)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Collaborative Learning; Facilities Design; Flexible Learning Spaces; Hybrid Learning; Mixed-Use; Space Assessment; Space Management

The Pandemic Ripple Effects: A Long-term Perspective on Student Success

Presented by: Edward Venit, Managing Director, EAB

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Pandemic-era students learned and socialized differently than their predecessors, impacting college retention and completion for years to come. How severe is the problem and what can you do to prepare? EAB analyzed data from dozens of independent sources to provide leaders with a roadmap of what lies ahead. We found that staffing turnover, enrollment declines, disruption to K-12 learning, and a dramatic increase in mental health needs will pose significant challenges for at least a decade. Join this session for a look ahead and guidance on how to prepare.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Gain a detailed appreciation of the severe impact the pandemic has had on learners of all ages.
2. Assess how student disengagement and mental health issues are playing out in social spaces on campus.
3. Anticipate how and when massive K-12 disruption may change the infrastructural needs of you institution.
4. Leverage data to make the case for additional investment in this fluid environment.

Where I Belong: Creating Spaces to Foster Student Wellbeing

Presented by: Woody Giles, Senior Associate, DLR Group | Linsey Graff, Campus Planner Leader, DLR Group | Luoluo Hong, Vice President for Student Engagement & Wellbeing, Georgia Institute of Technology | Tony Rathgeber, Associate to the Vice Chancellor/Chief of Staff Student Affairs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Students are struggling, so how can our organizational charts, services, and spaces align to contribute to students’ mental health and overall wellbeing? How can we meet the needs of diverse students and provide places where everyone feels they belong? This session will tell the story of how two institutions aligned their resources and planned for existing facilities to better serve student wellbeing with ample engagement to meet diverse needs. Discover how you can work with existing buildings to foster belonging and provide services while engaging the campus community to navigate competing expectations among diverse groups.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Navigate difficult conversations to develop strategies that serve the physical space and health needs of students from all backgrounds.
2. Engage diverse decision makers and users to meet students where they are and foster wellbeing on campus.
3. Invite students and staff into a conversation around how existing space uses and future design can serve historically marginalized groups.
4. Transform physical campus facilities to meet students’ needs for belonging, engagement, and wellbeing.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning
Tags: Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Facilities Planning; Health and Wellness; Underserved Students

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Achievements in Context: Faculty Contributions to Institutional Mission

Presented by: Nasrin Fatima, Associate Provost for Assessment and Analytics, SUNY at Binghamton

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Faculty are a critical resource and their performance drives institutional performance. It’s important that we find ways to describe and quantify faculty performance through data to assess progress and support the institutional mission. Binghamton University has made it a priority to collect and understand its faculty’s accomplishments, which are critical to Binghamton’s mission and strategic priorities. This session will demonstrate the importance of establishing organized, systematic, and sustainable faculty performance measures as well as show how integrating faculty activity data into planning can advance the institution towards its mission.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify standardized data collection processes for measuring faculty and department performance.
2. Describe a process to align faculty and departmental data with divisional and institutional planning with key performance indicators.
3. Engage relevant stakeholders to track standard metrics and use customized data output for action plans.
4. Improve and modify data collection, sharing, and leveraging processes at the departmental, divisional, and institutional levels.

Planning Types: Institutional Effectiveness Planning
Tags: Assessment / Analytics; Data; Faculty; Institutional Effectiveness; Institutional Research; Metrics; Mission / Vision / Identity

An Unusual Approach to Campus Planning for an Integrated Implementation Strategy

Presented by: Amy Kirtland, Architect and Planner, University of Colorado Boulder | Tyler Patrick, Principal, Sasaki | Blythe Vogt, Managing Principal, Affiliated Engineers, Inc.

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Planners have always debated the best means of integrating comprehensive and unit-specific plans. The University of Colorado (CU) Boulder takes a nontraditional approach to planning process sequencing: university unit plans, then a strategic plan, followed by an integrated, comprehensive plan. This session will share CU Boulder’s unusual method as a case study, putting the value of sequence aside to reveal the true tools of integrated campus planning. We’ll demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach through the first year of implementation and show how to critically evaluate your campus planning culture to ensure an integrated process from plan documentation through execution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify disparate planning initiatives that you can align into a cohesive and integrated campuswide vision.
2. Establish a clear set of objectives for their outcomes when sequencing the development of plans.
3. Discuss methods for leading colleagues from strategy to implementation with ease and comfort.
4. Explain how to maintain campus momentum from plan issuance through to implementation.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Adherence to Plans; Building (or Writing) the Plan; Leadership; Planning Processes; Unit Planning

Cultural Integration Among Faculty Following University Mergers

Presented by: David Dausey, Executive Vice President and Provost, Duquesne University

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There is limited research on mergers in higher education in the United States, and our understanding of factors that may be influential to merger success remains nascent. This session will provide insights about the role of cultural integration among faculty following mergers in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Join this session to learn about how two different mergers involving six universities unfolded in the same state system and how different approaches to these mergers impacted faculty cultural integration.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Gain insight into what higher education administrators consider to be their top priorities during the early stages of a merger.
2. Describe how academic administrators understand and conceptualize cultural integration.
3. Consider unique challenges and opportunities that exist when considering cultural integration among faculty.
4. Compare and contrast different approaches to mergers within the same state system of higher education.

Designing Identity Spaces at Emory University

Presented by: Michael Biggs, Senior Project Manager, The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company | Floyd Cline, Architect, Perkins&Will | Jennifer Ingram, Project Architect, Senior Associate, Perkins&Will | Monica Ridenbaugh, Campus Planner, Emory University

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Many universities are re-evaluating their existing identity spaces and establishing new ones to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) values across campus. This session will share equitable practices for designing identity spaces, highlighting Emory University’s current identity space projects—new and renovated—as well as strategies for student and campus community engagement, design, and project management. You’ll come away with new tools to help manage the complexities of your identity space or DEI-focused projects and facilitate meaningful feedback from students and stakeholders.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to plan projects that facilitate a layered engagement, design, and construction approach to meet short and long-term project goals.
2. Manage and apply feedback from multiple project stakeholders based on their specific roles and responsibilities.
3. Explain how to create equitable spaces that cater to the unique needs of diverse student populations.
4. Enhance personal connections through digital tools during virtual engagement processes.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS22C2021)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning
Challenges: Engaging Stakeholders
Tags: Collaborative Design; Community Engagement; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Planning

FAST-track Your Strategic Road Map Through Integrated Planning

Presented by: Shawna Herwick, Administrative Director, Planning and Accreditation, Southeast Community College

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Integrated planning serves as a powerful framework for institutional transformation. This presentation will focus on operationalizing sustainable planning that builds relationships and promotes broad-based involvement through organizational alignment. We’ll share integrated planning strategies that promote institutional engagement, ownership of the strategic direction, and integration of FAST—Frequently Discussed, Ambitious, Specific, and Transparent—a departmental goal-setting model. Join us for practical strategies you can apply at your institution, such as data-informed planning processes, tenants of organizational culture, and consensus-building.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop an organizational climate goal as part of institutional plans that can be operationalized at all levels of the organization.
2. Apply the FAST goal model to any planning process as an alternative to the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound) goal model.
3. Evaluate new strategies for engaging internal and external stakeholders in institutional strategic planning (i.e., strategic planning week, recognition events, regular creative and engagement opportunities, etc.)
4. Use a structured method as a framework to promote consensus-building through all stages of strategic plan development, implementation, and evaluation.

Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Challenges: Planning Alignment
Tags: Alignment; Engaging Stakeholders; Institutional Planning; Planning Processes; Preparing to Plan

Planning 110: Aligning Classroom Inventory with Equitable, High-impact Learning

Presented by: Shannon Dowling, 2020-21 SCUP Fellow, Principal, Learning Environments, Ayers Saint Gross | Cherise Hall, Vice Provost for Finance and Strategic Initiatives, Purdue University | Roland Muncy, Senior Campus Facilities Planner, Georgia Institute of Technology | Stephanie Orr, Director, Learning and Collaborative Environments, The Ohio State University | Katy Potts, Space Planning Analyst, Ayers Saint Gross

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Learning is no longer bound by place or time. The status quo campus classroom inventory of large lecture halls and tablet armchair rooms is not economically, environmentally, or socially sustainable on a future-forward campus. The planning and design of a successful, well-utilized classroom inventory examines time, space, and delivery to ensure equity across discipline and geography as well as inclusive student access to knowledge resources. Join us to discover how a classroom master plan applies best practices in learning environments to bolster inventory, seat counts, seat fill rates, and weekly room hours through an equitable, inclusive, and student-centered institutional vision.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and define the three components of a classroom analysis: square foot per student, seat fill rate, and weekly room hours.
2. Summarize academic research on effective and modern formal and informal learning environments and benchmark an existing inventory against best practices.
3. Produce alternative classroom designs, instructional schedules, and delivery methods that create a flexible and forward-looking 110-classroom inventory.
4. Prioritize and implement planning strategies to combine modest, practical improvements with visionary and innovative solutions for student success.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Benchmarking; Flexible Learning Spaces; Learning Environments; Master Plan; Mixed-Use; Space Assessment

Powered Productivity: Super Tech Tools to Get Stuff Done

Presented by: Beth Ziesenis, Your Nerdy Best Friend

Exasperated by email? Peeved about passwords? Tired of tedious tasks? You’re not alone. Join Your Nerdy Best Friend, aka author Beth Z, for a research-based look at common productivity problems and the technology to solve them. Discover how to use free and bargain technology tools you never knew existed to work more efficiently with your teams, get organized, and finally get stuff done.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discover low-cost, high-value apps and tech tools that you can start using right away.
2. Explore challenges that plague professionals, from constant interruptions to cybersecurity concerns.
3. Learn about great tech tips and app ideas from your peers.
4. Get new ideas to increase efficiency, improve relationships, and get things done!

Building Better Asset Management Data With GIS

Presented by: Peter Brigham, Director, Planning & FIS, University of Massachusetts-Lowell | Craig Thomas, Assistant Director, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Asset management (AM) that blends a financial system of record with a physical system of record becomes a powerful planning tool to right-size space allocations and construction budgets. Many colleges and universities struggle with outdated and siloed AM systems that only respond to financial auditors. University of Massachusetts (UMass) Lowell uses a geospatial information system (GIS) as an AM data collection and sharing tool for campus decision makers to improve real-time space planning. Come learn how to improve your institution’s data and build a more transparent and effective GIS system that allows for integrated AM completion at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and engage campus stakeholders involved in financial and physical asset management to discuss how to integrate their data systems.
2. Define roles and responsibilities for a data gathering model that allows for collaborative decision making and improves tracking and transparency.
3. Explain how to integrate asset management data into facilities information systems (FIS) to make it operational for planners.
4. Effectively define goals and strategies for communications with centralized system administrators.

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Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Capital Planning; Data; Facilities Assessment; Facilities Management; Space Assessment; Space Management

Creating Community Through an Inclusive Engagement Design Process

Presented by: Kevin Allebach, Principal, HGA | Mahshid Jalalian, Design Researcher, | Eric Jessup Anger, Student Involvement Director and Student Union Assistant Director, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Adaheid Mestad, Design Anthropologist, HGA

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Student wellbeing, equity, sustainability, and reimagination are critical drivers in campus planning. Establishing a process and tools for integrating inclusive engagement design can amplify student voices as part of a research approach. This session will explore the reinvigoration of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s (UWM) old student union through an inclusive engagement process that embraced student needs within a budget. Come learn how inclusive engagement and mixed-method research respects the student’s voice, increasing a sense of safety, wellbeing, and belonging while supporting diverse informal learning environments.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the six-step process for developing and implementing an inclusive engagement design approach that can inform any level of program, policy, planning, or design.
2. Outline data-driven student and staff success criteria to identify and prioritize design concepts and drive design that supports student wellbeing, safety, and belonging.
3. Identify opportunities to support and improve social connection and wellbeing through the implementation of a space syntax analysis on your facility’s current layout.
4. Collect baseline data on occupancy evaluation of the existing facilities, including use patterns and perceptions.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Engaging Stakeholders
Tags: Collaborative Design; Engaging Stakeholders; Renovation; Student Center / Union

Designing the Do Good Campus for Social Impact Education and Practice

Presented by: Hilary Gossett, Director of Academic Facilities, University of Maryland-College Park | Anya Grant, Market Sector Leader – Higher Education, Leo A Daly | Todd McGarvey, Chief of Staff, University of Maryland-Baltimore | Irena Savakova, Vice President, Director of Design, Leo A Daly

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As discourse around the tenets of democracy and social justice approach a fever pitch, the University of Maryland’s (UMD) School of Public Policy design embodies ancient ideals to provide social impact education relevant to the digital generation. The Do Good Institute is an empowering hub for learning and invention where students, faculty, and alumni make an impact on campus, in their communities, and across the world. Join us to hear the surprising story of an academic building that overcame a long delay between initial programming and design—and the budgetary squeeze that entailed—to achieve an ambitious academic program.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply strategies for creating multi-use spaces to maximize functionality and flexibility.
2. Integrate cutting edge communications technology in your facilities to advance academic priorities.
3. Explain how to blend a new academic building with existing and future elements to create a center of gravity on campus.
4. Discuss how to overcome process challenges endemic to state institutions to achieve building project goals.

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Evolving the Commuter Campus to Build Resilient Communities

Presented by: Ryan Blades, Director, Facilities and Campus Planning, Capilano University | Colin Fowler, Vice-President, Finance and College Services, North Island College | Nicole Kemp, Director, Campus Planning & Capital Projects, Camosun College | Pauline Thimm, Associate | Higher Education Lead, DIALOG

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Housing availability improves equitable access to education, provides opportunity to create welcoming spaces for indigenous and marginalized students, and fosters wellbeing for the campus community. In the face of a housing supply crisis, three commuter-only institutions brought housing to campus for the first time and shifted to a 24-hour campus community through a process that prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). You’ll hear from three diverse institutional perspectives and gain applicable lessons learned on the social, cultural, environmental, economic, and political considerations for creating a new campus identity and operations model.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Leverage integrated, collaborative, equity-based planning processes through diverse stakeholder engagement to implement a shift in campus identity and determine potential campus-scale barriers and opportunities relating to inclusion and wellbeing.
2. Incorporate tools to identify health and holistic community wellbeing opportunities for building resilient campus communities.
3. Evaluate methods for resolving real and perceived issues that arise from the introduction of housing and a 24/7 campus environment for campus operations.
4. Demonstrate innovative opportunities for mixed use residential projects to help campuses reach sustainability, climate action, and environmental health goals.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning
Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change; Engaging Stakeholders
Tags: Campus Development; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; Operational Planning; Student Housing; Sustainability (Environmental)

FLIPP: The FLEXspace Integrated Planning Pathway to Align Campus Stakeholders

Presented by: Lisa Stephens, Assistant Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo

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The FLEXspace Integrated Planning Pathway (FLIPP) model serves to engage and align faculty, technology professionals, as well as planners and architects. Campus planners can leverage tools such as the Learning Space Rating System (LSRS) to quantify space potential and follow with FLEXspace to browse space exemplars. Educators created these free, open-access tools to foster a transparent planning process that builds trust and collaboration across key campus stakeholder communities while aligning priorities. This session will demonstrate how to apply these planning tools so that educators, planners, and technology integrators can be more productive in reaching individual and collective campus planning goals.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate how to use FLIPP to align key stakeholder interests on your campus.
2. Replicate the process for accessing FLEXspace and LSRS Version newly-upgraded 3.0 tools to drive efficiency and effectiveness in planning activities.
3. Showcase campus success stories by contributing local campus environments to the expanding global FLEXspace collection.
4. Leverage case studies to organize and benchmark peer institutions as part of a local planning and prioritizing process.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Planning; Flexible Learning Spaces; Learning Technology; Planning Technology

Higher Education in the Age of Climate Crisis

Presented by: Bryan Alexander, Futurist, Researcher, Writer, Speaker, Consultant, and Teacher, Bryan Alexander Consulting, LLC

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The climate emergency may represent our greatest challenge and higher education will not be immune from it. Global warming will increasingly impact colleges and universities across the board, from our research and teaching missions to community relations and our physical campuses. What does climate change mean for the future of higher education and how can we play a leadership role in shaping our response? Higher education futurist Bryan Alexander, author of “Universities on Fire Higher: Education in the Climate Crisis” dives deeply into this question, exploring how global warming might impact colleges and universities and how academics might respond.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss the implications for academic research and teaching as well as how institutions might change plans if global warming becomes better or worse than projected.
2. Consider how the campus’s physical environment changes, from creating new buildings and renovating current ones to generating local power, rethinking grounds, changing food service, and revolutionizing transportation, and more.
3. Discuss the ways campus-community relations can develop for good or ill in an era of escalating climate crises and what opportunities it presents for all parties.
4. Consider the role higher education plays in the world as civilization rethinks its fundamental operations and purpose.

Reconciliation Through Indigenous Placemaking and Placekeeping

Presented by: Jennifer Adams-Peffer, Campus Architect and Director, Architecture, Planning and Project Development, University of Toronto-Scarborough | Alexis Bornyk, 3rd Year Student, University of Toronto-Scarborough | Kelly Crawford, Assistant Director Indigenous Initiatives, University of Toronto-Scarborough | Mayes Rihani, Senior Manager, Project Development and Management, University of Toronto-Scarborough

Canadian institutions are working to respond to the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). One important step on the road to reconciliation is the meaningful co-creation of space that restores an indigenous presence across campus. This session will explore the value proposition of ‘living the intent of reconciliation’ and share the University of Toronto (U of T) Scarborough’s process, projects, and lessons learned for a stronger campus community. We’ll present campus placemaking and placekeeping opportunities for contemporary applications of indigenous knowledge in sustainable agriculture, soil regeneration and permaculture, as well as traditional building methods, materials, and passive systems.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize the effectiveness of ritual and storytelling as well as the value in experiencing uncomfortable feelings and learning differently.
2. Consider co-creation of space as an act of reconciliation in accordance with TRC recommendations.
3. Leverage traditional indigenous knowledge to embed learning into the fabric of your campus and reach sustainability goals.
4. Reconsider the campus landscape through the lens of native ecologies that have yields that reach back through seven generations.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning
Tags: Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Governmental Policies and Regulations; Placemaking; Racial Equity; Sustainability (Environmental)

Strategic Planning That’s Truly Strategic: Lessons From a Study of 108 Plans

Presented by: Aimee Hosemann, Director of Qualitative Research, RHB | Rob Zinkan, Vice President for Marketing Leadership, RHB

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Strategic planning is a universal experience in higher education, but high-quality plans are not ubiquitous. So, what does it mean to be ‘strategic’? And amidst such rapid change, how does a plan stay relevant? We’ll discuss a yearlong study of 108 current higher education strategic plans and share findings and critical lessons on how to conduct more effective strategic planning in a time of turbulence. You’ll be better equipped to counteract the various pitfalls of strategic planning processes and to drive conversations on your campus, helping to ensure a more constituent-centered process focused on strategy and outcomes.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe methods for counteracting the various pitfalls of strategic planning processes.
2. Drive conversations on your campus to help ensure a more constituent-centered process focused on strategy and outcomes.
3. Discuss a strategic planning process that helps you make space for complexity and contradiction to exist alongside hope and aspiration without overtaking them.
4. Outline truly strategic, attainable goals and solicit positive, active responses from campus constituents to make strategic planning a unifying experience for your institution.

Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Adaptable Plans; Engaging Stakeholders; Planning Processes

Declining Enrollments: Planning for a Smaller Footprint and Greater Impact

Presented by: Sally Chinnis, Principal, Ayers Saint Gross | Brandi Jacob-Jones, Senior Vice President for Operations at Marshall University, Marshall University | Jacob Lenson, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Campus Planning, Infrastructure and Facilities, Purdue University Northwest-Hammond Campus | Jessica Leonard, Principal, Ayers Saint Gross

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Institutions are planning for change to increase their competitive advantage amid enrollment decline and facility renewal challenges. As enrollments shift, institutions need a sustainable, data-driven campus plan that elevates the student experience and their value proposition. This session will discuss how Purdue University Northwest (PNW) and Marshall University (MU) leaned into the hard conversations to determine the right investment strategy for their campuses. We’ll share research on enrollment trends across various institutional profiles and teach you how to create an investment strategy for your campus that prioritizes facility renewal, student success, budget alignment, and flexibility.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Summarize research on enrollment and demographic trends across different institutional profiles?flagship public, regional campuses, private liberal arts, and community colleges?and determine the similarities and differences.
2. Determine the right level of engagement and analysis for a more targeted campus planning effort to build buy-in and consensus.
3. Develop a campus planning process that gives you the tools to justify budgets, build consensus, and jumpstart implementation on campus projects.
4. Prioritize and implement planning strategies to combine modest, practical campus improvements with visionary and innovative solutions for student success.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Planning Alignment; Student Success, Retention, and Graduation
Tags: Budget Planning; Capital Planning; Enrollment Management; Planning Processes; Shrinking Pool of Potential Students; Student Demographics; Student Success

Designing Your Roadmap to Resilience: Adapting the Campus for Climate Change

Presented by: Eric Kramer, Principal, Reed Hilderbrand | Laura Tenny, Senior Campus Planner, Office of Campus Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Katie Wholey, Senior Resilience Consultant, Arup

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As climate change impacts increase in intensity, they put lives, teaching and research, buildings, landscapes, infrastructure, and operational continuity at risk. Institutions need a roadmap to resilience, one that defines adaptation, response, and recovery. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) approach to designing a resilience roadmap can help other institutions manage their climate risks and future-proof their campuses. This panel will share MIT’s process?assessing risks, setting goals, evaluating current practices and gaps, defining actions, planning for implementation, and evaluating impact?so that you can tailor it to your institution and region.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess the potential impact of climate-driven risks to your institution’s critical operations, campus resilience and safety, and fulfilling your mission.
2. Discuss a process for resiliency that overcomes information overload and the challenge of responding to future predicted impacts by synthesizing existing activities into a roadmap to adapt to acute and chronic climate hazards and minimize disruptions.
3. Deploy tools that help break down silos and strengthen coordination across departments, academic and operational units, and with your host community to confront and mitigate climate hazards.
4. Detail a strategy integration process for governance, funding, and future evaluation of climate adaptation efforts, to ensure good ideas translate into implementation.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change
Tags: Crisis and Disaster Management; Resiliency; Risk Management; Sustainability (Environmental)

Framework for Success: Tools to Revitalize Landmark Campus Buildings

Presented by: Chad Morig, Senior Project Manager, Dartmouth College | Mary Ann Upton, Partner, designLAB architects | Ben Youtz, Partner, designLAB architects

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The need to modernize historic and landmark buildings exists on all campuses. Through strategic planning, these buildings can contribute significantly to achieving equity and inclusion, energy-use improvement, and academic enrichment goals. Within the framework of Dartmouth College’s strategic and master plans, this session will share the planning and design strategies that revitalized the landmark buildings along Dartmouth Row, including an in-depth look at the iconic Dartmouth Hall. Join us to discover new planning and design tools that will help you make decisions and achieve project goals on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to create a variety of 21st century learning environments in outdated buildings.
2. Identify methods for integrating stories of equity and inclusion into a broader architectural framework.
3. Share practical sustainability and energy-use reduction strategies for aging buildings with peers.
4. Prioritize collaboration with advancement groups to lead successful fundraising campaigns.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

How Laurel Ridge Community College Secured its Role in the Regional Economy

Presented by: Chris Coutts, Provost and Vice President of Communications and Planning, Laurel Ridge Community College | Sue Hains, Partner, Grimm + Parker Architects | Anthony Lucarelli, Principal, Grimm + Parker Architects | Damon Sheppard, Principal, Regional Leader of Science and Technology, HOK

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Community colleges ensure access to higher education that supports economic development. Engaging learning environments and skills-based programs that align with community priorities can enhance student success and provide a pathway to a sustaining career. We’ll discuss how Laurel Ridge Community College (LRCC) secured its role in the regional economy by planning in collaboration with industry and the community to enable expansion, relevant programs, and advanced professional learning facilities. This session will prove the positive impact of interdisciplinary and interagency collaboration on programming, campus planning, and design as well as how multi-purpose academic buildings can attract students and partners.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Make the case for aligning academic, facilities, and market planning with regional economic development goals to create mutually beneficial long-term relationships between campus and community.
2. Recognize opportunities to leverage community and industry alliances to justify and incentivize facility planning initiatives and influence the planning strategies.
3. Discuss planning and design tactics that balance the need for specialized facilities that accommodate specific industry-driven programs with the need for flexible learning environments at community colleges.
4. Delineate a process and define the key necessary elements to justify and commit to establishing a new specialized program and credential offering, including facility impacts.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Student Success, Retention, and Graduation
Tags: Community College; Community Engagement; Economic Development; Engaging Stakeholders; External Collaboration / Partnerships; Facilities Planning; Workforce Development

How We Value Unassignable Area: Lessons from the US and Denmark

Presented by: Marianne Lewis, Dean and Professor of Management, University of Cincinnati | Mary Beth McGrew, Retired Vice Chancellor of Campus Planning Design and Real Estate, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | Michael Sorensen, Partner / Design Director, Henning Larsen

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Campus facilities often receive funding based on assignable area, but in today’s learning and work environments, unassignable area has proven to be increasingly crucial in establishing informal, welcoming, inclusive spaces for knowledge-sharing. Planners around the world grapple with determining space efficiencies. This session will explore lessons learned from the University of Cincinnati’s (UC) Carl H. Lindner College of Business and the University of Southern Denmark’s (SDU) Kolding Campus. Join us to discuss global trends and post-occupancy learnings, impediments to and solutions for increasing unassignable area, and specific designs that enhance effective informal spaces.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Use qualitative and quantitative justifications and employ various efficiency calculations to advocate for increasing unassignable square footage.
2. Anticipate and advocate for features that effective informal learning spaces require to thrive, from visual and physical connectivity, indoor comfort, appropriate furnishings, daylight and artificial lighting design, and acoustics.
3. Discuss how members of the campus community respond to facilities with ample informal space—both new and established—at UC and SDU and determine the role these spaces play in attracting and retaining students, faculty, and staff.
4. Describe how to conduct post-occupancy evaluations to best evaluate space utilization and measure effects on student wellbeing, productivity, and socialization.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Assessment; Facilities Planning; Informal Learning Environments; Metrics; Post-Occupancy Evaluation; Space Assessment; Space Management

Start with Why: Expanding the Golden Circle for Integrated Planning

Presented by: James Downey, Senior Strategy Consultant,

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Planners frequently conflate vision, mission, and strategy because they do not fully understand the distinctions. Clarifying, linking, and aligning these is critical to long-term success in any integrated planning and implementation endeavor. This session will develop an expanded version of Simon Sinek’s ‘Golden Circle,’ taking the Why-How-What framework and linking it to integrated planning for the future of higher education in a changing world. Come learn how to clearly articulate a vision in relationship to mission and provide an actionable framework for linking these to an effective integrated plan while maintaining alignment.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and clarify institutional mission statements using the Golden Circle.
2. Map vision, mission, goals, and strategies against an expanded Golden Circle for improved alignment and execution.
3. Evaluate your integrated plan alignment using ‘why,’ ‘how,’ and ‘what’ questions.
4. Apply the expanded Golden Circle to their institution’s vision, mission, and strategies.

Planning Types: Institutional Effectiveness Planning
Challenges: Planning Alignment
Tags: Adaptable Plans; Alignment; Mission / Vision / Identity; Planning Processes

Survival of the Fittest: Leveraging Key Financial Metrics and Strategic Decision Making

Presented by: Julee Gard, Vice President for Administration & Finance, University of St Francis | Aaron Meis, Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Success, Xavier University

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This session will explore a methodology for assessing and managing the financial viability of private, tuition-dependent institutions as well as institutional tactics and strategies used to improve financial strength. The resulting model will help institutions understand the trends and predictive value of key financial metrics directly impacting their liquidity and operations and how senior leadership can drive change. We’ll present institutional examples on how to engage senior leadership in strategic decision making, including assessment of revenue growth and expense management.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess financial viability of tuition-dependent institutions utilizing a Financial Viability Index tool.
2. Understand key factors impacting institutional financial viability and their predictive value pertaining to institutional survival.
3. Identify tools for assessing revenue-generating initiatives.
4. Discover how senior executives led change at several institutions that resulted in financial stability via revenue growth and substantive expense reductions.

The Agile Experience: Implementing Embodied Learning in Campus Design

Presented by: Thomas Doe, Director of Higher Education, VS America, Inc. | Susan Hrach, Author, Columbus State University

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Institutions often focus on designing campus amenities and non-academic spaces to support students’ mental health, yet classrooms and study areas are central to these efforts and offer a key opportunity to improve belonging and wellbeing. Learning is a whole-person endeavor, requiring engagement of both body and mind to maximize cognitive function. In this session, we’ll discuss embodied learning, a concept based on kinesiology, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology research that can inform campus design strategies. Come learn about the role design plays in supporting embodied learning and discover how it can better support student mental health and wellbeing on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Compare and contrast traditional approaches to academic space design based on sedentary norms with evidence-based strategies to support movement for enhanced learning and cognitive functioning.
2. Use new language with confidence to have informed conversations and gain buy-in from stakeholders on strategic planning teams.
3. Demonstrate a commitment to addressing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) initiatives by using the concept of embodied learning to inform your campus design solutions.
4. Evaluate your existing standard operating procedures when renovating or planning new space based on guidelines that are universally applicable across space types.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

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Adaptive Reuse Proves Its Worth: Integrated Design-Build for Campus Housing

Presented by: Dirk Denison, Owner/Principal, Dirk Denison Architects | Ezgi Talarico, Senior Manager | Growth Leader, Gilbane Building Company | Bruce Watts, Vice President for Administration, Illinois Institute of Technology

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When all stakeholders are at the table, the approach to any project becomes more transparent, faster, and more efficient. Integrated design-build is the best option for adaptive reuse projects, leading to positive change for sustainability, student engagement, and economics. Choosing an integrated design-build team for a campus housing project sets a foundation and enables clients to make real-time decisions as needs change. We’ll share challenges and outcomes of navigating major housing repairs against a growing student population and demonstrate tools, tactics, and modeling to help you make tough decisions on your campus projects.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to effectively structure an integrated design-build team between the owner, architect, and contractor to increase collaboration and transparency and generate buy-in.
2. Use specific lean tools and techniques to problem-solve when determining whether to renovate an existing or historic structure or to build new to meet housing demand.
3. Detail a successful and proactive design-build implementation during the programming phase of a project.
4. Evaluate adaptive reuse as a tool to reduce the carbon footprint while maintaining campus integrity and attracting and accommodating a new student population.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2439)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Adaptive Reuse; Decision Making; Design-Build; Renovation; Team Building

Effective Governance to Move Through Anomie

Presented by: Ashlei Watson, Director of Academic Planning and Effectiveness, College for Creative Studies

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Shared governance and consultative leadership approaches can support the achievement of institutional missions and goals to increase institutional effectiveness (IE). College and university leadership is currently beset by extraordinary challenges within the sector, national upheaval around social issues, and existential global crises and change related to AI proliferation, climate change, and public truth claim disputes. This confluence of disruptive factors creates a sense of anomie, or normlessness, that exacerbates leadership challenges, negatively impacting IE. A shared leadership approach can serve as a necessary system shock to reset and rethink institutional governance to improve the effectiveness of outcomes.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize the impact that current paradigms are having on shared governance and consultative leadership practices.
2. Synthesize research from multiple sources to develop individual insights on the future of higher education governance and leadership.
3. Construct insightful responses to the question of which skills and capacities are necessary for leadership in the future.
4. Build an introductory-level understanding of shared leadership principles and implementation.

Planning Types: Institutional Effectiveness Planning
Tags: Governance; Leadership; Strategic Planning

From Cornerstone to Capstone: The Future of the Engineering Student Experience

Presented by: Jennifer Hardy, Senior Associate, Payette | Matt Parkinson, Professor of Engineering Design, Pennsylvania State University | Tom Simister, Director of Space Strategies, Payette

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Institutions strive to link academic initiatives to master planning goals for each campus building project. In order to confront the unique challenges of creating learning environments for engineering students, higher education planners must use innovative approaches. We’ll take an in-depth look at the process for integrating learning experiences with cutting-edge ‘skunkworks’ capabilities as a means to create an inclusive, interdisciplinary engineering community and maker space. Join us to discover innovative planning and design strategies for combining key ingredients of maker spaces and active learning environments with project-based pedagogies for engineering programs.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Challenge pre-existing assumptions about interdisciplinary learning and maker spaces within a shared learning environment.
2. Connect space planning and design with the need to increase inclusivity and diversity in academic programs.
3. Find opportunities for programs and pedagogies to share space and resources based on new planning paradigms.
4. Describe an informed planning process for creating hands-on learning spaces and maker spaces with stakeholders.

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Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Interdisciplinary Learning Environments; Learning Environments; Maker Space; Science / Engineering; Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM); Strategies and Tactics

Integrating DEIB Through Perspective, Process, and People

Presented by: Aaron Coe, Program Manager, Rio Salado College | Floyd Hardin, Executive Officer, Equity & College Relations, Rio Salado College | Angela Stratton, Instructional Services Coordinator, Senior, Rio Salado College

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Colleges and universities must find meaningful ways of integrating and institutionalizing the important principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) to improve outcomes for students and employees. This session will detail how a community college leveraged perspective, process, and people to integrate DEIB into the college structure and culture. Join us to discover new ways to improve your awareness of actions and steps for further integrating DEIB into your professional lives and college culture.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Attain the foundational knowledge to design step-by-step processes to integrate DEIB practices that make your institution a more welcoming place.
2. Recognize opportunities for intentionally allocating resources to integrate engagement efforts that embed DEIB principles within your organizational culture.
3. Identify specific action items related to your institutional values that you can implement in your planning.
4. Maximize high-leverage DEIB practices to foster and sustain a sense of belonging that extends across the college community to include both internal and external stakeholders and constituents.

Planning Types: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning; Strategic Planning
Challenges: Planning Alignment
Tags: Alignment; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Organizational Culture; Planning Processes

Leveraging Stairs to Promote Wellness, Engagement, and Community on Campus

Presented by: Daniel Higuera, Architect, Synergi | Clayton Mitchell, Senior Vice President, Real Estate and Facilities, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc | Darren Wicks, Director of Business Development, Synergi

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This session will explore how institutions can leverage stairs—a ubiquitous, ready-to-use campus feature—to create effective, accessible, and economic health and wellness impacts. When prominently placed with an inviting design, stairs can offer multi-use spaces for meetings, improve physical activity, promote an open and transparent campus culture, encourage communication and collaboration, and even spark innovation. Through an integrated planning approach, we’ll demonstrate how to analyze your facility needs and leverage stair space to support campus health and wellbeing and promote interaction that fosters a sense of community within the academic environment.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate the value in designing for inclusivity and wellbeing as well as infusing these priorities into feature stair design, including scoring points for WELL and Fitwell certifications.
2. Recognize design opportunities to feature stairs as mixing spaces that encourage belonging, collaboration, and socialization between students and faculty.
3. Assess opportunities for the renovation and redesign of existing spaces to empower more inclusive, healthy campus cultures.
4. Identify actionable strategies for incorporating active design and universal design principles into feature stairs for improved health and inclusivity while controlling cost through integrated planning and delivery techniques.

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Teaching Kitchens: The $20 Billion Learning Laboratory for Nutrition Education

Presented by: Christina Clark, Vice Chancellor for Institutional Support Services and Chief Operating Officer, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | Timothy Harlan, Associate Professor of Medicine, George Washington University | Wendy Slusser, Associate Vice Provost for the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA, University of California-Los Angeles | Christian Stayner, Architect and Principal, Stayner Architects

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Medical training has traditionally excluded nutrition education for medical professionals, but a new bipartisan bill will require that all medical education institutions provide nutrition training or lose $10.3 billion in federal Medicare funds. With federal and matching state funding on the line, campuses must plan for this new mandate. Few campuses have teaching kitchens, which serve as pedagogical spaces to teach medical professionals about using food as medicine. This session will discuss how institutions can navigate massive funding changes in graduate medical education (GME), address nutrition education spatial requirements, and enable integrated planning for the realization of a campuswide resource.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Make the case for the development of teaching kitchens on your campus by referencing best practices from other institutions and leveraging integrated planning principles.
2. Identify potential members of a diverse, integrated team from across your institution to design and realize nutrition education spaces, including student life, public health, food service, health, and food and agricultural program professionals.
3. Recognize the physical and budgetary considerations for design a teaching kitchen facility while also taking into account the pedagogical requirements and benefits of food literacy, mindfulness, life skills, and health benefits.
4. Describe how student-centered, hands-on learning spaces can better support learning, health and wellbeing as opposed to spaces that serve demonstration or passive observation purposes.

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AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Funding Uncertainty
Tags: Capital Funding; Facilities Funding; Facilities Planning; Medical / Allied Health Education; New Program or Department; Pedagogy; Student Learning Outcomes; Teaching and Learning

The Case for Long-range Planning

Presented by: Michael Hoff, Vice Provost, Chief Planning Officer, East Tennessee State University | Kimberly McCorkle, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academics, East Tennessee State University

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Strategic planning must align with operations and budgeting while also remaining consistent with a long-term institutional vision. This session will detail how East Tennessee State University (ETSU) has employed a unique strategic visioning and strategic planning process that engages external participants, identifies peers and key performance indicators (KPIs), and aligns planning budgeting with institutional effectiveness. Join us to take a longer view of planning and ensure the purpose of your planning process becomes less about document production and more about culture change and implementation.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe a planning process that begins with setting a long-range vision and engages national leaders, local leaders, university leadership, and internal faculty, staff, and students.
2. Find ways to incorporate a strategic plan into the organization in a way that enables unit-level planning to be more about the implementation and operationalization of strategic initiatives.
3. Develop a list of peer institutions using a quantitative and qualitative review and associated KPIs.
4. Discuss methods for aligning budgeting processes with your strategic plan.

Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Challenges: Planning Alignment
Tags: Alignment; Budget Planning; Institutional Effectiveness; Mission / Vision / Identity; Planning Processes; Unit Planning

SCUP Fellow Presentation | When City Parks Are Your Quad: Urban Campus Planning for Safety and Wellbeing

Presented by: Joel Pettigrew, SCUP Fellow, Business Development Manager, Shepley Bulfinch

Urban campuses are complex organizations that are tasked with ensuring student success and wellbeing while also navigating development and growth. Within an urban context, however, the campus cannot always plan its own physical future. This session will examine security design principles such as Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and urban design from a lens of student development, wellness, and sense of security. You’ll learn about the design elements on urban campus edges and discover how they can provide students with a safer physical environment as well as support community wellness.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Outline how CPTED principles influence urban campus edge design to create a safer environment.
2. Identify ways in which urban campus edge design may positively or negatively influence student sense of security and wellness.
3. Summarize and describe ways in which urban campus edge design can improve students’ sense of security while improving public access to campus resources.
4. Discuss how to apply urban design principles in ways that support wellness and wellbeing for both the campus and surrounding community.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C0004)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Health and Wellness; Risk Management; Security; Town and Gown; Urban Campus; Urban Design

All About ChatGPT: The Hottest (and Scariest) Technology of 2023

Presented by: Beth Ziesenis, Your Nerdy Best Friend

In late 2022, a plain little website shared a free “Research Preview” of ChatGPT, and the world as we know it changed forever. ChatGPT can write whole essays from a simple text prompt, formulate 100 social media post ideas from a single sentence, create computer code with just a description and compose poetry and songs in any artist’s style in milliseconds. Join Your Nerdy Best Friend for an overview of everything you need to know about ChatGPT and its AI cousins but were afraid to ask. This session answers the questions…

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain the who, what, why, and how of ChatGPT and other AI tech tools.
2. Go hands-on with content and image design by typing a few words and pushing a button.
3. Discuss the issues around copyright, plagiarism, ethics, and more.
4. Preview the future of AI tools with the latest news.

Create a Successful Strategic Plan in Five Months or Less

Presented by: Michael Hites, Chief Information Officer, Southern Methodist University | Amy Schultz, Chief Relationship and Engagement Officer, Lonestar Education and Research Network

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LEARN is a consortium of 43 higher education institutions connected through a state-of-art, high-performance optical network for worldwide education and research. In this session, we’ll share how we led the completion of LEARN’s new strategic plan in five months by adapting SCUP’s Planning Institute (PI) methodology to a statewide hybrid exercise in five interactive sessions. By selecting the most useful and relevant components of the PI, planners can create a modern, successful strategic plan. Discover how you can apply this methodology to save time, improve collaboration across large geographical areas, and foster community throughout the strategic planning process.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Create a short-duration, highly-engaging planning process for a nonprofit with in-person and remote participants using SCUP PI fundamentals.
2. Show those unfamiliar with formalized strategic planning how to develop a planning vocabulary, create SMART goals, use internal scanning, and perform SWOT analysis in an afternoon.
3. Explain how to synthesize hundreds of objectives into four concrete goals that existing staff can work towards.
4. Quickly write and revise a crowdsourced strategic planning draft that a board can review and approve.

Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Building (or Writing) the Plan; Planning Processes; SWOT Analysis

Create Student Hubs That Foster Belonging With Inclusive Planning and Design

Presented by: Matthew Hyatt, Principal, Bergmeyer Associates, Inc. |
Myrna Hernandez, Chief of Staff and Vice President of Administration, Grinnell College | Courage Kusena, Student, Case Western Reserve University

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Anxiety and loneliness among students have been exacerbated by the pandemic. Learn how to plan and design student hubs on your campus—particularly student centers and dining environments—that foster a sense of belonging. We will provide examples of empathy in design thinking, emerging inclusive design strategies, and replicable examples of the successful execution of those strategies that you can employ to reduce student anxiety and nurture belonging.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the factors and conditions that challenge student success today in order to make more thoughtful planning and design decisions.
2. Promote the value of student-centered decision making in cross-functional planning and design teams to embed wellness and belonging into all the areas students frequent.
3. Advocate for the use of empathy in design thinking for planning, programming, staffing, and facilities improvement decision making.
4. Create the “3 C’s” (choice, connection, and contribution)—specific student experiences that support wellbeing, reduce anxiety, and create a sense of belonging—in your campus community hubs.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2426)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning
Tags: Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Facilities Design

From Global to Local: Business Schools as Connectors and Catalysts

Presented by: G. Logan Jordan, Associate Dean, Purdue University | Emily Patterson, Executive Director of Facilities Planning, Wichita State University | Mark Thaler, Principal, Gensler | Meghan Webster, Principal, Gensler

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In an increasingly interconnected and global economy, local economies can become lost in the shuffle. Highly-connective business school ‘ecosystems’ can help by refocusing on hyper-local networks and outreach. Business schools, with their connections to research and development, start-ups, academic incubators, and corporate and community partnerships, are uniquely positioned to retain the best talent at home and drive regional economic growth. The perception of insular institutions is no longer viable, and this session will illustrate the critical importance of external partnerships and interdisciplinary collaboration as vehicles for local industry and job creation.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify potential champions and opportunities for interdisciplinary programs.
2. Engage local partners to establish outreach opportunities and help cultivate a culture of community entrepreneurship.
3. Recognize academic incubators, corporate partners, and start-ups that can potentially integrate into your campus ecosystem.
4. Engage students, faculty, and staff in linking academic pathways, innovation, and community impact.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2458)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Institutional Effectiveness Planning
Tags: Business School Facility; Economic Development; Entrepreneurship; External Collaboration / Partnerships; Innovation; Interdisciplinary

It Takes a ‘Student Life’ Village: Student Success At The Heart Of Campus

Presented by: Virginia Ambler, Vice President for Student Affairs, William and Mary | Amber Hall, Senior Project Manager, William and Mary | Annette McDaniels, Vice President, Grimm + Parker Architects | Ewelina Peszt, Senior Associate, William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.

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William & Mary realized its vision for a campus student life precinct for students to thrive in an environment that nurtures their sense of belonging and agency to manage their own experiences. Adapting to unexpected and atypical project challenges, the college used student success as the planning anchor for relocating 11 dispersed student affairs groups to one home in the new Sadler Center. This session will demonstrate how to make your planning process more resilient with a vision and prioritized goals that commit to functionality, design, aesthetics, and enhanced services for a student-owned campus space.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain how student success goals and desired project outcomes can influence campuswide planning and operational priorities of the departments most directly responsible for those outcomes.
2. Recognize and deploy planning and design strategies that optimize student access to services, maximize use, and define engaging places and spaces that invite students to take ownership.
3. Encourage and justify the use of mission-driven priorities in planning to resolve project challenges such as value management, space allocation, and leadership change.
4. Describe student attitudes, behaviors, and day-to-day space use that demonstrate how they’ve taken ownership and how staff can adapt to working in a ‘students’ building’ with enhanced services.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2382)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Student Success, Retention, and Graduation
Tags: Facilities Planning; Student Center / Union; Student Experience; Student Life / Student Affairs; Student Success

Proactive Campus Planning Strategies for Turbulent Times

Presented by: Beth Asbury, Director, Facilities Planning and Development, University of Missouri-Systems Office | Paul Leef, Studio Leader, Campus Strategy & Analytics, SmithGroup | Matt Schroeder, Executive VP for Finance, University of Toledo | John Seibert, Associate Vice President for Planning, Design, and Construction, University of Cincinnati-Main Campus

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Institutional survival depends on balancing competing financial resources and fixed assets. In order to nimbly adapt to static and declining enrollment, colleges and universities must leverage their programmatic strengths and existing facilities to ensure institutional and student success. This panel will share proactive strategies—ranging from campus consolidations to academic program reductions—and explore diverse case studies for a variety of institutional types. Join in our discussion around best practices for managing limited resources and changing culture and discover how you can make positive changes on your own campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the major issues (finance, technology, space, demographics, programming) that institutions face and how they impact their campus.
2. Apply lessons learned from panelist successes and failures to the unique challenges of your institution.
3. Adopt panelist strategies to generate dialogue around necessary change in the dynamic landscape of higher education.
4. Use data analytics to inform space, programmatic, and financial decision making at your institution.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2487)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Decision Making; Facilities Planning; Planning Processes

Spaces to Support the Future of Arts Education

Presented by: Sam Batchelor, Partner, designLAB architects | Bess Paupeck, Director of Public Programs, Native Plant Trust | Kurt Steinberg, President, Montserrat College of Art | Antonio Viva, Executive Director, Artisans Asylum

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A broad range of fields, from medicine to engineering, have begun to recognize the ability of arts education to imbue humanism and empathy into their instruction. While learning space models for the arts have stayed the same, arts education and practice has shifted dramatically from discipline-focused pedagogy to a more process-based training. This panel of arts educators will explore opportunities for rethinking arts education spaces to support and ensure success for today’s students. Join us to consider the evolving requirements for effective planning of new arts spaces as well as interdisciplinary spaces that leverage arts education across other departments.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss effective planning strategies around spaces that support new models of arts education.
2. Describe models for integrated learning environments that leverage arts education in other disciplines.
3. Communicate effectively with arts educators through understanding the tools and methods of their trade.
4. Anticipate the evolving needs of a changing discipline and recognize how to support those needs through planning and design.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C2368)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Fine and Performing Arts Facility; Interdisciplinary; Interdisciplinary Learning Environments; Learning Environments

The Politics of Sustainability: Finding Common Ground in a Charged Time & Place

Presented by: Alex Roe, Senior Associate Vice President, Capital Planning and Budget, University of Wisconsin System Administration | Allison Wilson, Sustainability Director, Ayers Saint Gross

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In our increasingly polarized world, universities are implementing or attempting to implement sustainability strategies and projects to reduce carbon footprints, combat climate change, and steward resilient physical campus environments. What strategies can an institution and its consultants use to move sustainability initiatives forward when leadership and/or government is diametrically opposed to climate change rhetoric and projects? Join us to consider ways to motivate stakeholders, gain consensus on a forward path, and leverage these opportunities to engage the next generation in sustainability efforts.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss the ways politically charged environments impact sustainability planning.
2. Assess ways to move sustainability initiatives forward in a politically charged environment.
3. Discuss ways to accelerate intergenerational knowledge transfer.
4. Discuss ways to facilitate fearlessly curious conversations in dangerously divided times.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP58C0022)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Challenges to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging: Impact on Higher Education Planning

Presented by: Paulette Granberry Russell, J.D., President, National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE)

Panelists: M. Cristina Alcalde, Ph.D., Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and Professor, Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University | Leonardo Gonzalez Sangri, Partner and Global Director for Education Practice, HKS | Robert L. Solomon, Esq., Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Engagement, Case Western Reserve University

Moderated by: Lynn Akey, Vice President for Success Success, Analytics, & Integrated Planning, Minnesota State University – Mankato

Initiatives that support diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are under fire in at least 21 states. The breadth of these efforts and their impact on university communities, student success, and long-term planning are not well understood. As universities and colleges are faced with short timeframes in which to respond to and implement new legislation, responses must also include the voices and experiences of those charged with leading change to ensure long-term strategic planning does not inadvertently work against institutional commitments.

So, what do these bills and other efforts to restrict DEIB funding mean for higher education, for students, and for planning? The impacts across the campus are far-reaching, from student success to strategic planning, to possibly the built environment. Paulette Granberry Russell, J.D., president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) will present a high-level perspective, followed by a discussion with college and university leaders.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss current legislation making its way through numerous states and the impact it is having.
2. Understand the role of DEIB in Inclusive Excellence planning.
3. Discuss the types of collaboration, networking, and discussion needed to address the current national context.
4. Consider the impact current legislation and other initiatives could or are having, on the built environment in higher education.

Join us for a rockin’ good time at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame! You’ll have an all access pass to the entire museum, “Get Back” with the Beatles, try your skills on an instrument and even jam with the house musicians! Show off your favorite band by wearing your favorite concert t-shirt.

Explore the museum.