Facilities Planning for Community Colleges: Practicing Equity for Educational Inclusion & Belonging

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The planning team for Portland Community College will discuss lessons learned while practicing equity to create an inclusive Facilities Plan for Oregon’s largest higher education institution on thresholds of global, local, and institutional shifts. Portland Community College, a multi-campus institution constantly navigating academic, workforce, and social change, offers critical and timely lessons for effective and inclusive integrated planning. Attendees will be encouraged to consider relationships between educational equity, campus planning, and institution-wide shifts. They will feel empowered to balance uncertainty, flexibility, and specificity in planning equitable futures.

Learning Outcomes

1. Use data to integrate facilities planning with institution-wide values, goals, and shifts.
2. Examine policies and practices in physical planning and design with a Critical Race Spatial Lens.
3. Elevate BIPOC student voices into long-term guidance for facilities that will support a diverse student body within an emerging future of hybrid education.
4. Develop campus plans that translate complex community college priorities into flexible and equitable adaptations of space.

Presenters

Amara H. Pérez

Critical Race Spatial Educator, Researcher, and Strategist

Brodie Bain

PrincipalNAC|Architecture

Saumya Kini

Associate, Urban DesignerWalker Macy

Rebecca Ocken

Interim Director of Planning and Capital ConstructionPortland Community College

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*Cancelations must be made in writing and may be submitted by email to your registration team registration@scup.org by 1/30/2023. Refunds are subject to a processing fee – 10% of the total purchase. No-shows are not eligible for a refund, and funds committed by purchase order must be paid in full by the first day of the event. Refunds will be issued within 30 days of received written notification.