North Atlantic Regional Conference

Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer, Omni New Haven at Yale

Location: Omni New Haven at Yale

Location: OC Marsh Lecture Hall, Yale University

Presented by: Kari Nordstrom, Director of Project Architecture and Design, Yale University | George Zdru, Former Director of University Planning, Yale University | Dev Hawley, Director for University Planning and Facilities Operations, Yale University

At the outset of the 1990s Yale University conducted a university-wide analysis of the existing campus, its programs, past plans, immediate need to address deferred maintenance, and future aspirations. The analysis identified several planning precincts with distinct characteristics and prioritized their needs. In lieu of a static “master” plan, Yale formulated a flexible framework for campus planning to guide the phased renovations and replacements as well as identify potential areas for future development. This framework also set guidelines for extending Yale’s iconic context and enhancing interconnectivity between both the localized area plans and the surrounding urban fabric. Come learn from five former and current Yale University planners and directors about how they have realized this plan over the past thirty years.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain how to initiate flexible long-term planning by prioritizing, phasing, and developing means and methods for implementation with minimized disruption.
2. Balance preserving, evoking, and modifying your institution’s brand with accommodating evolving pedagogical and research needs.
3. Manage growth via densification, space efficiencies, and relocation within and outside your campus.
4. Identify and reinforce interconnections between the central and surrounding campus by optimizing shared aspirations and striving for mixed-use adjacencies.

Important Travel Information: There will be shuttle buses for attendees to OC Marsh Lecture Hall at Yale University. The first bus will leave at 5:10 pm from The Omni Hotel at Yale. If you would like to seek your own transportation options, the lecture hall is about one mile away from the conference hotel.

Location: OC Marsh Lecture Hall Pavilion, Yale University

Please join your colleagues at Yale University for the opening evening of the SCUP North Atlantic Regional Conference. Our welcome reception will feature hors d’oeuvres and a hosted beer & wine bar.

Important Travel Information: There will be shuttle buses for attendees to OC Marsh Lecture Hall at Yale University. The first bus will leave at 5:10pm from The Omni Hotel at Yale. If you would like to seek your own transportation options, the lecture hall is about one mile away from the conference hotel.

Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer, Omni New Haven at Yale

Location: Grand Ballroom, Omni New Haven at Yale

Location: Grand Ballroom, Omni New Haven at Yale

Presented by: Joe Bertolino, President, Southern Connecticut State University | Scott Strobel, Provost, Yale University | Scott Jordan, Executive Vice President for Administration and Chief Financial Officer, University of Connecticut | Dan May, Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of New Haven | Dev Hawley, Director for Facilities Operations and University Planning, Yale University

Connecticut boasts a diverse group of private and public colleges and universities, each with a distinct identity, history, culture, and constituency. A roundtable of university leaders will share how they have adapted to the many internal and external forces of change and guided their institutions towards continued excellence. In order to meet upcoming challenges and opportunities, these leaders are investing in the improvement of student life and services, the growth of enrollment and retention through academic programming, and the expansion of the sciences and other targeted disciplines. Join us for a lively discussion about how higher education is surviving and thriving on both a local and national scale.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain how an institution’s unique history and culture influences and shapes strategic planning strategies to address institutional excellence.
2. Describe the current academic environment and identify the issues that will force change in higher education institutions.
3. Identify the big bets, emerging efforts, and future initiatives that will transform your institution.
4. Consider how key issues such as demographics, the political environment, and growth or retrenchment can affect campus planning and institutional success.

Sponsored by: Svigals + Partners

Hampshire College: Reinvention for a Sustainable Future

10:45-11:45 AM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Chapel

Presented by: Sara Draper, R.W. Kern Center Director of Educational Program and Outreach, Hampshire College | Christina Cianfrani, Associate Professor of Hydrology, Hampshire College | Edward Wingenbach, President, Hampshire College

Many institutions struggle to promote liberal arts education in today’s changing world. Hampshire College provides a model for how resource-limited campuses can leverage their sustainability assets to support curricular and community transformation. Hampshire is reinventing itself for a sustainable future, using its environmental assets (a campus farm and living building) to support a new transdisciplinary curriculum and student experience. This session will help you leverage environmental assets in applied transdisciplinary learning to prepare students for a sustainable future.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify campus environmental assets that lend themselves for use in transdisciplinary learning and community building.
2. Describe how environmental assets can support sustainable curricular and student experience transformation.
3. Outline strategies to engage students, faculty, and staff in institutional transformation.
4. Advocate for sustainable infrastructure as a teaching tool and community-building asset.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C418)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Leveraging Data to Define Opportunities for Dining and Social Spaces

10:45-11:45 AM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Wooster

Presented by: Rachel Lanzafame, Associate, Senior Architect, Bergmeyer | Mark Garner, Associate Director of Dining Services, Mount Holyoke College

The places where students gather and share a meal underpin the student’s experience, for better or for worse. By studying and understanding the role these buildings play, institutions can make informed decisions about capital investments that will strengthen the campus community for the future. We will share the process behind Mount Holyoke College’s new dining hall and student center, which identified opportunities for investment and quantified success by looking at a cross-section of data such as current and prospective student surveys, operating costs, energy use, and facility utilization.

Learning Outcomes

1. Review student enrollment and satisfaction data to determine how your current dining and student social spaces affect enrollment and retention.
2. Identify the current challenges in your dining operations, including food waste reduction and local food sourcing, and outline how design can mitigate these challenges.
3. Identify meaningful benchmarks for dining and student social spaces, including operating costs and energy use.
4. Describe strategies to measure facility utilization, participation rate, and how the building impacts campus culture.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW Unit (SCUPN20C443)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

One Yale: A Unified Campus for The Next Century

10:45-11:45 AM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Temple

Presented by: Graham Wyatt, Partner, Robert A.M. Stern Architects | Kari Nordstrom, Director of Project Architecture and Design, Yale University | James Elmasry, Planner, Yale University

As universities grow, the way they foster community needs to adjust. Yale University has responded to campus physical expansion and population growth in ways that can be a model for others. Yale has unified its community with strategic development along its two-mile-long urban campus, strengthening diversity and inclusion while the historically dispersed communities of the residential colleges continue to flourish. We will share methods for managing physical development while adapting and evolving the campus culture.

Learning Outcomes

1. Plan strategically for campus growth and physical change.
2. Respond to an evolving campus culture through physical planning.
3. Adapt campus facilities to changing student needs.
4. Apply campus planning initiatives that establish beneficial connections to surrounding urban communities, enhancing and integrating campus edges.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C405)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Online vs. On-campus: Designing Learning Spaces That Foster Social Interaction

10:45-11:45 AM | Omni New Haven at Yale, College

Presented by: Peter Bachmann, Principal: Institutional Markets Leader, JCJ Architecture | Trina Mace Learned, Associate Vice President for Facilities Management and Campus Planning, Connecticut College | Annie Newman, Director of Planning, Design & Construction, Rhode Island School of Design | Don Pruett, Interim Director of Facilities Management, Prince George’s Community College

While online learning has many benefits, necessary social and collaboration skills cannot be learned from screens. In-person learning is necessary to successfully develop community, foster collaboration, and give students an opportunity to practice these skills. This session will explore successful learning spaces that promote socialization and real-world education. We will look at examples from multiple types of institutions to examine how design can encourage social interaction, community building, and hands-on learning.

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss how design can support and encourage the development of social and collaborative skills.
2. Analyze learning spaces that seamlessly promote social interaction and collaboration.
3. Explore and identify opportunities throughout campus to use design to foster stronger community and communication amongst students and faculty.
4. Determine the balance between the benefits of an online-learning program and in-person education necessary for students to develop social and collaborative skills.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C362)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Location: Grand Ballroom, Omni New Haven at Yale

Sponsorship Available

Designing for Climate Action

1:15-2:15 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Chapel

Presented by: Irina Verona, Partner, Verona Carpenter Architects PLLC | Sandra Goldmark, Director of Campus Sustainability and Climate Action, Barnard College | Kadambari Baxi, Professor of Professional Practice in Architecture, Barnard College

The global challenge of climate change demands new paradigms of leadership that prioritize interdisciplinary solutions and the voices of marginalized communities. Universities are uniquely situated to lead the way. We will explore ways that a design thinking process can build a visible culture of sustainability at the hyper-local campus scale and drive climate action across academics, governance, and operations. Aligning climate action with existing priorities creates synergies, especially where stakeholders may already be stretched thin. Learn how a design thinking approach facilitates this type of cross-disciplinary work.

Learning Outcomes

1. Map out ways to restructure curriculum, programming, or the physical campus in order to create and encourage a culture of climate action.
2. Identify and learn how to engage core participants (students, faculty, university leadership, operations) in aligning initiatives on wellness, diversity and inclusion, and environmental responsibility as part of strategic planning or infrastructure decisions.
3. Characterize the difference between scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.
4. Create a strategy for reducing scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions on campus through hyper local campaigns and on-campus activism.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C430)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Inside Out/Outside In: Integrative Re-planning for 1960s Campus Buildings

1:15-2:15 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, College

Presented by: Sylvia Smith, Senior Partner, FXCollaborative | Ibi Yolas, Vice President of Facilities and Capital Projects, Pace University | Michael Kopas, Senior Director of Facilities and Capital Planning, SUNY Purchase College

Monumental, opaque structures built on campuses in the 1950s through the 1980s can be re-planned to be more welcoming, more open, and more legible, supporting an ethos of connectedness and collaboration. This session will showcase successful planning strategies to re-activate three 1960s Brutalist campuses—two urban and one suburban—across diverse user groups. You will learn that the character of your 1960s campus buildings can be both respected and transformed to connect users to each other and their urban or suburban settings.

Learning Outcomes

1. Discover the potential value of existing campus buildings that are now out of fashion and difficult to navigate.
2. Assess how effectively older physical environments can support future pedagogical goals.
3. Identify opportunities for building preservation and intervention that benefit gown and town.
4. Lead workshops among diverse user groups towards a new ethos for integrative environmental planning models.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C350)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Transforming Vacated Office Space Into Modern Learning Environments

1:15-2:15 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Temple

Presented by: Jim Barquinero, Senior Vice President – Enrollment, Student Affairs and Athletics, Sacred Heart University | Kevin Herrick, Principal, The S/L/A/M Collaborative

As industry vacates suburbia, universities can leverage vacated office and work buildings into usable, revenue-generating educational facilities. We will discuss how Sacred Heart University acquired the GE world headquarters facility, transforming it to create a modern, nationally branded campus. You will learn what to look for in capital investments, and the opportunities and challenges of converting office space to learning and social environments that will recruit and retain students.

Learning Outcomes

1. Outline the process of assessing an acquisition’s value, including hidden opportunities.
2. Identify the challenges of converting office space into contemporary learning environments.
3. Examine one institution’s approach to creating a welcoming campus.
4. Summarize the planning process to renovate workspace into learning environments that support artificial intelligence, cyber security programs, maker spaces, augmented reality, case study rooms, co-working, student life, and athletic space.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C450)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Two Community Colleges With Differing but Similar Survival Paths

1:15-2:15 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Wooster

Presented by: Robert Hicks, Senior Project Manager, Stantec | James Mabry, President, Middlesex Community College | Anthony Benoit, President, Benjamin Franklin Institute

In this period of declining enrollment, decreasing resources, increasing competition, changing demands, and changing technologies, colleges must be both entrepreneurial and careful in their strategic planning. This session will explore how two community colleges are making both similar and different strategic choices in order to thrive during a very uncertain period in higher education. We will explore how planning processes have produced divergent strategies for navigating the very uncertain waters facing all of higher education, particularly in this region.

Learning Outcomes

1. Describe different frameworks for evaluating the current state of the education markets and identifying challenges specific to your institution.
2. Explain how evidence-based decision making can be used in strategic planning processes.
3. Evaluate two different approaches to strategically addressing current challenges in higher education.
4. Describe how internal and external stakeholder influence the strategic planning process.

Continuing Education Credits

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Location: Omni New Haven at Yale

Classrooms of the Future in Buildings of the Past

2:30-3:30 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Temple

Presented by: Sam Clement, Associate, Jones Architecture, Inc. | Anne-Sophie Divenyi, Senior Capital Project Manager, Harvard University | Cara Noferi, Senior Planner, Harvard University | Annie Rota, Director of Academic Technology, Harvard University

Challenges with technologies, historical spaces, and resources make it hard to provide the learning spaces new pedagogies require. Harvard University has found a creative solution to these challenges. As the university re-evaluates undergraduate learning environments, a pilot classroom in historic Harvard Hall is the springboard for integrated planning and design processes. We’ll discuss our process (including how we used utilization data and stakeholder feedback during decision making), the classroom’s design, and how we’re using lessons learned to iterate the space.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify campus environmental assets that lend themselves for use in transdisciplinary learning and community building.
2. Describe how environmental assets can support sustainable curricular and student experience transformation.
3. Outline strategies to engage students, faculty, and staff in institutional transformation.
4. Advocate for sustainable infrastructure as a teaching tool and community-building asset.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C274)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Curriculum and Campus By Design: Innovating for 21st Century Learning

2:30-3:30 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Wooster

Presented by: Charles Bailyn, A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physics; Former Dean of the Faculty Yale-NUS, Yale University | Mariko Masuoka, Principal, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects | Laura Cruickshank, University Master Planner and Chief Architect, University of Connecticut

Yale-NUS College in Singapore developed a model of experiential learning to help students develop the the knowledge and skillset necessary to thrive in fast-paced, multicultural societies. To support this innovative educational experience that blends living and learning, a new campus was designed and built. We’ll discuss Yale-NUS’s unique educational model, the master planning and programming process for its new campus, and the campus’s design. We’ll also share lessons learned from designing the first residential and liberal arts college campus in Asia.

Learning Outcomes

1. Describe how the new Yale-NUS model of experiential learning supports a purpose-designed global common curriculum.
2. Develop a campus master plan with a clear, visionary mission while hiring faculty and designing a curriculum.
3. Implement an architecture that can support pedagogy and encourage a broader learning community.
4. Summarize lessons learned from designing the first residential and liberal arts college in Asia.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C348)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Energy Master Planning to Reduce Carbon Emissions

2:30-3:30 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Chapel

Presented by: Mike Walters, Principal, Director of Development, MEP Associates, LLC | Dano Weisbord, Executive Director of Sustainability and Campus Planning, Smith College

Environmental sustainability is more than a buzz word; it is a responsibility. Energy master planning is essential for campuses that wish to be leaders in sustainability and global citizenship. Smith College’s plan features unique elements focused on electrification of the campus thermal infrastructure. This session will provide you with tools to engage in meaningful campus discussion about implementing a transition away from fossil fuels for heating and cooling and achieving net zero carbon emissions.

Learning Outcomes

1. Define ‘energy master planning’ and describe how it can help campuses reduce carbon emissions.
2. Outline an energy master planning process, including how different departments are involved in the decision-making process.
3. Describe actionable results from one college’s energy master plan.
4. Explain how to implement an energy master plan.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20273)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

The Evolving Academic Workplace: Establishing a New Paradigm for Planning

2:30-3:30 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, College

Presented by: Mark Thaler, Senior Associate, Gensler | Marc Bruffett, Principal/Strategy Director, Gensler | Eugene Villalobos, Executive Director of Facilities Planning and Capital Project Management, Columbia University

The increasing cost and scarcity of real estate are causing universities to think strategically about workplace needs. Adapting new trends in workplace design can position institutions to future-proof space and meet stakeholder expectations. These trends include the use of evidence-based tools that collect data on work modes in order to tailor space that enables maximum productivity and effectiveness. Learn current methodologies for effective, function-based workplace planning that eliminate redundancies, break down silos, allow dynamic modes of working, and increase collaboration.

Learning Outcomes

1. Assess opportunities to incorporate better workplace planning into projects and evaluate how this might impact your real estate portfolio.
2. Identify ideal programs and departments to implement changing workplace strategies.
3. Develop planning and design strategies for a dynamic workplace.
4. Describe survey tools that uncover specific work modes and their relative importance to job function.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C487)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Leading with Culture and Community to Transform a University Building

3:45-4:45 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, College

Presented by: Laura Pirie, Principal, Pirie Associates | Kristina Chmelar, Major Projects Planner, Yale University | Sara Lulo, Assistant Dean, Yale Law School

How can a university building, intended for short-term use, be re-purposed to support over-all university planning, embody the culture of a new user, and enhance that user group’s pedagogy? Reusing campus structures can be highly effective, but limitations and pre-conceptions can be challenging. We will share the planning behind the transformation of Yale Law School’s Baker Hall and demonstrate how deeply engaging the new occupant’s culture can powerfully guide building transformation.

Learning Outcomes

1. Assess the effect of providing graduate school housing for one professional graduate school on the overall graduate student housing population.
2. Facilitate programming sessions from the point of view of “how can the culture and pedagogy of the users be infused in their built environment”.
3. Engage user groups to overcome preconceptions of existing conditions and/or structures to be adapted so you can create right-fit, culture-driven solutions.
4. Look to university-wide resources, such as stored art collections, to enhance the capacity of the built environment to tell the story of the unit’s culture and mission, bringing together otherwise discrete aspects of the university.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C248)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning for Crisis: Contraction, Collaboration, or Closure

3:45-4:45 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Temple

Presented by: Margaret Plympton, Partner, Odgers Berndtson | Hannah Stewart-Gambino, Professor, Lafayette College

The anticipated higher ed ‘crisis’ is here. Some institutions’ future options all seem bad, leaving key stakeholders hurt and angry. Leaders need an integrated planning framework and tools for making and managing choices. This session offers integrated planning perspectives and tools for managing difficult choices: mergers, right-sizings, new collaborations, or closures. We will offer a high-level diagnostic checklist for when to trigger the need to make hard choices, a framework of potential strategies, and an integrated planning perspective, including stakeholder management and communication.

Learning Outcomes

1. Diagnose challenges to your institution’s future viability.
2. Use integrated planning tools to identify institutional options.
3. Convene stakeholders around a set of institutional choices.
4. Articulate the value of making and implementing institutional choices.

Continuing Education Credits

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Roadmap to a Capital Renewal Program

3:45-4:45 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Wooster

Presented by: Taylan Ekici, Associate Director, Capital Renewal Planning, Tufts University | Margaret Moylan, Planner Project Manager, Tufts University

Most universities don’t have enough funds to address all capital renewal needs. Understanding the condition of physical infrastructure and benchmarking against the institutional mission optimizes limited funds allocated for deferred maintenance. We will share how Tufts University manages its capital renewal program using a ranking strategy that considers building condition, utilization, modernization needs, and academic priority. We will cover how to collect and process data to establish a 10-year capital renewal plan, considering initiatives like sustainability and carbon neutrality.

Learning Outcomes

1. Leverage the facility condition assessment process and metrics to measure the health of campus facilities.
2. Explain why ranking your institution’s buildings is necessary for capital renewal planning and how to develop a ranking strategy.
3. Develop strategies to use deferred maintenance funds where they will do the most impact.
4. Explain the importance of a long-term strategy to maintain the condition of your physical infrastructure.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C490)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

The Innovation Campus: Northeastern University Bridging the Gap to Industry

3:45-4:45 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Chapel

Presented by: Dan Ollila, Associate, Jones Architecture, Inc. | Peter Boynton, CEO, KRI at Northeastern University | Jim Brand, Director, Space-Capital Planning, Northeastern University

Northeastern University’s Innovation Campus at Burlington, Massachusetts (ICBM) leverages university intellectual capital. By partnering faculty and students with the private sector, the university can offer established companies and graduate startups opportunities while securing valuable returns. We will share how Northeastern developed ICBM’s campus using alternative financing strategies, private partnerships, creatively re-purposed existing facilities. The result? A satellite campus that supports a range of research needs, moving at the speed of business.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explore potential partnering opportunities with industry to collaborate on research initiatives, prepare students for the workplace, and share revenue streams.
2. Discuss the pitfalls and opportunities of a core and shell approach to lay the groundwork for future lab and research build-outs.
3. Rethink off-campus buildings and infrastructure otherwise thought to be obsolete or destined for demolition and consider opportunities or uses that can bring unique value to the university.
4. Review satellite campuses as a shared space between the university and private industry and discuss how procurement, design process, and construction differ between these worlds.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C326)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer, Omni New Haven at Yale

Sponsored by: Pelli Clark Pelli Architects

Location: Grand Ballroom Foyer, Omni New Haven at Yale

Location: Grand Ballroom, Omni New Haven at Yale

Sponsorship Available

Cathedral: Being Strategic About Value and Niche in Higher Ed

8:30-9:30 AM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Wooster

Presented by: Nancy Dallavalle, Special Assistant to the Provost, Fairfield University

In a time when public perception of higher ed’s value is growing more negative, the ‘cathedral model’ offers a strategic, integrated approach to amplifying an institution’s niche value, cultivating a presence and a narrative that resonates beyond campus borders. This session will present the cathedral model as a tool to analyze how our institutions can support lifelong learning, the academic portfolio, and vibrant community outreach. You will gain a fresh perspective on the strategic use of your brand, mission, and physical campus.

Learning Outcomes

1. Develop a landscape-and-narrative niche mindset as a resource for strategic planning.
2. Deploy the cathedral model as a framework for recruiting and retaining a variety of undergraduate and graduate students as lifelong learners.
3. Use the cathedral model as both blueprint and foil for academic portfolio planning for hybrid and online program decision making and marketing.
4. Effectively address and engage communities adjacent to the institution — parents, families, community partners, etc.

Continuing Education Credits

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Inclusive and Pivotal: University Buildings Designed to Serve the Community

8:30-9:30 AM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Temple

Presented by: Catherine Selby, Principal, Dattner Architects | Denise Ferris, Associate Vice President, Design Management, Columbia University

The Forum at Columbia University’s new Manhattanville Campus serves as a community anchor and gateway, integrating the university and community within an urban context. This session will address the challenges of developing, programming, and designing a pivotal campus building to serve both the university and the community-at-large, without a specific user group (university department), audience, or donor identified. You will learn effective strategies for the design and delivery process to address the challenges of building a flexible, community-integrated, multi-purpose venue.

Learning Outcomes

1. Define a vision for a barrier-less academic campus and effective programming strategies to foster inclusive, cross-disciplinary collaboration.
2. Identify effective stakeholder and community engagement strategies for flexible building programs.
3. Facilitate team building strategies to help manage relationships among complex project delivery teams.
4. Design learning environments that seamlessly integrate into the community fabric.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C462)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Transform Educational Facilities for Innovative Learning and Environmental Stewardship

8:30-9:30 AM | Omni New Haven at Yale, College

Presented by: Jason Forney, Principal, Bruner/Cott Architects | Michael Nieminen, Partner, Kliment Halsband Architects | Thomas Huf, Senior Program Manager, Facilities Programming and Planning, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Campus planners are tasked with creating 21st century learning environments, moving towards carbon neutrality, and repairing buildings that are near the end of their useful lives. Transformative reuse addresses these issues. With creative design and programming, under-utilized campus buildings from all eras can be transformed into sustainable, thriving, innovative learning environments that align with current and future needs. We’ll share recent examples of existing buildings that were transformed for new use and discuss the connection between carbon and building reuse.

Learning Outcomes

1. Analyze the challenges and opportunities associated with transforming an existing campus building from any era into a contemporary, innovative learning environment.
2. Identify opportunities for innovative and unique program spaces that are hidden in the fabric of existing buildings.
3. Illustrate the programmatic opportunities present in the size, shape, and volume of a variety of existing building types.
4. Quantify the connection between building reuse and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, embodied carbon, and operational carbon.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C272)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Building the Brand: Creating Identity and Shaping Experience

9:45-10:45 AM | Omni New Haven at Yale, College

Presented by: Liz Bender, Assistant Director, Capital Planning & Design, Quinnipiac University | Michael Tyre, Principal, Amenta/Emma Architects

An institution’s brand is a key factor in attracting students and campus planners play an increasingly important role in integrating brand values with the built environment. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how Quinnipiac University communicated its updated brand identity through physical campus renovations. Come learn how you can incorporate your institution’s brand mission in the planning and design of academic spaces on campus.

Learning Outcomes

1. Define what an institutional brand is and identify the common planning and design elements that communicate the brand mission.
2. Describe the relationship between an institution’s brand and the design of the built environment.
3. Develop strategies for integrating institutional marketing and communications staff in the design process.
4. Describe how user experiences in campus spaces can reinforce an institution’s brand mission.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C262A)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Campus Public Art: An Investment in Town/Gown Goodwill

9:45-10:45 AM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Wooster

Presented by: Trina Mace Learned, Associate Vice President for Facilities Management and Campus Planning, Connecticut College | Katharine J. Wright, Researcher and Curator, Independent

Public art, often mistaken as elitist, can, in fact, embody shared moral commitments to inclusivity, diversity, history, and expression. In academia, public art pressures us to define our campus’s moral commitments, both to ourselves and to our communities. In this era of STEM logic, can public art heal the town/gown divide? Join us for this primer on campus public art. We’ll discuss funding, decision making, how public art is an investment, and what can go right (along with what can go wrong).

Learning Outcomes

1. Define ‘campus public art’ and describe how public art can improve social and personal wellbeing for campus and community.
2. Manage public art as an asset and describe funding sources, governance and decision-making procedures, and maintenance resources required.
3. Describe different types of public art, including statues, sculptures, murals, and art in landscapes.
4. Describe the positive impact public art can have on a campus and community, and discuss how to mitigate possible negative impacts of public art through planning and community discussion.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C453)

AICP 1.0 Unit

Institutional Strategies in Project Delivery: Brown University Strategic Sourcing Program

9:45-10:45 AM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Temple

Presented by: Ron Simoneau, Vice President, Shawmut Design and Construction | Joubin Hassanein, Director of IPD & Lean Practice, Shawmut Design and Construction | Michael Guglielmo, Vice President for Facilities Management, Brown University

Brown University’s Strategic Sourcing program, a strategic partnership that streamlines planning, design, and construction for the university, delivers higher quality project outcomes with long-term financial savings. We’ll discuss this highly collaborative partnership model that brings together Brown stakeholders with designers, engineers, and subcontractors to develop optimal project solutions. We’ll also cover the spectrum of project delivery models used for recent projects.

Learning Outcomes

1. Describe the value that strategies such as strategic sourcing programs, co-location, target value design, and Lean project delivery can deliver to your institution.
2. Evaluate integrated project delivery (IPD) and other collaborative approaches as options for your institutions.
3. Describe lessons learned from large, complex IPD and design/build projects involving multiple stakeholders under the strategic sourcing program.
4. Outline how to structure and implement a strategic sourcing program.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C390)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Canaries in the Demographic Coal Mine: The Impending Enrollment Crash

11:00-12:00 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Wooster

Presented by: Persis Rickes, President and Principal, Rickes Associates, Inc

Higher education enrollments have trended downwards for each of the last eight years and are poised to enter a decade-long freefall. This demographic decline will force institutions to confront a new structural reality, including an unprecedented wave of downsizing, mergers, and even closures, but only a handful of institutions have begun to respond proactively. A deeper understanding of the enrollment crash is essential. We’ll discuss the demographic decline, institutions already affected, and proactive strategies for addressing it (already undertaken by some).

Learning Outcomes

1. Convey the magnitude and urgency of the enrollment decline, including how it will impact various institutional sectors and geographic regions—especially New England.
2. Strategize potential institutional responses to the demographic downturn that may help mitigate the impending blow, e.g., proactive downsizing, tuition discounting, improving graduation rates, etc.
3. Contextualize the reasons for the enrollment decline, including but not limited to: post-recession birth decline, international student policies, the value proposition, ingrained attitudes, and competition.
4. Identify the potential warning signs and precursors to an impending institutional enrollment decline so as to better anticipate and proactively respond to it.

Continuing Education Credits

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Rubik’s Cube: Phased New and Renovated Construction for the Sciences

11:00-12:00 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, College

Presented by: Mariko Masuoka, Principal, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects | Kari Nordstrom, Director of Project Architecture and Design, Yale University | Michael Reagan, Vice President, Stantec | Ryan Broadbin, Sr. Project Manager, Dimeo Construction Company

A combination of new construction and renovation can optimize space while remedying previous planning problems. Yale University’s new Yale Science Building and its associated renovation projects illustrate how a new facility can integrate under-utilized space, meeting program needs and connecting existing science buildings. We’ll share the planning methodologies and design processes used in a project this complex, along with technical challenges unique to building and renovating science facilities.

Learning Outcomes

1. Describe how the Yale Science Building planning and construction process was balanced with the project’s budget.
2. List the pros and cons of reutilizing existing space over all-new construction.
3. Identify opportunities in which old planning problems can be remedied with a combination of new construction and renovation interventions.
4. Implement long-term construction phasing plans early in the design process.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C357)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Site Universal Design for an Inclusive Built Environment

11:00-12:00 PM | Omni New Haven at Yale, Temple

Presented by: Charles Samiotes, Director of Marketing, Samiotes Consultants, Inc. | Valerie Fletcher, Executive Director, Institue for Human Centered Design | Catherine Offenberg, Principal, CRJA-IBI Group

The university community is more diverse in age and ability than ever. We need to design built environments that acknowledge and celebrate that reality. Universal design goes well beyond barrier removal, making it an ideal framework for nurturing social and economic benefits through an inclusive built environment. We will describe the tenets of universal design, show examples of how it is used on campuses, help you avoid mistakes commonly made when incorporating universal design, and outline universal design maintenance requirements.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify and apply the new American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) principles of universal design.
2. Explain and show the difference and relationship between accessible design and universal design.
3. Evaluate a standard Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) design and demonstrate what changes through universal design.
4. Describe the best universal design practices and precedents and identify some common misconceptions that can lead to mistakes.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPN20C397)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Location: Grand Ballroom, Omni New Haven at Yale

Sponsorship Available

Location: Grand Ballroom, Omni New Haven at Yale

Moderated by: Rena Cheskis-Gold, Principal and Founder, Demographic Perspectives

Presented by: Leslie S. Meyerhoff, Director Priority Implementation and Assessment, Student & Campus Life, Cornell University | John F. McKnight, Jr., Dean of Institutional Equity and Inclusion, Connecticut College | Michelle Maheu, Director of Planning, Design, and Construction, Wellesley College | Carolina Cudemus, Director of Design and Construction Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Students arriving at college today are different from past generations. Ensuring that students have spaces that reflect their identities enhances their sense of community and achievement of academic and social goals. We will discuss a variety of factors that form student identities, including income diversity, first generation status, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, race, ethnicity, disability status, religion, political values and beliefs, and marital and family status. Our panelists, who represent a range of institutions, will share programmatic and design solutions to support student identities as well as successes, challenges, and top priorities for future diversity planning.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the unique planning challenges associated with contemporary student identities.
2. Compare how a range of higher education institutions are responding to similar campus planning issues.
3. Use lessons learned from peers as a catalyst for campus discussion around student identities.
4. Develop strategies and options for improving students’ sense of campus community by designing spaces and programs that accommodate diverse student identities.

Sponsorship Available