10:30AM – 4:45 PM | Ballroom Foyer | EMU

Badge pickup for the morning tours will happen from 7:45am to 9:30am. Registration will open for all attendees at 10:30am in the EMU Ballroom Foyer.

Shuttle transportation between the Graduate Eugene, the Holiday Inn – University and the EMU (Erb Memorial Union) building will be available Wednesday and Thursday for conference attendees. The Inn at the 5th and the Gordon hotel are less than a 5-minute walk to the Graduate.

12:00PM – 1:00 PM | Ballroom | EMU

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 Pacific regional council.

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21st Century Creative Possibilities: Crossing Disciplinary, Curricular, and Spatial Thresholds in Higher Education Planning

1:00PM – 2:00 PM | Ballroom | EMU

Presented by: Dr. AlaÍ Reyes-Santos, Professor of Practice, University of Oregon School of Law, and Associate Director, PNW Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice

Today the Pacific Northwest is witnessing one of the most dramatic ethnic and racial demographic shifts in the U.S., leading America’s regional population growth. Intensifying drought conditions in California and the intermountain west contribute to our demographic transformations. Dr. Alai Reyes-Santos will share lessons and experiences from her work with students, multiple institutional spaces, and community partners to simultaneously create access to higher education for historically underrepresented and marginalized communities, train a pipeline of new civic leaders, and re-imagine the use of physical and virtual campus spaces, while addressing the accelerating impacts of climate change.

Learning Outcomes:

1. The empowering process of engaging students in developing research skills that enable them to work with peers, community partners, and in the digital sphere.
2. Discuss the Oregon Water Futures Project, a collaborative project centering environmental justice and community priorities for shared water resources.
3. Discuss the Healers Digital Humanities Project researching Afro-Indigenous traditional ecological and healing knowledge.
4. Identify challenges and possibilities for cross-disciplinary collaborations that engage faculty, staff, and students in innovative planning processes for higher education.

Thank you to our Sponsors!

Planning Living Laboratories for Educational Equity

2:20 PM – 3:20 PM | Redwood Auditorium | EMU

Presented by: Brodie Bain, Principal, Perkins&Will | Saumya Kini, Urban Designer, Walker Macy | Rebecca Ocken, Planning Manager, Portland Community College | Amara Pérez, Critical Race Spatial Educator, Researcher, and Strategist, Amara H. Perez

Portland Community College (PCC), a multi-campus institution constantly navigating academic, workforce, and social change, offers critical, timely lessons for inclusive integrated planning. This session will share lessons learned from the development of PCC’s inclusive flagship facilities plan, which incorporated data as a planning framework, applied student feedback on issues of equity and hybrid learning, and considered the need for both precision and flexibility in community college learning environments. Join us to discuss the meaningful intersections between educational equity, campus planning, and institution-wide shifts and find out how you can effectively balance uncertainty, flexibility, and specificity in your facilities planning process.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Use data to integrate facilities planning with institution-wide values, goals, and shifts.
2. Examine policies and practices in physical planning and design with a critical race spatial lens.
3. Elevate student voices into long-term guidance for planning hybrid learning facilities that will support a diverse student body.
4. Translate complex community college priorities into flexible and equitable adaptations of space.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1509)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Student and Planet Health: Achieving Wellbeing Through Sustainable Design

2:20 PM – 3:20 PM | Crater Lake North | EMU

Presented by: Monica Amalfitano, Associate Director/Campus Engineer, California State University-Long Beach | Donna Barry, Design Director, Gensler | Corry Colonna, Executive Director, California State University-Long Beach | Melissa Soto, Program Planner, California State University-Long Beach

Students emerging from a year of virtual classes and living at home are looking for opportunities to engage in person and make human connections for their mental wellbeing and academic success. California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) is implementing sustainable design in residential campus spaces to fight climate change while supporting student life, inclusivity, diversity, and wellbeing. Come learn how to improve the student living experience post-covid and forge a sustainable campus connection to the environment, resulting in healthier students and a healthier planet.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Conduct student surveys for first-hand experiences of student success and wellbeing to improve your institution’s matriculation rate.
2. Find opportunities on your campus for more spaces that facilitate informal human interactions and student wellbeing while mitigating the built environment’s impact on climate change.
3. Identify sustainable design solutions that you can use to address your campus community’s mental health.
4. Reexamine a ‘back to basics’ approach to campus residential life with traditional room configurations, shared spaces, and new tools and dashboards that monitor energy and water use for greater sustainability.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1555)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Addressing the Workforce Skills Gap Pre- and Post-pandemic

2:20 PM – 3:20 PM | Crater Lake South | EMU

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Presented by: Thomas Goodhew, Capital Construction Manager, Facilities Management & Planning, Lane Community College | Andrew Lattanner, Director, Portland Community College | Grant Matthews, Associate Vice President, Career Technical Education and Workforce Development, Lane Community College | Gregg Sanders, Associate Principal, Architect, Hennebery Eddy Architects, Inc.

Community colleges must transform their programs, partnerships, and facilities in order to close workforce skills gaps. This session will explore how two campus projects—Portland Community College’s (PCC) recently completed Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Training Center (OMIC) and Lane Community College’s (LCC) in-progress learning facilities—have adapted to evolving workforce training models as well as climate and pandemic health impacts on career and technical education. Discover how to transform your institution’s training programs and facilities with new technology, accessibility for underserved populations, industry partnerships, and solutions to health and climate-related challenges.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss a new workforce development model to close opportunity and skills gaps.
2. Apply lessons learned from pandemic-related health and climate changes to reshape advanced technology education models.
3. Create a funding partnership between industry, higher education, and government.
4. Describe the design process for apprenticeship-based learning environments.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1547)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Naturescape at UC Irvine: Open Spaces for Learning, Wellbeing, and Resilience

3:40 PM – 4:40 PM | Crater Lake North | EMU

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Presented by: Matthew Deines, Senior Planner, University of California-Irvine | dawn dyer, associate principal, Studio-MLA | Jeremy Jarin, Associate, Studio-MLA

As campuses grow to meet their academic goals, they often prioritize indoor spaces over outdoor spaces; yet, there is great opportunity to design campus landscapes in ways that support teaching, research, and lifelong learning. The University of California, Irvine’s (UCI) Naturescape project aims to reimagine the campus as a living laboratory that serves academic and community needs while investing in an innovative, ecological approach to campus growth and development. Come learn about UCI’s collaborative planning process for leveraging the campus landscape as a resource that supports interdisciplinary education, research, and wellbeing.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss a collaborative process for engaging educators, administrators, community stakeholders, and designers to intentionally plan campus open space resources for increased resiliency and community wellbeing.
2. Discover strategies for creating a living laboratory of interdisciplinary scholarship and active learning by providing campus spaces for place-based research, wellbeing, teaching, and community engagement.
3. Examine ways to identify, assess, and develop solutions for underutilized campus landscape areas and missing linkages within your campus’s open space network.
4. Respect your campus’s unique human and biological heritage by planning healthier and more resilient open space that will meet the needs for current and future generations.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1664)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Replanning UNM’s College of Fine Arts for Increased Effectiveness

3:40 PM – 4:40 PM | Crater Lake South | EMU

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Presented by: Amy Coburn, Director and University Architect, Planning, Design & Construction, University of New Mexico-Main Campus | Christiana Moss, Principal, Studio Ma, Inc | Harris Smith, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Professor, Dept. of Theatre, University of New Mexico

For many institutions, the pandemic slashed capital budgets and added pressure on campus facilities. Higher education planners need actionable strategies to fund campus improvements and meet mission and academic goals. This session will detail the University of New Mexico’s (UNM) holistic master planning approach for restructuring its College of Fine Arts to meet academic demands, promote interdisciplinary learning, and increase cultural and economic benefits. By applying real estate asset management, outcomes-based programming, and change scenarios to your master planning process, you’ll be able to more effectively address the needs of your campus community while working within a limited capital budget.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explore the benefits of applying a real estate asset management process to evaluate your campus physical plan and prioritize improvements and new construction against funding streams.
2. Structure a outcomes-based programming approach to integrating academic and sustainability goals with physical programming.
3. Use scenario-planning to provide holistic insights into campuswide facility changes during phased construction to campus administration, faculty departments, students, and other constituencies.
4. Discuss how to incorporate effective diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) processes into outreach and engagement to adapt campuses at room, building, and campus levels.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1640)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Build Together: Strengthening Community Through Partnerships

3:40 PM – 4:40 PM | Redwood Auditorium | EMU

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Presented by: Laurie Canup, Principal, SRG Partnership Inc. | Rebecca Ocken, Planning Manager, Office of Planning and Capital Construction
Portland Community College | Jason Franklin, Director of Campus Planning and Design, Portland State University | Sara Vonde Veld, Director of Campus Planning and Real Estate, Oregon Health & Science University

In a time of reduced state funding, institutions have the opportunity to come together to advance shared goals and academic programs that benefit their communities. This session will explore Portland’s Vanport Building, the result of a unique partnership between two public universities and a community college, enabling them to pool resources to create a valuable community asset. We’ll share the deeply-collaborative tools that we used to build this unique partnership project on time and on budget, even in the face of a pandemic.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to leverage a local partnership to facilitate your campus development outside of traditional funding mechanisms.
2. Structure your own campus projects in a way that enhances collaboration for the benefit of underserved populations in your communities.
3. Recognize where your institution may have common or overlapping goals with other institutions and how this can lead to mutual benefits.
4. Define a process of engagement that allows consensus across a partnership and uses integrated project design tools that facilitate enhanced collaboration and timely decisions.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1502)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Civic Winery

Bus transportation will be provided from campus to the reception location.

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8:00 AM – 4:00 PM | Ballroom Foyer | EMU

Shuttle transportation between the Graduate Eugene, the Holiday Inn – University and the EMU (Erb Memorial Union) building will be available Wednesday and Thursday for conference attendees. The Inn at the 5th and the Gordon hotel are less than a 5-minute walk to the Graduate.

The Knight Campus: Opening Doors for Translational Research and Applied Science at UO

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Ballroom | EMU

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Presented by: Mike Harwood, Associate Vice President and University Architect, University of Oregon Campus Planning and Facilities Management | Moira Kiltie, Associate Vice President and Chief of Staff, Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact | Keat Ghee Ong, Knight Campus Professor, Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact

This University of Oregon (UO) panel will share how UO’s investments in the Knight Campus are already transforming the campus and redefining the modern research university by fostering world-changing research unfettered by traditional academic boundaries.

Learning Outcomes:

1. 1. Identify intentional design strategies for creating a campus that serves as a community draw and asset.
   2. Describe the Knight Campus’s culture of “discovery on display” to celebrate its work in research.
   3. Discuss how the design process engaged all voices in the UO science community.
   4. Explain how human-centered design impacts the applied science work environment.

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Activating Social Change Through Strategic Partnerships

10:20 AM – 11:20 AM | Crater Lake North | EMU

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Presented by: Jeanie Lai, Principal, Bora Architects | Rebecca Ocken, Planning Manager, Portland Community College | Amara Pérez, Critical Race Spatial Educator, Researcher, and Strategist, Amara H. Perez | Chris Hodney, Principal, Hacker Architects

Through strategic partnerships with local non-profits and agencies, community colleges can leverage their unique platforms to benefit underserved communities and address housing shortages. This session will explore Portland Community College’s (PCC) collaborative design and planning process for the site redevelopment of its Metro Workforce Training Center, which aims to deliver affordable housing and supportive community spaces. Come learn how successful facilities planning can innovate new forms of inquiry and engagement to create programs, services, and environments that better support the wellbeing of underserved communities.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Establish objectives for creating strategic partnerships among education, housing, and non-profit business sectors to foster communal wellbeing build a more equitable, inclusive future.
2. Identify challenges and factors in institutional planning and affordable housing policies that impact project objectives and outcomes.
3. Adapt a design and planning process approach that can improve wellbeing for diverse and under-invested communities at the building, site, and campus scales.
4. Discuss an inclusive, community-based design process imbued with the principles of a critical race spatial lens and design justice.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1644)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Rooted in Place: Campus Planning as a Path Toward Reconciliation

10:20 AM – 11:20 AM | Crater Lake South | EMU

Presented by: Brent Elliott, Director, Planning, Development, and Sustainability, Kwantlen Polytechnic University | Jaret Lang, Associate Vice President, Campus & Community Planning, Kwantlen Polytechnic University | Emily Rennalls, DIALOG

Many higher education campuses are located on ancestral territories that have longer histories than the institution. Campuses have the opportunity to become more just, inclusive, imaginative, and authentic places when they take action towards reconciliation with indigenous peoples. Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) is using its 2050 campus plan to reset and root the campus in the living histories of its indigenous ancestral territory. We’ll share our experience developing KPU’s campus plan, discuss the merits of connecting your campus to its indigenous history, and help you to outline a path toward addressing reconciliation and decolonization.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a baseline understanding of your institution’s relationship with colonial practices, your personal relationship with colonization, and local indigenous history.
2. Create a process that allows flexibility in approach, timelines, and budgeting in order to allow room for trust and relationship-building.
3. Identify institutional champions of the reconciliation process and build relationships with indigenous partners and knowledge-keepers.
4. Explain how to structure an implementation strategy for quick wins and measure success through relationship outcomes, not just the fiscal bottom-line.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1539)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

The Impact of Workplace Disruption on Higher Education

10:20 AM – 11:20 AM | Redwood Auditorium | EMU

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Presented by: Niraj Dangoria, Associate Dean, Facilities Planning and Management, Stanford University

The pandemic has caused us to rethink how we work. Higher education must consider workplace disruption and its impact on campus spaces in regards to ownership, culture, and affordability. This session will use relevant case studies to examine issues around facilities programming, implementation, assessment, and design to provide insight into what the workplace revolution really means in higher education. Join us for a collaborative discussion that will expose challenges, share best practices, and uncover opportunities to help you plan cost-effective, functional, and thoughtfully-designed workspaces on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Conduct a realistic assessment of your campus workplace.
2. Identify challenges before beginning your workspace planning process.
3. Discuss aspects of change management that are relevant to planning the future of your workplace.
4. Discuss a facilities design and planning process that will result in more predictable outcomes.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1554)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

An All-inclusive Building Concept for Holistic Student Wellness

11:40 AM – 12:40 PM | Crater Lake South | EMU

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Presented by: John How, Associate Vice President, Montana State University – Bozeman | Molly Hanson, Conservation and Community Outreach Specialist, RDG Planning & Design | Grant Petersen, Construction Manager, Campus Planning, Design and Construction (CPDC), Montana State University

Montana State University’s (MSU) new Student Wellness Center is a response to an increasing student demand for modern wellness facilities that go beyond traditional campus recreational or medical facilities. Capitalizing on an unforeseen facility catastrophe, MSU integrated an all-inclusive wellness mindset and design into a reimagined wellness center that holistically supports student mental and emotional wellbeing. In this session, we’ll share the WELL certification design influence on a facility that combines academic, recreation, medical, dental, spiritual, and research spaces to address all aspects of student wellbeing.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Document current issues affecting students on your campus and develop a matrix to assess building inefficiencies relating to wellness.
2. Outline a multifaceted communication plan to not only garner support from students but to educate regents and lawmakers about the benefits of an integrated wellness center.
3. Identify the holes within the your campus’s wellness construct (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, financial, academic, environmental, social) and assess how a new facility and programs can address those deficiencies.
4. Explore project financing plans to address multifaceted spaces, which may require different funding sources and financing options per state laws.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1691)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Reimagining SJSU: Opening a Door to the Future During the Pandemic

11:40 AM – 12:40 PM | Redwood Auditorium | EMU

Presented by: Jane Lin, Urban Designer, Architect, Urban Field Studio | Christen Soares, Principal, Field Paoli Architects

The pandemic has disrupted traditional educational and administrative practices, but higher education planners can use this time as an opportunity to rethink the meaning of place and space on campus. San Jose State University (SJSU), California’s oldest public university, operates at multiple sites in Silicon Valley. We’ll share how SJSU adapted their planning process, assessed different campus settings, and created a future-enabling framework based on its strategic plan. Discover valuable lessons from SJSU on how to work with university leadership, adapt campus and community engagement techniques, analyze capacity qualitatively and quantitatively, and move beyond traditional campus boundaries to accommodate change.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess your campus culture and leadership with respect to planning during turbulent times.
2. Select emerging campus and community involvement techniques to fit different circumstances.
3. Analyze and project spatial capacity on your campus based on qualitative as well as quantitative criteria that reflect changing modes of teaching, learning, and work.
4. Incorporate the campus-community interface in your campus planning process.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1454)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Why Is This So Difficult? Leaning Into Strategic Planning

11:40 AM – 12:40 PM | Crater Lake North | EMU

Presented by: Jaclynn Eckhardt, Principal, DLR Group | Ray White, Director of System Strategic Planning, Washington State University

Strategic planning is hard work, and for it to be effective, institutions must have informed engagement from all stakeholders. This session will explore tools and methods for closing this institutional skills gap. We’ll discuss the power of alignment through integrated planning and share inclusive, transparent processes that will create buy-in, responsiveness, and continuity over time. Join us to discuss lessons learned from the strategic planning process, including pitfalls to avoid, desired outcomes in change management and stakeholder engagement, as well as the feedback loop between data, human experience, and design.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify common denominators for successful strategic planning and explain how it can support your institutional mission, vision, and values.
2. Engage in scenario planning at the unit and institutional levels.
3. Champion inclusion and diversity of stakeholder voices in your strategic planning process.
4. Recognize potential barriers to effective planning at your institution.

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Ballroom | EMU

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American Indian Hall: Designing a Building around Indigenous Culture

1:45 PM – 2:45 PM | Crater Lake North | EMU

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Presented by: Walter Fleming, Department Chair, Native American Studies, Montana State University | Bill Hanson, President and CEO, ThinkOne Architecture | John How, Associate Vice President, Montana State University – Bozeman

American Indian students face multiple obstacles in pursuing higher education, including facilities that don’t represent their cultural heritage. Montana State University (MSU) changed this with the commissioning of the American Indian Hall. In order to provide a welcoming, inclusive space for indigenous students, MSU incorporated aspects of indigenous culture and heritage within the design of a new LEED Platinum facility. We will share our design approach that centered an indigenous point of view with input from tribal partners across the state, resulting in an environmentally-safe and healthy campus building that fosters wellbeing for American Indian students.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess your current facilities and determine which, if any, spaces reflect not only indigenous cultures but local, state, or regional customs and heritage.
2. Discuss a multifaceted communication plan to solicit input and feedback from rural tribal reservations and indigenous students to design inclusive spaces that prioritize wellbeing and truly reflect their tribal cultures.
3. Prioritize LEED principles of environmental health and safety as well as cultural significance and relevance to indigenous students, staff and faculty in your design and construction work plan.
4. Identify key design elements of learning spaces that foster wellbeing for indigenous students and promote knowledge of indigenous heritage on your campus.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1692)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

How Pandemic Disruption Improved Student Success Integration at Tykeson Hall

1:45 PM – 2:45 PM | Cedar/Spruce | EMU

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Presented by: Isaac Campbell, Founding Principal, OFFICE 52 Architecture Planning Design, LLC. | Catherine Soutar-Fleck, Director of Planning, Design and Facilities, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon

As the pandemic continues to exert pressure on the liberal arts and sciences, the University of Oregon (UO) is enacting a more integrated and comprehensive support structure to meet the challenges of student preparedness, retention, graduation time, and limited resources. This session will detail how we designed UO’s Tykeson Hall to improve undergraduate student success by integrating core curriculum with advising, career, tutoring, and mentoring services. We’ll share how pandemic innovations actually strengthened this new integrated model by broadening opportunities for engagement and interaction–including the design of outdoor spaces–and improving efficacy, community, and equity within the campus environment.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to more effectively integrate core academic programs with student support services to improve engagement and better equip students with foundational knowledge and transferable skills for lifelong learning.
2. Apply lessons learned from the design of Tykeson Hall to help break down silos and integrate student support services with academic programs at your institution.
3. Find opportunities to pursue critical, beneficial change in your institution’s academic facilities and programs during periods of disruption.
4. Use elements of flexible design and smart infrastructure to plan adaptable spaces that can respond to future disruptions, including outdoor campus spaces.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1514)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Placer Center: A Partnership-based Approach to Campus Development

1:45 PM – 2:45 PM | Redwood Auditorium | EMU

Presented by: Caitlyn Clauson, Principal, Sasaki | Tania Nunez, Project Manager, California State University-Sacramento | Romil Sheth, Principal, Sasaki

Creating a bold vision and following it through implementation is a complex process. This session will demonstrate how integrated planning facilitated the development of an inclusive and resourceful campus framework plan for effecting change. The Sacramento State Placer Center illustrates an innovative approach to aligning academic programs with workforce needs, new models of partnership for educational access and funding, and comprehensive inclusion and resilience strategies. We’ll share new inclusionary planning processes that combine virtual and in-person engagement along with the development of a flexible, sustainable, and resilient framework plan rooted in best campus planning practices.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain how to leverage strategic, academic, and capital planning goals to inform and guide a new campus framework plan.
2. Describe a campus plan that fosters creative external partnerships to enable educational access and use new forms of funding for campus development.
3. Prioritize principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access in the design of your campus to create a more welcoming built environment.
4. Discuss the benefits of a highly-inclusive and multifaceted engagement process across multiple internal and external constituents, in both physical and virtual environments.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1673)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Space is limited. Sign up at the registration desk to attend this or one of the other two master classes.

Exploring the Future of Hybrid Education Through National Research

1:45 PM – 2:45 PM | Crater Lake South | EMU

Presented by: Erin Cubbison, Strategy Director, Research Institute Fellow, Gensler | Eduardo Guerrero, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design, University of Arizona | Margaret Hagan, Director of the Legal Design Lab and Lecturer at the d.school, Stanford University

Despite significant challenges with remote learning, research indicates that higher education will continue in the direction of hybrid learning models. This session will provide valuable insights from educators regarding student learning activities, relationships, wellbeing, and motivation in the context of evolving hybrid education and learning environments. We’ll also share findings from our Education Engagement Index, a national survey that measures pandemic impacts on student and faculty engagement and their visions for the future of learning. Join us to gain a foundation of knowledge in both national context and peer perspectives to inform hybrid learning models and environments at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a survey to engage with your community of students, faculty, and staff to understand their needs and preferences for the future of learning.
2. Assess how your view of the future of learning compares to national research data and to that of your peers.
3. Prioritize space usage on campus while recognize how space needs may change in the future.
4. Strategize about how your campus culture could or should evolve with a shift to hybrid learning.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1470)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Advancing the Future Workforce Through Dynamic Community Partnerships

3:05 PM – 4:05 PM | Crater Lake North | EMU

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Presented by: Gwen Gilley, Principal Architect, Hord Coplan Macht, Inc. | Ryan Nichols, Senior Associate, Hord Coplan Macht, Inc. | Jean Runyon, Campus Vice President, Front Range Community College

Forging dynamic community partnerships can allow institutions to be responsive and nimble within their communities while providing increased services and opportunities for their students. Front Range Community College (FRCC) expanded its services to meet the growing needs of the local community by creating the Healthcare Careers Center, an integrated, technology-rich educational facility. In this session, we’ll share our strategies for creating hands-on, integrated learning environments that will keep your institution relevant in a rapidly-evolving, 21st-century higher education landscape.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify potential business partnerships that will allow for community usage, create an industry pipeline for students, and provide a conduit for industry feedback to your administration.
2. Promote alignment between program needs and design responses to form learning environments that resemble professional workspaces and express planning goals.
3. Explain how to create a hands-on learning environment that increases access and awareness for a diverse student population and encourages socially-formative campus experiences.
4. Discuss options for a delivery method that will shorten your design and construction schedule and maximize your budget while providing a beautiful, campus-enhancing design.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1601)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Conserving Memories: Creating Bridges Between the Past and Future

3:05 PM – 4:05 PM | Cedar/Spruce | EMU

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Presented by: David Golden, Senior Project Manager, Stanford University | Lauren Toomer, Lecturer, Stanford University

Higher education institutions cycle through times of loss and renewal; maintaining past connections can help ground our decisions and pave the way for renewing community on our campuses. In this session, we’ll have a conversation about honoring the past as a means of breathing new life into underutilized campus spaces and creating environments for contemplation and community. Join us for a collaborative discussion aimed at finding new ways to bring your campus community together by forging connections that conserve campus memories, stories, and past experiences with creativity and grace.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Align conservational and department planning with institutional goals, values, and strategic planning to move your campus spaces forward in new directions.
2. Explain how to secure interdepartmental and broad institutional support for art-based creative projects, particularly in moving from concept to reality.
3. Discuss how to establish pathways for your broader campus community to accept change and ‘let go’ of what is lost when demolishing a valued historic structure.
4. Recognize what is worth remembering and honoring in campus environments that hold shared memories and experiences for your campus community.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1680)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

OSU-Cascades: Delivering on the Promise to Central Oregon

3:05 PM – 4:05 PM | Redwood Auditorium | EMU

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Presented by: Lisa Petterson, Principal, SRG Partnership Inc. | Jarrod Penttila, Construction Project Manager, Oregon State University-Cascades | William Silva, Director of Preconstruction, Swinerton Management & Consulting | Barbara Swift, Landscape Architect, Swift Company

Oregon State University (OSU) – Cascades is applying nimble, passionate leadership to reach aspirational goals in a time of limited resources. In this session, we’ll describe the processes behind the development of its community-integrated, net-zero Cascades campus. The university’s latest campus developments deliver on its commitment to education in Central Oregon and demonstrate visionary leadership in flexible, resilient construction by innovating and integrating holistic solutions. Come learn how the recent work at the Cascades campus expands OSU’s programs through a collaborative process, with lessons for net-zero energy implementation, use of mass timber, site reclamation and restoration, and campus building.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Pursue dynamic and nimble project planning, facility programming, and implementation.
2. Integrate outdoor spaces to promote outside learning with student peers.
3. Discuss how to incorporate net-zero sustainability resiliency strategies in your facilities planning.
4. Prioritize equity and access objectives in challenging campus environments.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1651)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Space is limited. Sign up at the registration desk to attend this or one of the other two master classes.

From Postmodernism to Environmentalism: Adapting Kresge College for Resilience

3:05 PM – 4:05 PM | Crater Lake South | EMU

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Presented by: Emilie Hagen, Associate Director, Atelier Ten | Jolie Kerns, Director of Physical and Environmental Planning, University of California-Santa Cruz | Steven Wiesenthal, Principal, Studio Gang Architects | Andrew Wolfram, Principal, TEF Architects

For higher education institutions to truly make an impact on climate change within the next ten years, they must focus on adaptation and renewal in their campus facilities. This session will present Kresge College at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) as a case study on the opportunities and challenges of charting an environmentally-resilient future for an iconic example of postmodern architecture. Through sharing the specific challenges of melding postmodern historical resources with environmental performance, we’ll show how you can effectively tackle competing demands and create a healthier and more sustainable future for your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Consider embodied carbon and sustainability in facilities expansion through a combination of renovation and new construction to create a healthier, safer campus environment.
2. Incorporate evolving social contexts of contemporary students and technology to improve campus infrastructure, environmental safety, and experiential performance.
3. Discuss how to sensitively adapt a cultural campus resource in a way that results in increased capacity, improved relationships with the surrounding campus and natural context, and an extended, healthier campus lifespan.
4. Translate your institution’s founding values and themes into new campus architecture and site planning in a dialogue between the past, present, and future.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPP22C1683)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Liminality and Intentionality

4:15PM – 5:15 PM | Ballroom | EMU

Presented by: Parfait Bassalé, Artist and Executive Diversity Officer, South Puget Sound Community College

Parfait Bassalé will bring his unique approach to expanding equity and belonging for everyone, an approach that combines storytelling, interpersonal neuroscience, music, and reflexive inquiry.

Learning Outcomes:

1. 1. Link creativity and engagement by inviting students to co-create the future.
   2. Acknowledge the inevitability of conflict in design and problem solving while engaging with it productively.
   3. Reflect on the value of liminal thinking in times of accelerating change.
   4. Link creative work and intentionality in creating learning spaces for all.

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