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Landscape / Open Space

Partner Content

2018 SCUP Excellence Awards

 Read about the winning projects and teams from SCUP’s 2018 Excellence Awards program.
Webinar Recordings

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.
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.
Report

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.
Conference Presentations

Aligning Environments With Policies and Systems for Wellness
Conference Presentations

An Enriching Campus Framework for Growth

 We will provide examples of multiple ways in which the University of Oregon structures campus growth, receives input from leadership, and effectively engages the campus community.
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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.
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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.
Conference Presentations

Campus Public Art

 Join us for this primer on campus public art. We'll discuss funding, decision making, how public art is an investment, and what can go right (along with what can go wrong).
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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

College Campus Landscapes Within a Learning Ecosystem

 College campus landscapes may help restore student attentional capacity for learning when intentionally viewed as educational resources or integrated with academic content.
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Connecting the Dots

 This research evaluates the role the campus built environment plays in student retention and graduation, using the California State University (CSU) campuses as the sample.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Cultivating Integration

 The MUSC Urban Farm is designed to be a living classroom where students, faculty, staff, and the community come together to explore the connection between food and health.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Enhancing Campus Sustainability Through SITES and Socially Equitable Design

 The Socially Equitable category represents a unique and often missed opportunity for academic institutions to further their commitment to sustainable practices.
Conference Presentations

Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Collaborative Campus

 This session will deliver a methodology for rethinking campus culture and infrastructure to meet climate change challenges. We will share techniques for shifting traditional campuses to educational institutions that safeguard the planet and its people.
Conference Recordings

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.
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

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.
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 Presentations

Red Badge

 This tour will explore the history and development University of Maryland, College Park's campus along with the UMD Arboretum and Botanical Garden.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Relic or Relevant

 The university’s founders specified that the space that would become the Main Quad, along with its buildings, should facilitate human discourse and connection. Has it reached across generations to remain an active place for student life?
Example Plans

RELLIS Campus Master Plan

 Detailed campus master plan documentation for the institution’s innovation campus.
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

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.
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.
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.
Blog

Take It Outside to Help Solve Campus Space Shortages

 The expanded use of outdoor spaces can help meet a current challenge, but this should also spark a longer-term strategic effort to better utilize their potential for enhancing the student academic experience.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Telling the Untold Stories

 Through historical study, outreach, and education, undergraduate students at George Mason University began research that developed into the Enslaved Children of George Mason Project. The goal was to broaden the university narrative, encourage discussion about American ideals of equality and freedom, and transform a complex historical legacy and memorial into an inclusive campus place for reflection and dialogue.
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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.
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 Presentations

Unearthed
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.
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.