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Campus Master Planning

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2010–2020 Institutional Master Plan Second Amendment

 An amendment to the university medical campus master plan, detailing an additional expansion.
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2012–2027 Draft Facilities Master Plan Summary

 The college’s facilities master plan defines facility requirements and campus improvements needed to support its mission.
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2013–2023 Institutional Master Plan

 Campus master plan detailing seven proposed projects.
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2013–2023 Transportation Master Plan

 A companion document to the university's institutional master plan for the campus.
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2019 Campus Master Plan
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2020–30 Campus Master Plan Update

 The university’s master plan update, which addresses campus growth from a housing deficit to a more robust traffic prediction model.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Master Facilities Planning Process That Focuses on ROI

 In a time when public funding is decreasing, it is advantageous to develop capital improvement plans that demonstrate how to achieve maximum financial benefits.
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A Shared Vision

 We will explore how The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) campus master plan will guide significant growth in research, enrollment, and partnership opportunities across multiple campuses and industry over the coming decades.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Tribute to Achievement and Excellence

 The society’s 2012 awards recognize and applaud individuals and organizations whose achievements exemplify excellence and dedication in planning for higher education.
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A Wellness Masterplan

 Imagine the impact we could have if wellness was the first point of consideration in decision making and planning.
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Achieving a Sustainable Campus Master Plan through Integrative Design

 This session will explore Princeton University’s campus master plan, which engages an ethos of sustainability through the lens of carbon emissions, landscape design, energy, and water efficiency, from design through construction.
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Aligning Environments With Policies and Systems for Wellness
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An Approach to the Preparation or Revision of a Master Plan for a Nigerian Polytechnic

 Whether preparing a plan for a proposed institution or revising a plan for an existing institution, following a carefully designed approach greatly facilitates the realization of the institution’s vision and mission.
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An Enriching Campus Framework for Growth

 We will provide examples of multiple ways in which the University of Oregon structures campus growth, receives input from leadership, and effectively engages the campus community.
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An Implementable Master Plan for Access, Student Success, and Sustainable Growth

 A state mandate to increase undergraduate enrollment, the aspiration to achieve an Association of American Universities institution profile, and a desire to become carbon neutral—we'll discuss how the University of California (UC) Riverside negotiated these competing challenges while developing its master plan.
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Campus Master Plan

 The college’s 20-year master plan, aligned to its five strategic directions.
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Campus Master Plan 2020–2039
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Campus Planning

 This classic by Richard P. Dober, which thoroughly reviews the fundamentals of campus planning, was first printed in 1963.
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Campus Tour | University of Toronto-Scarborough

 The trail was conceived as a truly accessible pathway that brings our community of all abilities closer to nature and opens up options for teaching and research directly within the lands we occupy.
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Can a Campus Plan Drive Equity?

 Come find out how you can apply lessons learned and strategies from Wake Tech's inclusive master planning process to successfully respond to opportunities and challenges of diverse enrollment on your campus.
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Capital Improvement Plan 2021–2023
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Crafting the Master Plan: A Collaborative Challenge for Community Colleges

 Master planning can help an institution address major challenges, but you have to know how to do it right. This article examines the planning process, with special emphasis on community and consensus building, using case studies from two rapidly growing community college districts in Texas and California.
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Curriculum and Campus By Design

 We'll discuss Yale-NUS's unique educational model, the master planning and programming process for its new campus, and the campus's design.
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Delivering on Vision

 South of its historic campus, Princeton is expanding into land that has been preserved for the past century to build its Lake Campus, a new center for research, discovery, recreation, and student life.
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Environmental Impact Report

 In accordance with state requirements, the institution prepared a report to identify significant environmental impacts of implementing the new campus master plan.
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Equitable Cross-Disciplinary Planning for Underserved Populations

 Through the lens of two diverse community college districts, this session will investigate inclusive, interdisciplinary approaches to long-range campus and strategic planning.
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Facilities Master Plan
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From Industrial Wasteland to Modern Campus
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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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Fully Engaged

 The most effective master plans are those that reflect the myriad voices of the institution. Engagement should be informative, inclusive, meaningful, and fun—and should be the product of an integrated process.
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Highland Campus Master Plan

 Master plan for a community college system’s newest campus, including the relocation of several programs.
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How an Unprecedented Year Changed the Game for Campus Planning

 We'll present a campus planning proof case that Columbia College Chicago conducted during the pandemic, illustrating an evolved approach with tools and methods you can use to optimally prepare your institution for an unknown future.
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How to Craft a Living, Data-Driven Facilities Master Plan

 In this session, you will learn how the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor’s College of Engineering created this responsive master plan that acts more as an interactive set of tools than a static document.
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Innovative Universities of the Future

 In this session, a historian and an architect will share conceptual new forms for innovation, exploring structures for hybrid education and speculative designs from five 'reinvented' universities.
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Insights

 This capstone session will identify key insights from the series, pose new questions, and offer creative, actionable ideas for moving higher education forward.
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Integrating Audiovisual Technology to Serve the Digital-First Student
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Integrating the Educational and Facilities Master Plans

 Using an integrated planning model, Pima Community College District demonstrates how to integrate educational and facilities master plans through the lens of a shared mission.
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Keynote | VCU | Social Unrest in the Midst of a Pandemic . . . Now What?

 Join us to discuss how VCU changed its planning strategies and built campus environment to simultaneously address a public health crisis and calls for social reform.
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Lanier Technical College

 We will explore the planning, design, and stakeholder collaboration behind Lanier Technical College's new campus, which is designed to house 50 workforce development programs.
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Leveraging Landholdings to Promote Equity and Inclusion at Gallaudet University

 Come learn how you can facilitate agency for all by using Gallaudet University’s model for leveraging campus assets to develop more equitable space and improve the wellbeing of your campus community.
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Make No Little Plans

 Master plans are more than a campus-wide tool, and with thoughtful planning and execution, institutions can craft a vision tailored to student needs related to housing, dining, and the co-curricular student experience.
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Master Plan Update
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Master Plan Update
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Master Plan Update
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Master Plan Update
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Master Planning Outreach Strategies for Underrepresented Students

 This session shares how we developed new practices and tools to deliver better campus experiences for students from nontraditional backgrounds, yielding social equity in campus planning and building design.
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Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program

 In accordance with state requirements, the institution prepared this report to mitigate significant environmental impacts of implementing the new campus master plan.
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Observed Themes in Higher Education Planning and Design From the 2019 Excellence Award Entries and Recognition of Winners

 Awards programs are a way to not only recognize and applaud those individuals and organizations whose achievements exemplify excellence but also to provide learning opportunities for everyone whose lives and passions involve higher education. The 2019 jury members will share observations and trends from this year's entries and acknowledge award recipients.
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One Yale

 Yale has unified its community with strategic development along its two-mile-long urban campus, strengthening diversity and inclusion while the historically dispersed communities of the residential colleges continue to flourish.
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Planning with Athletics

 This session will help you find athletics facilities solutions that benefit your entire campus community and reinforce your institutional mission through understanding the issues facing athletics and identifying new strategic associations.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Planning, Utopia, and Heritage in the Design of Campuses

 The fusion between utopia and planning has influenced both the interior of university enclosures and the outside.
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Predictive Analytics

 We will discuss a computational metrics mobile app and how Miami University uses it for master planning.
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Reimagining Master Planning at Florida State University

 Revising a master plan isn’t usually innovative, but Florida State’s holistic approach is. By engaging the whole institution in the conversation, the master plan reset will ensure that the values and aspirations of the institution are reflected in a built environment that not only meets program needs, but supports and sustains the innovation necessary for post-pandemic realities.
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RELLIS Campus Master Plan

 Detailed campus master plan documentation for the institution’s innovation campus.
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Rethinking Research and Real Estate at UT Austin

 The J.J. Pickle Research Campus Plan marks an operational shift for the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, exploring mixed-use development and an integrated research environment to leverage a real estate asset and advance the university's mission.
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Stanford’s Main Quad

 This presentation will address how a strong campus identity can create community engagement, facilitate discourse, and influence pedagogy through architecture that recalls the past, is relevant to the present, and can adapt to the future.
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The Campus Master Plan as a Catalyst for Institutional Change

 We will share how the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign leveraged the planning process to spur institutional change in financial, procurement, and planning matters.
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The Greater College Park Initiative

 The “Greater College Park Initiative” is a signature multi-year effort in President Wallace Loh’s leadership and administration to continue positive town/gown relations with development that enhances both the university campus and surrounding communities.
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The Living Community Challenge, Master Planning, and a Bayfront Research Campus

 We will demonstrate how we used an LCC-focused master planning process for a bayfront site to integrate facilities conditions, programming, site analyses, impacts of climate change and sea level rise, and net-positive energy and water.
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The Role of Community Colleges in Future-proofing Education

 In this session, we’ll share how community colleges can use metrics to understand long-term projections around regional enrollment needs and use human purpose integrated design to build for the future.
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The University as Neighborhood Builder

 We will show you how to see your institution's land from a new perspective, apply fresh ideas about mixed-use campus space, and use an integrated planning process to build consensus in times of change.
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Unearthed
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Universities on Fire

 This session explores the impact of climate change on higher education and how academia may respond.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

University Trends
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Update on the Fenway Campus Institutional Master Plan
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Using SCUPs Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) to Inform Your Integrated Planning

 In this session, we will explore some of the findings from the 2021 CFI benchmarking and hear from a panel of institutions about changes they are making and using CFI data to inform their planning efforts.
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Website for the 2020–2039 Campus Master Plan

 Website for documentation related to the institution’s campus master plan, including reporting on environmental impact.