North Atlantic Symposium: Lessons From the Fall

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Moderated by: Persis Rickes, President & Principal, Rickes Associates

Presented by: Elizabeth Hendry, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Queens College—CUNY | James M. Sloat, Associate Provost and Associate Dean of Faculty, Colby College | Donald Hall, Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Sciences and Engineering, University of Rochester

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Distance learning and hybrid teaching models have been part of the higher education conversation for some time, with many schools experimenting with these approaches for a subset of their offerings.  Academic change generally doesn’t happen overnight. . . until March 2020.  This spring, colleges and universities scrambled to find ways to deliver the entire curriculum remotely.  This fall each institution has crafted its own approach to academics – some fully remote, others with some portion of students on campus, but much of the learning remote, some dabbling with particular courses in person, and others back in person.  This session will examine how diverse institutions have addressed the academic challenges and what they have learned.  How will these experiences shape both near-term and longer-term (post-pandemic) academic delivery and pedagogy?  What does the “new normal” look like? How does this affect academic and research space needs?

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand the greatest challenges experienced by institutions of different scales in the overnight flip to 100% remote learning.
2. Learn how these institutions further adapted academic plans/pedagogies when they had some time for planning (for the fall).
3. Explore the anticipated and unanticipated outcomes (silver linings) from these necessary adaptations of academic delivery and research.
4. Discover what these leaders foresee in terms of lasting impacts and changes in the structure of learning at their campuses.

Moderated by: John Fogarty, Director, Capital Planning, Stony Brook University

Presented by: Richard Gatteau, Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students, Stony Brook University | Jeffrey Barnett, Associate Dean of Students, Stony Brook University

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One of the universally-accepted advantages of higher education is the maturation, socialization and leadership opportunities offered within a large campus community. But when safety requires students to strictly limit their face-to-face activities, how are students’ natural desires for community, cultural, recreational and civic engagement opportunities met? This session will examine in detail the efforts of Stony Brook University, a large public NY institution, to engage its student population, and maintain a student community in trying times.

Learning Outcomes

1. Describe the shift from face to face engagement to virtual settings for campus clubs, student activities, cultural events, recreation and wellness activities.
2. Explain how Student Affairs staff can reorganize to respond to ever-changing circumstances.
3. Learn successful strategies for community and inclusion in a hybrid campus format involving the majority of virtual students and a greatly reduced on-campus population.
4. Assess successful engagement strategies in student affairs, academic affairs, and college and university administration.

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Moderated by: Rick Staisloff, Senior Partner, rpk GROUP

Presented by: Melissa Beardmore, Vice President for Learning Resources Management, Anne Arundel Community College | Tim Bowman, Executive Dean for Administration and Finance, Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | Scott Jordan, Executive Vice President for Administration & Chief Financial Officer, University of Connecticut

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Higher education’s response to the COVID-19 crisis has required a short-term focus on necessary expenses to support remote work and learning, as well as one-time adjustments to address budget shortfalls.  However, if COVID is viewed as an accelerant rather than a cause of higher education’s long-term business model challenges, how might institutions begin to pivot towards a more sustainable model?  This session will highlight best practice approaches for reallocating existing resources (people, time and money) toward strategic investments that support mission, student success and the business model.

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand the shift from budget balancing to return on investment, and how an ROI lens can support both mission and the business model.
2. Learn how institutions are making decisions in the short term that set them up for longer term, structural change to their business model.
3. Learn successful strategies for applying a change management approach when connecting resources and strategy.
4. Explore ways to engage all stakeholders around the business model, and increase institutional capacity in understanding where the money comes from and where it goes.

Moderated by: Pete Zuraw, Vice President of Market Strategy and Development, Gordian

Presented by: Suzanne Musho, P Capital Facilities Management and EH&S, New York Institute of Technology | Matt Purcell, Director of Capital Planning and Development, University System of New Hampshire

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Planning strategically for the future has never been more pressing and rarely been as challenging as it is today.  Entering 2020, schools were mulling whether or not to confront growing enrollment, financial, and building renewal challenges.  Nine months later, institutions were implementing a completely new approach to education while saddled with the reality of those challenges in real time.  We will explore the physical plans we made in response to the pandemic-driven fall academic plan, how we implemented those plans, and what this means for the future of higher education.

Learning Outcomes

1. Describe operating and capital strategies that have proven successful this fall.
2. Explain responses to operating and capital strategies that have presented challenges or risk.
3. Identify new practices that should continue in higher education beyond the pandemic.
4. Apply approaches for creating a viable future on your campus and find new ways to use existing assets.

AIA LU 1.25 Unit (SCUPN20M1)
AICP CM 1.25 Unit

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