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Planning for Higher Education Journal

‘Colorblind-Spots’ in Campus Design

 Educational leaders are noting that conventional campus design planning efforts have neglected to include the voices of historically underserved communities. Socio-spatial inquiry can help institutions offer an equity approach to inclusivity and authentic engagement.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

“Menus That Matter” at the Heart of Kalamazoo Valley Community College’s Bronson Healthy Living Campus

 Culinary and food professionals can serve as positive change agents in society.
Partner Content

2018 SCUP Excellence Awards

 Read about the winning projects and teams from SCUP’s 2018 Excellence Awards program.
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2018 Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Excellence Awards
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2020 Virtual SCUP Excellence Awards Presentation and Jury Conversation

 We invite you to watch the 2020 virtual SCUP Excellence Awards presentation and jury conversation. The Excellence Awards program recognizes and applauds institutions and organizations whose planning achievements exemplify excellence and dedication in higher education campus planning.
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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 Data-driven Approach to Campus Planning

 In this session, we'll share our innovative approach to enhancing the design process through data-driven design, a highly-collaborative process that generates unlimited experimental designs through customizable algorithms.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Great Guide to Campus Interiors
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.
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 Tribute to Achievement and Excellence

 The society’s 2014 award program recognizes and applauds individuals and organizations whose achievements exemplify excellence and dedication in planning for higher education. Jurors share their comments and trends pulled from the 2014 winners.
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A Tribute to Achievement and Excellence
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A Tribute to Achievement and Excellence
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A Tribute to Achievement and Excellence
Webinar Recordings

A Wellness Masterplan

 Imagine the impact we could have if wellness was the first point of consideration in decision making and planning.
Conference Recordings

Adapting the Campus

 We will share how The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is navigating the fall semester and its overall vision for the campus, including opening a living and learning neighborhood to enhance student life and success in the midst of the pandemic.
Conference Recordings

Addressing Mental Health and Implementing Holistic Wellness on Campus

 We'll share approaches and resources that you can use to meaningfully design healthier spaces and implement mental health and wellness programs on your campus.
Conference Presentations

Aligning Environments With Policies and Systems for Wellness
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Analyzing Existing Campus Space for Hybrid Teaching and Learning

 In the aftermath of COVID-19, Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan) rethought learning spaces, adapting them to the good practices that were used during the period of solely online teaching.
Conference Recordings

Better Value and Outcomes through Integrative Design

 In this session, we'll share our results and challenges with the Integrative Design Process (IDP) at Princeton, and show how you can use an IDP to realize better value and outcomes for your campus project.
Conference Presentations

Biophilic Design at CSU’s Biology Building

 We will discuss how biophilic design was incorporated into Colorado State University's (CSU) new Biology Building, the impact the building has had on students, staff, and faculty, and opportunities for biophilic design on your campus.
Conference Presentations

Branding and Design Strategies That Build STEM Career Awareness

 This session will explore an integrated approach to planning, design, and branding an HBCU's new STEM facility, including carefully developed digital messaging, to encourage student awareness of STEM academic pathways and professional opportunities.
Conference Recordings

Building Diversity Through Innovative Engagement and Flexible Design

 Join us to learn how you can engage diverse student groups in the design process with social media and new technology to create more inclusive and equitable campus spaces.
Conference Presentations

Building the Brand

 In this session, we'll demonstrate how Quinnipiac University communicated its updated brand identity through physical campus renovations.
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Campus Design

 This book shows how a campus is defined through its physical image—buildings and landscapes are designed to communicate the institution's purpose, presence and domain as well as generate an image charged with symbolism.
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Campus Heritage

 This monograph describes and illustrates the contributions campus heritage can make to promote, strengthen, and support institutional goals and objectives and outlines suggested methods of incorporating campus heritage in campus plans, facility plans, and campus design concepts.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Campus Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse

 By integrating historic buildings into your campus planning, their continued reuse can help solve some of the specific challenges facing university planners today.
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Campus Image and Identity

 The eight chapters in this book reflect Richard Dober’s categories of the elements of campus image and design. Within each chapter, each page displays two campus scenes, chosen for thought-provoking comparison—and a brief comment from Dober regarding each.
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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.
Webinar Recordings

Campus Planning and Design

 As colleges and universities pivot to more online learning and remote work while meeting new demands for the wellness and safety of our campus communities, this panel will reveal what we can learn about new directions in campus planning and design.
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.
Conference Recordings

Campus Tour | Drexel University

 This campus tour will explore the campus by era, illustrating how various forces and prevailing attitudes towards city life have influenced the campus’s evolution.
Conference Recordings

Campus Tour | H. Lavity Stoutt Community College

 This tour chronicles the development of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) into a locally-grounded tertiary institution with international aspirations.
Conference Recordings

Campus Tour | Loyalist College

 Join us for a campus tour that will guide you through the college's state-of-the-art facilities and give you an inside look at its uniquely supportive community.
Conference Recordings

Campus Tour | Temple University

 Our tour guides will walk you through this international award-winning facility to share the thought process behind the design, project challenges and solutions, and provide an update on how the library has performed since its opening in Fall 2019.
Conference Recordings

Campus Tour | Temple University

 This campus tour will explore how Temple University has improved the student and visitor experience through facility upgrades and the use of ’found’ outdoor and interstitial spaces to expand its footprint.
Conference Recordings

Campus Tour | Thompson Rivers University

 This tour will showcase how TRU has been developing infrastructure befitting a modern university, including learner-centered spaces, research facilities, and housing.
Conference Recordings

Campus Tour | Tshwane University of Technology

 Join us to find out how this people’s university makes knowledge work in our journey towards digital transformation via integrated planning and effective monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.
Conference Recordings

Campus Tour | University of Hawaii at Manoa

 This tour will showcase the University of Hawaii’s flagship campus and the unique challenges the university faces with regard to long-term planning, campus redevelopment, and designing in a tropical environment.
Conference Recordings

Campus Tour | University of Toronto

 This tour will lead attendees through the eight-story building that features a 500-seat lecture theatre, state-of-the-art collaborative classrooms, workshops, lab spaces, and fabrication facilities as well as several large multidisciplinary research centers and institutes.
Conference Recordings

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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Campus Tour | Wilfrid Laurier University

 Lazaridis Hall at Wilfrid Laurier University is a new campus landmark designed for academic collaboration and connection with the community.
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Campus Tour: Northwestern University

 Touring select spaces in the Kellogg Global Hub, our professional business school, and Mudd Hall, a mixed-use research and library building, this session will provide an overview of recent north campus development.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Change and Renewal for Existing Campus Libraries

 Renovating an existing academic library to meet 21st-century needs requires rethinking both its program and design to create a vibrant, welcoming campus hub for all.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Changing the Future of Health Care

 Designed and built for collaborative, interdisciplinary education through a highly engaged process, this building transforms health care education and health care for the entire state.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Collaborative Spaces Transform Teaching, Amplify Learning, and Maximize Resources

 A wide range of interactive, hands-on, and socially enhanced settings provide space for the most effective and dynamic teaching and learning in higher education today.
Conference Recordings

Connecting Wellbeing With Learning and Engagement

 We'll demonstrate how two universities are using design to drive impact, sharing resources, and working together to build programs that prioritize student wellbeing.
Conference Presentations

Connection Hubs

 We will look at examples of connection hubs and discuss how they are designed, their benefits, and how their impact is measured.
Partner Content

Considering Students’ Neurodiversity

 Given the continuum of human neurodiversity, active learning environments may optimize the learning experience for some students, while creating new challenges for others. When designing active learning spaces, it is imperative to consider student neurodiversity.
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.
Partner Content

Creating a Perfect Union

 John Taylor, CEO of the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) collaborated with SCUP for an article in this issue of Learning By Design. A more perfect student union is possible when planners understand students and their campus environments, enabling more intentional design for creating and enhancing community building.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Creating a Place for Introductory Mathematics

 Sometimes thinking outside the box requires designing within the box—be that box a university prerequisite or a campus facility.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Creating Community

 Change to longstanding, centralized campus facilities can support civic goals and the development of community. Significant resistance to such change may come from campus leadership.
Conference Recordings

Creating Empathy-Driven Design Collaborations with Virtual Reality

 We will demonstrate how we incorporated VR into stakeholder engagement for the University of Virginia's Student Health and Wellness Center to address health outcomes, promote student learning, and collaborate with interdisciplinary partners across campus.
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

Culture, Context, and the Pursuit of Sustainability

 No more ‘business as usual’; we must understand the importance of place and culture, and engage in our design work responsibly and with great innovation.
Conference Recordings

Designing an Inclusive Post-pandemic Return to Campus

 This session will explore the process, key insights, and design interventions from our research project focused on designing a post-pandemic return to campus.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Designing Art Facilities that Support Truly Collaborative Approaches to Teaching and Learning

 The author explores the planning process for U Chicago's new multidisciplinary arts center, Logan Center, the final design of which challenges thinking on conventional program pairs.
Conference Presentations

Designing for Academic Success

 Discovery, assessment, and scholarship all play a role in how we can shape spaces to meet educational goals.
Partner Content

Designing for Remembrance, Learning, and Healing
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Designing for STEM

 Community colleges are developing sophisticated simulation laboratories, makerspaces, and innovation centers to prepare students to successfully enter the STEM workforce and meet the needs of high-tech employers.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Designing Innovative Campuses for Tomorrow’s Students

 Campus design and architecture will be the prime catalysts for transforming universities into our society’s engines of growth.
Conference Presentations

Designing Libraries for Learning
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Developing New Typologies for Innovative Group Housing in Under-utilized Spaces

 Lawrence University successfully prototyped new group housing typologies in under-utilized residential spaces, supporting its goal to be fully residential without adding campus buildings.
Conference Presentations

Developing New Typologies for Innovative Group Housing in Under-Utilized Spaces

 This session will describe how an innovative typology for students’ small-group living transformed and expanded group living options at Lawrence University.
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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Doing More with Less

 Just a few years ago we would strive to utilize a space during 60 percent of its usable hours; now we are asked to strive for 70 to 80 percent utilization.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Earth Sheltered Buildings Coupled with the Sun
Conference Recordings

Enhancing the Student Experience

 In this session, we'll explore the attributes, services, and amenities Tarrant County College District is incorporating into their new Northwest Campus renovation to better meet students' needs.
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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Enhancing the Student Experience Through Placemaking

 Students thrive in authentic, multifunctional spaces that foster both individual reflection and social interaction and further the connection between place and the human experience.
Conference Recordings

Every Campus Has One

 In this session, you'll learn from three institutions' different but successful approaches: wrapping an existing building; inserting new construction within an existing complex; and reorienting an existing building.
Conference Presentations

Exploring the Role of Campus Architecture in Revitalizing Urban Downtowns

 In this session, we will demonstrate how Rutgers University aligned its development model with city planning initiatives to be a partner in urban renewal at its Camden and Newark campuses.
Webinar Recordings

Facilities Planning for Community Colleges

 The planning team for Portland Community College will discuss lessons learned while practicing equity to create an inclusive Facilities Plan for Oregon’s largest higher education institution on thresholds of global, local, and institutional shifts.
Conference Presentations

Facilities That Support Peer-to-Peer Learning for Tomorrow’s Students

 In this session, we will focus on both in-depth and high-level overviews of four new projects and how they specifically address STEM students' evolving space needs, including needs particular to first-generation and underrepresented minority students.
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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

From Lagging to Leading

 An integrated team of cross-discipline collaborators accomplished their objective of creatively reimagining athletic facilities at two institutions for the greater good of each campus and its community. Using sustainable and cost-efficient design opportunities and aligned technologies, they succeeded in countering the outdated stereotype of the athletic building as a lagging energy performer.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Future Campus
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Go Outside! Learnscapes and Optimizing the Spaces In Between

 In this session, we'll discuss how to connect structure, landscape, and sustainability to counter VUCA and establish stable and productive learning environments that enhance performance, creativity, and wellness through connections to nature and newly-expanded views and perspectives.
Conference Recordings

Hillsborough Community College Ybor City Campus Tour

 This virtual tour will explore how the campus embraces its multi-cultural history and uses the Ybor City National District as a living laboratory to facilitate its programs with a focus on Hillsborough Community College’s community connections.
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Hindsight-Foresight

 This project examines the evolution of the campuses of Harvard, Yale, Penn, Princeton, and Columbia (collectively referred to in this study as “the Five”) from their founding, through the centuries of their development, and into the future to better understand how academic and other forces gave form to the buildings and grounds and how historical outcomes may inform future growth.
Partner Content

How the Built Environment Can Support Mental Health on Campus

 The built environment has a powerful impact on the mental health and wellness of students. Mental well-being can be supported throughout the campus by incorporating many thoughtful planning and design approaches.
Conference Recordings

Hybrid Learning Environments

 Recently, Morgan State University began constructing its new Thurgood Marshall residence hall and we'll explore how we used design and technology to support the building's hybrid environment.
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Implementing HyFlex Learning Environments

 In this presentation, we’ll: 1) explain the HyFlex teaching approach, 2) briefly review design values and principles, and 3) consider ways that faculty and design professionals can create accessible, equitable and high-quality learning for all students, regardless of participation mode.
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In Sync

 Designers and clients, whether in education or the corporate world, will each enjoy the way existing environmental/behavior research can be applied to the thoughtful consideration of these archetypes, either standing alone or used in combinations to create rich, interactive learning spaces.
Conference Presentations

Increase Student Participation in Planning to Create More Equitable Spaces
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Innovation in Student Services

 The authors, who are among IBM best practice partners, share they have been successful in integrating technology into their student services projects, redesigning their processes, implementing change, and extending their brand.
Conference Recordings

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.
Conference Recordings

Insights

 This capstone session will identify key insights from the series, pose new questions, and offer creative, actionable ideas for moving higher education forward.
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.”
Conference Presentations

Integrating an Academic Medical Center with a Private Hospital

 In this session, we will show how a successful design process integrates an academic medical center with a private hospital campus (including a Level 1 trauma center), simultaneously advancing education for students and improving patient outcomes.
Conference Presentations

Integrating Audiovisual Technology to Serve the Digital-First Student
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Integrating Inclusivity, Diversity, and Multiculturalism in Design

 This session will explore the role IDM plays in Western Michigan University's design process and its influence on the development of its new student center.
Conference Recordings

Integrating Place and Pedagogy to Foster Active Learning

 Planners from four universities will explore how active learning environments are evolving on their campuses, leading to more engaging learning experiences and improving student outcomes.
Conference Presentations

Integrating Security With Wellness and Biophilic Design

 Illustrating the latest security, wellness, and biophilic design integration strategies, this session will provide you with essential tools for evaluating both prospective designs and existing conditions on your campus.
Conference Presentations

Issues in Workplace Design (and How Innovative Universities Address Them)
Conference Recordings

Isttaniokaksini / Science Commons

 Isttaniokaksini—the Blackfoot name bestowed on the new Science Commons for transdisciplinary science at the University of Lethbridge—means deep knowledge and awareness growing out of the unknown. Planned for many generations into the future, the design creates a highly sustainable, flexible, and supportive platform for discovering solutions to the challenges facing humanity, nature, and the universe.
Conference Recordings

Keynote | Designing for Student Success

 In this session, we will explore how campus leaders can align the messaging of the campus built environment with institutional values and break down barriers to help students feel a sense of belonging, engagement, and community on campus.
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Keynote | Morgan State University

 While students have greatly enjoyed the inclusive atmosphere, comradery, and campus activities at Morgan State University (MSU), they were less enthusiastic about the outdated campus housing and dining facilities—join us to learn about the planning process behind MSU’s 21st-century 700-bed housing facility, including a state-of-the-art dining hall.
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Keynote | Villanova

 Learn about the decade-long collaborative design process for an important new Villanova University campus development along a bustling regional thoroughfare.
Conference Recordings

Keynote: Healthy People, Healthy Planet

 Learn about the latest evidence behind WELL’s new Health-Safety Rating for Facilities Management and Operations, and how the WELL Building Standard can elevate the role of buildings in the fight against COVID-19.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Leading With Aesthetics
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Learning Space Design for the Ethnically Diverse Undergraduate Classroom

 This pilot study was conducted to evaluate how space contributes to the learning outcomes of a demographically diverse class of students at Morgan State University, a Historically Black Institution.
Conference Presentations

Learning Spaces of the Future
Conference Presentations

Leveraging the On-Campus Admissions Center to Showcase Institutional Values

 We will discuss the planning and design of Colorado University's Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE), providing an example of thoughtful intra-institutional discourse focused on institutional values.
Conference Presentations

Master Planning Engagement Strategies for Underrepresented Students

 This session offers new practices that yield social equity in campus planning and building design.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano

 Campus planning that encourages a healthy lifestyle also augments scholastic achievement, improving grades and increasing graduation rates.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Mind and Body

 Serving the needs of the whole person—mental health, medical care, recreation and fitness, and other services—is critical to both student and institutional success.
Conference Recordings

Mindful Redesign for New and Effective Learning Environments

 Join us to discuss what our campuses are planning for the immediate and distant future of teaching and learning.
Webinar Recordings

Mitigating Stress

 Backed by neuroscience research from the NBBJ Fellowship Program with New York Times best-selling author Dr. John Medina—an initiative by the global design and planning firm NBBJ—this session presents research and ideas to create more uplifting experiences at work and how to mitigate stress for frontline workers, both immense challenges in light of an ongoing pandemic and the associated economic uncertainty.
Conference Presentations

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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Observed Themes in Higher Education Planning and Design From the 2021 Excellence Award Entries and Recognition of Winners

 The 2021 jury members will share observations and trends from this year’s entries and acknowledge award recipients. Award certificates will be distributed at the end of the program.
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Old Main

 This publication describes the forms, fame, and fate of Old Main, arguably higher education's iconic architecture.
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

Optimizing for Growth

 Thomas Jefferson University focused on culture, communications, and collaboration during a transformational period of combining institutions.
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.
Webinar Recordings

Passive House Design and Residence Halls

 The session will discuss the basics of Passive House (PH) design, how it can both save energy and improve the quality of the interior environment. The presenters will illustrate how Passive House design has been incorporated from both a design and administrative standpoint at the new residence hall at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Conference Presentations

Performance-based Standards Foster Creative Solutions for Environments Supporting Critical Discourse

 We'll discuss how to rethink the processes for creating and implementing campus standards, focusing on the “why” of campus standards while balancing life-cycle costs and ease of operation.
Partner Content

Permeability by Design

 Permeable spaces invite people in, encourage use, are flexible and memorable, and allow coming and going. You can infuse permeability into almost any learning space. Read how three campuses (Texas A&M University Campus, Clemson University, and University of Calgary) are using permeability in their emerging design elements.
Conference Presentations

Planning and Designing for Innovation

 This session is all about these innovation buildings—their design, use, and operations.
Partner Content

Planning Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Campus Environments

 Student-centered insights on the design of formal learning environments and informal study and lounge spaces can help campuses increase the sense of belonging and improve learning outcomes for underrepresented students. The author is a SCUP Fellow for the 2020–2021 program. Read her full research project final report which infuses student-centered research into a playbook that can guide universities and design teams through key DEI strategies for planning, designing, and assessing physical campus space.
Conference Recordings

Planning Interrupted

 From the onset of COVID-19, Moore College has demonstrated how a dense urban campus can adapt to the new normal by transforming common space for maximum use to enhance the creative arts education pedagogy—join us to learn about their innovative strategies.
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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Reaping the Benefits of a New Building? Without Building New

 In this session, we'll demonstrate how to renovate your campus spaces to maximize programming and performance, using a planning approach that addresses the unique challenges of modernizing existing buildings, accommodating future-focused programming needs, and minimizing operational costs.
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Reckoning with Entangled Histories

 In this symposium, four institutions will share their approaches to these complicated questions and how they’re continuing the conversation around the legacy of slavery on their campuses.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Regionalism, Ecology, and Field-Based Learning

 In the rural and remote heart of the Ozark Mountains, Missouri State University and its Ozarks Education Center leverage the unique characteristics of the region to create a setting that supports hands-on active learning.
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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.
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RELLIS Campus Master Plan

 Detailed campus master plan documentation for the institution’s innovation campus.
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Research on Learning Space Design

 This report is a collection that summarizes and evaluates how far the field of learning space design has come in identifying the elements that will allow us to thoughtfully design learning spaces and evaluate their impact.
Partner Content

Resilience in the Great Outdoors

 Before the Fall 2020 semester, the Siebel Center for Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign partnered with architects and engineers to lead a virtual design charrette focused on extending the life of outdoor campus spaces as learning environments. They also reached out to schools around the country to learn about their recent experiences with these spaces.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Responsive Design

 By incorporating student choice and voice into the planning and allowing autonomy in scale and adaptability, campuses can provide the environment where all students are most comfortable participating in any given activity.
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.
Webinar Recordings

Safe, Smart Campuses for the Pandemic and Beyond

 To examine how colleges are continuing to function during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Chronicle gathered a group of design experts, architects, public-health officials, college leaders, and student affairs officers for this virtual forum. Panelists discussed the lessons learned and how they are applying them to help everyone on campus thrive in spite of the present challenges:
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Scaling Active Learning Classrooms

 A large-scale study uncovered factors that led to successful scaling of active learning spaces and pedagogical approaches in colleges and universities.
Conference Recordings

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.
Partner Content

Secret Service

 Campuses focus on safety as they welcome students back into residence halls—but it won't be the only thing they consider. In this new normal, the mission of community and collaboration hasn't changed, but the ways in which it is achieved may have to.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Seven Lessons in Inclusive Campus Design

 Institutions are starting to grapple with histories of developing indigenous lands and the legacy of an able-bodied vernacular within campus design that continues to reinforce in-groups and out-groups.
Conference Presentations

Site Universal Design for an Inclusive Built Environment

 We will describe the tenets of universal design, show examples of how it is used on campuses, help you avoid mistakes commonly made when incorporating universal design, and outline universal design maintenance requirements.
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Smart Building, Smart Campus

 This is a SCUP Fellow Research Project Final Report for the 2019–2020 program. This report explores the hypothesis that user-centered design would better address STEM student needs and could increase the likelihood of a broader adoption of remote labs.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Social Equity and the Modern Campus

 Campus framework plans for Oregon State University and Bellevue College fully integrate social equity with engagement processes and physical solutions to improve the sense of welcome and inclusion.
Conference Presentations

Speed, Efficiency, and Consensus Through the Collaborative Process

 Come learn from our unique approach in which actual users participate in designing an outpatient center on the Nebraska Medical Campus, allowing implementation of new processes and efficiencies known only to medical center staff.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Strategies to Successfully Navigate the Design of STEM Facilities

 Successfully planning interdisciplinary, inter-college STEM facilities requires a special set of tools to navigate the challenges that arise when dealing with a diverse set of users.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Student Centers

 Carefully integrating campus dining strategies into student centers, particularly given today’s ubiquitous digital technologies, has the potential to create and enhance student face-to-face interactions and informal learning.
Conference Recordings

Student Success

 In this session, we'll share how institutions have made changes in their metrics, planning and design strategies, and campus facilities that contribute to recruitment, academic growth, and graduation rates.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Supporting Neurodiversity in Higher Education

 By integrating several unique campus voices, we can realize that unassignable space is highly valuable to the neurodivergent campus occupant.
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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Teaching, Learning, Doing in Collaborative Spaces

 The intermingling of undergraduate students with grad students, post-docs, faculty, and commercial interests in one innovative facility results in better academic experiences.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Tell Us What You Think

 More than 1,600 students and alumnae provided input through online mapping tools and in-person workshops. Staff and faculty were interviewed in person and via phone. And Instagram was used to reach 6,400 members of the campus community.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

The Challenge of Making Buildings Flexible

 How can buildings be both flexible and concrete? The answer is critical as institutions try to keep up with rapid changes in technology, curriculum, teaching techniques, and demographics.
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.
Conference Presentations

The Geometry of Learning
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The Informal Learning Environment

 One of three presentations in a collection of informal learning environment imagery presented in twelve minutes or less by campus design leaders.
Conference Presentations

The Informal Learning Environment

 One of three presentations in a collection of informal learning environment imagery presented in twelve minutes or less by campus design leaders.
Conference Recordings

The Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center

 The latest installment of a developing arts district at Auburn University, The Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center is an 85,000 gross square feet facility consisting of a multi-purpose performance hall, a flexible second venue and outdoor amphitheater, and public front-of-house and technical back-of-house support spaces. This virtual live tour will feature a mixture of produced video and live feed to offer an overview of the planning and architectural considerations involved in the design of a community-facing building.
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.
Conference Recordings

The Next Chapter in the Paradigm Shift for Hands-on Learning

 A higher education design expert, an educator, and a panel of students across hands-on disciplines will share their perspectives on how education spaces might evolve as hybrid learning becomes the new normal.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

The Ninth Quadrangle
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.
Partner Content

The Traveling Mother

 An analysis of lactation spaces in US airports, led by one of the authors of the SCUP–Penn Nursing joint study of lactation policy and facilities in higher education. Originally published by Building and Environment journal.
Conference Presentations

Throw Out Your Books

 This session will use recent library projects to study the effect of major program shifts on student behavior and discourse.
Conference Recordings

Tour | Wentworth Institute: Center for Engineering, Innovation & Sciences

 Join us for a virtual tour of Wentworth Institute’s newest academic building, the Center for Engineering, Innovation & Sciences (CEIS)—its ground-breaking design was serves academic and social needs on campus as well as the wider, local community.
Conference Recordings

Tour: The University of South Florida’s (USF) Center for Advanced Medical Learning & Simulation (CAMLS)

 The University of South Florida’s (USF) Center for Advanced Medical Learning & Simulation (CAMLS) is a world-class facility dedicated to simulation-based healthcare education, training, and developing innovative solutions that improve patient outcomes and reduce preventable medical errors.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Toward the Healthy Campus

 The college campus is an essential environment in which to intervene to promote short- and long-term health outcomes.
Conference Presentations

Transform Educational Facilities for Innovative Learning and Environmental Stewardship

 We'll share recent examples of existing buildings that were transformed for new use and discuss the connection between carbon and building reuse.
Webinar Recordings

Transforming CSU Monterey Bay With the Living Community Challenge

 California State University-Monterey Bay (CSU-MB) is the first university campus to register for the Living Community Challenge, becoming a model for how university campus design and planning can have a profound impact beyond the campus. We will discuss how our 2018 Architecture at Zero award-winning wellness and recreation design solution is transforming CSU-MB into a healthy, sustainable, net-positive environment.
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University Trends
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University-Industry Collaborations Are Driving Creation of Next-Generation Learning Space

 New spaces, ranging from fabrication and prototyping studios to innovation districts, reflect a growing entrepreneurship and maker culture and give students the tools they need to succeed in a rapidly evolving marketplace.
Webinar Recordings

Unleashing the Power of Difference

 We live in a neurodiverse world. Spaces that support sensory needs can allow a wider range of students to flourish, creating a more equitable—and more flexible—environment. Leaders from Thomas Jefferson University and Verona Carpenter Architects will share examples across typologies of innovative solutions, unleashing the generative power of difference.
Partner Content

Use Evidence to Plan Facilities That Drive Student Success

 In this article, the author draws upon research from his book How to Get the Most Out of College to highlight the evidence that campus planners and designers can use to help drive student success.
Conference Recordings

Virtual and Physical
Conference Presentations

What Does it Mean to Relate Learning With Space, Behaviors, and Outcomes?

 Session participants will learn how to recognize and assess informal learning spaces that enable self-directed active learning.
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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

You Belong Here

 Many marginalized student populations don’t see themselves as higher education material. Creating places on campus that reaffirm to them that they belong is vital.