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Planning for Higher Education Journal

Published
September 1, 2000

Portraits of Students: A Retrospective

By: K. Patricia Cross

A tour of the past 30 years of student trends highlights the challenge of change.

From Volume 29 Number 1 | Fall 2000

Abstract: In this article, the author reviews 60 articles about students that were published between 1969 and 1999. She identifies five distinctive galleries of student portraits as they were revealed in the writings of authors over the 30-year period. Galleries visited and analyzed for their impact on higher education are Student Protest, Open Admissions, Diversity, Lifelong Learning, and Student as Consumer.

Institutions Mentioned: Grinnell College, University of California-Berkeley, The City University of New York

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Planning for Higher Education Journal

Published
April 1, 1999

Benchmarking: A New Approach to Space Planning

By: Ira Fink

An alternative approach uses space benchmarking and faculty head count for predicting space needs.

From Volume 27 Number 3 | Spring 1999

Abstract: Examines traditional assumptions underlying space management and proposes an alternative approach to projecting space use. Specifically, the author recommends making projections based on space per faculty rather than space per student, and then comparing these projections with the space allocation at peer institutions. Problems with traditional methods of space allocation are discussed, as is the process of implementing this approach and identifying comparable institutions.

Institutions Mentioned: Georgia Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue University-Main Campus, University of California-Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, The University of Texas at Austin, Stanford University
Planning Types: Campus Planning

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