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Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Campus for the Evolving Technologies

 Technology will change how campuses are designed and used.
Webinar Recordings

A Community College Perspective on Their Role in Future-Proofing Education

 Richard Fort from Johnson County Community College and James Pfeiffer from BNIM will share lessons learned from post-covid educational offerings and incorporating a diversity of spatial and programmatic options to facilitate workforce development.
Conference Recordings

A Research-Based Approach to Designing Higher Education Academic Spaces

 This session will explore the new Academic and Residential Complex at the University of Illinois at Chicago to demonstrate the important role that research played in shaping its design.
Conference Presentations

A School Without Walls: The Architecture of Data Science

 Data science is a rapidly developing discipline and serves as a catalyst for the future development and management of institutional faculties.
Conference Presentations

A Survival Guide to Planning and Executing Phased Renovations
Conference Presentations

Bringing Industry, Education, and Non-Profits Together

 In this session, we will discuss the Construction Education Center, a state-of-the-art facility at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha campus, that facilitates project-based learning to bring industry partners, non-profits, and students together under a common vision.
Example Plans

Build the Future

 Campus master plan document for a STEM-focused institution, deeply aligned with its strategic plan.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Campus Renewal

 Through a holistic approach emphasizing selective revitalization and limited new construction, Laurentian University transformed its facilities to significantly enhance the student experience.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Co-Locate and Consolidate to Create Connected Campuses

 You can share spaces, support services, staffing, and technology systems within your institution and with external partners. This reduces costs while improving outcomes such as retention, graduation, and career placement rates.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Colocating Dissimilar Academic Programs

 Respecting mission-oriented mutual goals, two schools at Hofstra University shaped an improbable pedagogical partnership through cross-functional collaboration and data-informed decision-making.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Creating a New Campus Destination

 The project offers preservation, building revitalization, and adaptive reuse as an alternative model for sustainable campus growth.
Conference Presentations

Culture and Collaboration

 This session is about the challenges and opportunities associated with designing the Beijing home for a newly established international fellowship program – Schwarzman Scholars – at Tsinghua University.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Diving Into Data

 Using data analytics and reviewing facility conditions helped Newberry College enhance space utilization and create a dynamic, adaptable campus.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Does Space Matter?

 Developing an understanding of the lived student experience in relation to physical space is critical in order for designers to create spaces that work for the mobile, fast-paced, and multifaceted lives of university students.
Conference Presentations

Engaging Faculty in Classroom Planning and Design

 Flexible classroom space is at a premium, making it necessary to link design with utilization to facilitate projected academic program growth. Including faculty in classroom planning and design processes is a vital part of supporting pedagogical innovation in campus learning spaces.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Engaging Stakeholders Locally and Globally

 The Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University treated its stakeholders and partners as critical sources of information and inspiration in planning for a dynamic and flexible new world headquarters.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Enhancing the Student Experience in the Sciences

 Science education and science student retention are improved by transforming an underutilized campus space into an Academic Support Center that colocates critical undergraduate academic services.
Webinar Recordings

FLIPP: A Tool to Align Campus Stakeholders for Space Planning

 Join us as we discuss how the FLIPP: FLEXspace Integrated Planning Pathway may help serve your needs with academic facilities planning, while building cooperative trust among campus advisors.
Conference Presentations

From Stymied to STEM Lab

 We will share lessons learned from Purdue University's college master plan and STEM building that you can use to clarify thinking, focus need, build a case for a new project, and set the stage for future growth.
Conference Presentations

Full STEAM Ahead: Colocating Science, Engineering, and Liberal Arts

 Recruitment and retention are increasingly vital as student demographics evolve. New approaches to collaborative planning create keystone spaces on campus that can reinvigorate entire zones and benefit students, faculty, staff, and the bottom line.
Example Plans

Highland Campus Master Plan

 Master plan for a community college system’s newest campus, including the relocation of several programs.
Conference Presentations

Immersive Educational Facilities Design: Manufacturing Innovation and Connection

 As trade schools gain national recognition for their affordability and career-centric focus, Raleigh’s Wake Technical Community College (WTCC) has set a new standard for strategic facilities design by capitalizing on community, industry, and government partnerships.
Conference Presentations

Integrated Planning for an Innovative and Efficient Design Process

 Designing a forward-thinking research building without identified occupants is a bold undertaking.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Integrated Project Planning in a Construction Management Environment

 When the whole team knows the “why” behind the planning and design process, the result is a better “what.”
Planning for Higher Education Journal

It Takes a (Virtual) Village

 This large community college successfully embraced virtual communication platforms and moved forward with a viable 10-year plan during a global health crisis, economic turbulence, and technological change.
Conference Presentations

Mapping Career Pathways from the Community College Campus to Regional Industry

 Community colleges provide equitable access to higher education and pathways to sustainable careers. This session will show how Laurel Ridge Community College (LRCC) secured its role in the regional economy by aligning programs with community priorities and mapping students’ career pathways to inform facilities planning.
Conference Presentations

One Campus. Two Institutions. Three Libraries.

 Discuss the evolution of three libraries built in three separate centuries on the Bronx Community College of The City University of New York campus.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Overcoming a $90M Budget Overage in Vanderbilt University’s Residential Colleges

 The University, architects, engineers, strategic planning consultants, and contractor teams worked hand in hand to peel back the onion to stem the overruns.
Conference Presentations

P3@UIC

 A case study of an academic and residential complex at University of Illinois-Chicago, and plans for future multi-use center.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Phased Transformations of Academic Buildings

 When you’re renovating a campus building, you’re contending with dust, noise, vibration, the risk of budget overruns, relocating occupants, extended timelines, and more. Following best practices of experienced planners can help you to mitigate the most common challenges.
Conference Presentations

Reassessing the Elements of an Inclusive Campus

 Join us for a workshop that will help you reimagine your own campus's academic environments through empathy, adopting different perspectives, and identifying elements of inclusion and exclusion.
Conference Presentations

Reconnect, Reuse, Revitalize, Recruit: Addressing Aging Campus Facilities

 Institutions are constrained by housing modern programs within aging facilities.
Conference Presentations

Reimagining Clippinger: Adaptive Reuse of an OU Post-war Science Building

 Since Ohio University's (OU) Clippinger Laboratory was built in 1967 higher education has changed dramatically: scientific research, instruction, and the students themselves.
Conference Recordings

Reinvigorating a Campus Landmark

 Beginning with the project's conception and taking you through its planning, design, and construction, we will outline our investigation, historic research, and analysis of Harvard University's Stirling-designed postmodern museum to inform its transformation into a vibrant academic building housing a variety of programs.
Conference Presentations

Rethinking Academic Workspaces

 Learn from three university panelists how to accurately assess needs, identify opportunities for improvement, and implement post-pandemic solutions for hybrid work environments on your campus.
Conference Presentations

Rethinking the Faculty Office

 This review of faculty workspace innovations across our region's institutions will challenge conventional thinking about how faculty space should be allocated within departments.
Conference Presentations

Small College, Big Ambition: Delivering STEM Environments for Tomorrow
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Super-Sizing Active Learning

 Campuses are familiar with small spaces outfitted with active learning design, but what could be added to a large space—such as a lecture hall for freshman pre-requisite courses—to keep students engaged in the instruction?
Conference Recordings

Supporting the Whole Student

 In this session, we’ll share how the College of Marin and Chabot College's integrated learning centers are serving changing student populations using an inclusive library design approach.
Conference Presentations

Swarthmore College

 Swarthmore College’s leadership shares insight into how the college’s newest addition, Maxine Frank Singer ‘72 Hall, decided to create a collaborative environment by combining three academic departments—Biology, Engineering, and Psychology.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

The Library as Learning Commons

 Even in the digital age, the library plays a fundamental role in campus life and learning, particularly when it’s updated to meet the needs of 21st-century students and pedagogies.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

The Stories in These Walls

 Cross-functional teams at the University of Wyoming, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and University of North Dakota effectively used storytelling techniques to position donors within the narrative of the universities’ missions and strategic plans.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

The Transdisciplinary Atelier

 Transdisciplinarity requires us to engage and co-depend on each other, and the Transdisciplinary Atelier responds by providing the space and time needed for evolving cross-boundary projects.
Blog Post

What If the Building We Work in Could Make Us Healthier?

 During the recent 2023 Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) 2023 Annual Conference in Cleveland, Niraj Dangoria, Stanford University’s associate dean of facilities planning, and management, and Paul Woolford and Julia Cooper of HOK, reported how they used integrated planning to construct the Center for Academic Medicine for the Stanford University School of Medicine.