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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 Library Planning to Meet Evolving Student Needs

 Libraries impact every student on campus, and as neutral third spaces, libraries are positioned to provide services equitably. Today's library services have expanded from the traditional book stacks to include a range of diverse resources.
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.
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Delivering a Renovated Learning Commons for an Engaged Academic Community
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Designing Between the Books for Belonging and Mattering in University Libraries

 Institutions can move beyond design project engagement activities by actively collaborating with students to explore issues of belonging and mattering to make more meaningful design choices.
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Designing Beyond the Binary to Foster Belonging

 This session will present case studies and inclusive best practices for 'designing beyond the binary' to foster belonging in campus housing, restrooms, and gathering spaces.
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Designing for Academic Success

 Discovery, assessment, and scholarship all play a role in how we can shape spaces to meet educational goals.
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Designing Libraries for Learning

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

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.
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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 Your Swan: Reimagining Unloved Buildings at JMU

 There are distinct advantages to both renovation and new construction; an optimal blend of these approaches can enable opportunities for physical growth, evolving programs, and a minimally disruptive reimagining of campus buildings.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

From Awareness to Acceptance to Action

 Through its strategic plan, Triton College built support for and overcame barriers to institution-wide neurodiversity efforts.
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Informal Learning Spaces

 This session will bring insights from multi-year multidisciplinary research in a large university system regarding planning and designing informal learning spaces on multiple college campuses.
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Integrating Indigenous Experience into Vital Placemaking on Campus

 Planning for inclusive spaces where students can see themselves and achieve success requires critical approaches, diverse perspectives, and representative processes.
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Libraries in Shaping the Future of Higher Education

 In what ways will libraries continue to be the intellectual hubs where users interact with ideas in both physical and virtual environments to expand learning and facilitate the creation of new knowledge?
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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.
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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.
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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Space Jam

 Much of the conversation around the return to campus this fall has focused on academic courses. But other events and meetings will also need to be accommodated.
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.
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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. Topic: Community College of Philadelphia’s Library Learning Commons.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.