North Central 2021 Regional Conference

9:30 AM-6:00 PM | Regency Pre-function

Carroll Connections: Strategies for the Future of Wisconsin’s First Higher Education Institution

10:30 AM – 4:00 PM | Regency Pre-function | Meet at the SCUP Registration Desk

Facilitated by: Scott Ramlow, President, Ramlow/Stein Architecture + Interiors | Gina Spang, Sr. Project Manager, VJS Construction

Carroll University, Wisconsin’s first 4-year higher education institution, is an urban, landlocked campus surrounded by historically protected residential neighborhoods. As of 2021, Carroll has arrived at a transition point for making key decisions and seizing opportunities that will shape the evolution of its campus identity, student experience, and relationship with the surrounding community. Join us for a hackathon that will focus in on Carroll University’s current challenges and help find solutions that will benefit both the campus and the community.

This interactive planning charrette starts off with a campus tour and hackathon set-up; participants will then be sorted into four break-out groups, each working on a different challenge with a mid-charrette report out. In the second half, each group will take the possible solutions proposed by the other groups to develop a comprehensive strategy that addresses all four challenges. The planning charrette focuses on the following four challenges:

• East-west campus connection strategies for incorporating potential western land acquisitions.
• Highest and best use analysis of the north end of central campus relative to two planned building projects, campus green requirements, parking, and community connection.
• Distribution of parking relative to access and campus circulation, including commuters, resident students, and events.
• City of Waukesha and Carroll University traffic flow to support desired east-west connections and existing traffic patterns.

Learning Outcomes

1. Integrate physical problem solving with campus community and culture building.
2. Create actionable proposals using a fast-paced design analysis.
3. Develop strategies for integrating student, campus, and community needs and relationships.
4. Incorporate multiple peer concepts into possible unified planning solutions.

Agenda

• Master Campus Plan Review
• Campus Walking Tour
• Group Work Session #1
• Draft Report Out
• Group Work Session #2

Cost: $60 (this includes bus transportation and lunch)

This workshop has limited space, so register early!

4:30 PM-5:30 PM | VUE East

Designing for Student Success: The Role of the Built Environment

5:45PM – 7:00 PM | Regency CD

Presented by: Jody Jessup-Anger, Professor, Department Chair, & Student Affairs in Higher Education Program Coordinator, Marquette University

To address the needs of a changing student population, institutions must pay more attention to the tacit messages their built environments convey. Campus design, building design, and interior design are under-appreciated contributors to students’ sense of belonging and can help support student success. In this session, we will explore how campus leaders can align the messaging of the campus built environment with institutional values and break down barriers to help students feel a sense of belonging, engagement, and community on campus.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain the impacts of campus design on student wellbeing.
2. Describe the messages that the campus built environment conveys to students and how they can promote or inhibit a sense of belonging.
3. Discuss how to align the messages in the built environment with your institutional values to create an environment that supports student success and wellbeing.
4. Identify the barriers present in the built environment that prevent all students from feeling a sense of belonging, engagement, and community on campus.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21P001)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit
Thank you to our Sponsor!

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | VUE Rooftop Ballroom

7:00 AM – 4:30 PM  | Regency Pre-function

Thank you to our Sponsor!

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Regency CD

Beyond The Pandemic: A Comprehensive Approach to Campus Health and Wellbeing

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM | Regency CD

Presented by: Megha Sinha, Principal, Urban Design and Planning, NBBJ | Christopher Berry, Assistant Dean of Students, Student Development, Albion College | Emily Deeker, Director, Campus Planning & Environment, University of Nebraska Lincoln | Kelly Wahlen, Senior Psychiatrist, University Counseling Services, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Campus health and wellness programs have evolved over the years to promote physical health, nutrition, and mental health for students. The pandemic has made it more urgent for institutions to consider the multidimensional determinants of health and a holistic approach to wellness. How do we address elevated levels of stress on campus through design and programming? How do we design facilities and outdoor spaces for better health outcomes? What role does wellness play in fostering student success and belonging? Come learn from our panel of experts as they share their insights on creating healthier campus environments that support student wellbeing.

Learning Outcomes

1. Define the premise of wellbeing and the eight dimensions of wellness and explain how they apply to campus design and programming initiatives.
2. Tie physical campus and building design principles to drive healthy spaces and positive student health outcomes.
3. Gain insights into student mental health needs and the value of investing in comprehensive wellness programs.
4. Explore available resources and potential partners to support your institution’s wellbeing goals for the physical campus environment as well as health and wellness programs.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21P002)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit
Thank you to our Sponsor!

Engaging Faculty and Industry to Increase Workforce Capacity

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Regency A

Presented by: Albert Ray, Market Director, Higher Education, Hollis + Miller Architects | Jeffrey Mandyck, Design Principal | Higher Education, Cuningham Group Architecture, Inc. | Jeffrey Ullmann, Associate Vice Chancellor & Chief Facilities Officer, Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City

Higher education must be observant to remain relevant. Institutional leadership and faculty can help close the workforce capacity gap by making meaningful connections with prospective students, the workforce, and industry partners. Metropolitan Community College (MCC) is changing their pipeline to increase workforce capacity by engaging nontraditional students in addition to re-evaluating academic and physical availability on their campus. In this session, you’ll learn how you can enhance awareness of untapped populations to meet industry goals, evaluate opportunities to improve growth outcomes, and grow industry sponsorship investment through academic and equipment planning at your institution.

Learning Outcomes

1. Scope and identify underutilized demographics and take active steps to show program value to previously untapped potential students.
2. Condense the planning process to critical criteria that provide a framework of informed ‘market speed’ decisions regarding private off-campus development.
3. Keep up-to-date with industry professionals’ best practices that lead to higher productivity, efficiency of space, and safety.
4. Outline a proposal informed by educators and industry to engage motivated students and identify opportunities to extend learning from the classroom into communities.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1385)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Re-imagining Campus Space for a Hybrid Future

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Regency B

Presented by: Megha Sinha, Principal, Urban Design and Planning, NBBJ | Shawna Bolin, Associate Vice President, University Planning, Ohio University-Main Campus | Miranda Kridler, Senior Planner, Ohio University-Main Campus

Ohio University developed an ambitious approach to right-sizing and aligning space to new ways of working. This session will share a variety of tested ideas, including shifting from dedicated offices to unassigned workspace, adding flexible research space, and using portfolio reduction to reinvest in learning spaces. Come learn how to rethink the ways in which campus space functions, deliver future-forward ideas, and express the mission-aligned impacts of changing workspace to gain stakeholder buy-in.

Learning Outcomes

1. Work with data and analytics to objectively assess your institution’s future space needs.
2. Discuss how to optimize your office space to meet evolving workplace preferences and technology needs.
3. Calculate the impact of workspace changes to gain stakeholder support and advance your ideas.
4. Explain how to formulate a space governance strategy to manage your space allocation process and gain stakeholder buy-in.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1410)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Transform Your Building Through Inclusive, Intentional Design

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Executive Ballroom CD

Presented by: Michael Gulich, Director, Campus Master Planning and Sustainability, Purdue University-Main Campus | Peter van den Kieboom, Principal, Architect, Workshop Architects, Workshop Architects

We have a responsibility to make our campus buildings as welcoming and inclusive as possible. This session will share how Purdue University transformed its campus from a transactional place to an inviting, welcoming, and inclusive one. Intentionality plays an important role in a building’s redesign; planners must focus on both the building’s original intent and how to use its assets to fulfill modern needs. We’ll take you through our process of transforming an iconic campus building that relates to today’s students through environmental messaging while also celebrating the institution, its community, and its history.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the right questions institutions must ask in order to forge the right partnership and clarify environmental messaging.
2. Describe Purdue University’s campus environmental branding strategy and how they applied it to create a cohesive and inclusive campus environment.
3. Explain to institutional decision makers about the importance of communicative and meaningful architecture, interior design, environmental graphics, and landscape solutions.
4. Discover strategies that you can apply to your own environmental messaging approach to create truly meaningful buildings on your campus.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1395)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Lessons From the Pandemic: Redefining the Student-centered Learning Environment

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Regency B

Presented by: Anna Pravinata, Principal, Alliance | Amanda Aspenson, Design Project Manager, University of Minnesota Capital Project Management | Nina Ebbighausen, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Minnesota College of Design

Remote instruction during the pandemic has eroded trust in the higher education cost-value ratio, yet the pivot to online learning has also created innovative delivery methods in education. The pandemic has revealed opportunities to redefine higher education’s value proposition and made flipped learning more accessible than ever. We’ll discuss innovative thinking around student-centered teaching and share a learning space prototype that bridges remote and experiential learning. This session will invite you to reconsider student-centered teaching strategies at your institution and reimagine the campus spaces and infrastructure that support them.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify opportunities for implementing innovative teaching methods that have to potential to transform higher education teaching in the future.
2. Assess existing learning and non-learning spaces to determine post-pandemic relevance and identify opportunities for transformation.
3. Identify strategic space modifications within existing campus spaces that support post-pandemic flipped learning and HyFlex teaching methods.
4. Explain how to integrate cross-functional and cross-disciplinary active learning spaces in a variety of scales and types, including for collaboration, hands-on experimentation, production, student teaching, research, and simulation.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1335)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Raising the Bar for High-performance Buildings Amid Unplanned Campus Growth

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Executive Ballroom CD

Presented by: Lewis McNeel, Associate, Lake|Flato | Mark Holmes, Chair, Department of Art and Art History, Knox College | Marcene Kinney, Principal, GBBN Architects

Institutions must be increasingly nimble and respond gracefully to unexpected changes while still elevating aspirations for high-performance facilities. Knox College’s new campus expansion demonstrates a useful roadmap for raising the bar for high-performance buildings amid rapid and unexpected growth to accommodate a new arts district. Join us to hear the success story of Knox’s unplanned expansion using an integrated, flexible, and collaborative process that yielded a high-efficiency, high-performance, and award-winning academic art building.

Learning Outcomes

1. Prepare for rapid pivots during your building project with a nimble, responsive, and problem-solving mindset.
2. Nurture direct and transparent collaborative relationships between your design team, institutional staff, user groups, and contractor at the very outset of a building project.
3. Showcase your institution’s aspirations for its building clearly and directly through demonstrative design.
4. Collaboratively set initial goals for your high-performance building and establish a method for measuring results after the project’s completion.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1416)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Regency CD

Thank you to our Sponsor!

Building First-year Experiences for Generation Z to Thrive on Campus

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Regency B

Presented by: Marcene Kinney, Principal, GBBN Architects | Christopher Panichi, Director of Planning/Design + Construction, Case Western Reserve University

Recent CDC surveys reveal that 63% of Generation Z suffer from heightened stress, anxiety, and depression. To build a more supportive community across campus, institutions can transform common space and experiential learning through positive psychological reinforcement. This session will explore how rethinking the network of learning spaces on campus to support new pedagogies can contribute to an increased sense of belonging and wellbeing. By centering student psychological health as the common language, facilities, student affairs services, and curricular development can work hand-in-hand across campus to elevate student retention, experience, and achievement.

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss how to outline a common space strategy that uses design to support individual student wellbeing and strengthen group dynamics.
2. Apply a psychological wellbeing framework to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of specific experiential learning spaces and adjacent common spaces.
3. Explore how to provide choices for students to work ‘in the zone’ both inside and near the classroom.
4. Leverage technology to promote connectivity between individual work and the impact of that work on real-life issues of wellbeing and belonging.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1384)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Shared Services Models: An Opportunity for Efficiencies

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Regency A

Presented by: Carolyn Farley, Education Specialist, DIRTT Environmental Solutions | Chenise Ryan, Executive Director, Enrollment Operations, University of Alabama at Birmingham | Melissa Long Shuter, Executive Director of Operations Support Services, University of Louisville | Lee Smith, Senior Director, Huron Consulting Group

This session will explore current shared service models that have achieved winning results for the campuses they serve, including financial successes, space efficiency, and customer satisfaction. Identifying opportunities to develop efficiencies among staff roles and campus space can be useful ways to save money and provide a higher level of service through co-location. Come discover new ways to improve the experience of your campus community by driving both space and personnel efficiencies.

Learning Outcomes

1. Define ‘shared services’ in terms of both staffing and space.
2. Identify the various forms a shared service model can take in order to consider the concept broadly enough to find a model that will best serve your campus.
3. Consider your campus’s personnel requirements (including hiring, transferring, and training) as well as the location and space configuration in order to optimize the value of the service.
4. Explore the process and timing to imagine, design, and implement a shared services model, including options for standing up the service on a short timeline to more quickly reap the model’s benefits.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS21C1367)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Washington University’s Sustainable Historic Buildings

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Executive Ballroom CD

Presented by: Joe Brinkmann, Principal, Trivers Associates | Railesha Tiwari, Sustainable Design and Construction Project Manager, Washington University

Historic buildings often occupy prominent spots on campus and serve as touchstones for alumni, faculty, and current students. Institutions must work to keep them viable and efficient to ensure their usefulness and sustainability in the future. In this session, we’ll detail a 15-year history of updating historic campus buildings to remain functional, effective, and compliant with campus-wide sustainability plans on Washington University’s Danforth Campus. Come learn from our proven methods of evaluating, prioritizing, and implementing measures that modernize historic buildings for maximum efficiency and compliancy with campus-wide sustainability goals.

Learning Outcomes

1. Challenge preconceived notions that historic buildings are obsolete and can’t be sufficiently upgraded to reach campus sustainability goals.
2. Use proven methods to assess your existing building’s performance in regards to efficiency and sustainability.
3. Apply lessons learned from three historic renovation projects, including one that achieved LEED Platinum, to make decisions about your campus’s historic buildings.
4. Outline energy conservation goals for historic buildings on your campus.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1392)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Inclusive Placemaking: Mediating the Effects of Organizational and Architectural Exclusion

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM | Executive Ballroom CD

Presented by: Loren Rullman, Principal & Director, Higher Education, Workshop Architects, Inc. | Brian Schermer, Principal, Design Research, Workshop Architects, Workshop Architects | Jacob Hahn, Internal Consultant, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Institutions are currently treating equity and student experience as high-priority issues on their campuses. This session will delve into an inclusion study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW), which conducted research into how students of color and underrepresented populations experience feelings of belonging or alienation within campus spaces. This research is intended to help institutions create more inclusive environments, help others understand the lived experience of minority students, and contribute to socially-just architectural and organizational change. Join us to gain insights, methodologies, and practical tools for inclusive placemaking that you can apply at your institution.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify features and aspects of campus spaces that may cause feelings of exclusion for minority students.
2. Develop an inclusion assessment of campus spaces, programs, and services to implement at your institution.
3. Identify actions that you can take to mediate the effects of organizational exclusion.
4. Create a list of actionable inclusive placemaking recommendations for your campus.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1394)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Making STEM Spaces the New Campus Hubs for Student Life

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM | Regency B

Presented by: Charles Smith, Principal, CannonDesign | Karen Wolfert, Senior Architect & Planner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

STEM facilities are quickly catching up to unions as the heart of student life on campus. To better support student recruitment, retention, and success, STEM facilities must provide a mashup of social and academic space that students need for sparking connections, partnerships, and friendships. We’ll explore this growing trend and introduce strategies for making STEM facilities hubs for campus life. Join us to gain a solid understanding of the trends shaping the future of STEM facilities, including a look inside the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s future-forward chemistry building.

Learning Outcomes

1. Challenge assumptions about the types of experiences today’s STEM facilities should accommodate.
2. Rethink existing STEM environments to better support students academically and socially.
3. Contribute to strategic conversations about programming future-forward STEM facilities.
4. Share proven best practices from institutions that have successfully repositioned STEM facilities as campus hubs for student life.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1386)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Esports: Out of the Console and Into the Future

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM | Regency A

Presented by: Jeff Kuhn, Esports Director, Ohio University | Daniel Pomfrett, Vice President, Cumming Corporation | Carli Sekella, Studio Director, Senior Architect, Legat Architects | Sana Khwaja, Sustainability Coordinator, Legat Architects

Ohio University’s esports program and gaming facilities have created opportunity and facilitated change across the physical campus and beyond. This session will provide insight and real-life examples of how the university integrated esports into the overall campus curriculum and designed flexible learning spaces to support it. Come learn how the needs of modern students are shaping the design, growth, integration, and future of esports at Ohio University.

Learning Outcomes

1. Find opportunities for integrating esports within programs at your institution.
2. Think beyond the typical classroom for learning and social spaces on campus to implement new, innovative approaches.
3. Explain how integrating esports into campus curriculum leads to the creation of new social space, flexible learning, and student interaction.
4. Seek input from students and find ways to incorporate their design choices in learning and social spaces on campus.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPN21C1376)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

How Culture Shapes Collaborative Campus Spaces

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Regency A

Presented by: John DeGraff, Marketer, Innovator and Educator, University of Wisconsin- Whitewater | Carmen Pennington, Territory Sales Manager, ASID, NCIDQ, Haworth

An institution’s culture is the foundation of its success, but if culture and goals are not aligned, it cannot achieve its planning strategies. Understanding culture types and collaboration preferences is the key to creating a thoughtfully-designed campus. We’ll demonstrate how to leverage our competing values framework—a tool that uncovers an organization’s culture or personality—to explore how organizational culture contributes to a highly-collaborative campus environment. All cultures play an important role in the process of innovation, and by considering how these groups work separately and together, you can design collaborative campus spaces that support optimal performance.

Learning Outcomes

1. Define and differentiate between organizational cultures on your campus in order to work collaboratively across those cultures.
2. Use organizational culture knowledge to generate design ideas for campus spaces that support all users.
3. Apply collaboration tendencies of each organizational culture to specific spaces on campus to create a more supportive environment.
4.  Identify specific physical campus attributes that support an organizational culture and its collaboration preferences.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1375)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning for Increased Campus Construction Costs

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Regency B

Presented by: Joe Pritzkow, Market Executive, Mortenson | Jeffrey Gruhn, Director, Project Development, Mortenson

Significant cost increases can be disruptive for existing and future building construction budgets. The market is currently showing a record-setting construction cost increase both regionally and nationally for 2021. Planners must equip themselves with the latest information on construction costs and trends in order to work with senior campus leadership as well as design partners, end users, and donors. In this session, you’ll learn about the factors causing these trends and how to use this knowledge to effectively plan for your campus projects.

Learning Outcomes

1. Communicate with senior leaders about market conditions and how to plan for them.
2. Evaluate the potential impact of construction costs on current and future project budgets.
3. Identify where you can make adjustments to your facility maintenance plan in order to maintain budget parameters.
4. Use local and national resources to track future price fluctuations in construction.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1433)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Rejuvenation: Investing in Existing Residence Halls for Bright Futures

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Executive Ballroom CD

Presented by: Lynne Deninger, Senior Vice President, CannonDesign | Marisa Nemcik, Student Life Strategist, CannonDesign | Alma Sealine, Executive Director of University Housing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Almost every institution has existing residence halls that they could upgrade for a fraction of the cost of building new. As institutions seek to meet student housing needs, they should consider renovating existing buildings as a viable strategy for creating state-of-the-art facilities. Taking this path can extend building life, attract students, and save capital. In this session, we’ll provide you with practical strategies that you can apply at your institution as you explore the possibilities of renovating existing student housing facilities.

Learning Outcomes

1. Educate others on how to evaluate existing student residence halls to determine if they are viable for renovation and rejuvenation.
2. Advocate for renovation as an effective strategy to improve buildings, enhance student experience, reduce capital expenditure, and extend building life.
3. Share case studies of how other institutions have effectively revived aging residential buildings and transformed them into wildly popular and attractive student housing.
4. Share extensive information around leading student housing trends, needs, and approaches for the future.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1388)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) Tour

4:45 PM – 6:15 PM | Regency Pre-function | Meet at the Registration Desk

Join us for a tour of the Milwaukee School of Engineering’s (MSOE) Diercks Hall, Hammock Grove, Viets Residence Tower, and Family Plaza. The tour will focus on the school’s interior and exterior collaborative areas, interdisciplinary collision, partnership spaces, and different modes of learning and student support. Come learn how MSOE has evolved to offer students the traditional campus experience, find out where the school is heading, and discover some fun new facts along the way!

Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss campus master planning and the preservation of catalytic building sites to achieve strategic developments.
2. Assess the role of greater campus circulation in building design for interdisciplinary collision and collaboration.
3. Compare opportunities, desirability, and the interrelation of large and small student collaboration spaces on campus.
4. Explain the increased need for student engagement and support spaces in campus design to develop strong campus communities.

Cost $40 additional fee (includes bus transportation)

Thank you to our Sponsor

7:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Regency Pre-function

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Regency CD

Emerging Vocational Classrooms

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM | Regency A

Presented by: Charlene Johnsos, Project Manager / Architect, Kluber Architects + Engineers | Mike Kluber, Electrical Engineer, Kluber Architects + Engineers | Ruth Williams, Assistant Vice President, Academic Affairs, Dean, Curriculum & Instruction Professor, Biology, Oakton Community College

The jobs that power our economy are evolving daily and educational facilities must keep ahead of workforce demands in order to stay relevant to the students they serve. This is especially true for community colleges with vocational curricula, which have historically helped to lead communities out of recessions. Come learn how you can modify your educational facilities in response to emerging vocations and work with local laws, grants, and industry partners to build for changing curricula.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify changes in vocations that require updated facilities and curricula as well as how these vocations impact other areas, such as law, economics, chemistry, biology, therapy, and agriculture.
2. Find relationships and partnerships that can help meet facility and curriculum goals, including other educators and industry partners.
3. Discuss how to budget for future campus adjustments necessary for accommodating emerging vocational training.
4. Advocate for packaging courses to create certificates and specialized degrees.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1432)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Regionalism, Ecology, and Field-based Learning in the Ozark Mountains

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM | Executive Ballroom CD

Presented by: Josh Harrold, Associate Principal, BNIM | Tamera Jahnke, Dean, Missouri State University-Springfield | Mark Wheeler, University Architect and Director of Planning, Design and Construction, Missouri State University | Janice Greene, Professor and Director of Bull Shoals Field Station, Missouri State University

Post-pandemic, it is increasingly important for institutions to create innovative new outdoor learning environments. This session will share a project that defines field-based learning, planning, and design methodologies that reflect the natural regional ecology of the Ozark Mountain landscape. In addition to providing hands-on, field-based immersion for graduate students and researchers the project also brought about new community partnerships for STEM education. Come learn about the project’s site challenges, regionalism advocacy, community partnerships, and STEM educational frameworks.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain how to successfully navigate donor relations, undervalued and remote sites, working with consultant teams.
2. Incorporate regional history and site-specific approaches in remote or unexpected locations for learning ‘off the grid’ in a post-COVID academic landscape.
3. Develop partnerships outside your institution on both your main campus and in remote locations for STEM hands-on learning programs.
4. Identify the right environments for site-specific, outdoor, immersive field-based learning initiatives with a focus on hands-on active learning spaces.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1406)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

From Siloed to Sustainable: How the Connected Campus Builds Long-term Value and Agility

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM | Regency B

Presented by: Carolyn Cirillo, Workplace Research Manager, Knoll, Inc. | Amanda Wirth Lorenzo, Director, brightspot strategy | Lora Strigens, Vice President for Planning & Facilities Management, Marquette University

Campus spaces and what they offer play a vital role in student success. By making organizational and operational changes, these spaces can better respond to transformational shifts in higher education. In order to build long-term value and agility in physical campus space, we must connect academia with industry, teaching with research, student affairs with academic affairs, online with on-campus experiences, and capital with operational planning. In this session, you’ll learn how to combine digital and physical environments, promote diversity and inclusion, and implement flexibility within campus spaces to prepare your institution for a more blended world.

Learning Outcomes

1. Adapt to technological, economic, and demographic trends reshaping higher education by rethinking how to organize and operate campus spaces as well as balancing digital and physical experiences.
2. Explain how to achieve maximum space utilization on your campus through better planning, support services, and application of space metrics and data.
3. Describe how to create inclusive spaces that support diverse and flexible work methods as well as people and well-being.
4. Network with peers to address common challenges, share best practices, and exchange resources.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPN21C1095)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

8:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Regency Pre-function

Thank you to our Sponsor!

Engaging Cross-institutional Partners to Advance the Anti-Racism Action Plan

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Regency A

Presented by: Derrick Wyman, Senior Advisor for Planning, The Ohio State University | Autumn Glover, President of PACT and Senior Director of Community Engagement, The Ohio State University

Many institutions are leading and implementing strategies for addressing systemic racism within higher education. The Ohio State University (OSU) Wexner Medical Center’s Anti-Racism Action Plan is one such strategy that aims to establish an anti-racist culture as well as best practices for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In this session, we’ll provide you with a roadmap for engaging stakeholders, developing strategic goals and priorities, securing resources, and implementation that you can use to effectively address DEI issues on your campus.

Learning Outcomes

1. Gain the tools you need to conduct an environmental and situational assessment to understand current organizational challenges and opportunities for DEI initiatives on your campus.
2. Explain how to establish institutional priorities and stand-up action groups to implement best practices for an anti-racist culture.
3. Develop a system for prioritizing action plans that require resources and make a case to leadership to invest in those resources.
4. Identify internal and external stakeholders you must engage to develop your own anti-racism action pan and prioritize strategies for making a positive organizational change.

How an Unprecedented Year Changed the Game for Campus Planning

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Regency B

Presented by: Marcella David, Senior Vice President & Provost, Columbia College Chicago | Ann Kalayil, Associate Vice President of Facilities and Construction, Columbia College-Chicago | David Broz, Principal, Gensler | Meghan Webster, Principal, Gensler

Institutions are expanding the purpose, process, and outcomes of campus master planning as a vehicle for shaping a resilient, agile, and equitable future in the wake of the pandemic. This session will detail how a comprehensive process, involving stakeholder engagement, facility assessment, analytics, financial scenarios, prioritization, and real estate optimization can position institutions for long-term success. We’ll present a campus planning proof case that Columbia College Chicago conducted during the pandemic, illustrating an evolved approach with tools and methods you can use to optimally prepare your institution for an unknown future.

Learning Outcomes

1. Outline a strategy to help you determine ‘highest and best use’ of campus assets, space utilization, and optimal stewardship of resources based on quantitative and qualitative factors.
2. Identify successes and challenges of the pandemic that you can apply to future planning strategies, including hybrid learning, evolving campus support services, and investment optimization.
3. Explain how you can leverage partnerships to streamline future campus planning processes and establish mutually beneficial solutions for the campus as well as regional and global communities.
4. Champion and consistently communicate a vision and plan for the future that aligns with your institutional mission while also navigating stakeholder voices, business challenges, community relations, and evolving academic goals.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1399)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Setting the Stage for World-class Surgical Innovation and Training

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Executive Ballroom CD

Presented by: Damon Wilson, Architect, Bailey Edward Architecture | Carlos Amato, Principal, CannonDesign | Pier Giulianotti, Chief, Division of Minimally Invasive, General & Robotic Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago | Shawn Riley, Project Manager / Office of Planning, Sustainability and Project Management, University of Illinois at Chicago

When campus space is limited and new construction is undesirable, institutions can transform their existing spaces into flexible and adaptable environments for a long-lasting solution. The Surgical Innovation and Technology Laboratory at the University of Illinois-Chicago demonstrates peak flexibility in its design, enabling users to shift seamlessly between activities, innovations, and industry partners without reconfiguring space layouts. Discover how you can coordinate with students, faculty, and industry leaders to plan flexible spaces in your institution’s existing facilities that evolve alongside educational and industry trends.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify existing spaces on campus to transform into new, world-class facilities.
2. Cooperate with industry partners to provide students and researchers with the latest technology for real-world learning experiences.
3. Discuss how to create a flexible space that anticipates future technology trends.
4. Define a project vision for guiding the creation of a facility that meets your institution’s needs.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPC21C1411)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

11:00 AM – 12:15 PM | Regency CD

Presented by: Scott Ramlow, President, Ramlow/Stein Architecture + Interiors | Liz Taylor, Director of STEM, Milwaukee School of Engineering | Nestor DeOcampo, Data Resource Analyst, Michigan State University | Kris Burfitt, Strategy and Innovation Associate, Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center

This keynote panel is a collaborative exploration of forward-thinking strategies for STEM outreach, education, and application. Come join the panelists for an engaging discussion about their current experience in building and running facilities in K-12 schools, higher education, and industry as well as how their strategies for flexibility are bridging these different phases in the STEM continuum.

Learning Outcomes

1. Integrate elements in K-12 STEM facilities to help connect K-12 students to higher education.
2. Concept a planning process to align curriculum and pedagogical changes to ensure that programmatic goals are supported in STEM facilities.
3. Describe flexible design elements in STEM educational spaces that can adapt to programmatic or pedagogical changes over time.
4. Identify common STEM elements that can build a bridge from education to industry.

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM | Regency Pre-function, Regency CD

Marquette University Tour – The Commons Residence Hall and Physician Assistant Studies Building

12:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Regency Pre-function

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