North Atlantic 2022 Regional Conference

12:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Lobby | Hotel UMass

4:15 PM – 5:15 PM | Rooms 405 – 415 | UMass Student Union

Join us and catch up with friends and colleagues.

If you are new to SCUP conferences, come meet and connect with other attendees and your North Atlantic regional council.

Master Plan in Motion: Integrated Planning at UMass Amherst

5:30 PM – 6:45 PM | Ballroom | UMass Student Union

Presented by: Tilman Wolf, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Associate Chancellor for Space and Capital Planning, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst

As Associate Chancellor for Space and Capital Planning, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tilman Wolf straddles the pillars of integrated planning for higher education. Dr. Wolf will share insights from the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst’s transformational work over the past decade and present how its campus master plan fulfills its mission with confidence and creativity. His presentation will illustrate how UMass Amherst is implementing its strategic plan, developing flexible learning strategies, reducing its physical and carbon footprint, supporting diversity and inclusion, and creating a culture that allows for flexibility and change.

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss how UMass Amherst’s strategic plan and roadmap for education, research, and campus growth has raised its rankings as a public research university.
2. Identify opportunities for leveraging partnerships in the implementation of a campus master plan.
3. Describe how UMass Amherst is realizing its commitment to sustainability and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in physical campus spaces.
4. Value flexibility in the operation and implementation of a master plan.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22P001)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

6:45 PM – 8:00 PM | Rooms 405 – 415 | UMass Student Union

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7:30 AM – 4:30 PM | ILC Atrium | Integrative Learning Center

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | ILC Atrium | Integrative Learning Center

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Building Community Resilience Through Local Municipality Partnerships

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | S110 | Integrative Learning Center

Presented by: Diane Mas, Vice President, Chief Resilience Officer, Fuss & O’Neill | Adam Whelchel, Director of Science, The Nature Conservancy | Tina Woolston, Director, Office of Sustainability, Tufts University

Higher education institutions and local communities can benefit greatly from working together to improve resiliency and sustainability. This session will demonstrate how institutions can partner with their local municipalities on adaptation planning to build community resilience in the face of climate change. Come learn how you can apply our community resilience building framework to conduct vulnerability assessments and begin planning a more resilient future for your campus and surrounding community.

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss how to apply the community resilience building framework to conduct vulnerability assessments and begin planning for a more resilient future.
2. Leverage the unique strengths of your institution as a neutral convener and anchor institution in your community to facilitate resilience planning.
3. Recognize and address common hurdles in coordinating resilience planning activities between higher education institutions and community stakeholders.
4. Identify potential funding opportunities for climate resilience planning and implementation projects.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1594)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit
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From Rooms to Regions: Future-facing Campus Planning in Unpredictable Times

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | S120 | Integrative Learning Center

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Presented by: Rayna Erlich, Principal, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP | Joanna Whitcomb, Director of Campus Planning, Dartmouth College | Heather Taylor, Campus Planner and Architect, Phillips Exeter Academy | Jenin Shah, Senior Associate, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP | Neil Kittredge, Partner & Director, Urban Design & Planning, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP

Traditional campus planning methods are oftentimes too rigid or open-ended; this session will discuss a new model that combines big-picture visioning with a menu of viable development options. We’ll illustrate this new approach to participatory and strategic campus planning with two recent master plans from Dartmouth University and Phillips Exeter Academy, which both facilitate fiscally-responsible and visionary responses to the rapidly-evolving external influences on institutions. Detailed without being prescriptive, this model builds actionable groundwork and prevents the traps of siloed decision-making, enabling stronger internal alignment, greater external participation, and improved resource efficiency.

Learning Outcomes

1. Ensure that your institution’s strategic priorities are incorporated into short-term decisions regarding the use of campus facilities and new campus project development.
2. Assess where you can improve processes and practices for campus planning across your institution’s facilities, land, and real estate holdings.
3. Discuss the alignment of campus infrastructure needs to funded building projects for more efficient project delivery and improved longer-term sustainability and resilience.
4. Engage internal and external stakeholders meaningfully and efficiently early in your planning processes in order to establish a shared vision before the pressures of a new project arise.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1646)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

The Journey to Transform Campus Cultures of Belonging

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | S131 | Integrative Learning Center

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.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPM22C1655)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Transforming the UMass Amherst Campus Through Concurrent Project Synergies

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | S140 | Integrative Learning Center

Presented by: John Amodeo, Principal, IBI Group | Simon Raine, Campus Designer/Planner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Derek Noble, Principal, Shepley Bulfinch | Ryan Senkier, Perry Dean Rogers, Partners Architects

The key to exceeding expectations in your campus master plan outcomes—physical, operational, and financial—is through batching individual priority projects. The University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst used this process to complete three contiguous campus life projects concurrently, which allowed for otherwise unattainable efficiencies and synergies that went beyond placemaking to transformative campus remaking. Come learn how you can apply concurrent project implementation to your own campus plans and find opportunities for executing projects concurrently to maximize transformative outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain how to realize campus master plan objectives using a cohesive landscape approach across concurrent projects to strengthen campus identity and architectural unity.
2. Identify strategies for working with students and co-op organizations as clients to identify modern improvements and facilitate student engagement.
3. Provide specific examples of the efficiencies and inefficiencies of concurrently implementing contiguous campus projects, including the effects on building siting, massing, and operations.
4. Assess specific tactics and metrics across contiguous projects that result in campus identification, placemaking, and performative campus landscapes that achieve critical institutional planning objectives.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1605)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

All Are Welcome Here: Transforming the Schine Student Center

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM | S110 | Integrative Learning Center

Presented by: Calvin Ahn, Associate Principal, Ashley McGraw Architects, D.P.C. | Joseph Alfieri, Director, Campus Planning, Design and Construction, Syracuse University | John Burse, Principal, Mackey Mitchell Architects

Integrating changing trends and expectations into campus renovation projects can be daunting, especially when prioritizing student engagement through the lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Syracuse University’s Schine Student Center presented significant challenges familiar to many campuses: confusing circulation, hard-to-find student programs and resources, outdated dining, and poor accommodation and accessibility. We’ll share how we applied the principles of universal design, student-centered design, and planning for diversity, equity, and inclusion to increase student engagement, belonging, and wellbeing to create a more welcoming campus experience.

Learning Outcomes

1. Use student engagement as a tool for shaping responsive planning and design as well as prioritizing needs versus desires.
2. Examine how you can use diversity, equity, and inclusion to enhance the design of student-centered spaces and create safe and welcoming environments.
3. Explore trends in student-centered campus center programming, particularly around universal design that fosters student wellbeing.
4. Identify strategies for integrating branding, signage, and wayfinding to enhance the student experience, increase accessibility, and promote safety and belonging.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1444)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Brut & Beautiful: New Ideas for Mid-Century Modern Buildings

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM | S120 | Integrative Learning Center

Presented by: Kelly Haigh, Partner, designLAB architects | Lincoln Nemetz-Carlson, March Student and Graduate Researcher, UMass Amherst | Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, Senior Campus Planner, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Mid-century architecture is at an inflection point. Deferred maintenance and accessibility issues are forcing institutions to tackle repairs on an ad hoc basis, shoring up problems without developing a comprehensive approach. In order to holistically address the modernization needs of its mid-century modern buildings, the University of Massachusetts (UMass) system is cultivating appreciation of brutalist cultural heritage by creating an organized hub for preservation education and advocacy. We’ll share how UMass’s campaign for preservation is provides a knowledge base for assessing the cultural significance of modernist structures across its portfolio and supports informed decision making.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify key elements of a successful preservation education campaign that engages multiple campus stakeholders as well as external partners.
2. Discuss the historical context and current perceptions (both positive and negative) of mid-century architecture and landscape design for campus community place making.
3. Appreciate the schedule, workforce development, and project logistics issues associated with renovation of architecturally-significant concrete buildings.
4. Make the case for existing building renovation and historic preservation in the context of institutional capital and carbon mitigation planning.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1573)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

The Future of Game Design at Clark University

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM | S131 | Integrative Learning Center

Presented by: Candice Rabovsky, Senior Associate, Ayers Saint Gross | David Chearo,
Clark University | Paul Cotnoir, Dean, Becker School of Design & Technology, Clark University

This session will explore Clark University’s new Media Arts, Computing and Design Building, an interdisciplinary facility that advances the synergies of game design, computer science, and the visual and performing arts. Supporting a culture of collaboration, teaching, research, and innovation, we’ll share how this facility will make media design, digital production, user experience, and human-computer interaction accessible to the entire Clark campus community. Join us to discover how an interdisciplinary environment that supports gaming and media design can benefit your overall campus culture from an academic, social, and wellbeing perspective.

Learning Outcomes

1. Investigate how game design can intersect with other academic disciplines and research initiatives on your campus.
2. Discuss how to create collaborative spaces that engage your campus community in media design and technology.
3. Consider the benefits of gaming academically and socially for your campus community.
4. Explore new pedagogies that implement design and computing synergies.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1676)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

The Time is Now: Realizing the Net-Zero Campus

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM | S140 | Integrative Learning Center

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Presented by: Maryam Katouzian, Principal, ZGF | Benjamin Petrick, Assistant University Architect, Princeton University | John Hannum, Project Engineer, Princeton University | Ted Borer, Energy Plant Director, Princeton University

The climate crisis is the most pressing issue of our time. To reduce emissions and minimize the worst effects, institutions must act now to decarbonize their campuses. In pursuing a shift towards more sustainable production of energy, Princeton University is embarking on wholesale planning and infrastructure changes towards its ambitious goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2046. This session will show how you can help align your institution’s ambitious goals for carbon neutrality and climate commitments with your campus master planning and capital management.

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss how to align climate commitments to capital plans and campus master plans.
2. Identify cutting-edge infrastructure solutions that you can implement on your campus to achieve carbon neutrality.
3. Leverage design to showcase traditionally back-of-house facilities in campus settings.
4. Navigate community and campus concerns associated with infrastructure projects.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1493)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Ballroom | UMass Student Union

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Campus Environmental Sustainability Panel

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Ballroom | UMass Student Union

Moderated by: Yvonne Kielb, Retired Program Manager, State University of New York System

Presented by: Dano Weisbord, Director of Sustainability and Campus Planning, Smith College | Ezra Small, Campus Sustainability Manager, University of Massachusetts-Amherst | Ruairi O’Mahony, Executive Director, Rist Institute for Sustainability and Energy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell | Weston Dripps, Director of Sustainability, Amherst College | V.S. (Raghu) Raghavan, Director of Sustainability, Mount Holyoke College

This keynote panel will discuss campus environmental sustainability in light of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) most recent comprehensive assessment about the state of scientific, technical, and socio-economic knowledge on climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for reducing the rate of climate change. Campus sustainability has evolved within the past few years in regards to facilities functions, executive leadership, campus planning, and cultural shifts embedded in institutional missions. Come learn how you can use integrated planning to bring your campus and community into a more sustainable and environmentally-healthy future.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the areas in which your institution’s campus sustainability planning has slowed or progressed during the pandemic.
2. Discuss how integrated campus sustainability planning can improve policy, practice, and goal setting in regards to climate action, waste reduction, a healthy environment, and community engagement.
3. Assess your institution’s goals and measures for greenhouse gas reduction to create a safer and healthier environment for the campus and surrounding community.
4. Explain the important role that capital funding plays in campus sustainability planning.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22P002)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

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1:00 PM – 4:30 PM | ILC Atrium | Integrative Learning Center

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Campuswide Stormwater Planning: An Approach to Strengthening Campus Resilience

2:20 PM – 3:20 PM | S110 | Integrative Learning Center

Presented by: Nicole Holmes, Senior Project Manager, Green Infrastructure Planning, Nitsch Engineering | Jennifer Johnson, Project Manager, Nitsch Engineering

Institutions often execute capital projects individually, but this fragmented approach limits the ability to consider stormwater and landscape as a cohesive system and support a broader vision for campus resilience. Taking lessons learned from several institutions, this session will build a case for campuswide stormwater planning to support future development and adapt to the impacts of climate change. You’ll learn about the benefits of developing a campuswide stormwater framework plan, including a mechanism for guiding individual projects with goals and flexible strategies for implementing the plan over time.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify key factors that support a campuswide approach to stormwater at your campus.
2. Establish potential campuswide stormwater goals to target unique local, campus, and regional priorities at your campus.
3. Use a toolkit of strategies for individual capital projects for the purpose of building campuswide stormwater resilience.
4. Advocate for the use of green infrastructure approaches to address climate change and stormwater management challenges, as well as enhance your campus landscape.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1634)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning for Health and Wellness on Campus

2:20 PM – 3:20 PM | S120 | Integrative Learning Center

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Presented by: Yanel de Angel, Architect, Principal, Perkins&Will | Vanessa Britto, Associate Vice President of Campus Life and Student Services and Executive Director of Health and Wellness, Brown University | Thomas Cordonnier, Head of Global Wellbeing for Faculty and Staff, Tecnológico de Monterrey | Michelle Bowdler, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Health and Wellness, Bentley University

Through a culture of wellness and intentional, practical strategies the campus can become an ecosystem for caring and mental wellbeing. This panel will explore the intersection between holistic campus health and wellness and built environments that support resilience and wellbeing for students, staff, and faculty. Join us to discover how you can apply a spatial framework and intentional plan for creating healthier environments and promoting diverse respite activities, enabling health educators to advance services and programs that support wellbeing on your campus.

Learning Outcomes

1. Assess your campus’s health and wellness priorities within the broader context of institutional challenges.
2. Map campus spaces that have the potential to equitably support wellbeing programs.
3. Identify gaps and inconsistencies in respite spaces that you can address through an intentional framework plan.
4. List medium-to-long-term steps your institution can take towards an integrated approach to individual and community wellness.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1667)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Re-aiming the Road Map to Meet the Needs of a Changing Environment

2:20 PM – 3:20 PM | S131 | Integrative Learning Center

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

In the aftermath of the pandemic, institutions must begin the important process of reevaluating their strategic plans in order to overcome the challenges of a changing environment. This session will explore how Binghamton University is re-aiming its “Road Map” by refining existing strategic planning goals and metrics and prioritizing internationalization to ensure the university’s global perspectives. Come learn from Binghamton’s re-aiming process to determine necessary changes for your institution and advance your institutional goals through funding proposals.

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss how to design and implement strategic plan models that respond to unique institutional characteristics and environments.
2. Recognize the strengths and challenges of environmental changes in higher education.
3. Track key planning metrics using a prioritized strategic planning approach.
4. Effectively identify and allocate resources to execute strategic, priority-based projects.

Towards Higher Education’s Post-pandemic Utopia

2:20 PM – 3:20 PM | S140 | Integrative Learning Center

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Presented by: Bethany Wilson-Shunta, Senior Associate, Architect, NBBJ | Dennis Swinford, Director of Planning at University of Massachusetts, Boston | Pam Y. Eddinger, President Bunker Hill Community College

The pandemic created challenges for educational institutions at every level. Out of necessity, these challenges have a way of fostering innovative thinking and inviting creative responses. Small, meaningful interventions—rather than sweeping post-pandemic ideals—will be the springboard to higher education innovation in both programming and the built environment. With a focus on the future, panelists from a state school, a private university, and a community college will share their diverse and creative solutions to the most pressing space, facility, pedagogical, social, and environmental issues facing our campuses today.

Learning Outcomes

1. Evaluate your institution’s virtual and hybrid course options in order to serve a broader market.
2. Assess facility needs under a different context of use and demand.
3. Discuss how to plan and program facilities that directly meet your institution’s strategic goals by promoting inclusion and demonstrating environmental impact on campus.
4. Encourage campus placemaking with new insights around proximity and place.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1690)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Future-Proofing Educational Facilities by Improving Indoor Air Quality

3:40 PM – 4:40 PM | S110 | Integrative Learning Center

Presented by: Raymond Doyle, Managing Principal, WB Engineers+Consultants | Peter Dussault, Managing Principal, WB Engineers+Consultants | Carlos Williams, Director of Architecture & Engineering Services and 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 for occupant health 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 health and safety outcomes.
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 that improve health and safety for occupants and monitoring for your institution’s buildings and projects.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPM22C1626)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Teller of Tales: DEI Solutions on Campus

3:40 PM – 4:40 PM | S120 | Integrative Learning Center

Presented by: Jacqueline Falla, Director, Client Services, Elaine Construction | Melissa McEwen, Senior Associate, Haley & Aldrich, Inc. | Michelle Maheu, Director for Planning, Design & Construction, Wellesley College

Issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are of critical importance for higher education institutions and planners. The complexity, urgency, and social and financial implications of DEI issues require a scientific, analytical approach. We’ll share our powerful A3 tool, which uses storytelling to communicate complex challenges and compel planners at all levels to take action. Today’s DEI challenges are daunting but resolvable through the use of A3’s simple seven box system that enhances critical thinking, unearths root causes, demands alignment within organizations, and fosters learning.

Learning Outcomes

1. Recognize the A3 as a storytelling vehicle that educates, informs, and persuades to promote DEI solutions in higher education.
2. Discuss how to apply the A3 framework to engage diverse stakeholders, drill down to a problem’s root cause, and succinctly articulate complex challenges with the goal of bringing about change and problem resolution.
3. Align institutional interests with the DEI project, goal, or initiative using the A3 framework as a vehicle for understanding the problem.
4. Engage in an active learning session to develop a story through the A3 framework.

Reimagining Student Success as a Hub for Health Sciences Education

3:40 PM – 4:40 PM | S131 | Integrative Learning Center

Presented by: Robert Robicsek, Higher Education Principal, Lavallee Brensinger Architects | Chris Greenfield, Associate Dean of Administration and Finance, School of Public Health & Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst | Thomas Huf, Senior Program Manager
Facilities Programming & Planning Division of Campus Planning, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Many college and university campuses face the challenges of repurposing existing outdated, energy-inefficient, and ineffective facilities. In response to these challenges, the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst developed a creative approach to transform an unused campus facility into a new student success hub for the growing School of Public Health and Health Sciences. In this session, we’ll discuss the collaborative repurposing and adaptive reuse approach that UMass Amherst used during the conceptual planning process and show how you can apply these tools and lessons learned to your own campus renovation projects.

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss a collaborative and inclusive approach to unify and centralize health sciences programming through a new student success hub.
2. Prioritize accessibility, inclusion, collaboration, flexibility, and technology-enhanced learning spaces during your conceptual planning and design process.
3. Identify the physical, environmental, and logistical challenges of repurposing outdated and ineffective facilities to meet the future spatial, operational, and pedagogical needs of today’s students.
4. Discuss strategies and sustainable design tools for improving energy efficiency, sustainability, climate resiliency, and carbon reduction on your campus.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1467)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Translating Placemaking and Public Space Strategies Across Campus Contexts

3:40 PM – 4:40 PM | S140 | Integrative Learning Center

Presented by: Sylvia Smith, Senior Partner, FXCollaborative | Denise Ferris, Associate Vice President, Design Management, Columbia University in the City of New York | Patrick Burke,
Assistant Vice President, Capital Project Management, Columbia University in the City of New York

Institutions with multiple campuses of varied scale, character, and context can leverage inclusive planning strategies to support their campus communities and welcome the public. This panel discussion will highlight the implementation of indoor and outdoor placemaking strategies across Columbia University’s three diverse campuses to support learning, meeting, and socializing, both pre- and post-pandemic. Join us to gain valuable insights into forward-looking public space planning strategies, from localized insertions within a historic enclave to a the creation of a completely new campus.

Learning Outcomes

1. Review building, street, and open space relationships on campuses to evaluate opportunities for redefining open space.
2. Engage public officials in the strategy and implementation of campus and open space planning.
3. Identify key locations where amenities such as retail and restaurants, nature, and seating will welcome students, faculty, and the broader community in an inclusive environment.
4. Consider security strategies that balance safety and protection with a sense of openness and transparency.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1609)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Marriott Center | Campus Center, Hotel UMass

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7:30 AM – 12:00 PM | ILC Atrium | Integrative Learning Center

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | ILC Atrium | Integrative Learning Center

Brutal Honesty About Student Services at UMass Amherst

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM | S110 | Integrative Learning Center

Presented by: Rick Jones, Director and Founder, Jones Architecture | Jeffery Dalzell, Project Planner and Manager of Campus Planning, University of Massachusetts-Amherst | Naomi Cottrell, Principal, Crowley Cottrell, LLC

Embracing place and spatial sequencing is central to reimagining student services while also considering delivery, staffing, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). This session will detail how planning for a foreboding, brutalist building presented the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst with new opportunities to renew a maligned building’s stature, reimagine student services, and address DEI in unique ways. Come learn how UMass Amherst applied thoughtful and creative solutions for quality student services to the challenges of balkanized resources, out-of-date models, and siloed staffing.

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss the value of place, landscape integration, and the connection between outdoors and indoors in the context of aging facility revitalization.
2. Recognize the importance of brutalist buildings to the campus character while acknowledging the need to modernize aging infrastructure for today’s students, faculty, and staff.
3. Explain how trends in student services, resource consolidation, clear program delineation, cross-training staff, and connecting to students can drive your planning strategies.
4. Participate in conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion that go beyond traditional measures and account for the impact of architectural character, the student experience, and student service models.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1567)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Crisis and Continuity: Problem Solving and Procurement in a Moment of Change

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM | S120 | Integrative Learning Center

Presented by: Amy Kaiser, Senior Campus Planner, MIT Office of Campus Planning | Karen Rennell, Program Manager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Rositha (Rose) Durham, Vendor Procurement Manager, MIT Department of Facilities, Infrastructure Business Operations | Kelley Brown, Senior Campus Planner, Office of Campus Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Extraordinary times call for new approaches. By rethinking ingrained practices and collaborating across departments and with community partners, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is providing new dining options, accelerating design project start-up, and advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals. This session will discuss two new MIT initiatives in dining and design services, responses to critical business issues, student needs, and social and institutional calls for racial justice. Come learn how your institution can work across siloes to rethink standard ways of doing business in response to perennial needs, DEI goals, and unexpected crises.

Learning Outcomes

1. Collaborate with colleagues, students, and community partners to advance your initiatives and institutional goals.
2. Draw on your broader institutional DEI program to design and promote procurement reforms.
3. Explain how to design a procurement effort that serves multiple institutional goals.
4. Discuss how to expand your outreach program to include a wider array of potential vendors and bring DEI into vendor evaluation and selection.

Shifting Culture: Integrated Design for Wellness, Sustainability, and Inclusion

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM | S131 | Integrative Learning Center

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Presented by: Minakshi Amundsen, Assistant Vice President, Facilities and Campus Planning, Colby College | Tom Jenkins, Director, Hopkins Architects Partnership LLP | Christopher Sgarzi, Principal, Sasaki

A holistic approach to community and environmental wellness requires institutional and project-level planning integration, innovative design, and stakeholder engagement. In this session, we’ll discuss the integration of a strategic plan and community vision with highly-inclusive and environmentally-friendly design methods to create healthy, flexible, and sustainable community-oriented spaces. Come learn from our valuable integrated planning and design strategies around conservation and natural resource restoration, sustainable campus facilities, and inclusive spaces designed to support wellness.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explore campus plan revisions to create a more cohesive, connected vision that strengthens community, uses resources effectively, and prioritizes wellness.
2. Discuss how to develop sustainable design processes and solutions within budget to avoid sprawl, optimize land value for conservation and teaching, and promote environmental wellness.
3. Identify key features of highly-sustainable building and site design that will result in inclusive spaces, healthier environments, and more flexible operations.
4. Prioritize effective and timely stakeholder engagement to inform design and construction, find sustainable design solutions, and achieve successful post-construction operations.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1595)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

8:30 AM – 12:15 PM | ILC Atrium | Integrative Learning Center

Human-centered Design Processes for Interdisciplinary STEM Facilities

9:50 AM – 10:50 AM | S110 | Integrative Learning Center

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Presented by: Michael Hinchcliffe, Principal, Payette | Mary Nardone, Associate Vice President, Capital Projects Management, Boston College | Geoffrey Swift, Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer, Bates College | Diana Tsang, Associate, Payette

Planning and designing new academic facilities requires an inclusive process to build consensus and solve challenges in adaptability for evolving interdisciplinary curricula and pedagogies. This session will evaluate the process and outcomes of STEM facility expansions at Bates College and Boston College, involving the formation of new departments, breaking down of existing barriers, and creative allocation of resources. Come learn how to embrace an interactive and comprehensive planning process with clear goals, broad input on nontraditional design solutions for resource sharing, and an emphasis on flexible learning spaces.

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss the importance of space and resource allocation as well as the restructuring of priorities, policies, and programs in interdisciplinary facilities.
2. Emphasis inclusion in the execution and outreach of major campus planning efforts, specifically multi-year, multi-building construction and renovation projects.
3. Visualize the invisible when developing and implementing an unknown, such as creating the physical infrastructure to launching a new department or program.
4. Value the unique nature of a place when planning academic facilities on your campus.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1621)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Leaning Into Success: Reliable Lean Outcomes in Unpredictable Times

9:50 AM – 10:50 AM | S131 | Integrative Learning Center

Presented by: Jessica Spivey, Senior Superintendent, Shawmut Design and Construction | Lichen Grewer, Director of Planning, Brown University | Joseph Watson, Fire Protection Engineer, Jensen Hughes | Erik Tellander, Senior Associate, William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc. | Ron Simoneau, Executive Vice President, National Education Group, Shawmut Design and Construction

A tactical early implementation of lean project management can effectively and successfully drive your next campus project to the finish line. We’ll share how the implementation of lean best practices helped to insulate campus projects at Brown University from variables inherent to the pandemic and deliver reliability in design and construction. Regardless of your role in a campus project, you have a responsibility to challenge your team on safety, quality, delivery, and cost. Join us to discover new ways to adapt in the face of adversity and implement effective project delivery methods on your campus.

Learning Outcomes

1. Use cost-benefit analyses and A3 problem solving to help your team make effective and efficient decisions during planning, design, and construction.
2. Visualize your project’s work using pull planning and logistics boards throughout all project phases.
3. Question your project team’s approach to prefabrication and kitting from the design stage through implementation.
4. Identify and push for opportunities to create better project flow through “small batching”.

The Special Challenges of Renovating Mid-century Campus Buildings

9:50 AM – 10:50 AM | S140 | Integrative Learning Center

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Presented by: Michael Lauber, Principal, Ellenzweig | Christina Bowen, Capital Projects Manager, University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth | Michael Nipoti, Associate Principal, Ellenzweig | Jillian Cornelius, Architectural Designer, Ellenzweig

Campus buildings constructed between 1950–70 typically have inadequate infrastructure systems, including the exterior envelope, windows, and HVAC systems. How can campuses effectively plan for these extensive upgrades with insufficient funding? This session will address the numerous special challenges associated with renovating mid-century campus buildings. You’ll hear about real-world challenges and learn solutions and strategies that you can apply to your own campus’s mid-century building planning and renovation processes.

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss comprehensive renovation strategies for aging buildings with multiple and extreme infrastructure problems.
2. Develop a realistic and comprehensive project scope description for soliciting architectural services for building renovations.
3. Explain how to produce thorough scope descriptions for developing more accurate initial planning budgets for complex building renovations.
4. Prepare an action plan to address the specific challenges associated with hazardous material abatement.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1511)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

MIT’s Hayden Library: Envisioning and Implementing the Future of Research

11:10 AM – 12:10 PM | S110 | Integrative Learning Center

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Presented by: Ned Goodell, Senior Associate, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd | Cassandra Silvia, Program Head for Access Services and Community Spaces, MIT Libraries | Emma Corbalan, Project Manager for Sustainable Design and Construction, MIT Office of Campus Planning | Caroline Petrovick, Project Executive, Elaine Construction

Mid-century campus buildings present common technical challenges, but planners can find solutions through an inclusive process that draws ideas from diverse stakeholder groups. This session will detail the transformation of MIT’s iconic Hayden Library, originally designed for post-WWII collections, into a dynamic “library of the future”, which required visionary thinking, thoughtful planning, a creative design approach, and carefully integrated execution. Join us to discuss strategies for managing complex project execution and explore disruptive ideas that promote design innovation for emerging programs and evolving campus challenges.

Learning Outcomes

1. Bring together a diverse set of stakeholders for a task force that will think big to define core values and imagine successful futures for their programs.
2. Integrate abstract big-picture project visions with institutional goals and objectives to define a project scope, assemble the right team, and promote exploration and innovation.
3. Identify the architectural and operational character-defining elements of existing campus buildings and find ways to strengthen institutional identity through transformational design.
4. Structure relationships between project team members in an efficient and inclusive way that inspires everyone to take ownership and pride in the successful execution of a shared project vision.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1624)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Solutions for Incorporating DEI Into Planning

11:10 AM – 12:10 PM | S131 | Integrative Learning Center

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

Colleges and universities must ensure that students of diverse backgrounds feel safe and welcome on campus in order to successfully educate and train our next generation of leaders. Incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into the institutional mission is deep, complicated work with no road map. Based on interviews with university and design professionals, this session will present examples of processes, priority populations, planning methods, and products that support DEI on campus. Come discuss and learn from a range of processes to strengthen your approach to DEI as a core component of planning for your institution.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the unique planning challenges that accompany DEI as a core strategic principle.
2. Compare how higher education institutions are responding to similar campus planning issues.
3. Use lessons learned from peer research as a catalyst for campus DEI discussion.
4. Develop strategies and options for supporting a sense of community for all campus populations.

Tear Down or Transform: Sustainable Solutions for Renovating Campus Buildings

11:10 AM – 12:10 PM | S120 | Integrative Learning Center

Presented by: Michael Kearns, Project Executive, Shawmut Design and Construction | Dano Weisbord, Director of Sustainability and Campus Planning, Smith College | Matthew Gifford,Director, Shepley Bulfinch | Eric Beattie, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Reimagining the future of your campus’s existing buildings does not always go as originally planned. A flexible planning process is critical for managing risk and driving innovation through sustainable approaches. We’ll present two case studies of Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s (WPI) Alumni Gym and Smith Neilson Library; both were planned historic building renovations, one project a teardown followed by a new build and the other a transformative integration of a historic façade with new construction. Find out how you can apply the different solutions and lessons learned from two historic building renovations to your own campus projects.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify planned campus historic building renovation projects that would benefit from another approach.
2. Knowledgeably evaluate options by analyzing risk factors inherent to historic campus building renovations.
3. Obtain a methodology for assessing teardowns with new builds versus renovation options.
4. Be fluent and highly comfortable discussing options with college/university colleagues after having asked questions and hearing details regarding specifics associated with this topic from real-life examples.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN22C1482)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

12:20 PM – 1:20 PM | Ballroom | UMass Student Union

Closing Keynote

1:20 PM – 2:30 PM | Ballroom| UMass Student Union

Presented by: Ricardo Azziz, Chief Executive Officer, American Society of Reproductive Medicine

Higher education in the U.S. is in crisis facing changing demographics, excess capacity, increased competition, and decreased funding. Some institutions will be winners, but most will struggle to define their future in the education environment. Not unexpectedly, major institutional restructuring, including mergers, consolidations, acquisitions, corporate conversions, and closures, are increasingly common. A trend long predicted, although it took a massive pandemic of historic proportions to accelerate it towards reality. In this session, we’ll discuss research focused on how to guide consideration of these major institutional transformations, and the key elements and unique leadership skills that will support their success. Governing boards and executives of all institutions should include consideration of these transformative opportunities in their annual strategic assessment, while executing successful major institutional restructuring will take leadership with unique skills.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain the “why, what, and how” of major institutional transformations, including mergers, consolidations, acquisitions, corporate conversions, and closures.
2. Describe the organizational, financial, human capital and leadership needs to maximize transformation success.
3. Identify the unique leadership skills, experiences, and qualities necessary for the successful consideration, negotiation, and implementation of major institutional restructuring in higher education.