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SCUP 2020 North Central Regional Conference

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A Research-Based Approach to Designing Higher Education Academic Spaces

 This session will explore the new Academic and Residential Complex at the University of Illinois at Chicago to demonstrate the important role that research played in shaping its design.
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Campus Tour: Northwestern University

 Touring select spaces in the Kellogg Global Hub, our professional business school, and Mudd Hall, a mixed-use research and library building, this session will provide an overview of recent north campus development.
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Campus Tour: University of Chicago

 This tour of the University of Chicago will feature several campus buildings such as the recently completed David Rubenstein Forum and The Keller Center. Join us to learn how the University of Chicago is updating its campus buildings and open spaces while preserving its architectural legacy and community ties.
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Campus Tour: University of Illinois at Chicago

 This virtual tour will explore formal learning spaces, the social spaces that connect them, the outdoor built environment, and the COVID-19 response strategies implemented to fulfill the academic and research mission of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) while protecting the health and safety of the university community.
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Closing Remarks
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Creating a Vision and Value Proposition for the Urban Campus

 In this session, presenters will show how the Student Center launched the institution’s comprehensive strategy to create a new interdisciplinary culture and an urban ecosystem for Chicago’s South Loop. Learn how you can harness capital assets and resources on your campus to deliver on a vision and drive business objectives, academic mission, and interdisciplinary engagement.
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Go Nowhere Without a Partner

 This session will demonstrate how to meet complex needs for economic mobility and the workforce through several diverse partnerships. You’ll learn about various sources you can use to achieve successful project results as well as how you can nurture your campus and community partnerships for the long term.
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Keynote: Amidst Converging Storms | Part One

 In the first of two keynotes focusing on higher education’s “perfect storm,” a cross-disciplinary panel will speak to their current challenges in opening their campuses this fall, whether it be in-person, virtually, or in a hybrid capacity.
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Keynote: Amidst Converging Storms | Part Two

 In the second of two keynotes focusing on higher education’s “perfect storm”—the confluence of a global pandemic, financial crisis, shifting demographics, and a changing culture—a cross-disciplinary panel will discuss their integrated planning strategies for moving from a state of triage to transformation.
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Loyola University

 Although unique in their practice and infrastructure challenges, Loyola University Chicago and Loyola University Medical Center used strategic partnerships, innovative planning solutions, and green infrastructure to create resilient, livable campuses. We’ll demonstrate how you can make tangible improvements and promote resiliency on your campus through green infrastructure.
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Making Colleges Student Ready

 We will share a tool we developed through the National Institutes for Historically-Underserved Students for institutions to assess their readiness to support underserved students. In this session, you will learn about this tool and the detailed survey of relevant research that went into its development as well as discover how you can employ this tool on your campus.
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Minnesota Sustainable Building Guidelines

 The University of Minnesota follows the state’s sustainable building guidelines, specifically Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), and uses post-occupancy evaluations (POE) to measure user satisfaction with campus buildings. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how to implement sustainability initiatives, which have a significant impact on campus building performance and by extension, user performance and wellbeing.
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Opening Remarks
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Simulation and Partnerships

 This session will explore trends and partnership development strategies around simulation-based training facilities for first responder students and professionals.
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The Planning Continuum

 We’ll discuss how Purdue University’s culture of continuous planning leverages data, facility information, and design to engage new stakeholders, implement a campus-wide vision, and fast-track decision making.
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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.
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Using Metrics to Maximize the UW-Platteville Engineering Facility

 We’ll discuss how we leveraged metrics and space utilization studies to achieve a unifying one-building solution for all engineering programs at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville rather than the original master plan vision for three buildings.