Southern Regional Conference

7:15 AM-6:00 PM |  Grand Ballroom Foyer

4:30 PM-5:30 PM | Hotel Club Room

Want to meet new contacts from throughout higher education? Exchange ideas with colleagues across the region? Need someone to sit next to at the keynote session? Have questions about SCUP membership? Enjoy networking with other new members, first-time attendees, and veteran SCUPers at this fun event. Join us in the hotel bar. Drinks on own.

Building a Culture of High Performance, Accountability, and Continuous Improvement from a University System and Institutional Perspective

5:45 PM-7:00 PM | Grand Ballroom Salons 1-3

Presented by: Kyle Marrero, President, Georgia Southern University

In April of 2017 the University System of Georgia (USG) launched a system wide initiative, known as the Comprehensive Administrative Review (CAR). The charge was to identify and implement administrative service improvement, efficiencies, and administrative cost savings that can be redirected to student success efforts and core academic programs. As Chair of the CAR Steering Committee, Dr. Marrero will outline the objectives of the CAR, the process, implementation and reporting structures, and the results to date. Furthermore, as a President of two USG comprehensive universities during the process of and initial implementation of CAR (University of West Georgia and Georgia Southern University), Dr. Marrero will provide an institutional perspective and insight into building a culture of high performance with a focus on evidence-based leadership, accountability, and continuous improvement. The session will highlight why investing in and engaging your people is critical in building a culture of continuous improvement.

Learning Outcomes

1. Define and assess the outcomes of efficiency and effectiveness when implementing administrative service improvements.
2. Define what success and a commitment to excellence looks like in a CAR process.
3. Define and align institutional goals and values by building leadership-balanced scorecards.
4. Utilize a why, what, and how approach to communicate at all levels. Invest in and engage your people by building individual accountability and rewarding success.

7:00 PM-8:00 PM | Grand Ballroom Salons 1-3 & Foyer

Join your colleagues for hors d’oeuvres and a hosted bar.

7:15 AM-12:00 PM | Grand Ballroom Foyer

7:30 AM-8:15 AM | Grand Ballroom

A Shared Vision: UTSA and San Antonio’s Future Campus

8:15 AM-9:15 AM | Conference Room B

Presented by: Kimberly Espy, The University of Texas at San Antonio | Ryan Losch, Page | Benjamin Perry, Director of Planning & Development, University Architect, The University of Texas at San Antonio | Noel Poyo, NALCAB

We will explore how The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) campus master plan will guide significant growth in research, enrollment, and partnership opportunities across multiple campuses and industry over the coming decades. UTSA is the largest public institution in the fastest-growing large city in the country. New university leadership is seeking to expand its reach and influence while remaining a community-serving institution with many first-generation students. Come find out what you need to consider when master planning for significant institutional growth and engaging the impacted community.

Learning Outcomes

1. Facilitate a flexible master planning framework that can accommodate multiple implementation and delivery methods to generate institutional space.
2. Engage with community groups and industry partners of various sizes to gain meaningful feedback that influences the master planning process.
3. Prioritize open space systems that benefit the campus and broader community while performing environmental needs.
4. Develop sustainability guidance that projects institutional values and allows for bottom-up deployment to align with academic objectives.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU 1.0 unit (SCUPS19C36)
AICP CM 1.0 unit

Inform Planning Through Regional Demographics and Labor Markets

8:15 AM-9:15 AM | Conference Room 4

Presented by: Russ Deaton, Tennessee Board of Regents | Woody Giles, Community Planner, TSW

Institutions can inform their academic and facilities planning by studying labor markets as well as demographic and enrollment trends. In this session, we well share the Tennessee Board of Regents statewide demographic and labor market analysis, which examines demographic, enrollment, and job data to inform coordinated, statewide decision making for academic planning and facility expansions. Come learn how Tennessee’s methodology can aid your institution in coordinating academic offerings and facilities investments among campuses.

Learning Outcomes

1. Describe the analysis, including data sources compiled and how demographic variables were chosen and combined.
2. List some of the challenges encountered with the analysis, including connecting graduates to jobs and data gaps.
3. Summarize how to visualize labor market data as demographics maps showing areas of need and the demand for higher education across the state as well as labor market maps showing job outlook by region.
4. Explain how the results from this data analysis are being used to make decisions in academic and campus planning.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU 1.0 unit (SCUPS19C03)
AICP CM 1.0 unit

The Living Building Challenge: Design for New Pedagogies

8:15 AM-9:15 AM | Conference Room A

Presented by: Shan Arora, Georgia Institute of Technology | Joshua Gassman, Lord Aeck Sargent | Margaret Sprug, The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP

The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology successfully meets the highest standard in sustainable building, the Living Building Challenge. The Kendeda Building redefines and reinvents existing pedagogies while also targeting net positive energy, water, and waste. This project demonstrates how sustainable design can be replicable and cost-effective when designing new learning spaces that provide students with a healthier future. We will share our programming process and resource-saving strategies that you can leverage to reinvent pedagogical spaces using sustainable design at your institution.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify design opportunities within the Living Building Challenge framework to guide and shape healthy user interaction with your space.
2. Integrate required measurement tools of the Living Building Challenge into your facility in a transparent and educational manner post-occupancy.
3. Utilize available strategies to help make your buildings as efficient as possible while also considering the required programming, scope, and wellbeing of users.
4. Explain how the Living Building Challenge requirements affect post-occupancy educational needs and develop design solutions that provide new, healthy, and functional alternatives.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU/HSW 1.0 unit (SCUPS19C46)
AICP CM 1.0 unit

Create a Vibrant Destination for Learning Through Integrated Planning

9:30 AM-10:30 AM | Conference Room B

Presented by: Gary C. McNay, Principal, tvsdesign | Cathy M. Pinskey, Program Director, Facilities, George Mason University

Campus buildings and spaces must encourage flexible communities of engagement within, across, and beyond traditional disciplines to create a wider range of pathways for student success and faculty growth. We will share how we used integrated facilities planning to prioritize student success, active learning, and a culture of faculty scholarship and collaboration within the campus center’s largest building. Come learn how to implement facility planning and programming strategies at every scale to foster student success, improved space utilization, and new cultures of invention and scholarship on your campus.

Learning Outcomes

1. Organize a process with planning, programming, and goal setting that creates buildings without disciplinary limits.
2. Discuss planning for occupant health in agile buildings for learning and research that activate collaboration and easily adapt over time.
3. Structure campus-wide facilities planning conversations that prioritize student success and long-term institutional needs while offering fresh and inviting places for faculty growth.
4. Lead effective facilities planning and design initiatives to create greater long-term value for the institution while inspiring all stakeholders to grow and thrive.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU/HSW 1.0 unit (SCUPS19C35)
AICP CM 1.0 unit

Disruption is Upon Us: Integrated Planning is Your Superpower

9:30 AM-10:30 AM | Conference Room A

Presented by: Nicholas R. Santilli, Senior Director of Learning Strategy, Society for College and University Planning

Higher education disruption takes many forms and its origins can range from local to international. Integrated planning is something all institutions need to confront disruption, but few institutions understand or practice. This session will discuss sources of disruption and how integrated planning can help institutions prepare for all different types as well as acculturate change conversation on campus. We will work through several exercises that will show you how to develop two to three competencies to address common challenges, allowing you to apply, tailor, and communicate a robust integrated planning value proposition at your institution.

Learning Outcomes

1. Join a movement to instill integrated planning as an indispensable norm on your campus.
2. Spark conversations and breed familiarity with integrated planning practices and outcomes.
3. Apply a value proposition for integrated planning at your institution.
4.  Clearly communicate the need for the evolution of integrated planning.

Space Portfolio Planning Partnership

9:30 AM-10:30 AM | Conference Room 4

Presented by: Jimmie A. Hardin, Data Scientist, Georgia Institute of Technology | Jennifer Herazy, Chief Administrative Officer for Academics and Research, Georgia Institute of Technology | Amanda Jones, Senior Planner, Georgia Institute of Technology | Jarrett Muncy, Senior Campus Facilities Planner, Georgia Institute of Technology

This session will share a portfolio-based approach to space management as an institutional, governance-based framework for aligning space‚Äîits allocation and use‚Äîto meet priorities and program needs. You will learn how we aligned space governance with our institution’s organizational hierarchy through defined portfolios, allowing central planning units to use a streamlined process and adaptive planning tools to arrive at an unbiased, data-driven perspective.

Learning Outcomes

1. Leverage your existing organizational hierarchy to develop a space portfolio structure with each lead taking charge of sub-portfolios (e.g., schools roll up to colleges, and colleges roll up to the provost.).
2. Establish a partnership between portfolios and your central planning office to legitimize the portfolio process, providing informed feedback about academic, research, and administrative needs for building space.
3. Make space and staffing data available and transparent and leverage data visualization tools and regular reporting as part of your space management process.
4. Develop space planning tools that are adaptive to your various portfolio partner’s needs.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU 1.0 unit (SCUPS19C05)
AICP CM 1.0 unit

How to Get Collaboration, Not Just Cooperation

10:45 AM-11:45 AM | Conference Room A

Presented by: Andy Powers, Director of Design, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Many professionals have specialized degrees that allow them to solve problems within their disciplines, but their lack of collaboration training can be a roadblock to success. In this session, we will equip you with the tools you need to facilitate and encourage collaboration in your projects. You will learn how to recognize and prevent obstacles to collaboration-both internal and external-to help your coworkers and institution move from simply cooperating to collaborating.

Learning Outcomes

1. Clarify the difference between collaboration and cooperation or project management, and explain the value of collaboration.
2. Recognize common warning signs of behaviors that impede collaboration, like defensiveness or aggression.
3. Describe strategies to diffuse defensiveness and prevent aggressive participants from dominating the process.
4. Leverage and coalesce multiple points of view across disciplines to obtain better project outcomes.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU 1.0 unit (SCUP54C049)
AICP CM 1.0 unit

Lanier Technical College: Delivering a Vision for Tomorrow’s Workforce Education

10:45 AM-11:45 AM | Conference Room B

Presented by: Todd Dolson, Vice President, Stevens & Wilkinson | Mark L. Levine, Vice President of Architecture, Pond & Company | Ray Perren, President, Lanier Technical College

Technical and community college education must adapt to the changing workforce to ensure success for the students, communities, and states they serve, and their physical campuses need to support this adaptation. We will explore the planning, design, and stakeholder collaboration behind Lanier Technical College’s new, six-building, 95-acre campus designed to house 50 unique workforce development programs. We will also share consensus building and expectation management techniques we employed to build buy-in with diverse stakeholders.

Learning Outcomes

1. Describe how to engage stakeholders through consensus building.
2. Summarize challenges and opportunities encountered when collaborating with multiple stakeholder groups.
3. Manage client expectations by successfully navigating state review and procurement procedures to complete a very complex, multi-building project.
4. Explain how to plan for a new technical or community college campus from the ground up.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU 1.0 unit (SCUPS19C42)
AICP CM 1.0 unit

Micro-Living: Maximizing University Resources and Student Happiness

10:45 AM-11:45 AM | Conference Room 4

Presented by: Anh Tran, Senior Associate, Little Diversified Architectural Consulting | Thomas Carlson-Reddig, Global Practice Leader and Partner, Little Diversified Architectural Consulting | Monica Scott, College of Charleston

There are a variety of issues on campus that may lead institutions to explore micro-living options‚ demand for more beds and housing alternatives, rising costs and tight budgets, energy and resource reduction, and the need to maximize land use. But micro-living doesn’t have to feel like a compromise. We will look at three institutional case studies to discuss how alternative student housing can net a greater number of beds while still being a desirable place to live on campus.

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss the housing challenges institutions face today and how you can address them with micro-living options.
2. Describe three different ways micro-living student housing has been planned, designed, and implemented at institutions.
3. Outline a post-occupancy evaluation (POE) methodology to determine the students experience the micro-living student housing.
4. Summarize POE data from one institution about its micro-living housing and discuss lessons learned and what they’d do differently.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU 1.0 unit (SCUPS19C39)
AICP CM 1.0 unit

12:00 PM-12:30 PM | Grand Ballroom

1:30 PM-2:30 PM | Cannon Chapel

Presented by: Gary Hauk University Historian, Emory University | Robin Morey Vice President, Planning, Emory University

In this session, Emory University’s chief planning officer and its official historian will explore Emory’s current, large-scale planning within a historical context. With two academic campuses, four major hospitals, and other clinics and properties throughout metropolitan Atlanta, Emory University faces all of the challenges typical of urban universities, including limited space for expansion, the need to move people efficiently, and the good of the larger community. Yet Emory’s historical development has created unique requirements and opportunities. The main campus is 103 years old, while Emory’s original campus, forty miles away and still in use, is 183 years old. To foster a sense of shared mission between these campuses requires campus planners to understand the past while attending to the present. To support institutional priorities and make the campus environment beautiful and livable requires campus planners to imagine the future while carefully stewarding institutional legacies. The Emory case can serve as a model for other institutions balancing similar values and needs.

Designing a High-Performance Student Center and Beyond

3:15 PM-4:00 PM

Presented by: Jo Lamb, Senior Director of Project Planning and Design, Emory University | Ben Perlman, Director of Campus Life, Emory University | Sandeep Ahuja, Chief Executive Officer, Pattern R+D | Scott Shell, Principal, Duda Paine | Andrew Yantis, Senior Vice President, Operations, Holder Construction Company

In this presentation, we will walk through the evolution of the design-making process for sustainable design at Emory University, beginning with the Emory Student Center. You will learn how the process guides users through data-driven decision making surrounding architectural integrations, first costs, maintenance, energy use intensity (EUI), wildland-urban interface (WUI), and more.

Learning Outcomes

1. Implement a high-performance building decision-making process for your next capital project by thoughtfully reducing EUI and WUI.
2. Identify criteria for the decision-making process (e.g., upfront capital cost, long-term savings, ROI, etc.)
3. Empower building occupants to make operational decisions that lower EUI.
4. Lead the process improvement discussion on evolving your high-performance building planning model.

Join friends of The SCUP Fund Monday night on the top floor of the new CODA building across the street from our hotel! Support planning in higher ed with friends, music, snacks, and great views before you head to dinner with your colleagues.

This event is free for all SCUP attendees. Contributions to support The SCUP Fund are appreciated and can be made online or a pledge can be made at the event.

Music from George Kilby Jr. & Friends
George Kirby Jr. has taken his music from the road-houses of the Southeast to the major music festivals of Europe. His sound has been called everything from New Orleans R&B to Alternative Country.

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7:15 AM-12:00 PM |Grand Ballroom Foyer

7:30 AM-8:15 AM | Grand Ballroom

Setting the Table for Strategy and Culture to Dine Together

8:30 AM-9:45 AM | Grand Ballroom

Presented by: Sonia Alvarez-Robinson, Executive Director, Strategic Consulting, Georgia Institute of Technology

It has often been said that culture eats strategy for breakfast. While that can often be true, it does not have to be that way. Culture and strategy can be close companions and highly complementary when positioned as mutually reinforcing parts of the planning process. When strategy is developed with an appreciation for cultural strengths, it has a better chance to move beyond words on a screen or on paper. At the same time, organizational strategy can strengthen and reinforce an improved organizational culture.

Georgia Tech is using a technique called appreciative inquiry to build a positive, productive culture through the strategy development and implementation process. This approach reinforces the positive elements of the current culture while clearly defining the cultural attributes needed for success in the future.

This discussion will explore ways to draw out the best in organizational culture to create an effective strategy while also using strategy to steer culture in a positive direction.

Learning Outcomes

1. Employ planning techniques that will draw out the best of your institution’s culture.
2. Develop a strategy that intentionally strengthens and reinforces positive culture.
3. Apply take-aways to close gaps between cultural aspirations and current organizational realities.
4. Explain how appreciative inquiry utilizes both culture and strategy to enhance the planning process.

Integrating Sustainability on Campus: Critical Strategies and Lessons Learned

10:00 AM-11:00 AM | Conference Room 4

Presented by: Colley Hodges, Kirksey Architecture | Roshani Malla, University of Houston-Downtown | Michael Mendoza, University of Houston

To achieve a sustainable campus, institutions must integrate sustainable practices across environmental, social, and economic boundaries. It is important that built environments responsibly utilize natural and financial resources as well as meet expectations for student and community wellbeing. Sustainability and green building experts will discuss critical lessons and tools they used to integrate sustainability at the University of Houston, allowing them to manage both long- and short-term decision making. Come learn about our strategic framework that will help your institution stay ahead of the curve on climate resiliency and provide sustainable facilities that allow student and community partnerships to thrive.

Learning Outcomes

1. Track key sustainability performance metrics to demonstrate how green buildings provide a prospering student learning environment.
2. Articulate the business case for green buildings that promote resiliency and student wellbeing on your campus.
3. Explain how to design green buildings that introduce sustainable student/community partnerships.
4. Initiate discussions with stakeholders regarding climate resiliency planning for your campus’s buildings.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU/HSW 1.0 unit (SCUPS19C29)
AICP CM 1.0 unit

Planning for Future Learning: NCA&T Engineering Research and Innovation Complex

10:00 AM-11:00 AM | Conference Room A

Presented by: Jeannye Dudley, Academic Planning and Design, EYP | Dan L. Fields, Principal, EYP | Andrew Perkins, North Carolina A & T State University

Interdisciplinary learning thrives on a foundation of cross-departmental strength. Designing facilities that accommodate a variety of teaching modalities and allow different disciplines to share resources can have a positive impact on future learning, teaching, and research. The session examines how North Carolina A&T State University (NCA&T) created an interdisciplinary engineering research and innovation facility centered around maker and fabrication spaces. You will learn about our integrated project team approach, how we secured buy-in from stakeholders, and how we translated functional space needs into innovative places.

Learning Outcomes

1. Analyze different types of maker, fabrication, and collaboration spaces along with potential impacts and drivers to determine which of these space designs will have the most positive impact on student learning.
2. Explain how to use spaces created for numerous disciplines and departments to effectively teach both students and the larger community, benefiting both groups.
3. Identify strategies for designing forward-thinking facilities for academics, research, and community engagement that accommodate experiential learning and innovation based on a systematic, user-driven approach.
4. Predict future space needs based on other academic institutions’ successes and prepare your institution for future innovation.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU/HSW 1.0 unit (SCUPS19C14)
AICP CM 1.0 unit

Transforming Student Services: Engaging Students a la Apple

10:00 AM-11:00 AM | Conference Room B

Presented by: Lily Berrios, Principal and President, Sizemore Group, LLC | W. Jeff Floyd, Consultant, Architect Of Counsel, DAG Architects & Fitzgerald Collaborative Group | Nathanial Slaton, Vice President of Student Success, Northwest Florida State College | Devin Stephenson, President, Northwest Florida State College

During onboarding, it is critical that we provide a level of service that assesses each student’s needs and customizes services to those needs. We will share new ideas to improve the student onboarding process and its impact on the organization, staffing, and use of existing (or new) student services space. Using Northwest Florida State College (NFSC) as a case study, you will learn about current trends in student needs and discuss how these trends drove change in NFSC’s workflows, staff, space, furniture, and technology.

Learning Outcomes

1. Review the traditional student services model—and the spaces that support that model—and compare it against trends in student behavior.
2. Anticipate issues commonly uncovered when assessing a student services program, including the need to cross-train staff and break down silos.
3. Anticipate issues common uncovered when assessing the technology and spaces that support a student services program, including the need for a variety of standing and seating arrangements and wayfinding.
4. Describe how to program a facility for student services so the layout helps break down silos and move students through the onboarding process.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU/HSW 1.0 unit (SCUPS19C27)
AICP CM 1.0 unit

Educating the Next Generation of Industry Leaders

11:15 AM-12:15 PM | Conference Room B

Presented by: Tobias Newham, Associate Principal, The Beck Group | Christa Slejko, Dallas County Community College District | Rusty Vaughn, Construction Education Foundation of North Texas

This session will illustrate how industry-academic partnerships have led to the creation of cutting-edge, career-focused education that reimagines vocational training through a new, didactic construction sciences facility. With a skilled labor shortage in the construction industry, this program hopes to close that gap while creating an attractive, career-focused educational alternative to the traditional four-year college education. Beginning in middle and high schools and continuing through the workplace, developing new partnerships along the education continuum helps to reimagine workforce education and facilities to inspire the next generation of construction industry leaders.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain how we developed an industry-led program that focuses on real-world career skills, enhancing the institution’s academic offerings and supporting students’ transition from higher education into the workplace.
2. Describe industry’s motivations and goals in this partnership, in particular, the gap between future workforce projections in the construction industry and the number of skilled workers ready to fill those positions.
3. Integrate didactic elements into the design process to create a successful teaching building that can reinforce classroom concepts and skills and enhance the overall student learning experience.
4. Discuss how to establish collaborative partnerships with K12 districts to identify and engage students who have the potential to thrive in an industry-focused education.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU 1.0 unit (SCUPS19C15)
AICP CM 1.0 unit

First-Year Success: Campus Housing Models that Help Students Succeed

11:15 AM-12:15 PM | Conference Room 4

Presented by: Michelle Kane, University of Delaware | Trina Mace Learned, Associate Vice President for Facilities Management and Campus Planning, Connecticut College | Jennifer Stone, Partner, Robert A.M. Stern Architects

Institutions have determined through surveys and research that building design and location significantly affect first-year student’s happiness and academic success. In response, they are implementing significant changes to on-campus housing. Understanding how different housing models influence first-year students allows institutions to provide students with a strong social foundation that can significantly affect recruitment and retention. We will share examples of rapidly changing student expectations and prepare you to assess your student housing offerings and evaluate their relationships to student success.

Learning Outcomes

1. Survey your incoming first-year students to gain knowledge about positive and negative characteristics of your existing first-year student housing options.
2. Identify actions to help your institution adapt your housing options and design to changing first-year student needs.
3. Summarize an outcome-based housing programming model and describe how the location and building type in this model affects the student experience.
4. Describe how to change the first-year housing model from single-occupancy rooms to new designs that enhance the first-year socialization and campus integration experience.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU/HSW 1.0 unit (SCUPS19C17)
AICP CM 1.0 unit

From Stymied to STEM Lab: Purdue University’s Master Plan Success

11:15 AM-12:15 PM | Conference Room A

Presented by: Michael Gulich, Director, Campus Master Planning and Sustainability, Purdue University-Main Campus | Christine Hrycyna, Purdue University-Main Campus | Alex O’Briant, Associate Principal, Ennead Architects, LLP

With crowded research facilities, limited resources, and a strong need for innovative interdisciplinary teaching space, many institutions feel stuck. Purdue University College of Science’s went from stymied to STEM lab in just four years through data-focused master planning and an accelerated design process. We will share lessons learned from Purdue University’s college master plan and STEM building that you can use to clarify thinking, focus need, build a case for a new project, and set the stage for future growth.

Learning Outcomes

1. Structure a data-driven college or precinct master planning process for maximum effectiveness.
2. Explain how a cluster-based approach to master planning can maximize flexibility.
3. Outline a process for building momentum among key constituencies to accelerate master plan component execution and elevate awareness of the value of new interdisciplinary facilities.
4. Using a college master plan as a guide, collaborate across departments to program and plan an interdisciplinary teaching lab environment.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU 1.0 unit (SCUPS19C37)
AICP CM 1.0 unit

12:15 PM-1:15 PM | Grand Ballroom