Conference Presentations

Establishing a new college within a university requires coordination with the accrediting body, other university disciplines, the city, donors, and neighboring landowners. We’ll outline and discuss how we navigated the process, challenges, and opportunities related to Duquesne University’s new College of Osteopathic Medicine, including the collaboration with the City of Pittsburgh’s Forbes Avenue Improvement Initiative. Through practical, implementable approaches to growth-focused programming in a new urban facility, this session will offer lessons learned, priorities, and planning tools for flexibility and improvement.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the ‘boxes to check’ and timeline when launching a new educational program and facility, including due diligence, site acquisition, programming and design, accreditation submissions, construction, hiring of personnel, and enrollment of students.
2. Discuss the importance of facilitating a neighborhood town hall meeting to maintain an open line of communication with neighbors in regards to the local impact of construction and new academic programs.
3. Maximize value by considering your facility as part of a campus network with opportunities to supplement your new facility with existing space and draw lessons learned from other campus facilities.
   Explain how to generate a planning parti that supports a diverse range of space types and scales while maintaining straightforward wayfinding and constructability.

Presenters:

Rodney Dobish, Associate Vice President and Chief Facilities Officer, Duquesne University
Neil Martin, Principal, The S/L/A/M Collaborative
Karen Parzych, Architect, Associate Principal, The S/L/A/M Collaborative

Continuing Education Units: AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPM24C2727) | AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Delivered 03/05/2024.

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