Southern 2022 Regional Conference (Rescheduled)

2:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Riverwalk Foyer

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Riverwalk North

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5:45 PM – 7:00 PM | Riverwalk South

Eliminating Equity Gaps Through Data and Institutional Change

Presented by: Timothy Renick, Executive Director of the National Institute for Student Success and Professor of Religious Studies, Georgia State University

For the past decade, Georgia State University (GSU) has been at the leading edge of demographic shifts in the Southeast region. Using data to inform systematic institutional change, GSU has doubled its enrollment of underrepresented populations, raised graduation rates by 70 percent, and closed all achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity, and income level. Through a discussion of innovations—from AI-enhanced chatbots and predictive analytics to meta-majors and micro-grants— this keynote will share lessons learned from GSU’s transformation and outline concrete and scalable steps that you can take on your campus to improve outcomes for underserved students while increasing revenues.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the root causes of equity gaps in undergraduate completion rates that are embedded in institutional practices.
2. Evaluate data-informed approaches to addressing obstacles to student success and eliminating equity gaps.
3. Examine evidence that post-secondary institutions have the power to significantly impact equity gaps.
4. Explain return on investment (ROI) as it applies to student success programs.

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM | Riverwalk Pool Deck

7:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Riverwalk Foyer

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Riverwalk Room

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8:15 AM – 9:30 AM | Riverwalk Room

Seize the Moment: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity to Reimagine Higher Education

Presented by: Kathleen Plinske, President, Valencia College

Human nature creates a strong desire to return to normal after the disruption of the pandemic, but rather than revert to the way things were, higher education leaders must take this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to evaluate what works, what doesn’t, and how to best serve students. At Valencia College, we share the big idea that “anyone can learn anything under the right conditions.” Come learn how Valencia leveraged this philosophy along with the bold and ambitious goals outlined in its Strategic Impact Plan to emerge from the pandemic with a renewed commitment to advance equity in student outcomes.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify processes or procedures at your institution that were in place prior to the pandemic that were not serving students well.
2. Interpret your institutional data to identify areas of opportunity for post-pandemic redesign or reimagination.
3. Describe the value of a strategic impact plan while navigating through a crisis.
4. Differentiate between student-centered and institution-centered policies and procedures.

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8:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Riverwalk Foyer

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Happy Trails to You: How Pathways Increase Equity and Economic Mobility

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Bayshore West

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Presented by: Jothany Blackwood, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Tennessee Board of Regents | Woody Giles, Senior Associate, DLR Group | Sobia Khan, Provost, Valencia College

Research shows that credentialed community college transfer students contribute to college and university enrollment pipelines, graduate at higher rates, and earn higher wages than native students at colleges and universities. This session will focus on how pathways can improve student and institutional outcomes and align K-12, community colleges, 4-year institutions, and employers while providing an opportunity for historically-underserved student populations. We’ll share data and strategies based on case studies from the state-level Tennessee Board of Regents and the institutional-level Valencia College that you can apply to create pathways at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how a pathways framework can increase enrollment, retention, and completion of valuable higher education credentials.
2. Explain how to increase enrollment by reaching underserved student populations who are historically disconnected from higher education.
3. Design strategies for creating academic pathways to economic and social mobility.
4. Support students to build early momentum and retention at your institution.

Inclusionary Planning From Master Plan to Occupancy

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Bayshore East

Presented by: Nicole Barrios, Senior Associate, Gensler | Allison Marshall, Senior Associate, Gensler | John Strybos, Vice President and Chief Physical Facilities Officer, Del Mar College

Institutions can lay the foundation for long-term success and community engagement for building projects by incorporating inclusionary and collaborative planning in their integrated planning process. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how inclusionary planning strategies in the early planning phases of projects can impact the overall success of campus facilities before, during, and after construction. Come learn how inclusionary and collaborative planning approaches have facilitated the realization of campus facilities and how they can help guide you through the planning process of your building projects.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Customize inclusionary planning approaches for your campus.
2. Evaluate the applicability and effectiveness of different collaborative and inclusionary planning models for your campus projects.
3. Identify inclusionary models and consider them within your current building project planning practices.
4. Prioritize student engagement as part of your long-term campus planning strategies.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS22C2035)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Operational Best Practices From an Environmentally-advanced Education Facility

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Riverview Room

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Presented by: Joshua Gassman, Sustainable Design Director, Lord Aeck Sargent | Jimmy Mitchell, Sr Director Business Development, Skanska USA Building | Greg Spiro, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology

While it may seem like an overwhelming aspiration to design campus facilities under the most stringent building performance standards for energy and water efficiency, institutions can achieve these goals with an understanding of the necessary operations and maintenance requirements. This session will illustrate best practices and lessons learned around energy and water efficiency for design, constructibility, and operational use from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Kendeda Building, a top environmentally-advanced education facility. You’ll learn what goes into designing and constructing environmentally-advanced buildings and how to plan a sustainable project with long-term operations and ROI in mind.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze design and material alternatives related to energy and water efficiency, occupant health and wellbeing, and equitable investment.
2. Evaluate materials to help project teams work through difficult choices and make educated decisions to achieve health, wellbeing, and sustainability goals.
3. Discuss the net positive design and construction results of a fully-occupied Living Building Challenge facility.
4. Assess long-term ROI for sustainable campus planning and design that supports the health and wellbeing of its users.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPS22C1964)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Campus Master Planning as a Catalyst for Broader Economic Development

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Bayshore East

Presented by: Suzanne Klein, Principal, Associate Vice President, AECOM | Mark McCormick, President, Middlesex College

In the face of unprecedented changes, Middlesex College is tackling pressing issues to stay relevant by conducting community outreach, developing partnerships to address workforce changes, supporting non-traditional students, and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). We’ll share how Middlesex went beyond enrollment metrics and traditional master planning strategies with an innovative plan that involves the county and community in supporting a variety of campus and regional initiatives. Come learn how you can apply innovative approaches at your institution to transform long-term academic and master planning while leading cultural changes (internally and externally) and prepare your campus for a post-pandemic world.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify innovative planning opportunities that can promote economic growth for your campus and community.
2. Integrate with a broad range of stakeholders in your local community to identify and advance shared planning strategies.
3. Advance campus goals beyond academic programs to accommodate changes in pedagogy, student populations, and DEI initiatives.
4. Describe a long-term strategy for keeping your institution economically viable and prepared for future challenges.

Collaboration: The Power of One

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Riverview Room

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.

Student Housing Refresh: Transforming the First-year Residential Experience

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Bayshore West

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Presented by: Gwynne Darden, Associate Vice President for Facilities Planning, University of Georgia | Linda Kasper, Executive Director, University of Georgia | Kevin Smith, Partner, Robert A.M. Stern Architects | Jennifer Stone, Partner, Robert A.M. Stern Architects

Student residential conditions significantly affect campus recruitment, retention, and socialization. Planners must use the most appropriate student housing models for the first-year experience to provide a strong social foundation and reinforce academic success. The University of Georgia (UGA), recognizing the correlation between first-year residential experience and student success, transformed its outdated mid-century student housing buildings with a comprehensive strategy that leveraged the community’s central location and density. As students develop and their needs change, campuses require different settings to foster community. Come learn how you can address rapidly changing student expectations for campus housing and plan for long-term student success.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Benchmark and compare different student housing models.
2. Explain how to synthesize project goals, phasing, and capital fundraising to ensure that your project is adequately funded and follows a realistic implementation schedule.
3. Identify strategic initiatives that are informed by student voices (from programming to physical planning) to meet their needs.
4. Focus on the rapidly changing needs of first-year students to increase recruitment and retention on your campus.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS22C2018)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

12:o0 PM -12:45 PM | Riverwalk Room

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1:45 PM – 3:00 PM | USF Credit Union Club | Yuengling Center

Campus Planning at USF: Leveraging the University Strategic Plan

Presented by:  Carole Post, Vice President for Facilities and Public Safety Operations, University of South Florida | Ray Gonzalez, Director, Land Use and Planning Department, University of South Florida | Steve Lafferty, Director, Design & Construction, University of South Florida | Chadaphan Hanwisai, Campus Planning Manager, Division of Campus Planning, Construction, & Development, University of South Florida

Great cities nurture great universities and vice versa, something that is certainly true of the Tampa Bay region and the University of South Florida (USF). The consolidation of USF’s three campuses positions the university as a catalyst for Tampa Bay’s status as a growing metropolis. The region’s demographics and geographic location provide an opportunity to cultivate a thriving ecosystem that leverages USF as an anchor institution. Join us to discover how the three campus masterplans support, provide framework, and align with USF’s strategic plan and help to strengthen the future trajectory of excellence for the university and the region.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe the successful qualities of the three campus masterplans that help to position USF as an anchor institution in the Tampa Bay region.
2. Explain how USF athletics act as an important partner in the university’s process of community building.
3. Focus on research as an important component of future institutional growth.
4. Discuss how to integrate sustainability goals into campus infrastructure planning to become a more sustainable university.

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Tours are included with full conference registrations.

USF Judy Genshaft Honors College

Started in 2002, the Honors College is four-year program providing educational opportunities to the most highly motivated, intellectually curious, and academically diverse and accomplished students at USF. The new facility strives to provide an inspiring new home to not only those within and supporting the Honors College programs, but the entire university community. The project is designed by local architecture firm, FleischmanGarciaMazlowski in partnership with Morphosis, led by Pritzker Prize and AIA Gold Medal winner, Thom Mayne, FAIA. The signature building provides new visions for academics, engagement programs, innovative classrooms, and community creative spaces and will provide a more challenging, beneficial academic experience, and greater co-curricular and community collaboration opportunities.

Several project-specific design objectives embodied in the design include:

1. Social Connectivity & Community: layers of transparency create a sense of community within a community, with communal and collaborative spaces.
2. Discovery & Surprise: a place that is unexpected, playful, and inspires creativity and supports, augments and fosters inter-disciplinary academic thinking and dialogue.
3. Hands on Learning, Making & Sharing: Flexible, innovative “sandbox” spaces enable collaboration and experimentation and provides opportunities to showcase Honors College to the rest of the community.
4. Intimate & Personal: a balance of meditative and private study spaces create a “third space” for users.
5. Well Being & Sustainability: daylighting and transparency provides for wellness and a feeling of security for a facility accessible 24/7 to Honors College students.
6. Flexibility & Growth: the building provides future-proof spaces that are functional, efficient and adaptable for Honors College and Office of National Scholarships to grow into.

The final design of the building is approximately 86,500 GSF and being constructed for $47,500,000 with a total project budget of $56,165,000 and will be complete in Spring 2023.

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USF Student Wellness Center

In summer 2008, Hahn Engineering and Hastings & Chivetta Architects performed a comprehensive feasibility study for a new Student Wellness Center. This study was to quantify the total space need for services, programs and events that “complement the educational mission of the University.”

The study resulted in a proposed five-floor Wellness Center alongside and connected to the existing Campus Recreation building. To address immediate needs, an addition to Campus Recreation was constructed (new fitness space, a two-court gym and administrative offices). Subsequent efforts to meet the fitness needs were met through several renovations to both existing Campus Recreation as well as construction of two new satellite fitness centers.

In the winter of 2014, after reviewing the proposed Wellness Center’s dedicated space for Student Health Services, it was determined the space was not large enough to accommodate the expanded services that Student Health had developed since the original study. The current building, occupied since 1980, is 12,500 square feet, woefully inadequate to serve a student population of 48,600. Institutional standards for Student Health Services recommend an average of one square foot per student.

In 2015, the decision was made to fund a separate facility for all of the business and clinical services of Student Health in the vicinity of the original study. USF Student Government began accumulating Capital Improvement Trust Fund distributions to finance design and construction. Barr & Barr Contractors and CannonDesign were hired in 2019. The project broke ground in Summer 2021 and will be completed in Winter 2023. The building is totally student-funded being, is approximately 50,615 GSF with a current construction cost of $22,032,000 and a total project cost of $27,402,000.

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USF Athletics Indoor Performance Facility

The first phase of the planned USF Football Center is a new 89,400 GSF Athletics Indoor Performance Facility (IPF). The IPF will provide an enclosed and environmentally-controlled synthetic turf practice field for USF’s Football Program, USF Intercollegiate Athletics, and other University organizations. The primary space in the IPF is a full-size regulation NCAA field including field goals, end zones, and a 20’ safety zone perimeter. The building will also include an entry lobby, viewing gallery, and video production facilities.

The project will be located on the east side of the Athletic District, directly on Sycamore Drive. This location provides easy accessibility for public events and better visibility for the program. The site selection accommodates future construction of a Football Operations Building and provides easy access to other training facilities.

Project Success Factors:

1. Forward-thinking, Functional Design
2. Flexibility & Adaptability
3. A Collaborative Process and a Committed Team
4. On Time, On Budget, On Scope
5. Optimizing Resources: Most Value for the Budget
6. Architecture with a Brand Presence/Message
7. Integrated into Athletics Campus – Not Just a Building
8. Increased Prestige, Recruitment Tool
9. Attracting Philanthropy
10. Sustainability and the Pursuitof Wellness

The building, designed by HOK Sports with R. R. Simmons Construction acting as Construction Manager, is approximately 88,600 GSF and the current construction cost is $20,365,000 with a total project cost of $22,655,000.

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7:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Riverwalk Foyer

7:00 AM – 8:15 AM | Riverwalk Foyer

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A Sustainable Approach to Integrated Crisis Response Planning

8:10 AM – 9:10 AM | Riverview Room

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Presented by: Jessica Luedtke, Associate Director, Medical College of Wisconsin | Mary Reinke, Associate Vice President, Medical College of Wisconsin

With proper planning, institutions can successfully navigate or avert crises. This session will demonstrate how to operationalize an administrative response team to navigate critical incidents that impact colleges and universities, such as the tragic death of a student, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) quench, protests, and cyber attacks. Come learn how you can jump start building your own administrative response team to help you think strategically about crises and be ready to reduce risk, minimize exposure, and implement best care for your campus and its community.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss scalable, flexible, and sustainable crisis response plans that include your institution’s senior leaders.
2. Assess your institution’s senior leaders’ strengths and abilities and plan how best to utilize their diverse perspectives to navigate critical situations.
3. Effectively engage senior leaders in creating an institutional commitment to and integration of emergency planning efforts.
4. Detail a new model of crisis response planning that ensures an institution thinks strategically across all organizational missions and is mindful of institutional brand and reputation during critical incident response.

Designing Identity Spaces at Emory University

8:10 AM – 9:10 AM | Riverwalk North

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Presented by: Floyd Cline, Practice Leader, Associate Principal, Perkins&Will | Jennifer Ingram, Project Architect, Senior Associate, Perkins&Will | Monica Ridenbaugh, Campus Planner, Emory University

Many universities are re-evaluating their existing identity spaces and establishing new ones to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) values across campus. This session will share equitable practices for designing identity spaces, highlighting Emory University’s current identity space projects (new and renovated) as well as strategies for student and campus community engagement, design, and project management. You’ll come away with new tools to help manage the complexities of your identity space or DEI-focused projects and facilitate meaningful feedback from students and stakeholders.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss how to plan projects that facilitate a layered engagement, design, and construction approach to meet short and long-term project goals.
2. Manage and apply feedback from multiple project stakeholders based on their specific roles and responsibilities.
3. Explain how to create equitable spaces that cater to the unique needs of diverse student populations.
4. Enhance personal connections through digital tools during virtual engagement processes.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS22C2021)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Smart Moves and Big Impact: Optimizing Your Research Facility Renovations

8:10 AM – 9:10 AM | Riverwalk South

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Presented by: Rebecca Doolittle, Associate Director, Facilities, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Emory University | Rebecca Ross, Project Manager, Page / EYP | Jeff Smith, Sr. Project Manager, Structor Group Inc

Older laboratory facilities are not conducive to collaboration and are oftentimes short on space, but with the right tools, universities can optimize research facility renovations to achieve necessary outcomes. We’ll discuss how Emory University maximized the value of its Winship Cancer Institute renovation by seeking to create a more collaborative research community while addressing deferred maintenance, providing adaptability to meet future needs, and minimizing risk. Join us to discover how a shared team vision, set of goals, and commitment to minimizing risk can make your campus research building renovation a success.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Communicate the benefits of consolidating shared resources for increased collaboration, promoting accessibility, and reducing department costs.
2. Compare the implementation of generic versus specific planning strategies to accelerate research renovation projects and maximize building footprint.
3. Evaluate planning strategies for working within an occupied building and minimizing risk to owners and occupants.
4. Identify emerging themes in which multiple research teams work collaboratively in a competitive research environment.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS22C2017)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

8:30 AM – 11:30 AM | Riverwalk Foyer

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Brand-strategy Gap Analysis: A Differentiating Tool for Integrated Planning

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Riverwalk North

Presented by: Greg Summers, , University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

With increasing competition, university leaders must both adapt to changing circumstances and stand out in the higher education marketplace. Integrating institutional brand with strategic planning offers a uniquely powerful and differentiating solution. By addressing gaps between an authentic brand promise and the lived experience of campus stakeholders, institutions can bring new focus to their integrated planning and create genuinely-differentiating student experiences. The session will provide step-by-step instructions for conducting a brand-strategy gap analysis to launch or rejuvenate stalled planning efforts and engage units across campus in an integrated process of differentiation and continuous improvement.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe your institution’s current brand position.
2. Explain how to conduct a gap analysis between your institution’s brand promise and the lived experience of students and other stakeholders across campus units.
3. Identify several strategic improvements for addressing gaps between your institution’s brand promise and reality, aligning each with the brand position.
4. Regularly evaluate the results of your brand-strategy integration efforts to yield strategic change, differentiation, and continuous improvement.

Creating the ‘Pfeiffer Effect’ Through Economic and Social Growth

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Riverview Room

Presented by: Scott Bullard, Pfeiffer University President, Pfeiffer University | Adam Caruthers, Project Manager, Little | Ronnie Michael, Mayor, City of Albemarle | Melanie Reddrick, Team Leader, Little Diversified Architectural Consulting

Through grant money and a property exchange, Pfieffer University’s satellite campus has kickstarted a long sought-after revitalization and breathed new life into the quiet city of Albemarle, NC with its Center for Health Sciences. This session will highlight the integrative design process behind the center, resulting in an educational facility that prepares students in healthcare for valuable work in rural communities. Join us to uncover how Pfeiffer’s Center for Health Sciences not only serves and educates future healthcare professionals but has also created an anchor for the city, leading to economic and social growth.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Explore unique funding opportunities that can create a win-win-win for the institution, city, and county.
2. Describe an integrative process that incorporates broad project engagement between an institution, local government agencies, and the broader community.
3. Recognize the complexities of designing a new healthcare facility with a state-of-the-art learning environment while honoring the surrounding historic context of the community.
4. Identify valuable opportunities for workforce development projects to make a positive economic and social impact.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS22C2041)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Supporting Carbon Neutrality Through Utility Transformation and Campus Design

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Riverwalk South

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Presented by: Roula Qubain, Project Architect, Flad Architects | Eric Steinour, Energy, Affiliated Engineers, Inc. | Russell Thompson, Interim VP, Operations / Exec. Dir. Utilities & Engineering, Duke University

Reducing its climate impact is of paramount importance to Duke University, a goal the institution aims to achieve in a cost-effective manner while aesthetically enhancing the campus landscape for the welfare of the university community. This session will explore how Duke’s utility transformation supports its carbon neutrality goal for a healthier and more sustainable environment, from transitioning away from coal, to building efficient centralized chilled water plants, to installing a water harvesting pond. Join us to discover how you can support and advance your institution’s sustainability commitments through successful and customizable investments in carbon reduction measures.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply best practices for design of chiller plants to decrease overall utility costs while improving your campus aesthetic and community wellbeing.
2. Explain how to optimize the location of water features and ponds to collect rainwater, reduce water use, and aid with daily campus cooling demands.
3. Locate all possible building surfaces on which to install photovoltaic solar panels to produce cleaner, more efficient energy.
4. Encourage building tour opportunities for students and the community to see and learn about sustainable design and environmental resilience that will benefit their wellbeing on campus.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPS22C2042)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

A Teaching Museum for Resiliency, Community Partnerships, and Arts Exploration

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM | Riverview Room

Presented by: Kathryn Reuter, Learning & Engagement Team, Stanley Museum of Art, University of Iowa | Carey Nagle, Principal, Architecture, BNIM Architects | Levi Robb, Associate, BNIM Architects

Following historic flooding in 2008, the University of Iowa (UI) reimagined its Stanley Museum of Art as a library and laboratory for the arts centered on a human-purposed user experience, maximum value, flexible galleries, and the teaching and research of collections. This session will explore how the design of this dynamic new teaching museum serves as a model for environmental resiliency, connectivity, and arts exploration for UI’s campus and community. We’ll share insights into the project’s resiliency and site challenges, integrated planning and design process, programming for campus engagement, and collaborative partnerships to expand the museum’s mission.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Navigate site selection and challenges with respect to establishing important campus connections, resiliency planning, environmental protocols, and design strategies for arts conservation.
2. Discuss a collaborative, integrated design process involving multiple stakeholders to maximize value within a modest budget and create a cultural arts facility equipped for teaching, research, and public use.
3. Explain how to interweave design for the cultural arts with instructional design to leverage spaces as teaching tools for meeting pedagogical goals.
4. Generate campus and state-wide engagement through developing collaborative partnerships, establishing campus connection and outreach, and supporting multi-disciplinary learning opportunities.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS22C1986)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Integrating Institutional and Facilities Optimization at Miami Dade College

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM | Riverwalk South

Presented by: Mark Whiteley, Vice President Americas Practice Leader Strategy+, AECOM Strategy+

In the past, institutions have traditionally isolated their business, academic, and physical planning processes. This session will demonstrate how you can integrate your planning efforts and develop fully-synchronized initiatives to deliver on a redefined institutional mission. We’ll share how Miami Dade College applied innovative digital tools, data readiness, and detailed user engagement across its multi-campus system to enable the creation of a new fully-integrated strategic and campus master plan. Come learn about new techniques for integrating user analytics, institutional data analysis, and infrastructure performance attributes to develop dynamic, cross-platform planning and implementation capabilities at your institution.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe digital and physical communications techniques to efficiently and effectively obtain and analyze data-based input from large numbers of stakeholders.
2. Identify and assess the availability and efficacy of diverse institutional data streams, including population, academic, business, and physical to plan and implement your institutional mission.
3. Apply digital planning tools that integrate institutional data to articulate the drivers and outcomes of strategic and physical planning initiatives.
4. Identify, synchronize, and prioritize the most critical initiatives your institution should take given limited resources and capabilities.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS22C1970)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Think Outside the Big Box: Georgia Tech’s Distributed Campus Center

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM | Riverwalk North

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Presented by: C. Timothy Fish, Principal, Cooper Carry | Amanda Jones, Senior Planner, Georgia Institute of Technology | Brian Schermer, Principal, Design Research, Workshop Architects, Inc.

Institutions need resilient, sustainable, and cost-efficient solutions for addressing quality of life issues that affect their campus communities. In place of a big box solution, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) distributed its new Campus Center along an experiential path to support student needs in the face of a challenging and uncertain future. This approach achieved planning goals for cost efficiency and student wellbeing as well as the unanticipated benefit of pandemic resilience. Come learn how social research-based distributed solutions to building projects can enrich your campus community’s everyday experience while building more for less and avoiding disruption.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss innovations for building cheaper, lightweight, and spatially-efficient structures that economically and sustainably connect program functions and enhance student life and wellbeing.
2. Identify opportunities for support and respite along campus pathways to alleviate student stress.
3. Think outside the box (literally) by finding outdoor lounge and event spaces between buildings and planning for permeable buildings that are more flexible, healthy, and resilient.
4. Use student engagement and social research, including pre- and post-occupancy evaluations, to ensure accountability and address key needs for support and welfare.

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPS22C2001)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit

12:00 PM -1:00 PM | Riverwalk Ballroom

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1:00 PM -2:00 PM | Riverwalk Ballroom

When We Build Buildings, They Build Us

Presented by: Karen A. Holbrook, Regional Chancellor, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee campus

After 16 years of progress, the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee (USFSM) is aiming to grow beyond its single-building commuter campus in order to support in-demand careers and feed the thriving regional talent pipeline. The campus has reached a key developmental point for academic and residential expansion and is renewing its commitment to growing programs in partnership with the community that will impact the continued success and attractiveness of the region. Join us to discover how the USFSM campus is creating an inspirational, purpose-driven, and dynamic destination that aligns education with career preparation.

Learning Outcomes:
Define academic “clusters” and explain how to align your institution’s academic programs and facility space to support in-demand careers.

• Discuss the key benefits of building community partnerships to support program and physical campus expansion in response to growing regional talent pipeline needs.
• Identify emerging technologies and pedagogical advances that will allow your campus to incorporate new programs and design future-forward educational facilities.
• Describe the qualities of a residential living-learning environment that has the power to attract highly-qualified students from across the local community, state, and country.