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Historic Preservation

Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Call for Policy on University Cultural Heritage

 A policy related to stewardship of assets and their use would help in defining direction and creating context for productive conversation.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A DIY Campus Preservation Plan

 A for-credit academic class of graduate students gets involved with UMW’s campus heritage and works to integrate it with the overall campus master planning process.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Half-Century of Change on College Hill

 One of the epicenters of the historic preservation movement in the United States, the east side of Providence is also home to Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design. Preservation leaders and institutional leaders—sometimes adversaries, sometimes partners—took a meandering path toward the expansive notion of Historic Providence that we see today. This article will explore the changing notions of cities, preservation, and institutional development on what is aptly called College Hill. It is a story of mutual support, conflicting values, and an extraordinary act of planning: the College Hill Study.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Rubric for Campus Heritage Planning

 The idea is to make architectural preservation a part of the living progress of the institution.
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.
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.
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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.
Example Plans

Campus Heritage Plan

 This historically Black college developed its preservation plan for its historic core, in order to identify an overall preservation strategy and serve as the basis for all future conservation work.
Example Plans

Campus Heritage Plan

 Despite the historic significance of the buildings on this campus, little was known about aspects of their original appearance or previous alterations. The institution used Getty Campus Preservation funding to conduct archival research to document its historic resources, examine overall building conditions, and develop treatment guidelines.
Example Plans

Campus Heritage Plan

 The historically Black institution used a Getty Campus Heritage grant to assemble detailed documentation on their historic buildings and landscape, which will serve as the basis for future rehabilitation projects.
Example Plans

Campus Heritage Plan

 The Campus Heritage grant allowed this historically Black institution to complete a campus preservation plan and, ultimately, to apply for National Historic Landmark Status.
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.
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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Dos and Don’t of Historic Preservation on Campus

 Restoring fine old buildings is now easier and less expensive, with the right planning.
Example Plans

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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Examining Naming Issues on Campus

 This is a SCUP Fellow Research Project Final Report for the 2020–2021 program. This report summarizes the specific cases of US institutions that addressed a problematic building or facility naming issue between 2014 and 2021 and what each of them chose to do when faced with this challenging decision.
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.
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.
Conference Recordings

Planning the Future of the Past at Lincoln University

 Join us to find out how your institution can incorporate its history within its vision, develop strategies for historic building stabilization and renewal, and integrate building strategies with broader campus planning goals.
Conference Recordings

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.
Conference Recordings

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.
Conference Recordings

Revitalizing LSU’s Huey P. Long Field House for Adaptive Reuse

 This session will discuss how Louisiana State University (LSU) employed adaptive reuse and revitalization to transform a historic and culturally-significant 1932 field house into a collaborative learning center for kinesiology and sociology programs.
Conference Recordings

The Process and Positive Outcomes of Indigenous Placemaking

 Ryerson University's experience with indigenous placemaking offers valuable, practical insights into a process that can help your institution to respect and advance indigenous cultures while balancing many other contextual factors.
Conference Presentations

Transforming Learning at Norwich University

 Come learn how Norwich reimagined its central campus for contemporary research, teaching, and learning without compromising the integrity of its historic structures.
Conference Recordings

Washington University’s Sustainable Historic Buildings

 Come learn from our proven methods of evaluating, prioritizing, and implementing measures that modernize historic buildings for maximum efficiency and compliancy with campuswide sustainability goals.
Partner Content

Your Campus Historic Buildings

 This article will help your team create a checklist to determine decision-making priorities for maintaining your historic buildings.