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Planning for Higher Education Journal

An Assessment of Capital Budgeting Practices for Public Higher Education

 This study finds a need for new capital projects to include continuing, dedicated revenue streams for the project lifetime in order to avoid continuation of the current state of underfunded maintenance, especially in light of growing needs for upgraded research equipment and space.
Conference Recordings

Building a Path Forward

 United Negro College Fund and HBCU college leaders will examine enrollment, instruction, student success, historic preservation, and fundraising in a post-pandemic world and explore how we can transform these challenges into successes.
Conference Recordings

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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Designing and Building Your Capital Project

 The first step in building your capital project is choosing the delivery method that best meets your institution’s needs and the project’s unique goals.
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 Recordings

Designing the Money

 In this session, we'll share how Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) applies a standard process to address its unique capital needs and withstand the test of time. CSCU maintains its 10-year capital plan in a dynamic environment to remain relevant and resilient for allocating resources equitably between its sixteen campuses with optimal effect.
Conference Presentations

Emerging Vocational Classrooms

 Come learn how you can modify your educational facilities in response to emerging vocations and work with local laws, grants, and industry partners to build for changing curricula.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Financial Planning for Central Utility Plant Decarbonization

 Vital stakeholder feedback and consensus from various university departments reveal the proper approach to building issues. Institutions such as the University of North Dakota used technical planning to produce well-informed financial modeling and right-sized financial plans.
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Financial Planning Guidelines for Facility Renewal and Adaption

 This publication provides executive managers and trustees with guidelines for long-term financial planning for plant renewal and adaption.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Getting in the eGame

 The University of Kentucky understood the importance of technology in preparing students for the digital world. With public-private partnerships, it sought opportunities to be an industry leader in leveraging that capacity for its students, faculty, staff, and the community.
Conference Presentations

Innovative Data Tools That Support Capital and Facilities Planning

 In this session, we will discuss data strategies for capital and facilities planning that enable real-time mobile access to planning tools, automated project tracking, metrics, and building transparency in order to support the planning and execution process.
Webinar Recordings

Managing Your Historic Campus Facilities in Today’s Resource-Constrained Environment

 How are you addressing your campus’ historic facilities with so many competing needs for limited resources? This webinar will outline strategies for the management of historic properties on college and university campuses, with guidelines, standards, and best practices to address a wide range of concerns dealing with historic facilities.
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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.
Conference Presentations

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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Symbiosis

 Partnership opportunities are broad and plentiful—only limited by an institution’s imagination.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

The High Cost of Building a Better University

 Higher education facilities seem to come at premium cost, even taking into account that educational facilities tend to cost more. The authors argue that this is due to appropriate and strategic high aspirations.
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.
Conference Presentations

Understand the Other Side
Conference Recordings

What We’ve Learned and What’s Next

 We'll highlight approaches and lessons learned from two New York City institutions during the pandemic, including creatively retrofitting their campus facilities amidst a crisis period of declining revenue and enrollments.
Conference Recordings

Zero-energy Buildings on a Shoe-string Budget

 Come learn how you can reduce operating costs and bring a zero-energy building to your campus, resulting in a lower carbon footprint and greater health and wellbeing for students.