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Registrants can access available session slides on the program page.Making the Impossible Possible
Join your higher education community in Houston!
Inspired by the University of Houston’s aspiration to become a top 50 public university as it approaches its Centennial, SCUP is celebrating the spirit of making the impossible possible. Taking risks, stretching beyond our comfort zone, and setting our sights even higher, we are recognizing the past and looking to the future of integrated planning.
Houston, TX
This year’s conference will be hosted at the University of Houston in Houston, TX, a city known for its steady perseverance in the face of incomprehensible hardship. As the home of NASA’s historic mission control center, the city is also renowned for its role in the Apollo 11 moon landing, an achievement that was once considered impossible.
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SHOW: All Sessions Workshops ToursSunday, October 1, 20232:00 pm - 7:00 pmRegistration1:00 pm - 4:15 pmOptional ToursPlease meet in the UH Hilton Lobby at 1pm and a motorcoach will take you from the UH Hilton to the Texas A&M tour then head to Rice University for the walking tour. The actual tour times are 1:30pm – 2:30pm and 2:45pm – 3:45pm.
Tour Cost: $40 (includes bus transportation)
Texas A&M University EnMed Tour
Texas A&M University has created a unique type of medical professional that combines engineering with medicine, training students to not only diagnose and treat, but create and innovate engineered health care solutions. This tour will showcase the Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine (EnMed) and the story behind re-positioning and modernizing a dated, failing 1960s high rise bank building, transforming it into the impeccable new home of the EnMed “Physicianeer”. Discover how 50 years after its initial glory, new programming and renovation is breathing new life into a building that proudly stands as a beacon for making the impossible possible.
Learning Outcomes:
- Explain the planning implications for supporting the pedagogical shift to link disciplines and break down silos in health education and incorporate complex program spaces.
- Review the effectiveness of strategies for points of intersection between disciplines that can help strengthen the educational experience.
- Discuss how to use current funding and real estate assets to reveal their own hidden gems.
- Explain how to implement assessments to identify opportunities for repositioning rather than choosing the obvious path of demolition.
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AICP CM 1.0 UnitRice University Walking Tour
Texas real-estate developer William Marsh Rice dedicated his fortune to establishing a modern and secular institute of higher education—Rice Institute—which opened to students in 1912. Starting with the history and original 1909 master plan, this walking tour will show how the campus expanded into the modern architectural styles and decentralized building clusters of today’s Rice University. We’ll stop at some of the latest architecture on campus, including the new Emerging Science Building, Hanszen College, Cannady Hall, the Architecture School, Brockman Music and Performing Arts Center, the Business School Quad, and the James Turrell’s Twilight Epiphany Skyspace.
Learning Outcomes:
- Compare the history and current campus design of the Rice University campus and explain how the campus has evolved and changed into the 21st century version.
- Identify the components within the series of formalized quadrangles upon a primary east-west spine as well as secondary and cross-axes of the historic campus and 20th century implantation.
- Explore current campus projects, including science, residential, architecture, and performing arts with mini stops on the walking tour.
- Analyze how the plan for the future of Rice University, its programs, and expansion, are influencing the campus plan moving forward.
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AICP CM 1.0 UnitThank you to our sponsor!
4:30 pm - 5:30 pmNewcomer Mixer4:30 PM-5:30 PM | Houston Room | Student Center South
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5:45 pm - 7:00 pmKeynoteR1 Our Way
5:45 PM-7 PM | Theater | Student Center South
Presented by: Andrea Cortinas, Vice President and Chief of Staff, The University of Texas at El Paso
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has become America’s leading Hispanic-serving university with a strategic focus on first-generation students. This keynote will share how UTEP defied conventional wisdom to reach Research 1 (R1) status without sacrificing its mission but rather building upon the unique diversity of its people. As a nationally-recognized research enterprise, come learn how UTEP uses high-impact practices that respond to the needs of the community to promote student success.
Learning Outcomes:
- Discuss how UTEP expanded high-impact practices like research, on-campus employment, study-abroad, and involvement on campus and marketed them to students.
- Identify the needs of your institution’s surrounding community and evaluate how your institution can best respond to those needs.
- Meet students where they are educationally and financially and offer support at every step of the way, recognizing that a sink-or-swim mentality will cause many students to sink.
- Be cognizant of intentionality and the work it entails to truly serve your student population.
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7:00 pm - 8:00 pmWelcome Reception7 PM-8 PM | Houston Room | Student Center South
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Monday, October 2, 20237:30 am - 5:00 pmRegistration7:30 AM-5 PM | Houston Foyer
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast7:30 AM-8:30 AM | Houston Room
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8:30 am - 9:30 amConcurrent SessionsDuke Builds in China: Bridging Cultures, Continents, and COVID
8:30 AM-9:30 AM | Skyline Room
Presented by: Adem Gusa, Director of Planning & Design, Duke University | Bruce McEvoy, Principal, Perkins&Will | John Poelker, Principal, Perkins&Will | Jeff Stebar, Principal, Higher Education Practice Leader, Perkins&Will
This session will share the story of an unanticipated partnership between Duke University and Wuhan University to construct a 200-acre, 50-plus building liberal arts university outside of Shanghai, China. A distributed global presence, increased social equity, a more diverse student experience, and wider educational access were the key factors in enabling Duke Kunshan University to become a reality. Join us to discover the project’s lessons learned that will codify future trends and societal shifts in education, demonstrate integrated planning across cultures, curriculum, and campus, as well as help anticipate future project challenges.
Learning Outcomes:
- Explain the challenges associated with establishing a distributed global presence through a new campus.
- Detail methods for adapting alternative facilities to successfully meet the challenges of a pandemic.
- Discuss lessons learned in the effort to build an entirely new campus from scratch.
- Evaluate integrated planning solutions for connecting curriculum and student experience across very different cultures.
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Campus Development; External Collaboration / Partnerships; New CampusAIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS23C2573)
AICP CM 1.0 UnitEmpowering Student Autonomy With a Nexus of Resources
8:30 AM-9:30 AM | Ballroom West
Presented by: Douglas Gwynn, Director, The Office of Residence Life & Housing, Morgan State University | Gary Hubler, Principal, Hord Coplan Macht, Inc. (HCM) | Casey Smith, Principal, Hord Coplan Macht, Inc. (HCM)
Slides are available to registrants only.
Campus residence hall environments that focus on helping students obtain better physical and mental health outcomes can increase rates of success and campus engagement. This session will explore how Morgan State University (MSU), one of America’s fastest-growing historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), created a nexus of student services and resources in its new Thurgood Marshall Hall. Whether your campus is renovating or building new, we’ll share planning considerations and techniques for supporting a holistic focus on sustainability, wellness, and living-learning in your residential campus community.
Learning Outcomes:
- Assess how a “nexus approach” to centering student support services and amenities uses a variety of space types and program offerings within a campus residential community to provide access to resources that promote wellbeing and success.
- Explain the aesthetic and functional value of living/learning space design as it relates to student engagement and wellness in a physical residential environment.
- Define best practices in programming and design for supporting student development of healthy habits on a daily basis through built environments that foster community as well as physical and mental health.
- Identify design methods for flexible campus spaces that blur the boundaries between academic and co-curricular learning, resulting in improved engagement and belonging.
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Student Success, Retention, and Graduation
Tags: Facilities Planning; Health and Wellness; Historically Black College or University (HBCU); Student Engagement; Student Housing; Student Services; Student Success; Student Support ServicesAIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPS23C2543)
AICP CM 1.0 UnitFrom Preservation to Transformation at a Historic, Urban Campus
8:30 AM-9:30 AM | Multipurpose Room
Presented by: Jonathan Guy, Vice President and Principal Practice Leader, Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. | Neil Kittredge, Partner & Director, Urban Design & Planning, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP | Jenin Shah, Senior Associate, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP | Michael Turner, Director, College of Charleston
Slides are available to registrants only.
Like many institutions, the 250-year-old College of Charleston (CofC) is facing a ‘perfect storm’ of aging buildings, preservation mandates, funding constraints, densely built urban land, and climate vulnerability. This session will explore how CofC is reimagining preservation, an integral part of its planning, using strategies to leverage its historic campus to address these multiple challenges and create innovative academic spaces. We’ll provide you with a toolkit of integrated planning, preservation, and adaptive reuse strategies at a range of scales, helping you to reimagine your campus’s underperforming spaces for innovation, fiscal prudence, resource conservation, and climate resiliency.
Learning Outcomes:
- Summarize the challenges facing historic, urban, and public institutions located in areas of high climate risk.
- Assess existing properties and urban spaces in a complex heritage environment for suitability for transformative reuse.
- Practice strategies for engaging with internal and external stakeholders in a sensitive urban context.
- Discuss high-impact adaptive reuse strategies that simultaneously address multiple cross-cutting planning challenges at three scales: campuswide, buildings, and public spaces.
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Dealing with Climate Change; Engaging Stakeholders
Tags: Adaptive Reuse; Historic Preservation; Renovation; Resiliency; Urban CampusAIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS23C2593)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit8:30 am - 12:00 pmCoffee Service8:30 AM-12 PM | | Houston Room Foyer
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9:50 am - 10:50 amConcurrent SessionsOptimize Storage Space in Times of Slow Campus Growth
9:50 AM-10:50 AM | Ballroom West
Presented by: Carolyn Farley, Higher Ed Consulting Director, Huron Consulting Group Inc | Mitch Kilcrease, Assistant Vice President of Business Services, Florida State University
Slides are available to registrants only.
Storage space is often one of the first things value-engineered out of a capital project, shifting the pressure to alternative locations that are unprepared to support emerging demand. As campus growth slows and creates space-related challenges, Florida State University (FSU) recognized the need to better understand its warehouse inventory, processes, and work streams; a recent study helped FSU to find betters ways of using what they have. This session will illustrate how active management alongside the right processes and technology can help optimize your campus’s existing storage space for today as you work to develop sustainable long-term solutions.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify your institutional priorities for on-campus storage environments, such as securing emergency management equipment and supplies.
- Gather relevant details about existing campus storage through space management documentation, conversations with occupants, and a tour of the environment to recognize the type and value of items stored.
- Engage relevant stakeholders in a conversation to determine availability and location of warehouse and storage space, who has access to it and why, and who has unmet needs.
- Discuss procedures and processes for optimizing the use of existing space to more effectively address the unmet campus needs.
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Management; Facilities Planning; Other Facility; Space Assessment; Space ManagementAIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS23C2581)
AICP CM 1.0 UnitRedefining Libraries With Student Success Hubs
9:50 AM-10:50 AM | Multipurpose Room
Presented by: Kelly Brubaker, Principal, Shepley Bulfinch | Jose Rodriguez, Director of Access Services and Learning Commons, University of Miami | Amelia Salazar, Associate Vice Provost – Student Success, Sam Houston State University
Slides are available to registrants only.
Campus libraries are shifting their roles to serve as a home to student success hubs, supporting the whole student in their academic path and retention efforts. This session will detail a variety of planning methods for libraries to integrate partnerships with student success functions and programs into the campus academic ecosystem. By exploring case studies from multiple campuses, we’ll help you find the best practices suited for your campus library and student success goals.
Learning Outcomes:
- Determine which model of student success hub might best work at your library and campus.
- Identify the planning needs for integrating a student success hub in your library within the larger campus academic services ecosystem.
- Determine whether your current library setup can sustain a student success hub or if additional planning is necessary.
- Discuss how to plan for partnerships with academic and student life units to optimize a student success hub in your library.
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Student Success, Retention, and Graduation
Tags: Facilities Planning; Library; Library Planning; Student Center / Union; Student Life / Student Affairs; Student Success; Student Support ServicesAIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS23C2604)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit11:10 am - 12:10 pmConcurrent SessionsAchieving Mission (Im)Possible: Reduce, Reuse, and Relocate 65 Researchers
11:10 AM-12:10 PM | Ballroom West
Presented by: Hector Avila, Sr. Facilities Planner/Designer, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center | Jill Bard, Principal, BARD | Research Design Consultants | Greg Espersen, Facilities Planner/Designer, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center | Kyle Thiel, Principal, Thiel Design Group
Slides are available to registrants only.
The University of Texas (UT) MD Anderson Cancer Center undertook the relocation of 65 principal investigators and their laboratories from aging buildings into newer facilities with minimal disturbance to ground-breaking research. In this session, we’ll share how we collaboratively developed and implemented tools and assessment metrics that document current assets, researchers’ needs, space requests, and infrastructure requirements as we relocated and reduced the overall research lab footprint. As we re-envision our campus, come learn from our team’s innovative methods and process for documenting space needs as well as working through space reduction and relocation with project stakeholders.
Learning Outcomes:
- Evaluate various methods and strategies for gathering data from building project stakeholders.
- Detail a programming framework for supporting space compression and relocation.
- Target opportunities for space efficiency among project stakeholders.
- Use clear communication and consistent messaging based on institutional guiding principles to present space reduction targets.
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Laboratory Facility; Medical / Allied Health Facility; Space Assessment; Space ManagementAIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS23C2616)
AICP CM 1.0 UnitMapping Social Identity and Belonging: Lessons from Georgia Tech
11:10 AM-12:10 PM | Multipurpose Room
Presented by: Kim Harrington, Executive Director for Student Engagement and Well-Being, Georgia Institute of Technology | Loren Rullman, Principal & Director, Higher Education, Workshop Architects, Inc. | Brian Schermer, Principal, Design Research, Workshop Architects, Inc.
Inclusion and belonging on campus are critical issues for student retention and success. Campus capital mapping measures belonging as a function of how students perceive campus places for social, intellectual, restorative, and symbolic engagement. This session will detail overall findings and lessons learned from mapping at the Georgia Institute of Technology, one of ten universities in our mapping survey to measure how physical campus places contribute to students’ sense of inclusion and belonging. We’ll share tools for conducting capital mapping on your campus, which can help prioritize policy and physical design changes and provide a benchmark for future interventions.
Learning Outcomes:
- Communicate to campus administration the value of understanding inclusion and belonging from a physical place perspective.
- Share with campus administration how campus capital mapping can help assess the role that the physical campus plays in promoting a sense of inclusion and belonging for students of all identities.
- Explain the differences in perception among students from different social identity groups and the impact these differences have on belonging and wellbeing.
- Consider how a similar process can inform planning, policy-making, and strategic planning as well as measure the effectiveness of future campus planning and design projects.
Planning Types: Campus Planning; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Planning
Challenges: Student Success, Retention, and Graduation
Tags: Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI); Facilities Assessment; Student Retention; Student Success; User ResearchAIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPS23C2594)
AICP CM 1.0 UnitHow a New Performing Arts Center Changed the Culture of a Growing Campus
11:10 AM-12:10 PM | Skyline Room
Presented by: David Minnigan, Architect in Residence, Belmont University | Randy Nale, Principal, Earl Swensson Associates, Inc. | Russ Todd, Principal, AKUSTIKS
Performing arts centers (PAC) are some of the most expensive and complicated building types, but can have a greatly positive impact on campus culture. This session will look at how the team behind Belmont University’s PAC project worked to mitigate complex challenges with energy conservation, cross-utilization, operations, budgeting, site constraints, and an extremely tight schedule. Join us to learn how you can make the right decisions on your PAC project up front to create a facility with maximum utilization and flexibility that brings in revenue, culture, learning opportunities, and exposure to your campus.
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the ways that variable acoustics, multi-utilization, and facility flexibility can add diversity to the performances.
- Evaluate techniques for optimizing energy consumption and cutting unnecessary costs for a more environmentally-friendly PAC.
- Recognize philanthropy and find ways to honor those who contribute to your PAC project.
- Discuss the benefits of community outreach and engagement in your PAC project by providing a place that connects the campus and community through art.
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Challenges: Engaging Stakeholders
Tags: Community Engagement; Energy Efficiency and Conservation; Facilities Planning; Fine and Performing Arts FacilityAIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS23C2527)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit12:10 pm - 1:10 pmLunch12:10 PM-1:10 PM | | Houston Room
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1:10 pm - 2:20 pmKeynoteUniversity of Houston: Leading the Energy Transition in the Energy Capital
1:10 PM-2:20 PM | Houston Room
Presented by: Ramanan Krishnamoorti, Vice President for Energy and Innovation, University of Houston
Houston has been the energy capital of the U.S. for the last five decades and has adapted to lead the transition to a more sustainable, affordable, reliable, and secure energy portfolio. The University of Houston (UH), the city’s largest public research university and leading energy-focused institution, is building momentum and engaging the community, industry, and region to transform energy-related education. We are now at the inflection point that could see UH and Houston become the transformative leader globally. In this keynote, we’ll discuss the opportunities, bottlenecks, trade-offs, and strategies that will play a significant role in the energy transition.
Learning Outcomes:
- Discuss the major drivers behind the transition to more sustainable energy.
- Identify the technologies that are likely to power the energy transition.
- Detail the major policy, community, and educational challenges that UH and Houston face in bringing about energy transformation.
- Discuss the ways in which UH and Houston stand out as energy leaders nationally and globally.
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2:20 pm - 5:00 pmCoffee Service2:20 PM=5: PM | Houston Room Foyer
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2:40 pm - 3:40 pmConcurrent SessionsAdvancing Institutional Goals Through Real Estate Portfolio Data
2:40 PM-3:40 PM | Skyline Room
Presented by: Michael Carroll, Senior Project Manager, CannonDesign | Michael Corb, Senior Vice President, CannonDesign | Woody Sutton, Director, Space Management and Analysis, University of Houston
Slides are available to registrants only.
When administrators use data to deeply understand their campus real estate portfolio they’re better equipped to advance strategic planning and recruit top talent. With these goals in mind, the University of Houston developed a dashboard to rank campus research laboratory inventory, detail future investment needs, and establish their value in future research and hiring needs. In this session, we’ll provide you with a roadmap for leveraging facility assessment data to prioritize capital spending and inform strategic hiring at your institution.
Learning Outcomes:
- Articulate the benefits of performing a full-scope facility assessment at colleges and universities.
- Discuss a model for curating raw data into dashboards to drive decision-making frameworks.
- Apply data from a facility assessment to other business decision-making frameworks.
- Identify the characteristics of campus buildings that make them good candidates for a facility assessment.
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Dashboards; Data; Facilities Assessment; Real EstateAIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS23C2544)
AICP CM 1.0 UnitLeasing for Growth: The Emory Nursing Learning Center
2:40 PM-3:40 PM | Ballroom West
Presented by: Ken Higa, Principal, The Beck Group | Adam Malm, Sr. Assistant Dean for Operations & Registration, Emory University | Graham Sinclair, Associate Principal, The Beck Group
Slides are available to registrants only.
The pandemic highlighted the urgent need to address the nursing workforce shortage with new educational facilities for nursing students. With expanding enrollment and at-capacity conditions on campus, Emory University responded to growing space demands by creating the Emory Nursing Learning Center with leased off-campus space. This session will explore the opportunities and challenges of a unique community-centered hub for simulation, experiential learning, collaborative education, and executive partnerships. Join us to consider off-campus solutions to address your institution’s space needs and discover Emory’s strategies for transforming a former commercial bank building into a vibrant, immersive learning environment.
Learning Outcomes:
- Make a case for considering off-campus, leased space as a viable solution for meeting enrollment growth and space needs, even for specialized educational facilities with simulation and skills labs.
- Identify types of program spaces within a state-of-the-art simulation and skills lab and discuss their positive impacts on nursing education.
- Describe the opportunities and challenges of transforming older structures into state-of-the-art medical education facilities through renovation and adaptive reuse.
- Discuss lessons learned after a year of operations—from technology to community engagement—to determine what worked and what Emory could have done differently.
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AICP CM 1.0 UnitSupercharge Your Strategic Planning Process With Enterprise Risk Management
2:40 PM-3:40 PM | Multipurpose Room
Presented by: Judy Burns, Enterprise Risk Officer, The University of Tennessee System | Cheryl Fogler, Research Analyst, The University of Tennessee System | Ashley Ludewig, Assessment Coordinator, The University of Tennessee System
Slides are available to registrants only.
Integrating enterprise risk management (ERM) with strategic planning enables planning professionals to identify and analyze impediments and opportunities that they might otherwise overlook, determine priorities, and evaluate their institution’s ability to develop responses. We’ll share how ERM can enhance your strategic planning process by providing a deep understanding of the uncertainties both opportunities and impediments an institution faces in pursuit of its goals and objectives. Join us for valuable insights, an applicable framework, and a useful tool to help focus and guide your planning process.
Learning Outcomes:
- Initiate conversations with your colleagues and answer questions about ERM.
- Explain why ERM should be integrated with strategic planning to help your institution work through uncertainties.
- Identify and prioritize actions for addressing impediments and opportunities that will best help your institution achieve its objectives.
- Apply our tool for conducting a risk assessment component of ERM at your institution.
Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Institutional Planning; Planning Processes; Risk Management4:00 pm - 5:00 pmConcurrent SessionsA Student-centric Paradigm for All Campus Space Types
4 PM-5 PM | Skyline Room
Presented by: Jack Black, Principal, Ayers Saint Gross | Shari Childers, Academic Associate Dean, New College, University of North Texas | Nathan Korkki, Senior Associate, Ayers Saint Gross | Jeannine Vail, Senior Project Manager / Assistant Professor, University of North Texas
Slides are available to registrants only.
Institutions must think critically about the design and allocation of campus space types. The University of North Texas (UNT) at Frisco built a new paradigm focused on student success and achievement through reimagining the distribution of space typologies across campus. In this session, we’ll demonstrate forward-thinking practice models for innovative campus planning and learning environments that support in-person and digital resources for applied learning. Come learn how to approach planning and design more holistically, enhancing success and achievement from a student-centric perspective and relating to all campus spaces, including offices, collaboration, instructional, and spaces for industry partners.
Learning Outcomes:
- Strategize ways to engage a new, diverse range of stakeholders during the design process using integrated planning techniques.
- Prioritize goals and needs to create an equitable and flexible framework for office environments within departments across campus.
- Identify new design solutions for instructional spaces where instructors and students may resist change without being part of the design process.
- Share research from user feedback following implementation of new learning and working environments within the building.
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Facilities Design; Facilities Planning; Learning Environments; Space Assessment; Student SuccessAIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS23C2601)
AICP CM 1.0 UnitConnecting the Community With Community College
4 PM-5 PM | Ballroom West
Slides are available to registrants only.
Presented by: Bill King, Executive Vice President, Collin College | Tobias Newham, Associate Principal, The Beck Group | Irene Nigaglioni, President, IN2 Architecture
Collin College saw the need for greater access to education and workforce training to support the county’s explosive growth. The master planning process provided an opportunity for campus leaders to truly serve the community and its local industries. This session will explore the community college’s integrated master planning process that used demographic patterns, labor market studies, talent acquisition analysis, along with community input to ensure alignment between vision and community needs. Come learn from our planning process for growth into additional cities and integration of workforce programs to provide equitable access to quality higher education for a diverse student population.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify tools, metrics, and methods that will best inform and support your institution’s campus growth plans.
- Discuss the use of labor market studies and talent acquisition analysis for ensuring that program offerings align to community needs and result in the expansion of workforce programs that serve the community.
- Draw connections between initial master planning goals and the final architectural and planning solutions that represent the communities they serve and provide enhanced learning environments.
- Explain challenges that recent events have placed on community colleges and identify solutions that allow for flexibility in building use and program offerings.
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Campus Development; Campus Master Planning; Community College; Community Engagement; Economic Development; Educational Master Plan; Master Plan; Workforce DevelopmentAIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPS23C2602)
AICP CM 1.0 UnitFinding Innovation in the ‘Space Between’
4 PM-5 PM | Multipurpose Room
Presented by: Cynthia Dehlavi, Associate Director, Lab Design, OJB*lab, OJB Landscape Architecture | Jim Taylor, University Architect, University of Houston | Chip Trageser, Partner, OJB Landscape Architecture
As the University of Houston (UH) plans for its second century, the campus is looking to the ‘space between’ buildings, such as landscape and public space, for innovative opportunities to expand cross-disciplinary discovery. This session will share how and why UH is remaking its arrival experience, central quad, and campus woodlands to foster social, physical, and mental wellbeing for the campus community. We’ll discuss how to balance a 100-year stewardship planning framework with the pace of accelerated research and new buildings, demonstrating how both frames of reference can contribute to a campus’s strategic objectives and an innovation mindset.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify programming and design strategies for creating cross-disciplinary spaces that address the learning and wellbeing needs of both academic and student life.
- Adopt an evidence-based design model that expands the lens of traditional campus planning to include wellness, resilience, inclusion, and other student success outcomes.
- Consider how building language and landscape can be more cohesive, interactive, and resilient to contribute to the wellbeing of the campus community.
- Uncover how landscape elements such as a 100-year tree canopy and other healthy, climate-positive elements can extend the campus planning framework beyond built structures.
Planning Types: Campus Planning
Tags: Health and Wellness; Informal Learning Environments; Interdisciplinary Learning Environments; Landscape / Open Space; ResiliencyAIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPS23C2617)
AICP CM 1.0 Unit5:30 pm - 7:00 pmSocial & Fundraiser to Benefit The SCUP Fund PLUS Tour the HUBLocation: Wortham Lobby (located within the School of Theater & Dance)
Cap your day and enjoy street tacos with a cash bar at our Southern Fundraiser/Social to benefit The SCUP Fund, with a hard hat tour of the HUB – the first UH mass timber building, a sustainable hangout that will modernize campus dining!
The event is free for all registered conference attendees. Join our southern region’s long tradition of participating in The SCUP Fund. It supports research and initiatives that drive innovative ideas and enterprising solutions for higher education viability and vitality.
Learn more about The SCUP Fund, and you can contribute now.
Thanks to our sponsors for the Fundraiser/Social to Benefit The SCUP Fund!
- Perkins&Will
- Turner Construction
- Walter P Moore
- WoodWorks – Wood Products Council
- Satterfield & Pontikes Construction, Inc
- Shah Smith & Associates, Inc.
- Skanska USA Building Inc.
Tour The HUB (construction site – see dress code)
Tours of the HUB will leave from the Wortham Lobby during the Social/Fundraiser. NOTE: Please wear long pants and close-toed shoes (no heels).
Construction is underway on a new retail food hall at the University of Houston that will revolutionize the campus dining experience and become a premier gathering spot for students, faculty, and staff. The Hub is a two-story, 41,000 square-foot facility that will feature diverse food concepts, a convenience store, a coffee concept, and the Cougar Card Office. Indoor and outdoor seating, including a second-floor patio, will accommodate up to 400 customers.
Designed by Perkins&Will, an interdisciplinary, research-based architecture and design firm, with Turner Construction Company as the general contractor, the nearly $40 million project is part of a larger campus dining strategy to improve food access, increase serving space to meet growing enrollment, provide more variety and enhance student engagement.
Tuesday, October 3, 20238:00 am - 12:00 pmRegistration8 AM-12 PM | Houston Room Foyer
8:00 am - 9:00 amBreakfast8 AM-9 AM | Houston Room
9:00 am - 10:15 amKeynoteNavigating Turbulence: Leading Through Challenging Times
9 AM-10:15 AM | Houston Room
Presented by: Dr. Olga Rodríguez de Arzola, Dean of the Ponce Health Sciences University School of Medicine, Ponce Health Sciences University
Over the past five years the people of Puerto Rico have faced constant disaster, including two hurricanes, an earthquake, and a pandemic. In this keynote, Olga Rodríguez de Arzola, MD, FAAP, Dean of the School of Medicine at Ponce Health Sciences University, will discuss how she led her institution through challenging times. In particular, she’ll share how her team kept operations moving forward during constant adversity, explain the importance of business continuity, and illustrate their plans for the future.
Learning Outcomes:
- Apply key strategies for leading through challenging times at your institution.
- Discuss how to devise and implement effective campus continuity plans to sustain operations during prolonged periods of adversity.
- Drawing inspiration from Dean Rodriguez de Arzola’s experiences and the school’s three missions of education, service and research, explain how to adapt leadership approaches in the face of continuous challenges.
- Discuss how to develop proactive planning methods for organizational resilience in the midst of multiple crises.
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10:30 am - 12:30 pmCampus ToursCampus tours are included in the cost of registration. Attendees will choose one of the tours to attend onsite.
University of Houston College of Medicine Tour
The University of Houston’s Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine building, which sits on an expansive 43-acre site, is one of the first new Houston-based medical schools in nearly 50 years. This tour will explore a school that is founded on a social mission to enhance the number of primary care physicians in underserved communities in Houston and throughout the state. Join us to learn about the big ideas behind this facility’s planning and programming as well as plans for future growth and development.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and explain the five big ideas behind planning and programming the new facility: community engagement, healthcare delivery innovation, collaborative environments, valuing the whole person, and meaningful campus connections.
- Consider how creating plans for a new medical campus, including future growth and development, contributes to day-one decisions regarding the central utility plant, siting of the facility, relationship to the light rail, flood lines, etc.
- Explore the active and team-based learning and collaborative environment that is central to the college, including large-format classrooms, small group rooms, learning communities with embedded mentors, a shared social lounge, and collaborative environments.
- Explain how the college engages with the community by tying in facility planning through direct-facing spaces on the ground floor, environment responsiveness through LEED, and re-use of onsite materials.
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University of Houston Law Center and Campus Arts Tour
The University of Houston (UH) System boasts a collection of public artworks by acclaimed local, regional, national, and international artists across all forms of media and styles. This tour will explore the university’s public art collection, discuss how it integrates into the main campus’s architecture and design, and look inside the campus’s new John M. O’Quinn Law Building. Join us to discover works by Frank Stella, Jim Love, Carlos Cruz-Diez, the Art Guys, and Rick Lowe within a campus context featuring designs from notable architects such as Phillip Johnson, Alfred C. Finn, Gensler, Lake|Flato, BNIM, Cesar Pelli, and Shepley Bulfinch.
Learning Outcomes:
- Consider significant pieces from UH’s multi-campus public art collection on the main campus and outline the program’s goals and aspirations.
- Detail how UH has curated a campuswide public art program to create an integrated campus experience through the selection of art and artists, making the public art program an integral part of campus culture.
- Discuss how UH has updated the original master plan from Kansas City-based landscape architecture firm Hare & Hare to integrate public art into campus outdoor spaces.
- Analyze the art selection process for new buildings and specific campus cultures with an in-depth look at the newly-opened John M. O’Quinn Law Building, which incorporates carefully curated artwork for a diverse population of law students.
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Registration
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Scholarship
In this economic climate that is creating challenges for so many colleges and universities, the Society for College and University Planning recognizes that professional development and travel budgets are being reduced or cut at many institutions. We believe that during tough times it is more important than ever to invest in education and to reach out to colleagues to help find solutions. We offer a limited number of scholarships to help underwrite costs associated with participating in SCUP events.
Award
Complimentary Registration (up to 5 awarded)Application Deadline
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Notification of Selection
Scholarship applicants will be notified of award status by Thursday, August 17, 2023.Hotel Information
The conference hotel is sold out; these are recommendations not SCUP conference hotels.
Embassy Suites by Hilton Houston Downtown -10 min drive or Uber/Lyft
-25 min public bus transit$173 Cambria Hotel Houston Downtown – 12 min drive or Uber/Lyft
– 26 min public bus transit$163 La Meridien Houston Downtown – 12 min drive or Uber/Lyft
– 26 min public bus transit$191 Conference Hotel
The conference hotel is SOLD OUT.
Hilton University of Houston
4450 University Drive, Houston, Texas 77204Check-in: 4:00 PM
Check-out: NoonRoom Reservations
Click here to make your hotel reservation.
Room Rate
$189 USD
Reservation Deadline
Friday, September 8, 2023
Travel Information
Airports
William P. Hobby Airport (HOU)
Approximately 8 miles from the conference hotel
Ground Transportation To/From AirportDriving Directions
To The Hilton University of Houston
Parking
Self-parking is available on-site for $20.00/day
Call for Proposals
Deadline: May 3, 2023 at 11:59 PM Eastern
We want to hear from YOU!
We have all faced seemingly impossible goals. How have you and your institution gone beyond what you thought possible to achieve success? We invite you to submit a concurrent session proposal to speak at the SCUP 2023 Southern Regional Conference in Houston and share your experiences, leadership, fresh perspectives. and innovative case studies in higher education integrated planning.
Who Should Submit?
Integrated planning engages all sectors of higher education:
- academic affairs
- student affairs
- business and finance
- campus planning
- information technology
- communications
- development
It involves stakeholders from across the campus:
- faculty
- students
- staff
- alumni
- external partners
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
By design, integrated planning is an inclusive practice that brings together perspectives and experiences from across an institution’s community to create solutions. This can only be accomplished when all voices are heard, recognized, and valued.
As you put together your presentation team, consider these questions:
- Whose perspective is missing?
- Whose voice is not being heard?
We strongly encourage you to make sure your presentation team includes diverse voices, and that these voices are given equitable time to share their perspectives.
What Makes A Great Proposal?
Great proposals focus on one of two things:
- Solutions: help attendees solve a pressing problem.
- Foresight: explore innovative new ideas, analyze trends, and prepare attendees for the future.
All great proposals include the following:
- Takeaways: give attendees next actions, tips, tricks, tools, processes, etc., that can be applied immediately.
- Engagement: engage attendees with the content and with each other in meaningful ways.
Topics and Theme
We accept proposals on any topic related to integrated planning in higher education as long as they also align with the conference theme of Making the Impossible Possible. Tell us how you’ve taken risks and stretched beyond your comfort zone to achieve your goals. Especially welcome are interactive proposals that address the following:
Key Challenges
How is your institution recognizing its past while responding to current and future challenges? What positive changes have you made to set your institution up for long-term success? How can higher education set its sights even higher to achieve impossible goals?
- Hybrid Learning Realities
- Accreditation Pressures
- Change Management
- Competing Priorities
- Dealing with Climate Change
- Engaging Stakeholders
- Funding Uncertainty
- Planning Alignment
- Student Success, Retention, and Graduation
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Health and Wellness
Integrated Planning Topics
Student Success
- Academic and curricular planning
- Integrated student success initiatives
- New pedagogies and designing learning spaces to support them
- Student wellness and health
Change Management
- Successful change stories
- Guiding people through change
- Mitigating higher ed politics
Using Data
- Analyzing and communicating data
- Evidence-based design
- Using metrics
- Assessment
Communication and Engagement
- How to effectively communicate: message, mode, and frequency
- Engaging faculty in the planning process
- Including diverse and underrepresented populations
Implementation
- Processes that work
- Revising the strategic plan
- Unit-level planning
- Managing institutional complexity
The New Funding Environment
- Innovative business models
- Public-private partnership
Preparing for the Future
- Higher education’s value proposition
- Resiliency
- Strategic enrollment management (SEM)
- Institutional evolution
Planning Processes and How Tos
- Tools for plan implementation and measurement
- Integrating your planning processes
- Planning “on the fly”
- Managing Your Resources
- Budget models
- Managing space (and its politics)
- Technology planning
- Deferred maintenance
Concurrent Session Facts and Proposal Questions
We are accepting proposals for 60-minute concurrent sessions – these should include no more than 50 minutes of presentation that includes prompts for meaningful audience engagement and participation, followed by 10 minutes for Q&A.
Submissions must be made using SCUP’s online submission tool. The proposal form doesn’t ask for an abstract, title, etc. Rather, it asks specific questions about the content you are going to present. This gives session reviewers a clear understanding of what you plan to cover during your session.
Read frequently asked questions.
Examples of active learning exercises you can include in your proposal.
View the questions included on Call for Proposals Form
Other questions you will need to answer
- Session Presenter(s): Identify your session’s presenter(s). ***Please note that the submission form will only accept a maximum of four presenters (one Main Contact Presenter and three Co-presenters) per proposal. In the event that the proposal is accepted, SCUP may consider allowing additional presenters. Successful proposals most often include a minimum of one institutional representative.
- Presenter Biography 150-word limit
- Room Set
What type of room set would you prefer to best enhance participant learning in your session? We try to provide preferred room set requests, but cannot guarantee them - Audio Visual Questions
- Will you show a video?
- Will you play a sound clip?
- Will you go online? If so, what will you do online?
After You Submit Your Proposal
- How Proposals Are Reviewed
- Members from the Conference Committee, the Regional Council, returning regional and annual reviewers, and other regional member volunteers review concurrent session proposals.
- Reviews are based on attendee takeaways, topical relevance, session organization, and presenter expertise.
Requirements If You Are Accepted
- Presenter Registration Requirement
All concurrent session presenters are required to register for the conference; presenters do not receive free or discounted registration. - Use of Presentation Materials
Session materials are required to be uploaded in advance of your presentation. Following the conference, session recordings and presentation materials (such as slideshows) from each accepted concurrent session may be posted on the SCUP website to view and download. By participating as a concurrent session presenter, you agree to allow SCUP to share your content in this way.
QUESTIONS? Email speaker.information@scup.org.
The deadline to submit a proposal for the SCUP 2023 Southern Regional Conference is May 3, 2023 at 11:59 PM ET.