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Facilities Assessment

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2023 SCUP Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) Review

 The 2023 SCUP Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) survey was the third iteration of the survey providing new insights about the current state of campus facilities and how institutions across the country are thinking about the future of campus and facility planning.
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A Data-driven Approach to Revolutionize Campus Planning
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A New Plan for Building Green

 This session will focus on the next step in the evolution of green building and provide a comprehensive sustainability framework for responsible development with a holistic view of the campus and community wellbeing.
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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Designing a Flexible and Resilient Research Building Through Integrated Planning

 This session will highlight how a collaborative team promoted innovation to enable decision making throughout the Plant Sciences Initiative design process at North Carolina State University (NCSU).
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Designing for Intentional Community: Dartmouth’s Housing Transformation
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Designing for Intentional Community: Dartmouth’s Housing Transformation

 Planning processes must be versatile and nimble to accommodate changing priorities.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Digital Assessment

 Digital assessment helps to identify points of strength and challenge within non-curricular areas.
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Ensuring Research Resilience Through Programmatic and Facilities Alignment
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Evaluating the Influence of Design on Social Impact Education

 In order for institutions to support students’ desire for engagement and impact within their local, regional, and national communities, they must plan and design spaces that foster instruction, discourse, and invention. 2024
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Finding the Beauty in Right-sizing the KU Campus

 The constraints that universities face in terms of capital, declining enrollment, and surplus capacity in campus facilities causes escalation of deferred maintenance costs.
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How Assessment Can Improve Your Campus’s Active Learning Spaces

 Come join us for an engaging and interactive session that will provide you with critical, campus-tested planning tools that you can use in your own classroom assessment to improve your campus learning environment.
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.
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Master Planning Engagement Strategies for Underrepresented Students

 This session offers new practices that yield social equity in campus planning and building design.
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Minnesota Sustainable Building Guidelines

 The University of Minnesota follows the state’s sustainable building guidelines, specifically Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), and uses post-occupancy evaluations (POE) to measure user satisfaction with campus buildings. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how to implement sustainability initiatives, which have a significant impact on campus building performance and by extension, user performance and wellbeing.
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Post-Occupancy Evaluation for Active Learning Environments

 We will explore exemplary active-learning environments and the evaluation methodology we used to measure how these environments have elicited learning behaviors that foster student engagement.
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Reconnect, Reuse, Revitalize, Recruit: Addressing Aging Campus Facilities

 Institutions are constrained by housing modern programs within aging facilities.
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SCUP Fellow Presentation | Peripheral Vision

 Gain an early view of a yearlong study into creating a set of metrics for campus planners and facility designers to assess physical space on campus in support of the strategic planning values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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SCUP Fellows Research Presentation

 The design, implementation and results of this SCUP Fellowship research project will be highlighted and compared to other assessment methods with the goal of understanding your own institution’s assessment needs and plans around active learning spaces.
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Student Success

 We'll focus on tools and solutions that your institution can incorporate into its facilities planning process to ensure your learning spaces contribute to student success.
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Support Your Mission Through Data-informed Capital Investment

 By right-sizing course offerings, classrooms, and buildings, planners can drive incremental improvements that help to advance campus culture.
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The Architecture of Belonging: Informing Planning Through Social Research

 A sense of belonging is critical for student wellbeing, engagement, and academic success.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

 Michigan Technological University used active stakeholder engagement, frequent reviews, and vigorous discussion to develop its aspirational master plan.
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Using Occupant Evaluation Data to Inform Higher Education Design

 Campus facility design is a complex process that involves many sources of opinion and influence. Educational environments must enhance evolving pedagogies, support learning, administrative, and social functions, and accommodate ever-changing institutional needs.
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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.