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When City Parks are your Quad: Urban Campus Planning for Safety and Wellbeing

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Delivered December 5, 2024
Presented by Pascha McTyson, Director of Student Engagement | Ryan Searles, Security Consulting | Ashley Flintoff, Executive Director | Joel Pettigrew 2022-2023 SCUP Fellow, Business Development Manager

Student wellness and campus security remain a paramount issue in higher education, especially at space-constrained urban institutions that have less influence over the legibility of their campus edges. Both planning design professionals and higher education administrators are seeking to make their campuses safer and increase inclusion and belonging amongst their student communities, but are coming at those goals from different perspectives. 2022-2023 SCUP Fellow, Joel Pettigrew, conducted research that explores these differences and offers ideas for processes that center on students’ sense of security within an equitable perspective.

This webinar panel features a spectrum of professionals from these industries, offering both planning and higher education expertise to ensure student safety in urban campus edge design. The discussion will focus on how campus ecology and student development theories can inform students’ sense of security, balanced with planning principles like Crime Prevention Through Environment Design (CPTED) which guide the students’ built environment.

What This Webinar Will Cover:

  • Overview of student development and campus ecology theories as well as CPTED principles through the lens of student sense of security.
  • Analysis of urban campus edge design through those theories and principles, utilizing real-world examples from the panelist’s campuses and work.

    Learning Outcomes:
    1. Recognize how both student development theories and design principles like CPTED can inform safer urban campus edge design.
    2. Gain the knowledge needed to restructure campus edge planning processes that center students’ sense of security within an equitable perspective.
    3. Develop processes meant to increase student sense of security on campus, including wayfinding, community engagement opportunities, and examining campus edge porosity.

    Presenters:

    Pascha McTyson (“a” as in “a”pples) – Director of Student Engagement at the Bloomberg Center for Cities and the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
    Ryan Searles – Security Consulting – Group Leader, IMEG
    Ashley Flintoff – Executive Director of The Friends of the Rouge
    Joel Pettigrew, 2022-2023 SCUP Fellow, Business Development Manager at Architectural Resources Cambridge

    Member Price: Free | Non-member Price: $35 USD

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