Southern 2021 Regional Conference

Hyatt Hotel

Hyatt Hotel

4:45 PM-5:45 PM | The Emporium

6:00 PM-7:00 PM | The Emporium

Thank you to our Sponsor

7:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Emporium, Lobby

7:30 AM-8:30 AM | The Hyatt Hotel

The Hyatt Hotel offers a free continental breakfast. There will not be breakfast items offered at the University, but there will be coffee available.

8:30 AM-9:30 AM | The UTK Student Union, Auditorium

Coffee Break
UTK Student Union
9:30am – 12:00pm

Thank you to our Sponsor

Location: UTK Student Union

City-Campus Dynamics in a Complex and Fast-Growing Region

Presented By: Elizabeth Foster, Principal, Page Southerland Page, Inc. | Rafael Murillo, Senior Associate, Planning, Page Southerland Page, Inc. | James Davis, Associate Vice Chancellor, Facilities Planning and Development, University of North Texas System | Calvin Jamison, Vice President for Administration, The University of Texas at Dallas

Universities are dynamic entities that are constantly exploring new ways to stay competitive and relevant and to make a difference in their cities. It’s more important than ever that urban institutions with complex campus environments consider community benefits and synergies in their planning efforts. This session will examine diverse models of university development, strategic partnerships, and community engagement throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex. Come get inspired to think beyond campus boundaries and realize the potential of engaging your campus communities through recent case studies and actionable strategies.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explore the perspectives of regional, state, and internal stakeholders regarding the use of mass timber as a catalyst for better-designed and more human-oriented construction.
2. Discuss how you can update your campus master plan to incorporate mass timber as a viable and more sustainable building practice for your institution.
3. Avoid known pitfalls and manage design and construction timelines accordingly.
4. Describe how you can support and implement designs to make your campus more human-focused and resilient.

How Mass Timber Elevates the Human Experience

Presented By: Chris Baribeau, Principal and Co-founder, modus studio | Peter MacKeith, Dean, University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design

Higher education planners must embrace the latest sustainable technologies to build lasting, healthy places to act as educated stewards of a legacy of wellbeing for students, faculty, and staff. Mass timber can elevate the human experience by addressing a range of issues, including economics, resources, tangible design, and construction attributes that are important factors in creating optimally healthy campus environments. Come learn why mass timber is currently one of the most relevant topics in design, construction, and facilities operations for institutions that focused on the impact of climate change, healthy places, and resiliency.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explore the perspectives of regional, state, and internal stakeholders regarding the use of mass timber as a catalyst for better-designed and more human-oriented construction.
2. Discuss how you can update your campus master plan to incorporate mass timber as a viable and more sustainable building practice for your institution.
3. Avoid known pitfalls and manage design and construction timelines accordingly.
4. Describe how you can support and implement designs to make your campus more human-focused and resilient.”

Rethinking the Campus Experience to Foster Community

Presented By: Milagros Zingoni Phielipp, Associate Professor and Director of the School of Interior Architecture, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | Andy Powers, Campus Architect, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Academic environments have changed very little since the post-industrial era even though the educational needs of today’s students have changed drastically. As students are seeking out new opportunities and interactions on campus, institutions have a responsibility to provide them with new knowledge and inclusive pedagogical approaches. This session will explore how students’ spatial experience on campus closely correlates to their learning experience and sense of belonging. Join us for an exercise in empathy that will help you reimagine academic environments by adopting different perspectives and identifying elements of inclusion and exclusion on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Recognize that there are many ways to portray an idea and that framing or solving a problem will be different depending on the user.
2. Develop a reflective practice to help you build a holistic vision of reality that supports empathetic, healthy, and sustainable living.
3. Engage with critical reflection to identify and redefine problems.
4. Identify and reflect on multiple perspectives regarding perceptions of inclusion and exclusion on campus.

Location: UTK Student Union

Campus Parking and Mobility Rapid Fire

Presented By:Al Bustamante, Senior Vice President, Walker Consultants | Matt Dougherty, Director of Restoration, Walker Consultants | Roger Husser, Assistant Vice President, Planning, Design and Construction, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College | Megha Sinha, Principal, Urban Design and Planning, NBBJ | Jason Schrieber, Principal, Stantec | David Lieb, National Director of Higher Ed Mobility Planning, Walker Consultants

In three presentations, we’ll explore sustainable solutions to help you rethink parking and mobility on your campus. Through data-driven decision making, building asset management plans, and internal and external partnerships, planners can effectively tackle issues such as parking structure service life, shortages, cost, growth, and changing demand. Come learn about practical tools and strategies that you can use to impactfully and sustainably improve parking and mobility at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Make data-driven decisions about parking supply and demand while also considering the future of autonomous vehicles.
2. Discuss how to implement a maintenance plan for your campus parking structures.
3. Define the role of partnerships and town-gown relationships in addressing parking and mobility challenges on campus.
4. Identify tools and strategies that will help your institution make the most of its available parking.

Rejuvenation: Investing in Existing Residence Halls for Bright Futures

Presented By: Lynne Deninger, Senior Vice President, CannonDesign | Marisa Nemcik, Student Life Strategist, CannonDesign | Linda Kasper, University of Georgia, Executive Director of Student Housing

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

Learning Outcomes:

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

Shared Services Models: An Opportunity for Efficiencies

Presented By: Carolyn Farley, Education Specialist, DIRTT Environmental Solutions | Jeremy Dixon, Director – One Stop, University of Alabama Birmingham | Melissa Long Shuter, Executive Director of Operations Support Services, University of Louisville | Lee Smith, Senior Director, Huron Consulting Group

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

Learning Outcomes:

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

UTK Student Union, Ballroom

UTK Student Union, Ballroom

Attendees will have the option of three University of Tennessee Knoxville tours. The tours are included in your conference registration.

Zeanah Engineering Complex Tour

The Zeanah Engineering Complex (232,250 GSF) was a fast-track project that broke ground in July 2018 and finished in August 2021. It was designed to meet the growing instructional, research, and student services needs of The University of Tennessee’s (UT) Tickle College of Engineering, which has nearly doubled its enrollment in the past decade. Key fixtures of the building include its state-of-the-art instructional spaces and fabrication shops for undergraduate engineering students. The building also houses the college’s administration, the nation’s 6th-ranked nuclear engineering department, and professional research suites that adapt to accommodate various engineering sub-disciplines well into the future.

Johnson Ward Pedestrian Mall Extension & West Campus Dining Hall Tour

The University of Tennessee’s (UT) 2019 award-winning Johnson Ward Pedestrian Mall Extension knits together student housing, dining, and recreation with irregular geometries in a deliberate break from the mall’s previous symmetry. On this tour, you’ll see how the scope of the project converts Andy Holt Ave to a pedestrian corridor with bicycle lanes and visible stormwater management features. We’ll also take you inside UT’s newly completed West Campus Dining Hall, which is a hub for student life that features a variety of food venues. Come see how these dining facilities and mall extension support the growing UT student body.

Strong Hall Tour

Strong Hall is a 2017 academic science facility featuring biology and chemistry teaching labs, a three-story atrium, general purpose classrooms, student collaboration spaces, meeting rooms, and two large oval and tiered classrooms. This tour will showcase how Strong Hall’s design incorporates many historical features from the site’s previous residence hall, including an entrance as well as arches and memorial markers commemorating the first female students admitted to the university. We’ll also explore the site’s restored 19th century Queen Ann-style Cowan Cottage and other features, including an amphitheater, plaza, rock garden, and historical wildflower garden.

Thank you to our Sponsors

Johnson Ward Pedestrian Mall and West Campus Dining Hall

Zeanah Engineering Complex

Strong Hall

6:00 PM-7:30 PM | The Hyatt Hotel, Five Thirty Lounge

7:30 AM-8:15 AM | The Hyatt Hotel

The Hyatt Hotel offers a free continental breakfast. There will not be breakfast items offered at the University, but there will be coffee available.

‘Crossroads of Campus’: Re-activating a Stagnant University Center

Presented By: Jesse Green, Design Principal, Hanbury | Randy Knight, Senior Design Architect, MHTN Architects, Inc | Kathryn Horne, Director of Planning, Design and Construction – Campus Architect, University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Sujit Chemburkar, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, University of North Carolina Charlotte

Healing an entire campus precinct requires vision, impeccable data and team expertise. Creatively synthesizing stakeholders’ needs through time and space, solves conflicting aspirations and delivers consensus that nurtures inspiring results. How to re-activate a stagnant and segmented University Center within a long neglected sector of campus as a new “crossroads” destination by leveraging synergies in student affairs, campus landscapes and accessible connections through phased upgrades. Some goals are just really complex. Learn to successfully execute complicated initiatives by seeing how visionary campus leaders came together in a dynamic process of respect, efficiency, and focused grit.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Foresee and account for political nuances on campus, and court the right influencers that need to be invited to the party.
2. Create the most advantageous conversations that will bring people together in harmony.
3. Empower your design professional partners for maximum efficacy.
4. Move projects forward with confidence by ensuring you have the right resources/deliverables.”

Rethinking Academic Workspaces

Presented By: Krisan Osterby, Campus Planning Leader | Principal, DLR Group | John Cal, Associate Vice President, Facilities Management, Florida International University | Kennard Brown, Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Operations Officer, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center | Ross Johnson, Director of Academic Space Planning, The University of Texas at Austin

Physical and technological re-investments in space must produce a measurable return. Reimagining campus office and instruction space can better align capital planning with student, faculty, and staff success. As space management policies and planning shift their focus from how to where people work and learn, three university panelists will share how they’re rethinking academic space to improve utilization, access, and performance. Come learn how to accurately assess needs, identify opportunities for improvement, and implement post-pandemic solutions for hybrid work environments on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Communicate stories from peer institutions who are leading re-imagined space initiatives on their campuses.
2. Apply tools that help visualize the ideal post-pandemic workspace on campus.
3. Identify the common denominators of a successful post-pandemic campus workspace.
4. Explain how to support spaces with unique needs to serve the institutional mission, vision, and values.

Using Data for Equity-minded Integrated Planning

Presented By: Adam Wyatt, Associate Professor for Integrated Medical Science, Florida Atlantic University | Michelle Bryan, Chief Equity Officer and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; College of Education, University of South Carolina

As higher education grows increasingly diverse and institutions embrace inclusive excellence, it’s necessary for planners to be able to understand and apply data in order to ensure equitable institutional outcomes. We’ll explore several higher education data resources, the methods behind their collection, their potential uses across integrated planning, and how they can further diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) aims. Come learn how to access and interpret multiple DEI data sources to help you mindfully advance inclusive excellence at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Contextualize diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education and its impact on integrated planning.
2. Access data from major state and federal organizations in the United States that collect higher education-related data.
3. Consider the implications of data collection for DEI efforts.
4. Outline a plan for equity-minded data use in integrated planning that considers the impact on DEI efforts.

A Data-driven Approach to Campus Planning

Presented By: Ari Bose, Director | Buildings Lead, USA East, IBI Group | Jason King, Associate, Parametric Design Lead, IBI Group

In this session, we’ll share our innovative approach to enhancing the design process through data-driven design, a highly-collaborative process that generates unlimited experimental designs through customizable algorithms. Applying a data-driven approach to your project can help you optimize your time through real-time feedback and evaluation of options, helping you to strike a balance between conflicting criteria. Design, planning, and architecture professionals are just starting to realize the benefits of this kind of decision-making process; join us to find out how you can apply this current best-practice knowledge in the planning and design of your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Use data to guide your design decisions.
2. Explain how to combine elements of human sentiment with data to create multiple iterations in realtime, relating data around location, climate, solar access, site constraints, financial models, affordability, etc. to create robust concepts.
3. Discuss advantages of this process in stakeholder engagement.
4. Explore how to leverage cost and time savings using a data-driven design process.

Can a Campus Plan Drive Equity? Wake Tech Says Yes!

Presented By: Jennifer Amster, Principal, EYP | Dan Fields, Principal, EYP | Jeff Carter P.E., Vice President of Facilities, Wake Technical Community College | Gayle Greene, Ed.D., Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Wake Technical Community College

This session will showcase best practices for successfully planning and funding higher education facilities to train future workforces, serve the community, leverage curriculum flexibility, and ensure student success, accessibility, and equity. Wake Technical Community College made a bold decision to reorganize its capital improvement plan to address inequality in an underserved population by creating a new future-forward campus. Come find out how you can apply lessons learned and strategies from Wake Tech’s inclusive master planning process to successfully respond to opportunities and challenges of diverse enrollment on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze existing building stock across your campus to investigate cross-disciplinary equity among and between spaces and explore how these spaces serve the needs of students and the community.
2. Predict future building needs by collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders and relying on a set of clearly-defined design principals.
3. Discuss how to create and implement capital improvement plans that strategically allocate funds to address inequalities.
4. Identify programming and technology that meets or exceeds market response for increasing student engagement and success.

Revitalizing LSU’s Huey P. Long Field House for Adaptive Reuse

Presented By: Allison Marshall, Senior Associate, Gensler | Roger Husser, Assistant Vice President, Planning, Design and Construction, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College | J. Shane Higdon, Principal, Tipton Associates

As educational methods in higher education evolve, space requirements also change. Institutions must explore meaningful ways to renovate existing assets in order to support modern educational needs. This session will discuss how Louisiana State University (LSU) employed adaptive reuse and revitalization to transform a historic and culturally-significant 1932 field house into a collaborative learning center for kinesiology and sociology programs. Join us to learn about the trials and triumphs of the major design interventions and renovations to LSU’s culturally-iconic building.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate existing assets for atypical renovations.
2. Establish protocols and hierarchies for diverse stakeholder engagement.
3. Explain how to use design vision to build consensus around sensitive modifications.
4. Adapt program requirements while maintaining both program and historic integrity.

Rethinking Research and Real Estate at UT Austin

Presented By: Ryan Losch, Associate Principal / Urban Designer, Page Southerland Page, Inc. | Lawrence Speck, Professor, School of Architecture and Senior Principal, Page, The University of Texas at Austin | Yancey Young, Project Manager, The University of Texas at Austin

Research campuses are an increasingly important and integral part of innovative research development in higher education. By generating the right type of campus environment, institutions can foster successful partnerships with private entities. The J.J. Pickle Research Campus Plan marks an operational shift for the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, exploring mixed-use development and an integrated research environment to leverage a real estate asset and advance the university’s mission. Come learn from multiple case studies, including UT Austin, and discuss the impact of environment, research focus, and governance structure on both the academic and financial success of a research campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify successful governance structures that support research advancement.
2. Outline various financial structures that allow for shared development opportunities between institutions and private partners.
3. Explain the benefit of mixed-use and integrated districts on innovation.
4. Describe the importance of institutional identity and branding within a research and partnership development site.

Learning, Work, and Community: Optimizing a College Work Program

Presented By: Ian Norris, Professor of Marketing, Berea College | Chad Berry, Vice President for Alumni, Communications, and Philanthropy, Berea College | Sylvia Asante, Dean of Labor, Berea College | Jenny Akins, Director of Foundation Relations and Corporations, Berea College

Campus work programs are well-positioned to address current higher education challenges around equity, the value of liberal education, and the world of work beyond. A cross-functional team of leaders, administrators, and faculty will share their work optimizing a college work program with a focus on the liberal arts, integrative learning, and 21st-century workforce preparedness. You’ll discover how federally-recognized work programs operate within a liberal arts context and how one college undertook a large-scale project to optimize its own long-standing campus work program.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Map Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) learning outcomes to work programs and other high-impact practices to address the work-preparedness gap the AAC&U identified in its 2021 employer report.
2. Generate ideas for integrating campus work programs, internships, and career development opportunities with academic learning in a liberal arts context.
3. Think critically about issues of equity and access on your campus with respect to integrated learning in a liberal arts context.
4. Share feedback and ideas about how work programs may fit into innovative new funding, recruitment, and integrative learning models for higher education.

The Planning Continuum: How Campus Plans Inform Purposeful Decision Making

Presented By:Michael Gulich, Director, Campus Master Planning and Sustainability, Purdue University-Main Campus | Jessica Leonard, Associate Principal, Ayers Saint Gross | Viron Lynch, Assistant Vice President for Facilities Management, Ringling College of Art + Design | Amelle Schultz, Associate Principal, Ayers Saint Gross

Academic life is closely tied to space and conversations about space reveal much about our priorities and personalities. Having a plan can help facilitate these conversations around a shared vision. We’ll discuss how two institutions’ culture of continuous planning leverages data, facility information, and design to engage new stakeholders, implement a campus-wide vision, and fast-track decision making. The world of planning is changing, so come learn how creating the right scope to achieve the desired outcomes and inform decision making is critical for establishing a planning continuum on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate the scope and outcomes desired for each level of planning and understand its role in informing decision making.
2. Engage the campus and surrounding community in a meaningful way that leads to buy-in and consensus building at every scale.
3. Refresh and rejuvenate your outdoor spaces to better support your instructional, research, and engagement mission post-pandemic.
4. Explain how to leverage partnerships, a collaborative process, and commitment to a vision to fast-track your project and decision making.

UTK Student Union Ballroom

UTK Student Union Ballroom

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