Heather McGowan
Future of Work Strategist, 2017 Global LinkedIn Top Voice for Education

Data-driven Integrated Planning: Practical Tips to Adapt for Your Institution

Presented by: Christopher Davis, Vice President of Academic Services and Quality, University of Maryland Global Campus | Douglas Masterson, Senior Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness, University of Southern Mississippi

The role of institutional effectiveness is expanding across higher education. Success depends on long-term sustainability, connecting investments with outcomes, and creating a data-informed culture. This session will address a unified approach to integrated planning using academic and administrative data for continuous improvement. Join us to discover institutional best practices and lessons learned using a comprehensive approach to analytics and assessment in integrated planning, resulting in greater operational efficiency and student learning.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Create a logic model that emphasizes a collaborative approach to institutional planning and assessment.
2. Identify ways to create efficiency in your integrated planning process.
3. Discuss an integrated planning process that enables your institution to align student performance data with financial and human resources.
4. Identify technology and other resources that are needed to start your integrated planning process

Planning Types: Institutional Effectiveness Planning
Tags: Alignment; Assessment / Analytics; Data; Institutional Effectiveness; Planning Processes

Dissipating Barriers: How STEM Incubators Create Guided Pathways

Presented by: Kevin Donaghey, Principal Architect, HGA | Roshni Thomas, Director of Planning, Design & Construction, CSU Dominguez Hills | Kamal Hamdan, Annenberg Endowed Professor and Director, California State University-Dominguez Hills

In a time when the U.S. is falling behind in STEM global rankings and underrepresented student populations are missing out on career development in these fields, incubation centers can serve as powerful tools for advancing STEM education. This session will demonstrate how institutional-corporate alliances are key to removing barriers for socioeconomically-disadvantaged students and establishing guided pathways through STEM engagement. Come learn how corporate sponsorships can support your institution’s hands-on STEM engagement programs and amenities, helping to close the achievement gap and improve success and retention among disadvantaged students.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify potential corporate partnerships and write a compelling value proposition for project involvement and financial investment.
2. Assess the visibility of STEM maker space, incubation, and ideation amenities on your campus and find opportunities for engaging disadvantaged students to pursue STEM fields.
3. Explain how to practically implement the maker space model for STEM education to create a feedback loop between higher education and K-12 STEM innovation.
4. Challenge the design of your campus’s maker space and ideation amenities to break down barriers and encourage diversity among STEM majors and workforce participants.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1866)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Higher Ed in D.C.: The Administration, Congress, Colleges, and Students

Presented by: Terry Hartle, Senior Vice President, Government Relations and Public Affairs, American Council on Education (ACE)

As we approach the halfway point of the Biden Administration’s term in office, Terry Hartle, Senior Vice President of Government and Public Affairs at the American Council on Education, will discuss what has happened so far, what is still possible, and what has fallen through the cracks. Furthermore, he will offer observations about the 2022 elections and what the consequences might be for higher education institutions and students.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain the evolving relationship between Congress, the executive branch, and higher education.
2. Identify the major recent public policy changes affecting higher education institutions and students.
3. Assess what recent public policy changes might mean for the future of federal support for institutions and students.
4. Discuss the issues that are likely to engage public policy makers in the coming year.

Leveraging Data-driven Design to Realize Diversity and Inclusion Goals

Presented by: Leonard Adams, Interim President, Knoxville College | Jorge Garcia, Associate Manager | Architecture, IBI Group | Jason King, Associate, Parametric Design Lead, IBI Group | Thierry Paret, Associate Director, IBI Group

This session will explore how Knoxville College, an HBCU, is using data-driven design to strategically plan a phased return to viability as a functioning institution. This highly collaborative, data-based approach allows for an accelerated evaluation of options based on capacity, phasing, and financial constraints with a focus on realizing diversity and inclusion goals to support an underserved community. We’ll share the benefits of this decision-making process and demonstrate how to apply current best practices in this evolving design field at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Use data to guide design decisions related to diversity and inclusion goals.
2. Combine elements of human sentiment with data to create multiple iterations in a compressed time frame.
3. Discuss the advantages of this process in stakeholder engagement.
4. Explain how to apply this design process to leverage cost and time savings.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1906)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Collaborative Design; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Historically Black College or University (HBCU); Planning Processes

People-first Planning: WELL Design for Mental, Emotional, and Physical Health

Presented by: Sara Cantu, Project Engineer, Kiewit Building Group | Emily Deeker, Director of Campus Planning and Environment, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Heather Keele, Architect | Interior Designer, The Clark Enersen Partners | Karen Nalow, Landscape Architect, The Clark Enersen Partners

Early planning and institution-wide support are critical for successfully implementing WELL Building Standards, which allow campus facilities to support the mental and physical wellbeing of all users. We’ll share how we applied WELL Building Standards to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s (UNL) Kiewit Hall and provide the necessary tools for engaging university stakeholders, implementing WELL design, and advocating for occupants. Come learn how a WELL-certified project on your campus can aid in the recruitment and retention of faculty and students as well as improve the overall performance and happiness of building users.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze existing facilities and new projects on your campus to determine if they could meet WELL standards.
2. Identify university partners to engage in pre-planning and early design and show them the impact of existing policies and procedures as they relate to WELL.
3. Further engage university partners and design team members during pre-planning and master planning to ensure that WELL Building Standards become foundational to these processes.
4. Find opportunities to involve disabilities services as well as those that have faculty, staff, and students with disabilities in planning your WELL project.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1792)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Accessibility; Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Planning; Health and Wellness

Preparing for Uncertain Futures: Architecture as a Catalyst for Cultural Change

Presented by: Ruth Baleiko, Partner, The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP | Elizabeth Moggio, Architect, Principal, The Miller Hull Partnership, LLP | Jeannie Natta, Interim Director, Project Delivery Group, UW Facilities, University of Washington

Institutions are seeking to invest in new campus buildings that will be adaptable, allow for a range of occupants, and promote interdisciplinary learning and engagement. In a time when the pandemic is offering new opportunities to accelerate organizational and cultural change, the University of Washington (UW) is investing in new facilities that allows for a reframing of academics, research, and learning on campus. Come learn about UW’s strategies for designing new facilities that foster organizational change with a focus on commonalities between space types and the benefits of interdisciplinary sharing.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Consider the changing nature of work in your facilities planning process to maximize effectiveness and reframe research, faculty, and staff spaces.
2. Describe academic work spaces that break down silos and bring disciplines together based on common activities and desired outcomes.
3. Evaluate different design strategies for fostering interdisciplinary connection and collaboration.
4. Support workplace wellness by incorporating joy, wellbeing, and choice into workspaces to encourage academic workers’ full potential.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1915)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Flexible Learning Spaces; Interdisciplinary Learning Environments; Learning Environments

Reconnecting Campus Communities Through Transformational Third Spaces

Presented by: Ethan Ahlberg, , EHDD | Karen Moranski, Provost, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer, Sonoma State University | Ronald Rodriguez, Dean of Library Services, California State University-Stanislaus

As higher education evolves to include more remote and commuter demographics, campuses must provide third spaces that promote vital social and collegial connections that foster a sense of campus community. This session will explore two mid-century Brutalist buildings at the hearts of their California public university campuses and their transformations into 21st-century models that promote community engagement, collaboration, and inclusion. We’ll share how both universities built coalitions from a multiplicity of stakeholders to support their strategic goals and transform aging Brutalist facilities through third spaces.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize faculty and student demographic shifts in creating third spaces that promote pedagogical success.
2. Engage with your campus community in a more open and inclusive planning process to build project support.
3. Advocate for modernizing aging campus facilities to foster more open and inclusive learning environments.
4. Ask a series of questions that help frame future projects in the context of your institution’s strategic goals.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1931)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Historic Preservation; Informal Learning Environments; Library; Renovation

Reimagining Higher Education to Differentiate Your Institution

Presented by: Rebecca Bock Freeman, Senior Executive Associate, NorQuest College | Adam Chrobak, Senior Administrator and Assistant to the Dean, NorQuest College | Heather Kitteringham, Dean, Research and Strategic Enrollment, NorQuest College | Norma Schneider, Vice President, Teaching & Learning, NorQuest College

Disruption is here, from new competition and new credentials to emerging technology and the pandemic. If your institution doesn’t change, it won’t last. This session will demonstrate how your institution can differentiate itself and build a strategic advantage through robust future planning. We’ll provide you with step-by-step training on how to explore the future of education, identify external forces, build desired states, and take game-changing actions to future-proof your organization.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply our future back approach to model your institution’s future.
2. Identify and track external forces that are outside of your control, but that you can monitor based on consultation and research.
3. Analyze current trends and forecasting and use the ‘desired states’ approach to build out ideas and goals for your institution’s future.
4. Discuss game-changing actions your can take to help move your institution towards its desired state.

Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Environmental Scanning; Higher Ed Trends; Planning Processes; Scenario Planning; Trends External to Higher Ed

Using SCUP’s Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) to Inform Your Integrated Planning

Presented by: Allan Donnelly, Associate Director, brightspot strategy

As colleges and universities plan their campuses for the future, they now confront unprecedented technological, demographic, social, and economic change. So, SCUP created the next generation of its Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) to help leaders see how their campus compares to national benchmarks and understand how things might change in the future. In this session, we will explore some of the findings from the 2022 CFI benchmarking and hear from a panel of institutions about changes they are making and how they use CFI data to inform their planning efforts.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Compare your campus to several national benchmarks.
2. Inform master planning efforts with national trends data.
3. Explore differences between campus by size, location, and institution type.
4. Network with peer institutions as partners in transformation.

Adaptive Reuse: Converting Existing Campus Spaces into Research Laboratories

Presented by: Anna Pravinata, Principal Architect, Alliiance | James LeClaire, Senior Associate – Electrica, Dunham | Paul Miller, Senior Preconstruction and Estimating Manager, JE Dunn Construction

Universities are looking to expand their research capabilities while simultaneously facing underutilized and aging facilities. Adaptive reuse of existing campus spaces can address the need for more laboratories that incorporate modern research lab standards. In this session, we’ll share insights on how to identify the right existing spaces for repurposing, achieve the required infrastructure upgrades, and apply cost benchmarking data. Come learn how to review the underutilized and outdated spaces on your campus with critical eyes and transform them into modern research laboratories through adaptive reuse.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the right existing spaces on your campus for repurposing into research laboratories.
2. Identify the required infrastructure upgrades for repurposed space and align them with your institution’s sustainability goals.
3. Explain how to effectively apply cost benchmarking data and budget management in your adaptive reuse project.
4. Critically examine existing campus spaces to assess their viability for adaptive reuse.

Back to Basics: Recalibrating Planning Practices for Future Change

Presented by: Paul Gannoe, Chief of Planning and Design, California State University-Chancellors Office | Meaghan Smith, Principal University Planner / Project Manager, California State University-Chancellors Office

Many planning processes are handed down over time, but with inconsistent documentation and the departure of long-time employees, institutions stand to lose much valuable knowledge. For the California State University (CSU) system, the convergence of the pandemic with newly-hired planning staff provided a rare opportunity to revisit everyday processes and realign with current needs to better support its 23 campuses. We’ll share how having a solid planning foundation with regularly updated processes can help bring along new staff and reduce the learning curve.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify outdated or undefined processes within your department.
2. Engage staff participation in the defining or re-defining of your department practices.
3. Create a structure for consistently capturing planning processes and regularly reviewing processes for changes and updates.
4. Tie planning processes back to policies and other big picture governing documents.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1705)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Challenges: Planning Alignment
Planning Types: Campus Planning; Strategic Planning
Tags: Alignment; Institutional Planning; Planning Processes; System of Colleges or Universities

Creating a Culture of Wellness

Presented by: Lilian Asperin, Partner, WRNS Studio | Niraj Dangoria, Associate Dean, Facilities Planning and Management, Stanford University | Julianne Nola, Executive Director of Capital Projects, University of California-Davis | Debbi Waters, Associate Principal, Director of Planning, WRNS Studio

There is an upward spike in students reporting stress-related illnesses and mental health conditions, exacerbated by the pandemic. In a collegiate environment of multiple social, economic, academic, and personal pressures, campus buildings and landscapes that create a culture of wellness can help students develop holistic and long-term healthy lifestyles. The session will raise awareness of how design can affect students on physical and psychological levels and how health centers can engage the campus community and encourage positive behaviors.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Make the case for investing in programs, services, and facilities that help address stress-related illnesses and mental health conditions.
2. Describe key trends and ways of assessing student mental health and wellbeing.
3. Identify ways to integrate wellness into your campus culture such as connecting to nature, programming indoor and outdoor spaces, and promoting mobility to support student wellbeing and encourage a culture of wellness.
4. Detail a process for encouraging university stakeholders to promote health and wellbeing as a core value in building projects.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1764)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Health and Wellness; Medical / Allied Health Facility; Student Services

Empowering Students to Connect and Lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Presented by: Griffin Gosnell, Assistant Director, Development, Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix | Sanjeev Khagram, Dean and Director General, Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix | Shawn Swisher, Project Architects & Designer, Jones Studio, Inc. | Buzz Yudell, Partner, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners

Global connection is an inherent part of 21st-century leadership and management education. Arizona State University’s (ASU) new global headquarters for the Thunderbird School of Global Management demonstrates how integrated planning, learning space design, and technology can facilitate connections that are key to education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Come learn how integrated planning and technology-suffused learning spaces can support student development, collaboration, and learning necessary for preparing global leaders to thrive.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Use technology as a more robust, comprehensive learning and collaboration tool and consider the full range of technological applications during integrated planning.
2. Engage collaboratively with other departments, the campus and surrounding community, and other global entities in new interconnected ways.
3. Explain how advances from the Fourth Industrial Revolution, networking, and globalization present opportunities for new types of learning and greater communication and business interconnectivity, including change leadership and change management.
4. Recognize new possibilities for in-person and virtual interactions that are crucial to the global economy and the educational pathways that support it.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1790)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Academic Planning; Campus Planning
Tags: Business School Education; Business School Facility; Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Hybrid Learning; Learning Environments; Learning Technology

From Library and Learning Commons to Incubator and Hub

Presented by: Patrick Calhoun, Architect, Stantec | Robert McMahon, President and Professor of Physics, Kettering University | Emily Puckett Rodgers, Space and Design Assessment Librarian, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | Travis Sage, Principal | Studio Design Leader, Stantec

The academic library has rapidly evolved from a book repository into a place for project-based applications, collaboration, ideation, and entrepreneurship with significant implications for its placement and adjacencies on campus. Through recent projects at the University of Michigan (UMich), Kettering University (KU), and Grand Valley State University (GVSU), we’ll explore how the library has grown into an incubator for new methods of student engagement, collaboration, and ideation. We’ll share project insights from UMich, KU, and GVSU to help inform your institution’s campus planning efforts in space utilization to create new uses, functions, and services housed within the traditional academic library.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Effectively communicate with your library services department about the newest programmatic space needs and requests of a re-visioned or new academic library project.
2. Consider new locations, co-locations, and building adjacencies within your campus master plan to better support and utilize future academic library services.
3. Identify new opportunities for more effective use of library staff and resources, including the application of peer-to-peer mentorship and support.
4. Apply new modes and methods of resource storage, access, and retrieval for library materials and archives.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1836)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Learning Commons; Library; Library Planning

How Do You Integrate DEI into Planning? Let’s Share Solutions!

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

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

Learning Outcomes:

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

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

The Net Zero Nexus: Accelerating Carbon Action and Resilience Planning

Presented by: Mara Baum, Partner, DIALOG | Joanne Perdue, Chief Sustainability Officer, University of Calgary | John Souleles, Architect / Principal, DIALOG | Matthew St. Clair, Director of Sustainability, University of California Office of the President

Many institutions are facing increasing pressure from their students and communities to simultaneously prepare for and respond to climate disasters while also attaining aggressive carbon emissions reduction targets. This session will demonstrate how integrated planning can help institutions achieve resilient, net zero carbon campuses in the face of accelerating climate and pandemic challenges. Join us for real world lessons learned and innovative solutions for accelerating resilience and carbon action planning on your campus, incorporating new climate change research and experiences from recent climate events.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss integrated, collaborative planning processes with diverse stakeholder groups that can help your institution implement carbon action plans and achieve net zero carbon buildings.
2. Identify potential campus-scale barriers and opportunities for implementing equity-based resilience and decarbonization planning processes.
3. Incorporate climate resilience into your planning processes and evaluate design strategies at the project scale.
4. Demonstrate innovative opportunities for existing buildings and infrastructure to help campuses reach net zero carbon goals.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1940)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Carbon Neutral; Energy Infrastructure; Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Planning; Planning Processes; Resiliency; Sustainability (Environmental); Zero Net Energy (ZNE)

Transition Your Strategic Plan Into the Future Using Integrated Planning

Presented by: Arlene Rodriguez, Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs, Middlesex Community College-Massachusetts | Phil Sisson, President, Middlesex Community College-Massachusetts

In the face of COVID, employee burnout, and staffing changes, institutions must confront significant challenges in the development of their strategic plans. This session will detail how Middlesex Community College (MCC) used integrated planning to guide the evolution of its strategic plan in the midst of the pandemic, social challenges, and a change in leadership. We’ll share best and evolving practices alongside well-honed strategies for keeping a strategic plan on track. Join us to find out how you can apply MCC’s integrative framework to your institution’s strategic plan during a time of significant transitions.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Engage all constituents in an inclusive planning process during a time of transition and beyond.
2. Update shifting objectives that arise during significant institutional transitions.
3. Find opportunities to integrate initiatives from new leadership.
4. Generate buy-in from planning leaders during a transition in administration and leadership.

Challenges: COVID-19 Response and Planning
Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Community College; COVID-19; Engaging Stakeholders; Modifying the Plan

CSULB Student Success Center: Getting It All Under One Roof

Located in the heart of the beautiful mid-century modern campus of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), the Shakarian Student Success Center is home to more than 13 different organizations that serve the needs of the university’s students. The center relocated organizations from across campus and brought them together in a transformed 1950s-era science building, now seen as the go-to place for support in degree attainment. This tour will explore how the project came about, the process behind re-purposing the building, and how the project vision matched up to the reality.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the many student services you need to consider in campus facility design in an environment where diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are paramount.
2. Evaluate sources of funding for a building project that impacts multiple user groups on campus.
3. Describe a multi-level wayfinding system that effectively locates spaces in a complex building.
4. Identify ways to adapt and re-use 1950s-era concrete buildings to serve modern student needs.

AIA LU 1.5 Unit (SCUP57T004)
AICP CM 1.5 Unit

Cost: $60

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Student Support Services; Student Success

A Practical Approach To Carbon Neutral Master Planning

Presented by: Dennis Carlberg, Associate Vice President for Sustainability, Boston University | Ruairi O’Mahony, Executive Director, Rist Institute for Sustainability and Energy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell | Michael Swenson, Senior Associate, BR+A Consulting Engineers

Many higher education institutions have set goals to reduce carbon emissions, achieve carbon neutrality, and become fossil fuel free within the next twenty-five years, but are operating under site and budget constraints. Using the examples of the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Lowell and Boston University (BU), this session will provide a ‘how-to’ guide in planning and executing a carbon neutral plan in cold climates for urban public and private institutions. Come learn how to replicate this carbon neutral master plan framework and use our strategies to reduce energy, emissions, and achieve your institution’s goals.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a request for proposal for a campus carbon neutral master plan.
2. Discuss a potential framework for your campus carbon neutral master plan.
3. Identify practical steps and tangible projects for executing a carbon neutral master plan.
4. Evaluate tradeoffs between building and central infrastructure upgrades on your campus.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1848)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Campus Master Planning; Carbon Neutral; Sustainability (Environmental); Urban Campus

A Strategic Framework for Student Success

Presented by: Bonita Brown, JD, Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Northern Kentucky University

Northern Kentucky University’s (NKU) developed its unique strategic plan, Success by Design, through a framework that uses design thinking. The framework is singularly focused on student success and is a strong example of integrated planning that involves the entire campus. Come learn about NKU’s unique strategic planning process, campus community engagement in innovation, plan execution and assessment, and highlights of recent successes.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to implement design thinking across your entire campus.
2. Explain the type of leadership your institution needs to design and implement a strategic framework with a singular focus.
3. Identify methods for engaging your entire campus in strategic planning execution.
4. Describe how your institution can showcase strategic planning work and other innovative ideas across campus.

Estimate Your Academic Budget Using Market-driven Forecasting

Presented by: Robert Atkins, CEO, Gray Associates | Andrew Dunn, Director, Strategic Financial Planning, Concordia University-Wisconsin | William Massy, Senior Consultant, Gray Associates

Many institutions make programming decisions regardless of the effects on interdepartmental costs; we’ll show how to estimate the effects of these decisions and market trends on institution-wide staffing and budgets. Using market growth rates by academic program, this interactive session will introduce a market-driven academic budget and forecasting tool for projecting budgets and staffing by program, course, section, and department. Discover how you can reduce time spent on budgeting and increase accuracy as well as avoid expensive mistakes, such as reducing margins by cutting the wrong programs.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Use market data to inform academic plans and budgets.
2. Determine the economics of academic programs, including out-of-department revenues and costs.
3. Make better decisions in regards to starting, stopping, or growing academic programs.
4. Explain how to use an academic budget and forecasting tool to improve the efficiency of academic departments, programs, and courses.

Challenges: Planning Alignment
Planning Types: Academic Planning; Resource Planning
Tags: Academic Program Review; Alignment; Budget / Finance; Budget Planning

Graduate Student Housing: Bringing More Life to the Living Experience

Presented by: Melissa Falkenstien, Director, Capital Projects and Asset Management, University of California-Irvine | Bill LaPatra, Partner, Mithun | Jennifer Martinez, Interim Director, Palo Verde Housing, University of California-Irvine | Timothy Trevan, Director of Student Housing, California State University-Northridge

Graduate school can be intense and stressful, but with the right tools, higher education planners can support graduate student wellness and inclusion through housing design and operations. This session will illustrate how the University of California (UC) Irvine’s design-build process for a new graduate student housing complex helped its occupants to thrive. Come learn valuable new tools, techniques, and a wellness framework that you can apply at your institution to create a healthy and inclusive graduate student living experience.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify program and service options for addressing graduate students’ experience of social isolation and increasing wellbeing.
2. Apply concepts of biophilia to increase occupant wellness in your future campus housing projects using five techniques of evidence-based design.
3. Advocate for graduate student housing that promotes wellbeing using a framework that measures wellness in design.
4. Explain how UC Irvine’s tools and methods resulted in more inclusive places and spaces for its graduate student residents.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1808)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Health and Wellness; Student Housing; Student Life / Student Affairs

Innovative Data Collection Methods to Measure and Optimize Classroom Space

Presented by: Laura Serebin, Principal, Flad Architects | Elizabeth Strutz, Director of Process Innovation, Flad Architects | Jeremy Theis, Director of Planning, Design and Construction, Medical College of Wisconsin

Institutions are rapidly changing their instructional methods to accommodate hybrid learning in a post-pandemic world. In order to support these new methods, planners need data to inform campus space renovations and new educational facilities. We’ll demonstrate how to apply space utilization data early on in space planning projects as well as use efficient and flexible data collection tools to support the rapidly changing educational environment. Join us for a discussion of innovative data collection methods and case studies with actionable steps for conducting space utilization studies to optimize your future campus spaces.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe best practices for developing a space utilization study, including metrics for future academic buildings in a post-pandemic world.
2. Identify qualitative and quantitative data collection methods to conduct space utilization studies.
3. Optimize traditional classroom space types to accommodate experiential and hybrid learning spaces.
4. Leverage technology to develop interactive decision support tools to compare and visualize space utilization data.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1863)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Planning; Learning Environments; Medical / Allied Health Facility; Space Assessment; Space Management

Observed Themes in Higher Education Planning and Design From the 2022 Excellence Award Entries and Recognition of Winners

Presented by: Swati Khimesra, President and CEO, Surface 678 | James Kolker, Associate Vice Chancellor and University Architect, Washington University in St. Louis | Michael A. Nieminen, Principal, Kliment Halsband Architects | R. Umashankar, Executive Director, Physical and Environmental Planning, University of California, Irvine

Awards programs are a way to not only recognize and applaud those individuals and organizations whose achievements exemplify excellence but also to provide learning opportunities for everyone whose lives and passions involve higher education. The 2022 jury members will share observations and trends from this year’s entries and acknowledge award recipients. Award certificates will be distributed at the end of the program.

Congratulations to the 2022 winners!

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discover ways in which campus projects can articulate an institution’s mission.
2. Recognize innovation in planning, architecture, and landscape architecture.
3. Discuss how the effective use of materials and aesthetic choices demonstrate design’s highest qualities.
4. Identify opportunities to apply new innovations on your own campus.

SCUP Fellow Presentation | Naming Issues on Campus: An Integrated Planning Approach

Presented by: Erin Johnson, 2020–21 SCUP Fellow, 2020 Provost Administrative Fellow, Northwestern University

In 2015, a period of heightened student activism led to a wave of renaming buildings that honored individuals whose legacies the campus community viewed as being in conflict with contemporary interpretations of institutional mission and active efforts to foster inclusion and belonging. Effectively managing naming on campus is challenging, emotional, and time-consuming work that impacts the physical built environment as well as an institution’s legacy. Come join us for this interactive session in which we’ll discuss these issues and offer ideas for how to address them.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Summarize higher education’s role in the global conversation around naming and renaming physical spaces and how such acts relate to institutional legacies, history, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
2. Outline the factors, attributes, and characteristics that may impact how a campus community perceives a building’s name and whether it aligns with institutional mission and goals.
3. Identify the primary challenges and opportunities that institutions face in addressing a contested name on campus.
4. Describe common approaches to handling naming issues on campus.

The Journey to Transform Campus Cultures of Belonging

Presented by: Pamela Garbini, Assistant Director, Space Planning & Management, Pennsylvania State University | Debi McDonald, New England Higher Education Market Sector Leader, Jacobs | Toyin Ogunfolaju, Infrastructure & Social Economic Inclusion Leader, Jacobs

In order to meaningfully address the injustices that marginalized groups face in our society, there is a heightened need to identify strategies for facilitating inclusion and social justice across higher education campuses. This session will explore social justice initiatives that actively influence an institution’s policies, practices, and its built environment to create a sense of belonging and wellbeing for the entire campus community. We will share ideas for how you can better address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion to accelerate a social justice journey and create campus environments where all will feel welcome.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Incorporate language associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion in your planning and design process to foster belonging and wellbeing for your campus community.
2. Expand your awareness of social justice issues through the experiences of higher education and industry planners.
3. Identify ways to effectively challenge existing norms and create impact, belonging, and wellbeing on your campus by changing the conversation around diversity, equity and inclusion.
4. Explore program ideas for providing safe spaces on campus for engaged communication, support, and shared learning about understanding and accommodating differences.

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

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

Three Horizons: An Integrated Triad for Planning and Governance

Presented by: James Downey, Senior Strategy Consultant

Many institutions struggle with the relationship and interaction between planning and governance. For institutions to flourish in the future, they can optimize their activities through three horizons. This session will discuss the three horizons model, an integrated triad framework that provides a systemic approach for understanding how timeframes, planning, and governance interact. Come learn how to organize your institution’s planning and governance engagement using the three horizon’s model, allowing you to integrate these critical activities in a more systematic way.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess your own institutional context with the three horizons model.
2. Explain how to map the three areas of planning onto the three horizons construct.
3. Explain how to map the three areas of governance onto the three horizons construct.
4. Discuss how to apply the integrated triad framework to your own institutional context.

Challenges: Planning Alignment
Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Alignment; Institutional Planning; Planning Processes

Decentralized to Specialized: How a STEM College Achieved Efficiencies

Presented by: Paul Brown, Director, Planning and Resources, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | Tania Hogg, Associate Director, Strategy & Innovation, RMIT University

This session will explore how Australia’s RMIT University obtained efficiencies for its large STEM college professional services team of 400 staff by taking its decentralized school structure and pivoting to specialized college-based support. We’ll share the highlights, hard lessons, and details of how the STEM College’s design considerations and change process achieved these efficiencies and positioned the college to better respond to future disruption. Join us for key takeaways from RMIT’s large restructure project and find out how your institution can achieve efficiencies through team centralization.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Design concept ideas for centralized professional service team compositions.
2. Identify key considerations and ideas for improvement when implementing a large-scale organizational change project.
3. Generate ideas for achieving efficiencies and optimization of a college-based professional services team.
4. Discuss how to design learning facilities to promote collaboration.

Challenges: Change Management
Planning Types: Resource Planning
Tags: Change Management; Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Human Resources; Learning Environments; Science / Engineering; Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM)

Making Planners Indispensable to Institutional Transformation

Presented by: Linda Baer, Senior Consultant, Linda L. Baer Consultant | Donald Norris, President and Founder, Strategic Initiatives, Inc. | Joseph (Tim) Gilmour, Principal, Strategic Initiatives, Inc.

By 2030, higher education institutions must transform in order to survive the existential challenges confronting them. With the right skill set, planners will be instrumental to the success of their institutional transformation efforts. Building on the 8-step transformation process from our recently published book “Transformation for Turbulent Times,” we’ll demonstrate how planners can become indispensable transformation architects of their institutions’ futures. Join us to learn the foundational skills you need to play a key role in the transformation processes at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Support and guide institutional leadership in building a case for transformation using advanced foresight and
   situational analysis tools.
2. Help your transformation leadership team develop a highly participative, long-term transformation campaign, shape a bold vision, and define strategies for its achievement.
3. Assist institutional transformation efforts with initiative implementation, including defining necessary organizational capacity and culture change for transformation.
4. Describe the technical support your institution needs in regards to sophisticated planning, analytical, and design tools for developing and executing transformation strategies.

Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Change Management; Disruptive Change; Institutional Planning; Organizational Change; Planning Processes

Post-pandemic Visioning: Community Engagement for Strategic Planning Insights

Presented by: Cara Kreit, English Faculty & Education Planning Committee Co-Chair, College of Marin

The College of Marin launched a yearlong series of college-wide discussions to engage its campus community in considering how to leverage new capacities and lessons learned from the pandemic to inform the new strategic plan development. Come learn about the framework that a co-leading faculty member and administrator team used to engage the campus community—faculty, staff, and administrators—in post-pandemic visioning and leveraging key insights in the college’s strategic planning efforts.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the wins, challenges, and key insights the college gained from adaptations it made during the pandemic.
2. Engage with a framework for post-pandemic visioning to inform strategic planning on your own campus.
3. Determine how you can apply this framework to lead college-wide post-pandemic visioning.
4. Identify key insights into engaging faculty in college-wide planning efforts.

Rethinking Equitable Student Support During Times of Change

Presented by: Peter Hendrickson, Associate Vice Chancellor, Design & Construction, University of California-Los Angeles | Joel Peterson, PhD, MBA, MA, Vice Chancellor, Facilities Management, San Diego Community College District | Paula Stamp, Director, Business Development, PCL Construction Enterprises, Inc. | Ashley Stoner, Architect, DLR Group

Higher education planners have an opportunity to reimagine the campus as a supportive place for students, both in person and virtually, through the design and construction of facilities and infrastructure. As a follow-up to a research study from the height of the pandemic, this session will compare institutions and their responses to equitable student support in regards to new tools and modes of engagement. Join us to hear about real world examples and learn new shared solutions that you can apply on your campus to achieve more equitable student support.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Gather strategies for in-person, hybrid, and virtual student support that enhance the campus community experience and address disparities during challenging times.
2. Collect real-life experiences and solutions from two different institutions.
3. Identify key areas in which your institution needs to increase student support services, including learning, belonging, mental health, community, and food and housing security.
4. Discuss ways to strengthen diversity and inclusion objectives through thoughtful engagement and new modes of interaction.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1798)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning; Student Affairs Planning
Tags: Community College; COVID-19; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Hybrid Learning; Learning Environments; Learning Technology; Original Research; Student Services; Student Support Services

The Decolonization and Indigenization of Capital Infrastructure

Presented by: Aiden Callison, Associate Architect AIBC, HCMA Architecture + Design | Bruce Denis, Owner/Consultant, Coast Mountain College | Bridie O’Brien, Executive Director, Indigenization, Coast Mountain College

The indigenization of higher education can create better outcomes for indigenous peoples through indigenous ways of learning and culturally appropriate support while also fostering cross-cultural learning for the broader student body. This session will discuss how Coast Mountain College (CMC) in British Columbia used decolonization and indigenization methods for new capital infrastructure, specifically the Wii Gyemsiga Siiwilaawksat student housing project. You’ll learn how to assess levels of indigenization at your own institution and make meaningful, intentional changes to processes and physical space to better support indigenous students.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Acknowledge the importance of engaging and collaborating with local Indigenous communities on campus.
2. Engage indigenous partners in collaboratively decolonizing capital infrastructure project processes.
3. Identify space requirements for supporting indigenous students and creating cross-cultural learning opportunities.
4. Explain how to design and construct capital infrastructure that considers indigenization in architecture, interior design, and landscaping.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1851)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Planning; Student Housing

The Future of Learning and Engagement In and Out of the Classroom

Presented by: Tina Deemer, Director, Academic Resources, University of Arizona | Alison Rainey, Principal, Shepley Bulfinch | Peter Rasmussen, Senior Architect, Shepley Bulfinch | Rebecca Rowley, President, Santa Fe Community College

In the wake of the pandemic-accelerated transition to virtual and hybrid learning, it’s time to take a step back and examine the applicability of various learning and engagement models. Exploring planning and engagement activities for both a campus master plan and a purpose-planned classroom building, this session will share strategies for equitable classroom planning to accommodate a hybrid learning future. You’ll learn about the planning process behind a virtual engagement model for a hybrid academic experience and discover how you can take similar scalable actions on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate investments in and value of remote-enabled classrooms on your campus.
2. Plan a virtual engagement session with multiple stakeholders.
3. Identify practical strategies for leveraging virtual classroom activities and engagements.
4. Determine how your institution can ensure equity across virtual academic engagements.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1897)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Planning; Hybrid Learning; Learning Environments

The Perfect Storm: Resilience Strategies to Future Proof Campuses

Presented by: Marissa Cheng, Senior Planner, Physical & Environmental Planning, University of California-Berkeley | Caitlyn Clauson, Principal, Sasaki | Elizabeth Foster, Principal, Page Southerland Page, Inc. | Kira Stoll, Manager, Office of Sustainability, University of California-Berkeley

Campus master plans must integrate resilience strategies to mitigate risk and facilitate adaptation as climate change threats and stressors become increasingly critical. This session will highlight the University of California (UC) Berkeley’s resilience strategies related to energy, water, wildfire, and seismic resilience and demonstrate how you can translate these strategies to your campus context. Come learn how to identify your campus’s resilience threats and stressors, develop strategies to minimize risk, and mitigate its vulnerability to climate change and other environmental hazards.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify climate threats and stressors specific to your institution’s region.
2. Evaluate your campus’s response preparedness for environmental threats and stressors.
3. Evaluate resilience strategies for responding to climate change.
4. Integrate resilience planning as part of your master planning process.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1899)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change
Planning Types: Campus Planning; Sustainability Planning
Tags: Campus Master Planning; Facilities Planning; Resiliency; Response Planning; Sustainability (Environmental)

Advancing Carbon Neutrality Through Renovation and Renewal

Presented by: Elizabeth McLean, Senior Associate, Ayers Saint Gross | Edmundo Soltero, Assistant Vice President and University Architect, Arizona State University | Allison Wilson, Sustainability Director, Ayers Saint Gross

Institutions are leading the way in climate neutrality, but they must do more to confront the climate crisis. This session will explore how institutions can expand their enterprise solutions and use roadmaps for engaging existing buildings to meet comprehensive climate neutrality initiatives. We’ll share strategies for neutralizing emissions while preserving embodied carbon of existing mid-century buildings, which campuses can achieve through in-place reinvention with deep green retrofits. Come learn how you can make the case for reinvesting in existing campus assets and improving their performance in lieu of tearing them down to begin anew.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Define key terms associated with carbon neutrality and the measurements associated with those terms.
2. Apply a comprehensive suite of strategies in your planning processes to achieve a carbon neutral campus.
3. Align institutional and project goals to support high-performance, sustainable, and healthy environments.
4. Leverage metering data to support conversations on the benefits of investing in carbon neutral renovation.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1922)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Carbon Neutral; Facilities Planning; Renovation; Sustainability (Environmental)

Collaboration: The Power of One

Presented by: Andy Powers, Campus Architect, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville

As planners, we’re trained to solve problems within our field of expertise, yet we spend much of our time working with others. This session will demonstrate how we can influence through collaboration by using interpersonal skills to work with others, resulting in better outcomes. In order to achieve collaboration, we must manage ourselves effectively and understand how our behavior affects others. You can begin making a difference in your institution’s collaborative processes using ‘the power of one’ by applying practical strategies for diffusing defensiveness and uniting diverse viewpoints for better project outcomes.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Evolve from simply managing projects to truly collaborating and assist others in understanding these concepts.
2. Distinguish when you or others are acting as an impediment to effective collaboration.
3. Apply strategies for diffusing defensiveness and preventing aggressive participants from dominating a collaborative process.
4. Leverage and coalesce multiple points of views across disciplines to obtain better project outcomes.

Challenges: Change Management; Engaging Stakeholders
Tags: Change Management; Communication; Consensus Building; Engaging Stakeholders

Equity in Education: A Public University’s Response to Social Justice

Presented by: Katrice Albert, Vice President for Institutional Diversity, University of Kentucky | Mary Anne Ocampo, Principal, Sasaki | Andrew Smith, Assistant Provost for Student Well-Being, University of Kentucky | Mary Vosevich, Vice President of Facilities Management, University of Kentucky

In the midst of a global health crisis, a racial reckoning, and climate change events, there is a tremendous opportunity for institutions to question their role in addressing social justice as an ethos and as an educational mission. This session will focus on the University of Kentucky’s (UK) commitment to rejecting institutionalized oppression by centering on strategies that highlight institutional origins, inclusive infrastructure, accessibility, and multicultural space. Join us for a moment of reflection and critical thinking in addressing the campus community we’re planning for, moving beyond statistics, and focusing on equitable campus life experiences.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize potential barriers to belonging and wellbeing within your campus’s built environment and find solutions for accommodating diverse users.
2. Create engagement processes that provide a safe space for dialogue.
3. Trace your campus history to evaluate the impacts of its evolution on inclusion and belonging.
4. Guide your future planning efforts through an understanding of equity goals to create a safe and welcoming campus environment.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1943)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning
Tags: Accessibility; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Planning

Long-term Pandemic Impacts on Student Success and Equity

Presented by: Edward Venit, Senior Director of the Student Success Collaborative, EAB

Higher education’s struggle to overcome pandemic disruption will continue long after other parts of the economy rebound. Concerns around social disengagement and mental health combined with massive disruptions in transfer enrollments and K-12 learning could challenge college completion, equity, and future campus infrastructure needs. This session will provide data-driven insights into the decade ahead and present data and strategies that you can use to make the case for necessary investments.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Gain a detailed appreciation of the pandemic’s severe impact on learners of all ages.
2. Assess how student disengagement and mental health issues are playing out in social spaces on campus.
3. Anticipate how and when massive K-12 disruption may change your campus’s infrastructural needs.
4. Leverage data to make the case for additional investments during uncertain times.

Memorialization and Dialogue: Framing Conversation Around Institutional Legacies

Presented by: Cathy Pinskey, Capital Program Director, George Mason University | Stephanie Wolfgang, Senior Associate, Senior Landscape Architect, Perkins&Will

In an era of intense debate surrounding the legacies of historical figures, George Mason University is using community-fostering dialogue to address its namesake’s legacy and memorialize the lives of those he enslaved. This session will discuss the process and outcomes of the university’s recent effort to acknowledge this legacy by incorporating a memorial into a large-scale campus infrastructure project. Come learn how you can leverage undergraduate student research efforts and spaces within your campus environment to address topics that impact the wellbeing, expression, and representation of your campus community.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discover methods for translating student-led undergraduate research projects into actionable outcomes that can shape both the social and physical campus environment.
2. Shape physical environments to facilitate the expression of values that are important to your campus community.
3. Develop strategies for acknowledging the mixed legacies of historical figures that your campus may be honoring.
4. Establish meaningful stakeholder engagement and buy-in among university student, faculty, and staff to facilitate meaningful campus projects.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPM22C1579)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Challenges: Engaging Stakeholders
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Landscape / Open Space; Student Engagement

Shared Services Centers for Efficient Space Utilization

Presented by: Carolyn Farley, Higher Ed Consulting Director, Huron Consulting Group Inc | Chenise Ryan, Executive Director, Enrollment Operations, University of Alabama at Birmingham | Melissa Shuter, Executive Director of Operations Support Services, University of Louisville | Lee Smith, Senior Director, Huron Consulting Group Inc

Many institutions are considering the ways in which they can operate more efficiently post-pandemic. Space utilization and streamlining of administrative services are high priorities for campus leadership. This session will demonstrate how shared services centers (SSC) represent an operational efficiency and space management opportunity, both for the centers themselves and for the offices they represent that are no longer customer facing. Come learn how an SSC differs from its predecessors and often returns space to the institution’s core mission while allowing for cost savings.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess the nature and quality of activities that remain in the ‘back office’ and how this translates into space requirements and configurations.
2. Discuss how an SSC can reflect new organizational priorities through the more efficient use of space dedicated to particular functions.
3. Set expectations and find opportunities to continuously improve on the ‘new normal’ once an SSC is up and operational.
4. Strategize on how to manage an SSC transition effectively to best position the units for success.

Planning Types: Campus Planning; Resource Planning
Tags: Change Management; Facilities Planning; Human Resources; Space Management

Shifting Mindsets Spark Innovation in Academic Workplace Design

Presented by: Deborah Shepley, Principal, Gensler | Lev Gonick, Chief Information Officer, Arizona State University

Fueled by the crisis of the pandemic, higher education institutions are reconsidering the value of space dedicated to offices across campus. Office spaces typically account for 30–40 percent of campus inventory and are often the most underutilized. This session will provide valuable insights and innovative approaches for evaluating and transforming underutilized campus spaces in ways that enhance wellbeing and engagement for the entire campus community.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss multiple perspectives and opportunities in regards to leveraging and reimagining the most underutilized spaces on your campus.
2. Assess your institution’s view on academic workplace design compared to national research data and relevant case studies.
3. Evaluate and prioritize the highest and best use for office space to support multiple work modes, facilitate collaboration, and maximize engagement.
4. Consider the key role of technology as an integrated opportunity for maximizing flexibility, agility, and efficiency.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C2202)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Student Wellbeing on a Live-Learn Campus: A COVID-Era Study

Presented by: Lakshmi Chilukuri, Provost, Sixth College; Associate Professor, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California-San Diego | Thom Greving, Principal & Regional Design Director, HKS, Inc. | Upali Nanda, Director of Research, HKS, Inc. | Matthew Smith, Principal Architect, University of California-San Diego

Offering perspectives from design, operations, and research teams, this session will holistically explore student wellbeing in the context of a new residential campus during the pandemic. For the past two years, a live-learn lab has been investigating the impact that an integrated living and learning neighborhood has had on student wellbeing, social connection, and environmental health. Drawing from the results of this longitudinal research study, you’ll learn how to leverage on-campus living and learning environments to enhance student health and wellbeing, sense of community, and environmental perceptions.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe how to apply a coalition structure, where the capital project serves as a live-learn lab, to different campuses in different contexts.
2. Evaluate architectural design strategies for enhancing health, wellbeing, and social connection in student housing.
3. Find opportunities to activate spaces and programs that enhance student health and wellbeing, while understanding the connection to student environmental perceptions.
4. Prioritize design strategies and operational considerations around the study’s four big ideas to build social connection in living learning spaces on your campus.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1737)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Health and Wellness; Mixed-Use; Original Research; Student Housing

Technologist Perspectives Post-pandemic and Beyond

Presented by: Chris Dechter, Manager, Instructional Technology Classroom Technology Services, University of Wyoming | Parke Rhoads, Principal and Higher Education Lead, Vantage Technology Consulting Group | Lisa Stephens, Assistant Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, SUNY-System Office

For institutions to succeed, technology and space must come together differently. This session will offer practical technology insights, open dialog, and resources for the future of integrated planning and design. As technology stakeholders from a range of organizational roles, we’ll explore what did and didn’t work during the pandemic and share plans for a future that’s both physical and virtual. Through open inquiry and panel conversation, we’ll dispel myths, provide access to a wealth of benchmark and trend data, and detail real-world implications for the future of tech on campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the pandemic experience of various institutional technology stakeholders and how their response to disruption may inform or mislead progress.
2. Evaluate practical guidelines, resources, and databases on classroom technology that can help your campus catch up and stay ahead.
3. Explain how high-level institutional vision can connect to or support emerging trends in technology.
4. Discuss why the evolution of digital trends seem to challenge the traditional path of ‘capital projects’ and how your institution can work to overcome them.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1814)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Challenges: COVID-19 Response and Planning
Planning Types: Information Technology Planning
Tags: Alignment; COVID-19; Facilities Planning; Higher Ed Trends; Hybrid Learning; Information Technology; Learning Environments; Learning Technology

Creating an Innovation Think Tank to Foster an Entrepreneurial Culture

Presented by: Lily Davidov, Faculty Chair/Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Risk Management, Rio Salado College | Janelle Elias, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, Rio Salado College | Jason Reiche, Software Developer Senior, Rio Salado College

This session will explore how Rio Salado College (RSC) created a think tank and applied entrepreneurial orientation and design thinking to structure college activities and engage its campus community. We’ll share lessons learned from our journey to empower each employee’s ingrained motivations by inspiring innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk taking. Join us to discover how you can create a learning organization with an autonomous, equitable, and diverse workforce within your own institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. List concrete steps you can take to start a think tank at your institution.
2. Identify systems, structures, and processes that actively foster an entrepreneurial mindset and culture.
3. Discuss how RSC cross-functionally and cross-hierarchically engaged its organization to participate in design thinking.
4. Identify entrepreneurial activities happening on your campus and brainstorm strategic opportunities.

Planning Types: Academic Planning
Tags: Engaging Stakeholders; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; New Program or Department; Organizational Culture

Critical Conversations Around Space Management

Presented by: Adem Gusa, Director of Planning & Design, Duke University | Paul Leef, Studio Leader, Campus Strategy & Analytics, SmithGroup | Alexandria Roe, Senior Associate Vice President, Capital Planning and Budget, University of Wisconsin System Administration | Bartlomiej Sapeta, Assistant Vice President, Chapman University

Space is one of the most critical and valuable assets an institution has, but meaningful conversations about optimizing its use can be difficult. Higher education planners need methods and tools to help justify space management initiatives to decision makers. In this session, we’ll present strategies and practices for promoting a data-informed culture of planning that uses analytics as a springboard. Come learn about best practices in utilization metrics, data analytics, and data visualizations for various space typologies, such as instructional space, offices, and research, particularly in relation to current trends and post-pandemic realities.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss best practices in space management that can help you to overcome institutional barriers and focus resources on managing space assets.
2. Use interactive data visualization techniques for space analytics and optimizing existing campus space.
3. Adopt strategies from peer institutions for creating dialogue around space and space use.
4. Leverage accreditation requirements and planning efforts to jump start space analytics.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1813)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Planning; Space Assessment; Space Management

Increasing Stakeholder Engagement to Support Student Success

Presented by: Tina Dee, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Muskegon Community College

Active participation from all stakeholder groups is necessary for recognizing and meeting students’ evolving needs. When planners understand how to be good stewards of stakeholder relationships they can strengthen their project outcomes. This session will demonstrate how dynamic stakeholder engagement can improve student success, support strategic goal attainment, and generate community-wide discussions about the transformative powers of higher education. You’ll learn how collaborative relationships can provide context around the realities of the external environment, ensuring informed decision making and the ability to successfully navigate changes.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Outline a stewardship plan that keeps stakeholders informed and engaged.
2. Identify options for engagement events that will help inform and improve your current and future strategic plans.
3. Describe a communication plan that increases brand awareness and advocacy for your institution.
4. Use stakeholder input to expand course and service options to increase revenue.

Challenges: Engaging Stakeholders
Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Analyzing Stakeholders; Communication; Engaging Stakeholders; Student Success

Mixed Reality Master Planning: Future-forward Strategies for Your Campus

Presented by: Janette Blackburn, Principal, Shepley Bulfinch | Mahesh Daas, President, Boston Architectural College | Peter Atwood, Faculty and Director of Digital Media, Boston Architectural College

The pandemic has opened new avenues for rethinking higher education delivery. Institutions must have nimble and strategic deployment of resources that provide equitable experiences for a diverse student body. Mixed reality master planning integrates physical and technology infrastructure planning to support a seamless, future-forward educational platform across the spectrum of physical, augmented, mixed, and virtual realities. We’ll demonstrate how to rethink your campus planning processes and apply nimble and responsive models to technology and equity to help maintain your institution’s relevance.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Promote inclusive, immersive education platforms to keep your campus relevant for future students.
2. Evaluate your campus’s in-person and virtual gatherings post-pandemic.
3. Identify opportunities for incorporating hybrid educational models into your campus learning spaces.
4. Discuss how to integrate information and building technologies for synchronous and asynchronous learning.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1877)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning; Information Technology Planning
Tags: Facilities Planning; Hybrid Learning; Information Technology; Learning Environments; Learning Technology

Modernism Reborn: Reviving Brutalist Icons on the American Campus

Presented by: Jeanne Chen, Principal, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners | James Kolker, University Architect, Associate Vice Chancellor, Washington University in St Louis | Neal Matsuno, Principal, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners | Adam Padua, Senior Associate, Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners

In the aftermath of riots, killings, and the flu pandemic of 1968, America architecture conveyed its optimism for the future through Brutalism. In the wake of similarly troubled times, campuses are once again ready to embrace optimism through renewal. Brutalism has left universities with a legacy of historic concrete buildings, but fifty years later they’re often unpopular and in poor repair. This session will explore how three university campuses looked beyond the troubled exterior and chose whether to replace, repair, or restore their campus’s Brutalist buildings and put their campus assets back to work.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss the roots of Brutalism in post-WWII optimism, the reasons for its fall from grace, and how institutions can sustainably extend the useful life of Brutalist campus buildings.
2. Recognize how three universities successfully revitalized ore replaced Brutalist landmarks with speed, focus, and economy.
3. Define the requirements for restoring or replacing historic structures and recognize how building codes may impact the cost of historic building repair by triggering required upgrades.
4. Balance architectural conservation with current building performance and sustainability standards, technology and code requirements.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1935)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Academic Facility; Business School Facility; Deferred Maintenance; Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Historic Preservation; Landscape / Open Space; Renovation; Student Housing

Powering the Future of STEM Education and Innovation at MSU

Presented by: Eric Boatman, Assistant Director, Facilities Planning & Space Management, Michigan State University | Cori Fata-Hartley, Assistant Dean, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University | Jeffrey Johnson, , Integrated Design Solutions, LLC | Barbara Kranz, Assistant Provost, Institutional Space Planning and Management, Michigan State University

Comprehensive STEM education is critical for increasing new, diverse discoveries and preparing students for careers in related fields. This session will explore Michigan State University’s (MSU) STEM Teaching and Learning Facility, its first new instructional building in nearly 50 years. This state-of-the-art facility reflects MSU’s commitment to undergraduate education with the goal of advancing student success in STEM disciplines. You’ll learn about the intent and outcomes of the project’s comprehensive and inclusive planning and design process, which resulted in an educational facility that is an integral part of the learning experience and student success.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Outline an effective and inclusive planning process that defines the problem and sets goals.
2. Identify new teaching modalities for improving the STEM learning experience and ensuring student success and retention.
3. Articulate a vision that provides a framework for successful planning, design, and building activation.
4. Recognize building design elements that directly support innovative teaching and learning in STEM fields.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1841)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Learning Environments; Science / Engineering Facility; Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM); Space Management

Reimagining Integrated Planning Through Inclusion and Transformation

Presented by: Valarie Avalone, Director, Institutional Planning, Effectiveness, and Accountability, Monroe Community College | Joel Frater, Dean of Student Services, Rochester General College of Health Careers

Institutions must adapt to the rapidly changing higher education landscape. This session will share how a strategic value proposition can differentiate your institution and build capacity for inclusion and equitable student outcomes. Aligning an institution’s planning, assessment, and resource allocation systemically leads to improved outcomes and serves as a catalyst for reframing the value proposition and adopting inclusive and equitable principles. Come learn strategies for managing institutional complexity and exploring implementation processes that integrate data on learner needs, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles, as well as alignment with strategic priorities, budget allocation, and assessment.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate the roles of integrated planning and institutional effectiveness as tools for facilitating change and capitalizing on opportunities for institutional transformation.
2. Discuss how to differentiate your institution through its value proposition while balancing cost, the right mix of programs and support services, and alignment with strategic priorities.
3. Propose planning priorities and intended outcomes that are student-centric for the community, economic, and workforce needs of today and tomorrow.
4. Incorporate DEI into planning through SMARTIE goals: Strategic, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely, Inclusive, and Equitable.

Challenges: Planning Alignment; Student Success, Retention, and Graduation
Planning Types: Academic Planning; Institutional Effectiveness Planning
Tags: Alignment; Community College; Determining Priorities; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Institutional Planning; Medical / Allied Health Education; Mission / Vision / Identity; Student Services; Student Success; Workforce Development

A Tale of Two Planning Projects: The Frontiers of Science and Robotics

Presented by: Elliot Felix, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, brightspot strategy | Amanda Lorenzo, Director, brightspot strategy | Matt Plecity, Associate Principal, GBBN Architects | Bob Reppe, Senior Director, Planning and Design, Carnegie Mellon University

Higher education institutions all face these common planning challenges: coming together to solve problems; enabling expansion to meet space demands; and connecting the campus with community and industry. In this session, we’ll share how Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) addressed these familiar challenges and found solutions during its planning process for the Richard King Mellon Science Building and Robotics Innovation Center. Join us to find out how you can effectively plan at the frontier of your discipline and your campus using CMU’s interdisciplinary planning process.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify opportunities to free up space on your main campus by exploring planning on the frontiers of your campus.
2. Evaluate interdisciplinary planning issues at your institution.
3. Apply a flexible programming model to your planning process to forecast future needs.
4. Effectively engage faculty in your planning efforts to enable interdisciplinary collaboration.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1820)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Flexible Learning Spaces; Innovation Center; Learning Environments; Science / Engineering Facility

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

Presented by: Rositha Durham, Vendor Procurement Manager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Susy Jones, Senior Sustainability Project Manager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Amy Kaiser, Senior Planner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Karen Rennell, Program Manager, Renovations & Campus Construction, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

Learning Outcomes:

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

Tags: Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; Operational Planning

Equitable Sustainability Planning Across Multiple Campuses

Presented by: Hussain Agah, Associate Vice Chancellor, Facilities Planning & Development, Riverside Community College District | Linsey Graff, Senior Campus Planner, DLR Group | Tonya Huff, Professor, Life Sciences Department, Faculty Chair, Sustainability Committee, Riverside City College | Lindsey Perez, Senior Architect and Principal, DLR Group

A district-wide sustainability and climate change framework requires engaging diverse stakeholder groups through an open process that results in shared district impact areas and goals with unique campus implementation strategies. This session will explore the creation of Riverside Community College District’s (RCCD) holistic and innovative approach to sustainability and climate change across three unique campus environments, each at different levels of understanding and implementation abilities. Come learn how to build buy-in and excitement for your sustainability plan implementation by establishing a visioning and prioritization process that elicits information from a broad group and results in actionable behaviors.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe a unique framework and rating system for developing actionable items around sustainability.
2. Discuss campus-wide sustainability options and balance what is visionary with what is achievable.
3. Structure an inclusive engagement process that addresses diverse stakeholder issues and knowledge levels.
4. Address campuses and unique needs under a unifying strategy.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1829)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change; Engaging Stakeholders
Planning Types: Sustainability Planning
Tags: Determining Priorities; Engaging Stakeholders; Sustainability (Environmental)

FLEXspace: The World’s Largest Learning Space Resource

Presented by: Rebecca Frazee, Faculty, and FLEXspace Manager, San Diego State University | Lisa Stephens, Assistant Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, SUNY-System Office | Joe Way, Director of Learning Environments, University of Southern California

FLEXspace is an educator-developed community resource for foundational data that saves time, money, and effort, featuring a critical mass of highly-searchable global space exemplars. The FLEXspace integrated planning pathway and extensive repository of models can help campus advisory groups and key stakeholders to maximize authentic evaluation and planning for new or renovated learning environments. Come learn how you can capitalize on this new integrated planning resource that enables both showcasing and review of peer-contributed exemplars and curated content.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Search peer-contributed learning space exemplars using tags specific to facilities, IT, and pedagogical attributes.
2. Showcase and upload examples of design solutions specific to your area of expertise to share with other FLEXspace members.
3. Review best practices that are curated by contemporary themes, eg., esports, active learning, HyFlex and hybrid space, etc.
4. Discuss case studies of design process as well as post-occupancy space functions and efficacy.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1825)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Active Learning Environments, Facilities Design, Facilities Planning, Flexible Learning Spaces, Higher Ed Trends, Learning Environments

Getting to OZ: Using Your Courage, Brain, and Heart in Strategic Planning

Presented by: Lorelei Carvajal, Senior Associate Vice President, Glendale Community College-Arizona | George Gregg, Director of Strategic Planning, Glendale Community College-Arizona

This session will detail how Glendale Community College (GCC) developed an integrated strategic plan using an intentional strategy execution framework, which has led to horizontal and vertical strategic alignment on the college’s highest priority goals. GCC leveraged the 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) to engage every team and department across the college, developing a more holistic, inclusive approach to strategic planning. Come learn from GCC’s comprehensive, integrated strategic planning and execution model and find out how you can apply best practices and avoid the pitfalls of implementing a strategic plan at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate the applicability of the 4DX strategy execution framework within your own institutional strategy execution.
2. Identify best practices and potential pitfalls to using 4DX as a tool to promote shared governance, college-wide engagement, strategic alignment, and focus in team goal-setting.
3. Create a template for the development of a more focused, inclusive, quantitative approach to an integrated strategic plan at your institution.
4. Integrate principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into your strategic planning process.

Challenges: Planning Alignment
Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Alignment; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; Implementation

Innovated Integrated Campus Planning for a Resilient, Agile, Equitable Future

Presented by: Marcella David, Senior Vice President and Provost, Columbia College-Chicago | Bridget Herrin, Associate Dean of Research and Planning, San Diego Mesa College | Pamela Luster, President, San Diego Mesa College | Deborah Shepley, Principal, Gensler | Meghan Webster, Principal, Gensler

Integrated planning processes with extensive stakeholder engagement as well as qualitative and quantitative analytics can position institutions for long-term success. Fueled by crisis in the wave of the pandemic, institutions are expanding the purpose, process, and outcomes of campus master planning as a vehicle for shaping a resilient, agile, and equitable future. In this session, two institutions will share a set of evolved approaches and strategies that can help your institution implement a dynamically responsive vision and prepare for an optimal future.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss a comprehensive integrated planning process that links strategic, academic, and facilities planning to bring a campus community together, create a shared vision, and successfully prepare for implementation.
2. Recognize the impacts of successes and challenges in future planning strategies, such as hybrid learning, evolving student support services, and optimizing facilities investments.
3. Advocate for processes that integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) values and address state and college priorities such as workforce development and student equity.
4. Champion a vision for the future that delivers on your institutional mission while simultaneously navigating stakeholder voices, business challenges, community relations, and evolving academic goals.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1822)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Challenges: COVID-19 Response and Planning
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Campus Master Planning; COVID-19; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Planning; Higher Ed Trends; Planning Processes; Resiliency

SCUP Fellow Presentation | Planning and Design Strategies for Inclusive Campus Environments

Presented by: Shannon Dowling, 2020-21 SCUP Fellow, Learning Environments Planner, Ayers Saint Gross

Can thoughtful planning champion belonging? How can institutions ensure an inclusive physical environment for underrepresented students? This session will share a yearlong student-centered study focused on the relationship between physical space and the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). A new playbook for guiding institutional stakeholders through planning and designing campus spaces will inform this participant-led ideation session. Join us to create vignettes of supportive campus learning spaces, resulting in tangible strategies for more inclusive campus spaces for learning, living, working, and socializing.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how physical space can contribute to belonging from the perspective of students.
2. Assess your campus spaces from a DEI lens using specific criteria and metrics.
3. Strategize quick wins for immediate campus impact and long-term investment to create cultural change.
4. Develop collaborative design ideas that will help re-envision problem spaces on your campus.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C2204)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

The Role of Trust-based Partnership in General Education Reform

Presented by: Cindy Bair Van Dam, Faclty Chair, AU Core Curriculum, American University | Brad Knight, Director, AU Core and University College, American University

After 26 years with an entrenched distribution requirement, the private, mid-size American University unanimously approved an inquiry-based core curriculum, which involved reviewing and approving over 500 new courses. The university was able to achieve this immense implementation by forming and reforming task-oriented partnerships—among faculty, upper administration, staff, and students—based on evolving stages of design and implementation. This redesign process was not without difficulties and missteps, but we’ll share how partnerships were key to finding solutions and avoiding the kinds of obstacles that can doom general education reform.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Map the stages of design and implementation for a general education redesign and implementation on your campus.
2. Identify prospective partnerships for various stages of an education redesign process.
3. Evaluate practices for engaging faculty, staff, and students in shared governance.
4. Anticipate obstacles and imagine potential solutions that your institution may experience in the process of general education reform.

Challenges: Engaging Stakeholders
Planning Types: Academic Planning
Tags: Change Management; Engaging Stakeholders

Achieving Net Zero: Global Best Practices in Planning and Design

Presented by: Heidi Creighton, Associate Principal, BuroHappold Engineering | Matthew Ollier, Partner, Hawkins\Brown | Trevor Wills, Director of Estates, Nottingham Trent University

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: Campus Planning
Tags: Carbon Neutral; Facilities Assessment; Facilities Planning; Sustainability (Environmental); Zero Net Energy (ZNE)

Addressing Equity Gaps in Student Success Through Campus Planning

Presented by: Sandra Haynes, Chancellor, Washington State University-Tri-Cities | Sara Howell, Principal, ZGF Architects LLP | Kathleen McAteer, Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs, Washington State University-Tri-Cities

Interdisciplinary and collaborative learning environments that address equitable student success are vital for graduating civic-minded citizens who can engage in solving global issues. This session will illuminate how inclusive planning and design creates a sense of community and belonging on campus for traditional and nontraditional students alike, ultimately leading to higher rates of student success. Equitable learner success requires planners to examine every aspect of the student experience through an equity lens including the built environment and we’ll share tools and methods for addressing these learner equity gaps in daily planning processes.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify areas in which equity gaps may exist and how they impact student success and belonging.
2. Work collaboratively to address learning inequities in your campus built environment that may be having a negative impact on students’ ability to learn, find community, and achieve a sense of wellbeing.
3. Rethink campus spaces in ways that promote interdisciplinarity and cross-pollination of ideas between students, faculty, and community partners.
4. Discuss how STEM ‘habits of mind’ are important characteristics for students to be able to contribute and address social justice issues like poverty, climate change, food insecurity, infectious diseases, and more.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1921)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Challenges: Student Success, Retention, and Graduation
Planning Types: Campus Planning; Student Affairs Planning
Tags: Community Engagement; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; External Collaboration / Partnerships; Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Interdisciplinary Learning Environments; Learning Environments; Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM); Student Success

Digital Transformation for Improved Faculty Research Support

Presented by: Michael Hites, Chief Information Officer, Southern Methodist University

This session will explore how Southern Methodist University (SMU) demonstrated improvement in its daily operations while supporting the widespread demands of computational researchers during the pandemic. By centralizing and transforming IT operations, SMU simultaneously increased support for high performance computing research and provided necessary technology for academic courses. Come learn how your institution can quickly respond to multiple changes simultaneously by organizing to increase efficiency, empower IT leaders, and facilitate faster decision making.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Determine the correct balance between centralized and localized IT to achieve institutional goals.
2. Explain how digital transformation and a centralized team can help support high performance computing and data science researchers.
3. Identify student and faculty needs for designing in-person and online technologies.
4. Discuss how organizational and digital transformation can improve decision making, customer service, and implementation speed.

Challenges: COVID-19 Response and Planning
Planning Types: Information Technology Planning
Tags: Faculty Productivity; Information Technology; Technology Infrastructure

Exploring the Future of Hybrid Education Through National Research

Presented by: Erin Cubbison, Strategy Director, Research Institute Fellow, Gensler | Eduardo Guerrero, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design, University of Arizona | Brianna Hays, Campus-Based Researcher, San Diego Mesa College | Mark Thaler, Principal, Gensler

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.

Challenges: COVID-19 Response and Planning; Student Success, Retention, and Graduation
Planning Types: Academic Planning; Campus Planning
Tags: COVID-19; Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Hybrid Learning; Learning Environments; Learning Technology; Original Research; Space Management; Teaching and Learning

From Surviving to Thriving: Creating a Culture of Strategy Execution

Presented by: Jeff Fahrenwald, Vice President of Strategy Realization, MPOWR Envision | Jan Freed, Leadership Development and Change Management Consultant, JannFreed.com

No matter where you are in your strategy journey, a culture of strategy execution will move your institution from surviving to thriving. This session will provide tools to assess your current culture and find opportunities for immediate improvement. Whether you’re looking to achieve past strategic objectives, plan a new strategy, or evaluate your current plan, a culture of execution will improve team focus and institutional performance and effectiveness. Join us to learn how you can create a culture of strategy execution to prioritize tactical daily work with your institution’s overall strategy, leading to greater stakeholder investment in your shared vision.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess your institution’s current culture and identify areas for immediate, positive improvements to develop a culture of strategy execution.
2. Describe the benefits of a culture of strategy execution at your institution and begin shifting behaviors to better support it.
3. Develop strategies for challenging common misconceptions about modern strategy execution.
4. Identify and assess technology resources that will support a culture of strategy execution.

Housing Design That Enriches the First Year Experience

Presented by: Joe Atkins, Principal, VMDO Architects | Tina Horvath, Senior Director of Housing, University of Florida | Stewart Robinette, Assistant Dean of Students Campus Living, George Washington University | Tyler Rodibaugh, Assistant Director, Housing Services, University of Miami

Students that feel socially and academically engaged are more likely to persist in college and particularly if that engagement happens in their first year. First-year student housing can be designed to encourage an engaging experience for students. Three universities will share recent residential building projects that support a first-year experience infused with academic and social engagement. We’ll discuss how a housing master plan, a living/learning residential building, and a residential village are dramatically enhancing the first-year experience by providing dynamic new housing that advances student success and wellness.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Outline techniques for integrating spaces for social and academic experiences in ways that advance student success and wellness.
2. Develop integrated approaches to housing design that prioritize wellness, belonging, and sense of community at the scale of the campus, neighborhood, building, floor, and living unit.
3. Describe a strategic campus-wide vision for a visually stunning and programmatically complete first-year residential community.
4. Cite critical research linking building design features to key health and performance outcomes for first year students: reducing stress, anxiety, and depression; encouraging healthy sleep patterns; and strengthening community and connection.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1847)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Health and Wellness; Mixed-Use; Student Experience; Student Housing; Student Success

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

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. Respect the unique ecological and human heritage of your campus and evaluate open space as an asset to meet institutional goals and campus community needs.
2. Discuss a collaborative process that engages educators, administrators, planners, designers, and community stakeholders to intentionally plan open space resources from vision through implementation.
3. Explain how to use integrated planning approaches to create living laboratory spaces for place-based research, wellbeing, active learning, and community.
4. Identify, assess, and develop solutions for underutilized campus open spaces as well as determine missing linkages within a broader open space network, such as a trail system or waterway.

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

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Active Learning Environments; Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Landscape / Open Space; Learning Environments

Shapeshifting: Integrated Planning in a VUCA World

Presented by: Dorys Crespin-Mueller, Associate Vice President, Integrated Planning & Effectiveness, Thompson Rivers University | Jan O’Brien, Director, Thompson Rivers University | Dana Prymak, Learning Analyst, Thompson Rivers University

Institution-level planning strategies that use a bottom-up approach to unit plan integration can help institutions achieve their strategic goals. When the pandemic interrupted its planning process, Thompson Rivers University (TRU) picked up the process again in 2021 with an intentional focus on using integrated planning to facilitate institutional transformation. Come learn more about TRU’s successful integrated approach to strategic planning and find out how you can use these methods to transform your institutional planning culture and unite campus collaborators.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain how to develop a framework for integrated strategic planning.
2. Determine existing horizontal goal alignment and identify gaps in your strategic planning process.
3. Use workshops to create better horizontal and vertical alignment for your institution’s existing strategic plans.
4. Apply lessons learned to your integrated planning process with tools, templates, and facilitation approaches.

Challenges: COVID-19 Response and Planning; Planning Alignment
Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Alignment; COVID-19; Engaging Stakeholders; Institutional Planning; Planning Processes

Aligning Complex Visions: Planning a New Research Facility to Transform Lives

Presented by: Yuri Ma, Project Director, Planning & Design, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health | Brittany Nelsen Reynolds, Project Coordinator, TreanorHL | Timothy Reynolds, Principal, TreanorHL | Zoe Rizos, Director of Research Facility Planning & Operations, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Vision is the driving force behind any building project, making it critical to achieve complex vision alignment early in the planning process. In order for the new Queen Street Research Building at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to fulfill its purpose of transforming lives, the planning and design process needed to converge multiple research functions focused on eliminating the stigma associated with mental health and addictions. In this session, you’ll learn new tools and methods that you can apply to your own planning and design process to achieve vision alignment and meet your project goals and objectives.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Create vision alignment through an effective engagement process that involves the facility’s users and focuses on the strategic big picture.
2. Use collaborative workshops early on in your planning and design process to ask the right questions, challenge preconceptions, and define the processes that will drive your facility.
3. Value the positive impact that collaboration and interaction has on planning and design solutions.
4. Deal with constraints, limitations, and criticism head on while simultaneously mandating excellence and quality at the start of your building project.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1725)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Engaging Stakeholders; Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Learning Environments; Medical / Allied Health Facility; Planning Processes

Engaging and Including All Voices in Your Strategic Plan

Presented by: Cameron Shirley, Dean, Institutional Effectiveness & Innovation, Davidson-Davie Community College | Jeff Stein, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships, Elon University

Addressing future challenges requires deep thinking and buy-in from across institutional constituencies. By applying collaborative strategic planning techniques, you can keep your institution moving forward far beyond the pandemic. This session will share collaborative strategic planning techniques that Elon University and Davidson-Davie Community College (DDCC) used to build their planning cultures and include all stakeholders in envisioning how to navigate fiscal, demographic, and technological challenges. Join us for the planning templates you need to create an engaging process—including feedback sessions, hands-on activities, and collaborative drafting—in which all of your institution’s stakeholders are invested in the strategic vision.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe a process that involve campus community members in building a strategic direction.
2. Apply strategic planning concepts and theories that address internal and external challenges and opportunities.
3. Develop feedback sessions and activities that fit within your own institutional context.
4. Create intentional engagements for keeping student voices and student learning at the center of your planning process.

Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Community College; Engaging Stakeholders; Planning Processes; Strategic Planning; SWOT Analysis

Esports: Higher Education’s Newest Revenue and Recruitment Tool

Presented by: Heath Price, Associate CIO, University of Kentucky | Michael Stewart, Electrical Engineer, CMTA, Inc.

As the global interest in esports continues to be the fastest-growing segment of entertainment the University of Kentucky (UK) took the chance to lead higher education’s esports space in a new direction. UK designed its University of Kentucky Federal Credit Union Esports Lounge to meet users’ needs while finding a way to produce an additional revenue stream. Through leveraging public-private partnerships and collaboration with technology design teams, we’ll share opportunities for your institution to become an industry leader and optimize your esports assets for students, staff, and the community.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss esport project approaches to ensure that your plan meets your vision once the project becomes bricks and mortar.
2. Acknowledge your stakeholders’ budgetary guidelines while simultaneously observing all perspectives within the project.
3. Research other institutions to see how they are incorporating esports and gaming into their day-to-day curriculum programming.
4. Dissect real-life projects to discover successes and lessons learned as well as apply that knowledge to your future projects.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1873)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Design; Facilities Funding; Facilities Planning; Learning Environments; Learning Technology; New Program or Department; Operational Planning; Public-Private Partnerships (P3); Recreational Facility

Make Your University Smarter By Getting Smaller

Presented by: Jessica Figenholtz, Higher Education Practice Leader, Perkins&Will | Nicholas Long, Vice President for Finance and Administration Services, Central Michigan University | Wayne Moerdyk, Project Manager, Central Michigan University | David Wilkins, Principal, GMB Architecture + Engineering

After enrollment dropped by one third within six years, Central Michigan University (CMU) is taking action to prioritize student success, boost recruitment and retention, enhance wellbeing, and rightsize its campus. Using CMU’s example, this session will demonstrate how demographic trends can guide your campus out of declining enrollment and funding dilemmas. Come learn how to shrink the size of your campus while still prioritizing institutional recruitment and retention themes, such as student success, health and wellbeing, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe how to effectively rightsize your campus to align with enrollment and pipeline demographic realities through square footage reduction, stewardship of finite resources, and renovation of existing spaces.
2. Prioritize health, wellbeing, and DEI goals in your campus planning process and end results.
3. Explain how your institution can differentiate itself and increase wellbeing through better walkability, enhanced visual appeal of outdoor spaces, and a robust integration of campus land use.
4. Recognize the importance of aligning your institution’s strategic plan with its campus master plan to support wellbeing and DEI.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1934)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Challenges: Funding Uncertainty
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Alignment; Capital Planning; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Enrollment Management; Facilities Planning; Health and Wellness; Landscape / Open Space; Placemaking; Shrinking Pool of Potential Students

Technology and Equity: Creating Connections for Inclusivity

Presented by: Craig Park, Associate Principal, Clark & Enersen | Sumegha Shah, SVP, Practice Leader, CannonDesign | Joe Way, Ph.D., CTS, Director, Learning Environments, Information Technology Services. University of Southern California | Lisa Stephens, Assistant Dean, Senior Strategist of Academic Innovation, Office of the SUNY Provost | Rebecca V. Frazee, Associate Director, FLEXspace, San Diego State University

Thoughtful integration of technology can enhance the student experience, improve learning outcomes, increase learning accessibility, bridge social and economic divides, and connect industry to campus. We’ll demonstrate how to leverage technology, which is at the core of higher education’s new normal hybrid learning environments, to improve student equity, inclusion, and learning outcomes. Come learn how to develop a strategic approach to technology planning that includes equity and inclusion as core values, enriching the student and faculty experience, and improving campus infrastructure.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze the current conditions of your learning environments to identify areas in which technology can improve access and connection.
2. Differentiate between the on-campus and remote learning experience to improve technology engagement.
3. Identify technological barriers that remote users face to develop plans for improving their experience.
4. Discuss an actionable approach to technology planning that includes equity and inclusion elements as critical solution architecture components

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUP57C1923)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Planning Types: Campus Planning; Information Technology Planning
Tags: Accessibility; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Facilities Planning; Hybrid Learning; Information Technology; Learning Environments; Learning Technology; Technology

The Future University Experience Product: All-inclusive, Hybrid, or Remote

Presented by: Nate Goore, Principal, MKThink | Ayo Seligman, Managing Director of Brand, Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute | Jeremy Utley, Co-Director of Executive Leadership at d. School, Stanford University

The one-size-fits-all four-year education model is becoming unsustainable for many institutions. Colleges and universities will need to adjust their offerings to fit modern students’ needs or lose significant portions of their student population in coming years. In the future, selecting a college or university will be akin to buying an experience: students will choose among all-inclusive on-campus education, fully-remote boot camps, traveling nomad experiences, or something in between. This session will share strategic and design-thinking tools, guidance, and practices to help you organize your institution’s offerings into alternative experience product categories.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss the concept of organizing your institution’s different ‘experiential offerings’ into products for students to purchase.
2. Differentiate between educational offerings that are unique selling propositions (USPs) and those that you can improve or throw away.
3. Discuss ways to improve your institution’s weaker USPs in order to keep them viable.
4. Measure the impact that different educational models will have on your future campus.

Planning Types: Academic Planning; Strategic Planning
Tags: Design Thinking; Higher Ed Trends; Hybrid Learning; Innovation; Internal Scanning; Online Learning; Student Experience; Teaching and Learning

Two Initiatives to Enhance Student Diversity Through Integrated Planning

Presented by: Walter Goodwyn, Director, Office of Multicultural Engagement, Concordia University-Wisconsin | Michael Uden, Vice Provost, Student Enrollment and Engagement, Concordia University-Wisconsin

Concordia University Wisconsin’s (CUW) Unlimited Potential Scholars (UPS) and SOUND programs demonstrate how integrated planning can positively impact student representation and retention in a statistically significant way. This session will explore how these two successful integrated planning endeavors at CUW each advanced student diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals. Come learn how your institution can more effectively address student access and representation by applying an integrated planning process that focuses on mitigating demographic changes in higher education.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Compare first-year retention rates among first-generation, Pell-eligible, and underrepresented students of color who are engaged in a campus club or co-curricular activity with those who are not.
2. Identify university stakeholder groups that are integral to successful integrated planning in programmatic DEI endeavors.
3. Contrast the recidivism rates of individuals who have experienced educational opportunities while incarcerated with those who were not offered such opportunities and support.
4. Analyze adverse student backgrounds to highlight and recognize their potential talents and strengths.

Challenges: Student Success, Retention, and Graduation
Planning Types: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning; Strategic Planning
Tags: Alignment; Analyzing Stakeholders; Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Engaging Stakeholders; Student Life / Student Affairs; Student Retention; Student Success; Underserved Students

Building and Sustaining an Integrated Planning Culture

Facilitated by: James Downey, Senior Strategy Consultant | Deborah Shepley, Principal, Gensler

The Sustain workshop is part of the SCUP Planning Institute Model.

Integrating planning doesn’t end with the plan itself. We want to help you build an institution that embodies planning. You’ll learn tools and practices that encourage stakeholders to collaborate, act strategically, and constantly look toward the future. SCUP provides expertise, direction, and the inspiration to nurture a culture of integrated planning on your campus.

We’re here to help those who:

• Already have an integrated planning process
• Face persistent challenges or resistance that the planning process can’t address
• Want their institution to be ready for an unclear future

Workshop Details

The planning process can only do so much to drive change in your institution. What if your institution’s culture prevents change and growth?

In this workshop, you will learn how to leverage your institutional culture to leverage and manage change. As you know, any planning effort is designed to change the institution in a meaningful way, poised for success and nimble to adapt to a volatile environment. Here you will gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of an integrated planning culture—the practices that encourage stakeholders to collaborate, act strategically, and look to the future.

You will return to your institution with tools, techniques, and skills you can use to help clarify decision making at your institution so new ideas can move forward; use boundary-spanning practices to encourage silos to work together; manage difference and conflict, and;  prepare for the future with scenario planning.

You have your plan; now it’s time to build a sustainable culture that is forward-looking, proactive, and poised for success.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify and adopt tools, methods, and actions that build an integrated planning culture.
2. Anticipate challenges and opportunities in a dynamic and unpredictable world so your institution acts more than it reacts.
3. Examine and improve power and decision-making structures within your institution.
4. Help stakeholders set aside differences and work together across boundaries to achieve your institution’s goals.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU 15.0 units
AICP CM 15.0 units

Cost: $1250 (member/nonmember)
Workshop-only registrations available.

Challenges: Change Management; Competing Priorities; Planning
Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Alignment; Engaging Stakeholders; Organizational Culture; Scenario Planning

Building and Sustaining an Integrated Planning Culture

Facilitated by: James Downey, Senior Strategy Consultant | Deborah Shepley, Principal, Gensler

The Sustain workshop is part of the SCUP Planning Institute Model.

Integrating planning doesn’t end with the plan itself. We want to help you build an institution that embodies planning. You’ll learn tools and practices that encourage stakeholders to collaborate, act strategically, and constantly look toward the future. SCUP provides expertise, direction, and the inspiration to nurture a culture of integrated planning on your campus.

We’re here to help those who:

• Already have an integrated planning process
• Face persistent challenges or resistance that the planning process can’t address
• Want their institution to be ready for an unclear future

Workshop Details

The planning process can only do so much to drive change in your institution. What if your institution’s culture prevents change and growth?

In this workshop, you will learn how to leverage your institutional culture to leverage and manage change. As you know, any planning effort is designed to change the institution in a meaningful way, poised for success and nimble to adapt to a volatile environment. Here you will gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of an integrated planning culture—the practices that encourage stakeholders to collaborate, act strategically, and look to the future.

You will return to your institution with tools, techniques, and skills you can use to help clarify decision making at your institution so new ideas can move forward; use boundary-spanning practices to encourage silos to work together; manage difference and conflict, and;  prepare for the future with scenario planning.

You have your plan; now it’s time to build a sustainable culture that is forward-looking, proactive, and poised for success.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify and adopt tools, methods, and actions that build an integrated planning culture.
2. Anticipate challenges and opportunities in a dynamic and unpredictable world so your institution acts more than it reacts.
3. Examine and improve power and decision-making structures within your institution.
4. Help stakeholders set aside differences and work together across boundaries to achieve your institution’s goals.

Continuing Education Credits
AIA LU 15.0 units
AICP CM 15.0 units

Cost: $1250 (member/nonmember)
Workshop-only registrations available.

Challenges: Change Management; Competing Priorities; Planning
Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Alignment; Engaging Stakeholders; Organizational Culture; Scenario Planning