Mid-Atlantic 2022 Regional Conference

11:00 AM – 4:30 PM | Atrium | The Omni Hotel

3:45 PM – 4:45 PM | Atrium | The Omni Hotel

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Using the Past to Define the Future

5:15 PM – 6:30 PM | Old Cabell Hall Auditorium| UVA

Presented by: Jody Kielbasa, Vice Provost for the Arts and Director of the Virginia Film Festival, University of Virginia

In the fall of 2017, Jody oversaw the Bicentennial Launch Celebration, a multi-disciplinary presentation featuring more than 800 performers made up of University of Virginia (UVA) Arts faculty and student ensembles performing with internationally renowned artists, including Tony Award winner Leslie Odom, Jr., the Martha Graham Dance Company, Andra Day, and the Goo-Goo Dolls. The show, presented in front of UVA’s iconic Rotunda before a live audience of over 19,000 people and streamed to over 70,000 alumni, combined live performance with state-of-the-art projection mapping on the Rotunda to tell the story of the UVA from its founding to the current day to a look to the future. You’ll learn how UVA used its robust arts programs, which are at the heart of the student experience, community outreach, and lifelong alumni involvement, to drive engagement in capital campaigning and strategic planning.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Trace the planning of an extraordinary, arts-powered UVA event and enjoy the event as it happened.
2. Recognize the arts as a central part of an institution’s strategic planning for community relations, the student experience, and alumni engagement.
3. Discuss how UVA’s robust strategy for the arts boosted the energy of a capital campaign.
4. Explore emerging initiatives for an “Arts Nexus” that integrates the work of visiting artists, student performers, and academic creativity.

Bus transportation will be provided from the Omni Charlottesville to the UVA campus.

6:45 PM – 7:45 PM | The Rotunda | UVA

Bus transportation will be provided from the Omni Charlottesville to the UVA campus.

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7:30 AM – 4:30 PM | Newcomb Hall Ballroom Foyer | UVA

Bus transportation will be provided from the Omni Charlottesville to the UVA campus.

8:00 AM – 8:40 AM | Newcomb Hall Ballroom | UVA

Thank you to our Sponsor!

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Using Memory as a Powerful Tool for Community Engagement

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Auditorium | Special Collections Library

Presented by: Howard Hebel, Associate Principal, Newman Architects, PC | Amy Daniels, Associate Principal, Newman Architects, PC | Hunter Rauscher, Associate Director of Housing and Operations, University of Mary Washington | Christine Rae Henry, Associate Professor, University of Mary Washington

Incorporating memory into your planning process can create significant new opportunities for greater alumni and campus community engagement in the renovation of historic campus buildings. We’ll demonstrate how memory served as a powerful engagement tool in the process of renovating the historic Willard and Virginia Halls at the University of Mary Washington. This session will equip you to engage wider audiences within your campus community to inform and influence your renovation project processes and outcomes.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to inform an outreach, planning, and design process through knowledge of campus history to fit the character of your own campus.
2. Create an engagement survey that will help you to identify key aspects of university and building character through alumni memories.
3. Explain how historical research can help you to capture content that you can incorporate into a campus building renovation.
4. Use historical information to effectively guide the planning and design of your historical building renovation.

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Cultivating Educational Transformation through Strategic Planning and Wellbeing

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | South Meeting Room | Newcomb Hall

Presented by: Paul Lund, Principal, Hord Coplan Macht, Inc. | Jennifer Dotzenrod, Associate Dean for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

This session will explore how the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing aligned its facilities to the institution’s strategic plan, updating degree offerings and expanding the main building to match evolving pedagogy and enhance wellbeing. The project prioritized programming and design aspects integral to supporting successful and healthy educational environments, including the creation of a community hub, new learning and research spaces, an improved model for faculty offices, technology integration, and a focus on wellbeing. Come discover how your institution can update its facilities and academic offerings to promote wellbeing, best learning practices and meet a rapidly-evolving economy and workplace.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Prioritize the alignment of new learning spaces with strategic planning and pedagogical changes at your institution.
2. Discuss how to incorporate biophilia and connectedness in your institution’s educational environments to enhance wellbeing and cognition.
3. Strategize for creating buy-in around a new model of faculty offices that promote a more collaborative, healthy, and efficient work environment.
4. Identify features of a flexible suite for researchers that incorporates biophilia and wellness.

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Updating a Landmark Music Building for More Inclusive Programming

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Theatre | Newcomb Hall

Presented by: Susan Smythe, Senior Project Manager, Facilities and Capital Planning, ADA Coordinator, Swarthmore College | Colin Worrich, Senior Consultant, Acentech | Jonathan Kochavi, Associate Professor of Music, Department of Music and Dance, Swarthmore College | Jamie Wyper, Partner, Jacobs/Wyper Architects

Renovation changes a building’s context, so how do we integrate today’s values and standards with beloved fixed assets? This session will detail the renovation of an iconic 1970s music building to foster inclusivity and embrace diverse programming—from a Balinese gamelan orchestra to a Chinese music ensemble—using considered design techniques and advanced acoustical engineering. You’ll learn about the real-world spatial implications of incorporating diverse, inclusive programs within buildings from earlier eras, which require campus investment and collaboration with design professionals.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the spatial implications of renovating older buildings to incorporate more diverse and inclusive programming.
2. Discuss how space usage and design in older buildings can become accessible to and reflect the sensibilities of increasingly diverse campus communities.
3. Recognize campus landmarks not as untouchable assets, but as structures that we can make relevant in our current context through sensitive and respectful programmatic and design interventions.
4. Evaluate acoustical engineering as an important tool in achieving design goals and greater use intensity.

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The Power of Wayfinding: Differentiating Your Brand Within a University System

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Commonwealth Room| Newcomb Hall

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Presented by: Lindsay Story, Creative Director, Ayers Saint Gross

Place matters in a higher education landscape that is becoming increasingly more competitive. In this session, we’ll show how three institutions within the University System of Maryland prioritized, designed, and implemented a flexible and maintainable approach to signage and wayfinding, allowing each campus to make an impactful, branded first impression. Come learn how to translate years of ad hoc wayfinding into a consistent brand that provides a welcoming, inclusive, and connected campus for all.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess your institution’s brand by determining whether brand guidelines extend to the campus physical environment, where there are inconsistencies, and how your brand differentiates your institution from its peers.
2. Evaluate the existing conditions of your wayfinding system and pinpoint problems such as “sign clutter” and insufficient messaging.
3. Explore methods for engaging key campus stakeholders by soliciting their feedback regarding first impressions, accessibility, and messaging on your campus.
4. Identify immediate steps you can take on your campus to resolve branding inconsistencies and regulate temporary signage.

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Honoring History and Ensuring Future Viability at Rowan University’s Fossil Park

10:20 AM – 11:20 AM | Commonwealth Room | Newcomb Hall

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Presented by: Andrew Sniderman, Associate, KSS Architects | Marissa Sweig Trigger, Associate Principal, Ennead Architects | Kenneth Lacovara, Director, Edelman Fossil Park, Dean of School of Earth & Environment, Rowan University

This session will explore how Rowan University’s Edelman Fossil Park—a museum, research center, and nature park sited around a fossil quarry—uses the past to inform a better future as a world-class destination for scientific discovery. This net zero facility honors the deep history of existing land while ensuring future viability by incorporating site-specific, experience-driven design that preserves the past, reduces environmental impact, and advances institutional mission. Join our panel as they share strategies from Fossil Park aimed at maximizing the value of campus assets, advancing community engagement, promoting a healthier environment, and creating a pipeline of future students.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to position institutional assets to fight climate change, promote a healthier and safer environment, and fulfill sustainability goals while on budget and schedule.
2. Identify nontraditional asset types that can expand your campus footprint and increase institutional impact.
3. Support your institutional mission through the built environment by prioritizing placemaking, experiential design, environmental health and safety, and building performance.
4. Evaluate future-forward planning strategies that support health and wellbeing at every scale, from the local community and university level to the planet and entire global population.

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A New Facility for Alternative Learning: The CCP Career and Technology Center

10:20 AM – 11:20 AM | South Meeting Room | Newcomb Hall

Presented by: David Schrader, Managing Partner, Schradergroup Architecture, LLC | John Wiggins, Associate Vice President of Facilities and Construction, Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) | Sean Landry, Senior Associate, Lavallee Brensinger Architects

Trends emphasize a growing demand for technical training that will support societal and workforce needs. In this session, we’ll share how the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) aims to meet this demand with their new community-supported Career and Technology Center that provides training programs to fill lucrative, technical roles in the workforce. Come learn about this important niche opportunity within higher education and discover how your community can benefit from similar training programs and educational facilities.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify niche opportunities for important career and technical training that your institution could provide.
2. Discuss how career and technical programs support inner-city youth and as well as an understaffed segment of the workforce.
3. Explain the unique facility construction requirements for supporting technical training programs.
4. Assess what you need in order to initiate construction projects in an urban environment with positive support from the surrounding community.

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A New, Inclusive Process for Leading Institutional Transformation

10:20 AM – 11:20 AM | Auditorium | Special Collections Library

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Presented by: Tim Gilmour, Principal, Strategic Initiatives, Inc. | Tim Trainor, President, Mount St. Mary’s University

Higher education planners require a proven methodology for supporting their leaders as they seek to transform their institutions in the face of existential threats and challenges in the coming decade. This session will explore how Mount St. Mary’s University applied a new, highly-participative process for leading, navigating, and orchestrating institutional transformation. Come learn how this methodology provides institutional leaders with an approach for developing consensus on a promising, transformative vision for the future as well as executing major initiatives that assure its success.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Support your institution in launching a transformation campaign that aims to meet learner needs in the radically different world of 2030 and beyond.
2. Develop a compelling case and a bold vision for transformation at your institution.
3. Craft expeditionary strategies for achieving a transformative vision, which are executed by widely-participative faculty and staff coalitions.
4. Support transformative initiatives on your campus through focusing on execution, achieving “quick wins”, building the necessary organizational capacity, and transforming institutional culture.

Data-Driven Design for the Evolving Academic Workplace

10:20 AM – 11:20 AM | Theatre | Newcomb Hall

Presented by: Charles Rudalavage, Education Practice Area Leader, Gensler | Maria O’Callaghan-Cassidy, Senior Director, Operations, University of Pennsylvania | Christian Bushong, Architect, Senior Associate, Gensler

Interpreting diverse perspectives and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative information are key to making impactful and informed long-term decisions that drive successful student, institutional, and facility development. In order to meet mounting demand, the historical center for administration at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania needed to reflect the university’s forward-thinking ethos and offer flexible work settings to meet current and future occupant needs. We’ll explore how the Wharton School used a performance measurement tool to examine space effectiveness and leverage lessons learned to create a more agile, resilient, and equitable future.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate how a focus on the user experience of academic spaces can facilitate an increase in resource allocation, student and faculty recruitment and retention, grants, funding, academic performance, and partnerships.
2. Investigate opportunities for redesigning behavioral labs, academic workspaces, and classroom and conference spaces using data-driven insights.
3. Recognize the value of activity-based planning and increasing the volume and variety of spaces to provide choice in work environments.
4. Evaluate the time students and faculty spend in various types of work modes, the spaces they use, and the effectiveness of those spaces.

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Gateways to Entrepreneurship

11:40 AM – 12:40 PM | Theatre| Newcomb Hall

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Presented by: Sam Rajamanickam, Principal, Design Collective, Inc. | Jessica Pagan-Aello, Senior Associate, Design Collective, Inc. | Anthony Savia, Vice President for Administration & Finance, Bowie State University | Johnetta Boseman Hardy, Executive Director, Entrepreneurship Academy, Bowie State University

Cultivating next-generation entrepreneurs through a real-world innovation hub and living-learning community encourages creative collaboration and entrepreneurial thinking. How do you design an inclusive and engaging campus community and gateway where students can create, innovate, network with peers, and immerse themselves in an entrepreneurial ecosystem? We’ll share lessons learned from working with various campus constituencies and stakeholders to strike the right balance between student life, entrepreneurial, and academic programming.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss programming and designing a living-learning community that centers on entrepreneurship to engage the greater campus and surrounding community.
2. Identify ways to incorporate entrepreneurship into the daily lives of students.
3. Compare the needs of entrepreneurs and students to find optimal synergies between programs, such as creating a place for university and private sector engagement.
4. Explain the process behind creating a dynamic interface between living, learning, retail, and innovation environments.

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Discovering What Works: From Design Goals to Post-Occupancy Evaluation

11:40 AM – 12:40 PM | Commonwealth Room | Newcomb Hall

Presented by: Jennifer Amster, Principal, EYP | Lauren Bailey, Facilities Management, Planning and Design Project Manager, Virginia Commonwealth University | Brent Castro, Junior Designer, EYP

Academic facility design effectiveness of is a common stakeholder concern. Conducting and sharing post-occupancy evaluations helps to ensure a tradition of environmental excellence using an evidence-based design methodology. We’ll share the planning process behind Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) Health Professions Building, which brings together nine departments for cross-disciplinary and innovative education, and discuss our design strategies, post-occupancy evaluation, findings, and future implications. The design of complex educational facilities comes with many tradeoffs and decisions; find out how you can apply VCU’s tools to collect student and faculty feedback with data that links performance and satisfaction to your built academic environments.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply evidence-based design thinking to your projects by encouraging a tradition of soliciting post-occupancy feedback and gathering building performance data.
2. Formulate questions to link design strategies to their intended goals and measure their effectiveness.
3. Discuss how to coordinate and conduct a post-occupancy evaluation using a combination of interviews, observation, and data collection to help build a body of evidence-based design knowledge.
4. Apply VCU’s lessons learned about designing for collaborative teaching and learning modalities on your campus.

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The Journey to Transform Campus Cultures of Belonging

11:40 AM – 12:40 PM | Auditorium | Special Collections Library

Presented by: Debi McDonald, New England Higher Education Market Sector Leader, Jacobs | Pamela Garbini, Assistant Director, Space Planning & Management, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | Toyin Ogunfolaju, Infrastructure & Social Economic Inclusion Leader, Jacobs

In order to meaningfully address the injustices that marginalized groups face in our society, there is a heightened need to identify strategies for facilitating inclusion and social justice across higher education campuses. This session will explore social justice initiatives that actively influence an institution’s policies, practices, and its built environment to create a sense of belonging and wellbeing for the entire campus community. We will share ideas for how you can better address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion to accelerate a social justice journey and create campus environments where all will feel welcome.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Incorporate language associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion in your planning and design process to foster belonging and wellbeing for your campus community.
2. Expand your awareness of social justice issues through the experiences of higher education and industry planners.
3. Identify ways to effectively challenge existing norms and create impact, belonging, and wellbeing on your campus by changing the conversation around diversity, equity and inclusion.
4. Explore program ideas for providing safe spaces on campus for engaged communication, support, and shared learning about understanding and accommodating differences.

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Moving Toward Sustainable Business Models for the Academic Portfolio

11:40 AM – 12:40 PM | South Meeting Room | Newcomb Hall

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Presented by: Katie Hagan, Senior Associate, rpk GROUP | Nicole Woods, Chief of Staff, University of Virginia | Tammy McHale, Senior Associate Dean for Administration and Planning, University of Virginia

The pandemic has accelerated existing challenges to higher education’s business model. In order to create more sustainable models, we will need to ask hard questions regarding our academic portfolios. Using the University of Virginia’s (UVA) College of Arts and Sciences as an example, we will discuss emerging best practices for creating academic portfolios that serve both an institution’s mission and market. This session will empower you to put this best practice to use and begin the difficult work of analyzing your institution’s academic portfolio.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Connect academic portfolios to student demand and workforce needs.
2. Apply key metrics to increase accountability and transparency for academic portfolio contributions.
3. Evolve academic leadership positions—especially deans and chairs—through the use of data frameworks.
4. Use industry language and approaches when applying an ROI lens.

12:40 PM – 1:30 PM | Newcomb Hall Ballroom | UVA

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Common Grounds

1:30 PM – 2:40 PM | Newcomb Hall Ballroom | UVA

Presented by: Larry Sabato, Professor of Politics, Founder and Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, University of Virginia

In an age of hostility and division, the UVA Center for Politics documentary “Common Grounds?” examines the political climate on a college campus at the Grounds of the University of Virginia. Through interviews with students from across the political spectrum, and a group dialogue between some of these students, the film asks a simple question: “Can tomorrow’s generation find common ground?”

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Revisioning Campus Spaces to Achieve Equity and Inclusion

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Theatre | Newcomb Hall

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Presented by: Casey Boss, Director Planning, Design and Construction, University of Pennsylvania | Marc Lo, Executive Director, Penn First Plus, University of Pennsylvania | Linda O’Gwynn, Principal, Purdy O’Gwynn Architects

As institutions become more aware of inequities in educational outcomes, they are investing further resources to historically-underserved student populations. This session will explore one institution’s approach to identifying, programming, and renovating a student-centered space dedicated to the welfare of first-generation and limited-income undergraduates. When an entire institution commits to new approaches towards achieving equity goals and student belonging, campus planning obstacles begin to dissolve. Join us to discover how campus-wide commitment and shared visioning can make new equitable and inclusive spaces a reality.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Prioritize the allocation of prime campus real estate to meet equity and inclusion goals.
2. Find a balance between institutional history and a desire for innovative practices in promoting student wellbeing and belonging.
3. Identify program-centered designs and technologies to make campus resources more accessible to first-generation undergraduates.
4. Evaluate the design of your campus spaces in terms of student inclusion, belonging, and wellbeing.

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Developing Academic Programs to Address Healthcare and Enrollment Crises

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Auditorium | Special Collections Library

Presented by: Jeremiah Fairbank, Senior Associate, Higher Education Studio, JMT Architecture | Cindy Rubenstein, Chair and Professor, Department of Nursing, Randolph-Macon College | Melody Eaton, Director and Professor, School of Nursing, James Madison University | Kim Little, Chair and Professor, Department of Nursing
Longwood University

When new health profession programs come to campus, academic and facilities planners must fulfill various unique requirements in order to expand and grow their institution’s academic programs. This panel will provide a critical framework for decision-making and offer valuable insights on successfully navigating the planning and building process for new nursing schools. Come learn about different strategies for implementing new academic programs and learning environments in response to ongoing workforce needs in health professions and institutional enrollment objectives.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss a critical framework for developing new academic programs and learning environments.
2. Holistically employ comprehensive planning and budgeting benchmarks for programming and facilities.
3. Identify challenges and develop strategies for establishing and growing enrollment, faculty, and facilities.
4. Effectively navigate regulatory and accreditation requirements for new academic programs.

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Everything Old Is New Again

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | South Meeting Room | Newcomb Hall

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Presented by: Ben Niebauer, Education Market Leader, DesignGroup | Lauren McConnell, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | Bobbi Jo Rosol, Assistant Director, IT Finance & Administration, University of Pittsburgh | Riley Zollars, Senior Interior Designer, DesignGroup

Higher education planning departments and administrations may seem heavily reliant on studies, but it’s important to have the necessary knowledge and data for defining and creating actionable roadmaps and making strategic decisions. Institutions are stretching their budgets and buildings further and further to cope with current challenges, so they must be increasingly tactical with their dollars and space to maximize benefits for their programs and departments. Come learn how to apply our effective strategies for fitting large programs into small facilities with tight capital investments through the use of tactical planning efforts on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess various self-evaluation protocols and thresholds for planning studies.
2. Identify actionable, data-based outcomes from planning studies.
3. Explain how to engage all stakeholders in planning studies to build consensus and buy-in from multiple constituent groups.
4. Evaluate new building utilization metrics to change how your campus uses its facilities.

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Where is the Market Going? The Future of Construction Costs

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Commonwealth Room | Newcomb Hall

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Presented by: Blair Tennant, Associate Principal, Vermeulens

The overall economy and market are the main drivers for construction activity, and therefore, construction costs. With 2021 behind us, we all have questions about future design and construction markets; this session will review last year’s economic movement and make projections for 2022. We will help you and your stakeholders stay in the loop with regards to market trends and make more informed decisions on how to proceed with your campus building projects.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Gain important insights into how macroeconomics impact construction volume and cost.
2. Apply detailed city and state data from construction labor analyses to estimate your project costs.
3. Forecast for future construction costs that may impact your campus building project.
4. Help stakeholders make informed decisions regarding construction costs based on market trends.

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Designing Facilities for Evolving Academic Programs

4:20 PM – 5:20 PM | Auditorium | Special Collections Library

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Presented by: Jay Woodburn, Principal, Baskervill | Paul Rocheleau, Executive Director of Strategic Development, Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering | Jefferson Poole, Associate Principal, Goody Clancy

Understanding how academic units evolve over time can help planners to ascertain growth and change patterns to more effectively inform planning strategies and metrics. This session will derive lessons learned from Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) College of Engineering and illustrate new ways of thinking about space to support evolving academic programs. As engineering education and research change focus they require updated facilities to promote collaborative learning. Through examining metrics, space types, planning strategies, and industry collaborations, you will be able to apply our models in your own planning and programming efforts at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify opportunities for creating links with external businesses, collaborators, and sponsors.
2. Refine programmatic space metrics to more accurately anticipate academic growth and change.
3. Discuss how to integrate robust and flexible systems infrastructure to support future program evolution.
4. Find ways to incorporate local industry collaborator participation into facility design.

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Future-Proofing Educational Facilities by Improving Indoor Air Quality

4:20 PM – 5:20 PM | Theatre | Newcomb Hall

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Presented by: Raymond Doyle, Managing Principal, WB Engineers+Consultants | Peter Dussault, Managing Principal, WB Engineers+Consultants | Carlos Williams, Director of Architecture & Engineering Services, Facility Services, Howard University

When higher education planners find the right solutions for creating safer learning environments that increase productivity and satisfaction, campuses become even better places for people to learn and teach. In this session, we’ll share our solutions for modifying HVAC systems and discuss effective future-proofing methods to make safer and more learner-friendly educational facilities based on building age and type. Come learn about the steps you can take to improve indoor air quality, future-proof, and plan appropriate design solutions in your campus’s existing, new, and future buildings.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to enhance HVAC systems to improve indoor air quality on infrastructure in new and existing campus buildings.
2. Identify short-term methods for reducing indoor air contaminants— such as filtration and ventilation— while recognizing that short-term savings do not lead to long-term benefits.
3. Evaluate long-term strategies for applying performance indoor air quality procedures, including active mitigation systems, such as filtration, UVGI, PCO, ionization, and humidification.
4. Act as a champion for indoor air quality improvements and monitoring for your institution’s buildings and projects.

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Memorialization and Dialogue: Framing Conversation Around Institutional Legacies

4:20 PM – 5:20 PM | South Meeting Room | Newcomb Hall

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Presented by: Cathy Pinskey, Program Director, Facilities, George Mason University | Stephanie Wolfgang, Senior Associate, Senior Landscape Architect, Perkins and Will

In an era of intense debate surrounding the legacies of historical figures, George Mason University is using community-fostering dialogue to address its namesake’s legacy and memorialize the lives of those he enslaved. This session will discuss the process and outcomes of the university’s recent effort to acknowledge this legacy by incorporating a memorial into a large-scale campus infrastructure project. Come learn how you can leverage undergraduate student research efforts and spaces within your campus environment to address topics that impact the wellbeing, expression, and representation of your campus community.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discover methods for translating student-led undergraduate research projects into actionable outcomes that can shape both the social and physical campus environment.
2. Shape physical environments to facilitate the expression of values that are important to your campus community.
3. Develop strategies for acknowledging the mixed legacies of historical figures that your campus may be honoring.
4. Establish meaningful stakeholder engagement and buy-in among university student, faculty, and staff to facilitate meaningful campus projects.

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The Development, Planning, and Design of UVA’s Main Library

4:20 PM – 5:20 PM | Commonwealth Room | Newcomb Hall

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Presented by: Alice Raucher, Architect for the University, University of Virginia | John Unsworth, Dean of Libraries, University Librarian, Professor of English, University of Virginia

This session will detail planning challenges and solutions from the University of Virginia’s (UVA) Main Library renovation project. The library’s planning and design phase grappled with the future of libraries, the university’s emphasis on physical books, and an evolving relationship to campus growth and historical context; meanwhile, the building continued to deteriorate. Come learn how the project developed a successful vision in the face of complex logistical issues, faculty dissatisfaction with proposed programming, and the partial demolition of a beloved historical building.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to develop support for campus renovation projects at the local and legislative levels.
2. Maintain vision and focus for your project based on institutional strengths.
3. Adapt your building renovation in line with evolving expectations for sustainability, accessibility, equity, and access.
4. Evaluate existing structures for reuse and character when planning a new building addition.

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Location: The Space Downtown, 210 W Water Street

Join us for this first-ever Mid-Atlantic social and fundraiser for The SCUP Fund. The SCUP Fund supports research and initiatives that drive innovative ideas and enterprising solutions for higher education viability and vitality. This is a free event for networking, merriment, and fundraising for all registered conference attendees. To learn more about The SCUP Fund and contribute now: www.scup.org/contribute.

Sincere thanks to the sponsors of this special event benefiting The SCUP Fund.

Important: Bring your conference badge! Your conference badge will be your pass to enter the social.

7:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Newcomb Hall Ballroom Foyer | UVA

Bus transportation will be provided from the Omni Charlottesville to the UVA campus.

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM | Newcomb Hall Ballroom | UVA

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The Tie That Binds: The Link Between Architecture and Landscape Planning at UVA

8:00 AM – 9:10 AM | Newcomb Hall Ballroom | UVA

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Presented by: Alice Raucher, Architect for the University, University of Virginia

In her keynote address, Architect for the University Alice Raucher will share examples of the strategic approach to planning that the University of Virginia (UVA) has developed after centuries of continuous growth. Drawing inspiration from the historic Lawn and Academical Village, this approach prioritizes landscape as “the tie that binds” the UVA campus together. Alice will trace the application of this planning principle from the institution’s beginnings through today’s vastly more complex urban setting, illustrating the tie between physical planning of precincts and UVA’s civic, educational, and sustainability goals.

Learning Outcomes:

1. 1. Explain UVA’s approach to campus planning.
   2. Explain the history of UVA’s campus plan and how it informs the institution’s current planning philosophy.
   3. Outline the “redevelopment zone” concept from UVA’s current 2008 Grounds Plan.
   4. Discuss the importance of sustainable landscapes as drivers of district master plans.

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