Pacific 2023 Regional Conference

12:00 PM-12:45PM | TLC

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12:45 PM-1:00PM | Room 1020 | TLC

The Grand Challenges of Our Time: Facilitating Research & Stewardship on Campus

1:00 PM-2:00 PM | Room 1020 | TLC

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Presented by: Jonna Mazet, Vice Provost of Grand Challenges, University of California, Davis

Addressing our planet’s most complex issues requires diverse perspectives, collaborative engagement, and visionary action. We must catalyze efforts to holistically tackle the wicked problems affecting society and our planet, including the climate crisis, emerging health threats, inequitable and unstable food systems, and the social responsibilities of academic institutions. Equitable stewardship of academic communities and their physical environments is critical to ensuring engagement of the stakeholders and disciplines critical to developing viable solutions. Collaborations of college and university planners with partners, including faculty, will enable academia to move forward with equity and resilience to address the grand challenges of our time.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss the climate crisis in broad terms and expand paradigms to fully welcome and integrate disciplines into solution-oriented work.
2. Recognize the dynamics of emerging health threats and reconsider collaborative engagements and partnerships.
3. Identify attributes that define and perpetuate inequitable and unstable food systems, including specific areas we can focus on to reduce or eliminate disparities.
4. Articulate the social responsibilities of academic institutions and propose solutions to address inequities in academic processes, including access to resources and facilities.

Amplifying Indigenous Alaskan Student Voices for a More Inclusive Master Plan

2:20 PM-3:20 PM | Room 2215 | TLC

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Presented by: Michael Fredericks, Principal Strategic Engagement, SALT | Kim Mahoney, AVC, Facilities and Campus Services, University of Alaska Anchorage | Christopher McConnell, Director of Facilities Planning & Construction, University of Alaska Anchorage | Brian Meissner, Principal Project Manager, ECI/Hyer Architecture & Interiors | Michele Yatchmeneff, Executive Director for Alaska Native Education & Outreach, Associate Professor, University of Alaska Anchorage

This session will explore how the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) is seeking to address common issues of declining enrollment and finances in ways that are uniquely rooted in Alaskan culture. In the midst of challenging enrollment and funding conditions, UAA amplified indigenous student voices to create an inclusive and aspirational master plan. Come learn about a unique university that found meaningful intersections between educational equity and campus planning and apply lessons learned to creatively balance uncertainty, flexibility, and specificity in planning an equitable future on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Examine policies and practices in physical planning and design with a focus on how indigenous students experience their campus.
2. Elevate student and faculty voices?especially indigenous voices?into long-term guidance for facilities that will support a diverse student body within an emerging future of hybrid education.
3. Apply flexible tools as well as facility condition and enrollment data to integrate facilities planning with institution-wide values, goals, and shifts.
4. Discuss how to develop campus plans for multi-facility institutions in ways that will increase equity on campus.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2252)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges:
Tags: Attracting and Retaining Underrepresented Students; Campus Master Planning; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Enrollment Management; Master Plan; Student Experience

Braving Space: Setting Goals for Equity and Inclusion in Design

2:20 PM-3:20 PM | Room 1010 | TLC

Presented by: Renee Cheng, Dean, College of Built Environments, University of Washington-Seattle Campus | Billie Faircloth, Partner, KieranTimberlake | Karen Thomas-Brown, Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Many institutions are engaged in an urgent dialogue to transform their campus spaces by instilling messages of equity, identity, and belonging through design. To successfully design an inclusive building, planners must have the literacy, confidence, and agency to determine how physical spaces can best support a diverse campus community. This session will demonstrate how to identify the intersection between people, identities, and design decision-making and opportunities to create truly inclusive built environments. Come learn how to articulate a value argument for investing in community engagement, initiate process improvements in your engagement strategies, and design workflows for greater inclusivity and wellbeing.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop opportunities in your work to plan and design inclusive built environments that improve the wellbeing of your campus community.
2. Describe robust community engagement frameworks that assemble the voices and resources necessary for deep engagement during the design process.
3. Apply the principles of ‘brave space,’ ‘equity by design,’ and ‘design for equitable communities’ to expand equitable practice, design excellence, and community wellbeing in your campus projects.
4. Translate four integral themes of equitable and inclusive design?access, representation, resources, and values?into actionable strategies for project delivery and design to create safer, more welcoming spaces.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2058)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges:
Tags: Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Facilities Planning

Living Landscape Adaptation Plan: Environmental Stewardship at UC Davis

2:20 PM-3:20 PM | Room 2010 | TLC

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Presented by: Lucas Griffith, Director of Campus Planning, University of California-Davis | Emily Griswold, Director of GATEways Horticulture and Teaching Gardens, University of California-Davis | Kelly Nishimura, Assistant Campus Urban Designer, University of California-Davis | Steve Ostoja, Director, University of California-Davis

As climate change threatens the trees that are central to the campus fabric, it is crucial for institutions to proactively steward the landscape, which is fundamental to the learning experience, health, and wellbeing of the campus community. In order to increase the long-term resilience of the campus landscape, University of California (UC), Davis generated their Living Landscape Adaptation Plan that draws on innovative climate adaptation tools and academic engagement. Join us to discover how you can apply an adaptation framework using a step-by-step approach to confront climate change challenges by strategically selecting and prioritizing tangible stewardship actions on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify campus partners in stewardship to engage in interdisciplinary conversations and the planning process to adapt your campus landscape in the context of climate change.
2. Compare UC Davis’s strategic initiatives focused on trees, biodiversity, water, health, and engagement with your own campus’s values and action plans. Do these approaches resonate with your campus? What specific approaches are missing on your campus?
3. Explore regional climate change resources that are relevant to your campus to determine landscape management goals, priorities, and practical adaptation strategies that respond to climate change impacts and landscape vulnerabilities.
4. Prioritize urban forest climate adaptation planning and stewardship actions in your projects to improve the health and living experience of your campus community.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2258)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change
Tags: Landscape / Open Space; Resiliency; Sustainability (Environmental)

Creative Stewardship Strategies for Revitalizing Campus Heritage Buildings

3:40 PM-4:40 PM | Room 1010 | TLC

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Presented by: Peter Hendrickson, Associate Vice Chancellor, Design & Construction, University of California-Los Angeles | Clover Linne, , Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners | Victoria Steele, Curator Emerita, UCLA Collections, University of California-Los Angeles | Mario Violich, Principal, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners

As campuses face a confluence of limited budgets and mid-century buildings in need of renovation, creative stewardship approaches are essential to maintain meaningful resources and expand their relevance for the broader campus community. Through innovative planning and design, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Faculty Club renovation demonstrates how ‘doing more with less’ can transform unique and beloved aging campus buildings into highly relevant campus assets. In this session, we’ll detail methodology and tools of holistic planning as well as the alignment of infrastructure, heritage, program, and sustainability goals to maximize renovation project impact with a limited budget.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Define your renovation project through the use of step function scenario planning, incorporating and managing early planning and analysis to determine a spectrum of integrated project options for a variety of funding levels and sources.
2. Explain how to establish your project process from vision to implementation using a holistic planning approach for campus renovation projects that allows for phasing and varied levels of funding.
3. Correlate heritage with infrastructure, allowing you to leverage mandatory seismic, accessibility, and infrastructure upgrades to create opportunities for additional qualitative improvements that support both building heritage and contemporary programmati
4. Cultivate broader campus stewardship by expanding stakeholder engagement at multiple scales in support of institutional heritage.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2201)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges:
Tags: Adaptive Reuse; Historic Preservation; Renovation; Sustainability (Environmental)

Sustainably Agile: Designing the Art School of the Future

3:40 PM-4:40 PM | Room 2010 | TLC

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Presented by: Shruti Kasarekar, Associate Director, Atelier Ten | David Meckel, Advisor, California College of the Arts | Steven Wiesenthal, Campus Environments Principal, Studio Gang Architects

This session will address critical design issues for the next generation of low-carbon buildings, including reducing student transportation emissions, embodied carbon reduction, and seeking zero operational emissions. The unified California College of Arts (CCA) project began with the ambitious goal to design a carbon-neutral campus. The project unites the college’s two campuses in one location and creates a leading-edge model for sustainable art and design colleges. We’ll share how the CCA planning team aligned all stakeholders under a common vision and ambitious goal of carbon neutrality, demonstrating how to facilitate consensus and collaboration to achieve environmental health.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss ways to prioritize sustainability at mission-driven higher education institutions for greater environmental health and safety.
2. Identify the educational opportunities of designing and building a sustainably, leading-edge art and design college.
3. Explain how to optimize campus synergies and minimize carbon emissions through a reduced and consolidated project footprint that will result in a cleaner, safer environment.
4. Make the case for pursuing an all-electric building and articulate the potential benefits of a microgrid for grid interaction, resilience, and future flexibility.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2238)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Sustainability Planning
Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change
Tags: Carbon Neutral; Specialized Institution; Sustainability (Environmental)

Translating Equity & Inclusion Goals into Welcoming Student Services Facilities

3:40 PM-4:40 PM | Room 2215 | TLC

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Presented by: Andrea Alexander, Vice President of Administrative Services, Evergreen Valley College | Leigh Anne Jones, Higher Education Leader, DLR Group | Catherine Meng, Architect, DLR Group | Wendy Stewart, Interim Associate Vice President, Chief Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Accessibility, MiraCosta College

Institutions must ensure that students of diverse backgrounds feel safe and welcome on campus, going beyond merely establishing equity and inclusion goals to actionably translating them into the built environment. This session will explore how two colleges transformed their equity and inclusion goals into one-stop student services facilities that provide safe, healthy, and welcoming spaces with visibility of the student body’s demographics. Through an intensive engagement design process, we’ll demonstrate how to bring diverse voices into your institution’s facilities planning process so that newly-designed spaces can embody equity and inclusion for greater student success.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe how two colleges developed equity and inclusion goals to support their institution’s ethos and promote student belonging and wellbeing.
2. Illustrate how to expand the shared governance process to include diverse student and user voices to create safe and inclusive spaces for all.
3. Detail a design process that incorporates ideas unique to each student demographic, going beyond program and code minimum requirements.
4. Identify value-added design elements that support equitable access, safety, and visibility within an inclusive student services facility.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2206)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges:
Tags: Student Demographics; Student Experience; Student Services; Student Success

5:00 PM-6:00 PM | Shrem Museum | UC Davis

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8:00 AM-8:45 AM | Outdoor Tent | TLC

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The Impact of Campus Stewardship on the Environment, Culture, and the Individual

9:00 AM-10:10 AM | Room 1020 | TLC

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Moderated by: Julianne Nola, Executive Director of Capital Projects, University of California-Davis

Presented by: James Carroll, Associate Vice Chancellor and University Architect, Design and Construction Mgmt., University of California-Davis | Bob Segar, Associate Vice Chancellor, Campus Planning and Environmental Stewardship, University of California-Davis | Michelle Villegas-Frazier, Executive Director, Academic Retention Initiatives, University of California-Davis | Cory Vu, Associate Vice Chancellor for Health, Wellness, and Divisional Resources, University of California-Davis

This year’s conference is centered around the theme of stewardship, but what does stewardship really mean to a large public institution such as University of California (UC), Davis? Join this moderated panel discussion with four campus leaders, who each bring their own unique perspectives to a candid conversation about the meaning and impact of stewardship. They’ll share their vision, concerns, and hopes for the long-term sustainability of UC Davis through the lens of the physical environment, health and wellbeing, community, culture, and the individual.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate how the built campus environment contributes to the health of the individual.
2. Identify key planning challenges—particularly those centered on health, wellbeing, and sustainability—that large public universities face.
3. Examine the physical, environmental, social, and health impacts of a public institution that resides on historically indigenous lands.
4. Detail strategies for maintaining and enhancing campus sustainability to improve environmental resiliency as well as community health.

Inclusive Planning for Underrepresented and Marginalized Student Success

10:30 AM-11:30 AM | Room 2010 | TLC

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Presented by: Ken Rosenthal, Associate Vice President, Facilities Development and Operations, California State University-Northridge | Amanda Quintero, Senior Advisor to the President, California State University-Northridge | Freddie Sanchez, Interim Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs, Equity and Inclusion, California State University-Northridge | Andrea Stalker, Principal, Learning Environments, Planning & Research, AC Martin Partners, Inc.

The majority of today’s students come from historically-marginalized and underrepresented groups, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). This session will explore how California State University (CSU), Northridge is investing in and advancing a culture of inclusive excellence through integrated facilities planning and programming centered on equity, student success, and belonging. Come learn about the latest approaches to ensure success for students from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds, including the programming and planning of identity-based resource centers, student success centers, outreach programs, and technology integration.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and empower appropriately diverse stakeholder groups for involvement in inclusive planning processes.
2. Describe key operational programming, spaces, and design elements to support and increase underrepresented and marginalized students’ success.
3. Discuss how to guide your institution through an inclusive programming and planning process centered on equity, student success, and belonging.
4. Make the case for investing in programs, services, and facilities that help address underrepresented and marginalized students’ success.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2214)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges:
Tags: Attracting and Retaining Underrepresented Students; Student Success

Integrative Health: Building Blocks of Campus Planning

10:30 AM-11:30 AM | Room 1010 | TLC

Presented by: Martha Ball, Higher Education Studio Leader, HED (Harley Ellis Devereaux) | Melissa Dones, Assistant Project Manager, Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company | Michelle McCoy, Executive Director, University of California | Robert Pulito, President, Architect and Principal, The S/L/A/M Collaborative

The college experience must prepare students for professional success as well as imbue them with a sense of personal wellbeing that will enrich their lives and contribute to lifelong improvement of the mind, body, and spirit. This session will demonstrate how institutions can practice integrative health through a holistic approach to wellness in the campus planning process. Join us to discover a broader framework that applies integrative health principles to integrated planning and allows campus planners to act as stewards of the physical, mental, and emotional health of today’s students.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Leverage principles of integrative health in your campus planning practices to promote holistic student health.
2. Take initial steps to incorporate a holistic approach to student health and success with the aim of establishing it as common practice throughout your institution.
3. Identify important health and wellness trends to integrate into future planning projects and build a practice of integrative health stewardship on your campus.
4. Detail best practices for an integrative design process to support training and research on human health and wellbeing.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2244)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges:
Tags: Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Health and Wellness; Student Services

The Strategic Initiative Grant Program for Fresh, Innovative, Flexible Planning

10:30 AM-11:30 AM | Room 2215 | TLC

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Presented by: Elizabeth Giddens, Director of Institutional Effectiveness & Strategic Initiatives, University of San Diego | Carole Huston, Professor and Special Assistant, University of San Diego

With the adoption of a grant program, University of San Diego (USD) has maintained a fresh, innovative strategic plan since 2016 and engaged stakeholders in constant development of new initiatives aligned to five strategic goals. USD’s plan balances traditional and organic planning models and provides a framework for evolution by empowering campus stewards to address today’s most pressing societal and higher education issues. In this session, we’ll discuss how to solve the problem of stagnant strategic plans using a framework for robust, active, and integrated planning with wide participatory involvement that any institution can adopt.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Distinguish between organic and traditional strategic plan models.
2. Describe how a grant program can foster strategic planning engagement, growth, and innovation to align with institutional mission and priorities while evolving with societal and higher education needs.
3. Identify applicable criteria for initiative review processes.
4. Brainstorm ways to apply a grant program at your institution to improve the strategic plan.

Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Challenges: Planning Alignment
Tags: Adaptable Plans; Alignment; Building (or Writing) the Plan; Institutional Effectiveness; Modifying the Plan; Planning Processes

Achieving Net Zero: Global Best Practices in Planning and Design

11:45 AM-12:45 PM | Room 1010 | TLC

Presented by: Matthew Ollier, Partner, Hawkins\Brown | Julian Parsley, Partner, BuroHappold Engineering

The window for taking action on climate change is narrowing and there is an urgent need for institutions to reduce their carbon footprints. As institutions increasingly recognize the importance of factoring embodied carbon into major facilities planning decisions, this session will outline global best practices for net zero planning, design, and execution. With a fundamental understanding of carbon reduction, you’ll be able to evaluate it across building lifecycles and use visual tools to communicate evidence-based data and encourage collaborative decision making. Come discover our valuable tools and strategies to enhance wellbeing, reduce energy costs, and improve resilience at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Make the case for implementing Whole Life-Cycle Carbon (WLC) analysis and prioritizing these principles in your campus planning.
2. Explain the importance of data-driven decision making based on WLC analysis.
3. Access free, open-source emission reduction tools to measure embodied carbon and whole life carbon on your own future projects.
4. Roadmap how to best develop and implement net zero design principles on ground-up and renovation projects.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1769)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Sustainability Planning
Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change
Tags: Adaptive Reuse; Carbon Neutral; Renovation; Resiliency; Sustainability (Environmental); Zero Net Energy (ZNE)

Outside of the Box Thinking Inside the Building: Leveraging Existing Resources

11:45 AM-12:45 PM | Room 2215 | TLC

Presented by: Benedetta Del Vecchio, Senior Planner, Steinberg Hart | Kim Patten, Partner, Steinberg Hart | Diane Stephens, Associate Vice President for Academic Resources and Planning, California State University-Northridge | Deborah Wylie, Higher Education Studio Leader, Cordoba Corporation

Systemic trends such as growth of virtual learning and combatting climate change require new types of planning. Due to issues of cost and enrollment, new construction facilities are not always an option. Improving under-utilized facilities is a responsible solution to enhance sustainability, stretch funding, and increase educational flexibility. This session will share new strategies from two California institutions for managing existing resources and uncovering innovative possibilities. You’ll learn how to create a framework for facility reuse through data-informed and engaged conversations, serving a mutual goal for a more flexible, sustainable, and efficient campus under financial constraints and dynamic challenges.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply tools to reevaluate the current interpretation of utilization data and discover more efficient and sustainable opportunities for existing space on campus.
2. Enhance collaboration among all stakeholders by using data-informed analysis and active engagement to demonstrate mutual benefits.
3. Discuss how to incorporate state-of-the-art technology into campus planning to improve infrastructure management and support hybrid teaching and learning.
4. Detail strategies for achieving a more fiscally and environmentally sustainable campus.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2143)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change
Tags: Adaptive Reuse; Facilities Planning; Renovation; Sustainability (Environmental)

Rethinking the Elite Campus: Best Practices in Welcoming and Inclusive Design

11:45 AM-12:45 PM | Room 2010 | TLC

Presented by: Brodie Bain, Principal, NAC|Architecture | Dustin Saalman, Director, NAC|Architecture

While campus spaces may look aesthetically pleasing, they may not feel welcoming to all students. Applying critical race theory (CRT) at Portland Community College (PCC) has helped planners understand that certain designs can feel ‘elite’. But what does ‘elite’ mean in the context of campus space? How can we design spaces that are welcoming and inclusive? This session will showcase a review of foundational research in fostering a ‘sense of belonging’ through design and its implications for the campus community. We’ll explore best practices for transforming exclusionary facilities into spaces of belonging and discuss next steps for seeking student input.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Review strategies to glean input directly from students about specific design solutions that will increase their sense of belonging and wellbeing.
2. Consider why students may not feel welcome in a campus space because of its design.
3. Identify research-tested concepts to incorporate into your planning tool-kit for designing welcoming spaces that help students thrive.
4. Articulate what ‘elite’ means to students and how that may or may not influence their sense of belonging and wellbeing on campus.

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges:
Tags: Community College; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Design

12:00 PM-1:30 PM | Outdoor Tent | TLC

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A New Campus Vision: Weaving Indigenous Culture With Institutional Goals

1:30 PM-2:30 PM | Room 2215 | TLC

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Presented by: Ronalda Cadiente Brown, Associate Vice Chancellor for Alaska Native Programs and P.I.T.A.A.S. Director, University of Alaska Southeast | Karen Carey, Chancellor, University of Alaska Southeast | Jaclynn Eckhardt, Principal, DLR Group | Puanani Maunu, Planning Manager, University of Alaska Southeast

As a diverse institution, the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) seeks to improve access and advance the future for indigenous people, specifically through appropriate recognition, representation, and perpetuation of indigenous Alaskan heritage and culture. This session will showcase strategies for actionable stewardship through indigenous perspectives on UAS’s coastal ocean campuses, reflecting the transition to implementing the 2022 campus master plan. Join us for a panel discussion about how to steward campuses that reside on indigenous ancestral land, contextualized as three unique locations and communities, to integrate a vision for a vibrant and inclusive campus future for all.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify key campus stakeholders and their role in championing inclusion and diversity within campus planning.
2. Recognize and explore potential barriers to effective physical development and capital implementation on your campus.
3. Discuss on-campus strategies for honoring the relationships between indigenous people and their sovereign lands, languages, ancestors, and future generations.
4. Outline an approach for engaging diverse campus communities supporting indigenous initiatives.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2088)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges:
Tags: Campus Master Planning; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Master Plan

Experimental Smart Farm: Advancing Equity Through AgTech Research at UC Merced

1:30 PM-2:30 PM | Room 1215 | TLC

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Presented by: Brendan Connolly, Partner, Mithun | Tom Harmon, Professor and Director, | Daniel Royer, Experimental Smart Farm Coordinator, University of California-Merced | Joshua Viers, Professor of Watershed Science Resource Management, University of California-Merced

Food production is a significant driver of human and environmental health. This session will explore how University of California (UC) Merced’s new interdisciplinary Experimental Smart Farm (ESF) initiative amplifies campus goals to increase equity, agricultural technology (AgTech) research, and external industry and community partnerships within California’s Central Valley. This integrated research program and net-zero energy facility demonstrate how institutions can effectively bridge academic vision with broader external partnerships. Come learn about ESF as a new model of innovative place-based research that challenges stakeholders to integrate initiatives focused on equity, technology, and sustainable campus planning with minimal facilities and infrastructure.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to access funding resources and non-traditional regional and federal grant funding for new visionary campus programs that break down research silos.
2. Seek opportunities for interdisciplinary initiatives and programs to better address climate change and improve campus and community resource stewardship for a healthier environment.
3. Discuss how the ESF addresses cultural and socio-economic equity with the Central Valley agriculture industry and consider how your institution can leverage planning for broader positive health and environmental impacts beyond the campus.
4. Evaluate opportunities for expanding your campus and curriculum in ways that aren’t facility dependent by leveraging existing resources to affect change and innovation for human and environmental health.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2176)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges:
Tags: External Collaboration / Partnerships; Facilities Planning; Health and Wellness; Sustainability (Environmental); Zero Net Energy (ZNE)

STEM Building Design: How BIPOC Voices Transformed Conventional Wisdom

1:30 PM-2:30 PM | Room 1010 | TLC

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Presented by: Athena Rilatos, Graduate Student, Portland State University | Todd Rosenstiel, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Portland State University | Amy Running, Associate Principal, Bora Architects | Michael Tingley, Principal, Bora Architects

Welcoming black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) students into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) creates a more equitable workforce, strengthening the connection between education and industry. Foregrounding marginalized voices broadens perspectives and dismantles barriers to fuel future innovation. During the design process for its Vernier Science Center, Portland State University (PSU) engaged a BIPOC cohort, which shifted design outcomes in unexpected ways with results that will inform future campus projects. Come learn how you can authentically engage BIPOC voices in your campus projects while integrating atypical design and program strategies necessary to support diverse student success.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to engage a BIPOC student cohort at the earliest stages of your project to inform design.
2. Translate a vision for equity in design into action by integrating students, staff, and administration in the process of engaging BIPOC perspectives.
3. Anticipate barriers for BIPOC students in traditionally white and male-dominated academic fields such as STEM.
4. Reconsider traditional assumptions about the nature of STEM learning environments to better serve a more diverse student population.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2229)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges:
Tags: Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Design; Science / Engineering; Science / Engineering Facility; Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM)

The Uniqueness Paradigm: Diverse Interpretations of Stewardship

1:30 PM-2:30 PM | Room 2010 | TLC

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Presented by: Pedro Avila, Superintendent/President, Gavilan College | Rob Barthelman, Principal, Steinberg Hart | Hakim Chambers, Deputy Program Director, BuildLACCd | Julianne Nola, Executive Director of Capital Projects, University of California-Davis

Campuses have many responsibilities to their students and communities as hubs of discovery, knowledge, and activism. A clear definition of stewardship provides a framework for institutions to fulfill their roles and strategically achieve their missions; just as the mission and goals of each institution are unique, so too are the approaches to stewardship. In this session, we’ll explore how three institutions distinctively define and prioritize stewardship on their campuses. Come learn from this diversity of approaches to campus stewardship and discover creative ways that your institution can integrate stewardship holistically throughout its operations, from financial to physical and social strategies.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify opportunities to integrate stewardship on your campus.
2. Define stewardship for each institution’s unique purpose, vision, and mission.
3. Prioritize projects that can support a unique path to stewardship on your campus.
4. Discuss how to unite campus leadership around stewardship to help make the case for projects, programs, and opportunities.

Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Challenges:
Tags: Community College; Institutional Effectiveness; Mission / Vision / Identity

A Unique Space Optimization Strategy to Improve the Campus Experience

2:45 PM-3:45 PM | Room 1215 | TLC

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Presented by: Shannon Loughran, Director – Strategic Infrastructure Planning & Partnerships, University of Alberta | Lara McClelland, Associate Vice-President, University of Alberta

In the face of an unprecedented funding crisis and a significant deferred maintenance liability, the University of Alberta (UAlberta) is aligning facility space with excellence in research, teaching, and student experience through a space optimization strategy. This strategy sets out an aggressive agenda to reach financial sustainability and a fifteen percent footprint reduction while calling for new decision-making structures and addressing burgeoning operational and maintenance costs. Aging campus buildings pose a great financial risk and their life cycles will far outlive annual budgets and funding envelopes, but with careful planning of investment, divestment, and change, the campus can thrive.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify potential members for effective, action-based governance and executive decision-making committees.
2. Consider how objective evidence and space modeling can improve positioning for optimization efforts.
3. Assess which best practices in space optimization to apply on your campus.
4. Identify strategic levers, actions, and lessons learned that can influence positive change within your institution and improve its space planning culture.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2250)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Funding Uncertainty
Tags: Deferred Maintenance; Space Assessment; Space Management

Healing through Local Knowledge: Community and Tribal Engagement

2:45 PM-3:45 PM | Room 2010 | TLC

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Presented by: Lynn Palmanteer-Holder, Director, Tribal Government Affairs, | Danae Sakuma, Associate, Hennebery Eddy Architects, Inc.

Learning from local knowledge is a healing process. Through engagement with the local community and indigenous tribes, institutions can facilitate wellness by creating projects that encourage belonging and mindful land stewardship. Although many projects require stakeholder engagement, institutions often encounter roadblocks to effective community and tribal engagement. When institutions understand why, when, and how to engage, the planning process becomes more impactful to issues of community wellbeing. This session will improve your overall understanding of engagement best practices, provide tools for overcoming common obstacles, and provide guidance for growing relationships with communities beyond the campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe a strategy for effective engagement with local communities and tribes with the goal of improving wellness.
2. Leverage engagement in your planning process to facilitate healing through education.
3. Identify potential partnerships with local tribal governments.
4. Discuss building a tool kit to engage with local communities and tribes to facilitate wellness.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPP23C2120)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges:
Tags: Community Engagement; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; External Collaboration / Partnerships; Facilities Planning; Health and Wellness

Planning in the Fast Lane: Fully-engaged Strategic Planning at Boise State

2:45 PM-3:45 PM | Room 1010 | TLC

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Presented by: Andrew Finstuen, Associate Vice President for Strategic Planning & Dean of the Honors College, Boise State University | Zeynep Hansen, Vice Provost for Academic Planning & Institutional Effectiveness, Boise State University | Erin Muggli, Sr. Project Mgr for Strategic Planning & Academic Initiatives, Boise State University

It can take institutions two or more years to develop and implement a strategic plan, but Boise State University’s experience demonstrates the positive impact of shorter planning horizons for better stewardship of university financial and personnel resources. With an accelerated one-year strategic planning development and implementation process, Boise State redefined stewardship of its campus resources without sacrificing broad stakeholder participation. In this session, we’ll share how you can use Boise State’s expedited and fully-engaged process as a roadmap for avoiding planning inertia, increasing buy-in, and achieving strategic goals on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to incorporate a strategic plan committee structure and approach that leverages online and in-person strategies for campus input and engagement, which includes templates for distilling campus feedback on goals, strategies, and tactics.
2. Outline a single, integrated process for budget requests, program evaluation, and strategic plan reporting.
3. Explain how to develop an off-cycle budget strategic plan process to jumpstart investment in the plan immediately after its approval.
4. Detail how to design a communication strategy for maximum transparency, which is essential to an accelerated strategic planning timeline.

Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Challenges:
Tags: Building (or Writing) the Plan; Communication; Engaging Stakeholders; Planning Processes

What Coalition Research Tells Us About How Design Impacts the Student Experience

2:45 PM-3:45 PM | Room 2215 | TLC

Presented by: Jeff Larsen, Regional Director of Student Life, HKS, Inc. | Renae Mantooth, Sr. Design Researcher, HKS, Inc. | Michael Sheehan, Director of Facilities, Student Housing, University of California-Davis

Offering perspectives from different universities and housing projects, this session will take a holistic approach to design and its impact on student experiential outcomes, including physical and mental wellbeing, social connection, and environmental health. We’ll explore how a research coalition partnership can bring together administrators, staff, faculty, students, architects, and researchers towards the common goal of making informed investments that enhance the student on-campus living experience. Leveraging two different examples of the coalition model, you’ll come away with pragmatic, scalable methods and tools that will help you serve as a steward of student health, wellbeing, and connection on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the benefits of public-private partnerships and strategize how to conduct research about the impact of the built environment on student life and wellbeing.
2. Discuss the impact that living-learning neighborhoods have on students in terms of health and wellbeing, social connection, and environmental health, including lessons learned for the design of student housing.
3. Identify emerging insights as well as pros and cons of unit layouts on maintenance and operations as well as student mental wellbeing and social connection to better plan for new housing or renovations.
4. Define a coalition-based model that leverages the existing infrastructure of non-profits, institutions, and private practice to advance the knowledge regarding design influences on student experience.

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Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges:
Tags: Facilities Design; Health and Wellness; Public-Private Partnerships (P3); Student Experience; Student Housing; User Research

Unleashing the Full Potential of the Arts

4:05 PM-5:15 PM | Room 1020 | TLC

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Presented by: Deborah Cullinan, Vice President for the Arts, Stanford University

In a radically shifting world, we can’t solve human challenges by science and technology alone. Mounting evidence demonstrates that experiences with art can improve health outcomes, build social cohesion, contribute to equitable community development, and cultivate collective trust, safety, and civic participation. Artists are visionaries, researchers, and makers who have the capacity to reimagine societal systems and co-create with communities to drive transformation in classrooms, campuses, and neighborhood across the country. This keynote will share how Stanford University is prioritizing programs and partnerships that center creativity as an essential ingredient in propelling equity, health, and wellbeing.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the role that art and creativity can play on our campuses to improve health, community, equity, and belonging.
2. List examples of artistic experiments on campus that lead to ambitious interdisciplinary collaboration.
3. Find opportunities to use art as a tool for placekeeping and placemaking on campus to build a sense of community and wellbeing.
4. Discuss how artistic creativity expands our capacity to imagine different ways of being, transforming the campus into a safer, healthier, and more cohesive environment.