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Health and Wellness
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.Webinar Recordings
A Wellness Masterplan
Imagine the impact we could have if wellness was the first point of consideration in decision making and planning.Example Plans
Access to Excellence
This academic plan document enumerates the institution’s academic goals and strategies, with special focus on generating or enhancing interdisciplinary connections between the primary academic themes.Blog Post
Addressing Employee Needs in Higher Education:
In recent years, higher education staff throughout North America have increasingly expressed concern about compensation, work/life balance, and sense of agency over work. 24% of all staff are actively seeking roles outside of higher education, and 70% of staff at large or public universities would consider changing jobs. A recent survey form over 400 college and university staff provides actionable steps for a brighter future.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.Webinar Recordings
Advancing Institutional Sexual Violence Prevention Education Through Faculty Research: Part 1
Vice President Diorio describes how Student Life (or other institutional areas) can successfully embrace faculty researchers to further institutional goals.Webinar Recordings
Advancing Institutional Sexual Violence Prevention Education Through Faculty Research: Part 2
Professor Armstrong describes the college's particular interest in sexual assault prevention and highlights the critical role that academic department chairs can play in designing institutional research partnerships that support faculty interests as well as the institution's.Webinar Recordings
Advancing Institutional Sexual Violence Prevention Education Through Faculty Research: Part 3
Dr. Cuomo, a pre-tenure feminist geographer, describes the research project at the heart of Lafayette College's initiative and shares her perspective on the potential for similar institutional research partnerships in higher education.Webinar Recordings
Advancing Institutional Sexual Violence Prevention Education Through Faculty Research: Part 4
Ella Goodwin, a Lafayette College senior and co-president of a student organization called Pards Against Sexual Assault, shares a student’s desire for clear institutional planning in areas of critical student concern.Conference Presentations
Aligning Environments With Policies and Systems for Wellness
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.Example Plans
Campus Strategic Sustainability Plan
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Campus Sustainability
At SCUP, we recognize that climate crisis, social justice, and sustainability are some of the biggest challenges facing higher education. And we believe that the practice of integrated planning will assist campuses develop the strong partnerships required to create durable solutions. Join us for a discussion that includes how you can start today.Conference Recordings
Centering Wellbeing and Whole Student Health on Campus
Join us as we take a deep dive into three universities’ recent campus projects aimed at promoting student health and share takeaways at critical junctures of the integrated planning processes.Webinar Recordings
Coffee Chat: COVID-19 Physical Distancing in Classrooms
We are all trying to figure out how to safely bring students back to classrooms for the fall semester. A discussion about 6-foot physical distancing layout modifications in existing classrooms, reduced occupancy yields when dealing with fixed seating versus movable seating, creating instructor zones, creating alternate instruction spaces.Webinar Recordings
Coffee Chat: Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and harness your emotions and apply them to tasks like thinking and problem solving, to regulate your own emotions when necessary, and to help others do the same. The coronavirus pandemic is proving to be the greatest test of emotional intelligence in a generation. It’s time for a check-in.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
Designing Campus Food Venues to Build Community and Connection
In our hybrid environment, it’s more important than ever to pull people away from their devices to build community and connection on campus. Food has the power to bring students and faculty from different backgrounds together and provide a fundamental academic experience. Through campus and workplace examples, we’ll show how food venue design can set a positive tone for interaction and support meaningful connections and wellbeing. Come learn how to plan campus food venues that serve an academic purpose, refine venue goals, and inform venue design through operations to make it more impactful and sustainable.Conference Recordings
Experience vs Convenience
Two universities share how their hospitality teams rethought their dining operations over the past year—UConn, as one of the country's largest self-operated food service programs, focused on maintaining diverse options; Yale, as a transformational organization, committed to table gatherings and healthy, locally-sourced food.Conference Recordings
Face to Face
We'll discuss how the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a public flagship university with a large residential population, changed instructional delivery across academics, educational, and residential spaces.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.Webinar Recordings
How to Transform Your Learning Environments for COVID-19
While it’s daunting to have to reconfigure classrooms and reexamine pedagogy and campus operations, in the best light this pandemic offers an opportunity for rapid experimentation and innovation. Panelists from leading planning and design firm Sasaki and Smith College discussed how institutions can dig into their existing classroom data to engage in scenario modeling and clearly understand how classroom capacities and scheduling will shift this fall.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.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 Recordings
Keynote | Beyond The Pandemic
Come learn from our panel of experts as they share their insights on creating healthier campus environments that support student wellbeing.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
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.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.Example Plans
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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.Blog Post
Planning for: Allergen-Free Dining
Nearly half of all college students today avoid at least one food allergen, according to a report listed in our Spring 2020 issue of Trends in Higher Education. As the number of students with disclosed food allergies continues to rise, allergen-free dining has become a key consideration in creating a healthy and inclusive campus—as well as in recruitment and retention efforts. Recently, Michigan State University opened an allergen-free dining hall on its campus called Thrive. We caught up with Gina Keilen, Registered Dietitian, Culinary Services, at Michigan State to learn more about the planning process and how her team’s efforts are positively impacting the campus community.Planning for Higher Education Journal
Prevention Through Connection
To whom does the Millennial student in psychological stress reach out?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.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.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: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.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
The European Experience
After a full year of shutdowns, virtual learning, and constant adaption, we will discuss how University College London and the University of Dublin responded to government mandates and how the crisis has shaped living and working arrangements.Conference Recordings
The Kitchens
In this session, you'll learn how RCC delivers culinary workforce training and academic programs in a satellite facility at the heart of a poverty-concentrated area, pushing back economic isolation and promoting learning and health.Report
The Planning and Design of Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive Campus Environments
This is a SCUP Fellow Research Project Final Report for the 2020–2021 program. Space is not neutral; we perceive physical environments differently based on our backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. This new, research-based playbook can guide universities and design teams through key strategies and possible metrics relative to DEI to use when planning, designing, and assessing physical campus space.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 Recordings
Transforming Medical Center Pandemic Responses into Creative Community Partnerships
Join us to discover how you can apply academic medical center (AMC) pandemic responses for long-term best practices at your institution.Webinar Recordings
Voices from the Field: Episode #16
From The Hope Center at Temple University, Paula Umaña discusses caring and communication: the need to identify your most vulnerable students, then ensure that available assistance is visible and easy for them to access.Planning for Higher Education Journal
Walking for Wellness
Planners at the University of Georgia used “feeling maps” to help identify and create healthier connections for faculty, students, and staff traversing between campus destinations.Webinar Recordings
Well-Being in Higher Education
Discover how to help students develop holistic and long-term healthy lifestyles by creating a culture of well-being in a collegiate environment informed by a myriad of social, economic, academic, and personal pressures. This session will cover how design can affect students physically and psychologically and how health centers can engage the campus community and encourage positive behaviors. This session was part of the “Well-being in Higher Education: Raising Literacy and Advancing the Conversation”—a series of free, virtual events with the goal to raise the literacy for well-being among higher education professionals and to advance conversation among colleagues on and across campuses.Conference Presentations
Wellness and Lactation Spaces – the Law, Family Health, and Planning
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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.Webinar Recordings
Who Guarantees That Your Campus is Safe for Return?
In this webinar, Harvard’s Joseph Allen and John Macomber discussed their new book, Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, and in particular, what are best practices today as organizations think about prudent return.This is part of the series “Less Talk, More Action: Tactical Topics to Return to Campus.”
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.