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SCUP 2024 Annual Conference

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‘Holistic and Flexible Campus Planning’ in Action
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‘Strategic Doing’
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A Multi-institutional Collaboration to Meet Healthcare Industry Workforce Needs

 Community colleges are seeing a decline in enrollment while the healthcare sector is experiencing a chronic workforce shortage.
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A School Without Walls: The Architecture of Data Science

 Data science is a rapidly developing discipline and serves as a catalyst for the future development and management of institutional faculties.
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A Unique, Integrated Approach to Strategy Execution

 The pandemic has underscored the importance of building systems, cultures, and tactical infrastructure that allow organizations to adapt, challenging us to rethink our priorities.
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Academic Workforce Housing: Five Tools for Creating Successful Programs

 As populations grow and housing supply falls behind, campuses across North America must consider housing solutions as an important element of recruiting and retaining academic talent.
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Addressing the Demographic Cliff: Community College Perspectives

 Community colleges are facing enrollment declines and demographic shifts.
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All Things Considered: Collaborative Approaches to Academic Program Proposals

 Academic program misalignment can have serious consequences for institutions, such as a lack of support for competing priorities and unwieldy maintenance of administrative oversight.
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Best Practices for Campuswide Mobility Planning

 Recent years have seen mobility pattern shifts, new micromobility devices, such as e-scooters and e-bikes, and surging traffic deaths. Higher education campuses are uniquely placed to implement best-practice pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, but they face different opportunities and constraints.
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Bison Blueprint: Building An Integrated Planning Culture At Gallaudet

 A successful integrated plan requires the broad engagement within an institution.
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Building a New Medical School With Integrated Project Delivery

 Effective means and methods for building projects result in campus environments that advance institutional missions and goals, ensure student success, and support campus communities working for change.
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By Students, For Students: The Michigan State University Multicultural Center

 Institutions are struggling to increase retention and success for students from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds. Michigan State University's (MSU) Multicultural Center offers safe spaces for education, healing, community, and building solidarity with one other.
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Campus Master Planning as a Catalyst for Broader Economic Development

 In the face of unprecedented changes, Middlesex College is tackling pressing issues to stay relevant by conducting community outreach, developing partnerships to address workforce changes, supporting non-traditional students, and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
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Challenges to Integrated Approaches for Institutional Effectiveness

 Institutions can no longer be effective when resources, data, ideas, and people are siloed.
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Change Management: Leveraging Accreditation in a Challenging Environment

 Institutional representatives must consider a variety of perspectives when managing change in the current higher education environment.
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Charting the Future of Education: Expedited, Experiential Strategic Planning

 As higher education operates in an increasingly complex world, charting a path forward requires a clear vision. An inclusive, comprehensive strategic planning process for educational programs is both just and necessary for institutions to stay relevant.
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Climate Change, Demographic Shifts, and Polar

 Feel the pulse of change in higher education beating a little faster? External trends that initially seem unrelated to education?political polarization, climate change resiliency, mass customization?can cause disruption and uncertainty within the structural and physical campus environment.
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Collaboration in Strategic Resource Alignment

 A codified planning and resource alignment process can elevate institutional planning culture and help ensure the alignment of resources to the strategic plan. We'll show how planning and resource alignment are part of a systematic, data-informed, and integrated approach to achieving an institution's mission and vision.
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Complexity and Contradiction: Integrating Decarbonization Planning and Actions

 Campus decarbonization requires flexible and adaptable approaches at all scales. Determining the appropriate mix of action plans helps campuses prepare for an increasing number of existing building performance and carbon reduction policies.
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Considering the Invisible Disabilities

 Designing for the neurodivergent community necessitates a nuanced approach that recognizes their unique sensory experiences and perspectives.
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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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Diverse Perspectives on Student Housing Affordability

 Housing insecurity is becoming a more and more frequent issue across many colleges and universities.
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Diversify the STEM Experience Through Integrated Planning

 Portland State University's (PSU) integrated planning process involved multiple departments, coalesced institutional and strategic goals, bolstered educational and industry ties, and focused on diversity to dismantle barriers within STEM disciplines.
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Engaging Faculty in Classroom Planning and Design

 Flexible classroom space is at a premium, making it necessary to link design with utilization to facilitate projected academic program growth. Including faculty in classroom planning and design processes is a vital part of supporting pedagogical innovation in campus learning spaces.
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Exploring History of Place Through Inclusive Planning and Programming

 The growth of the University of Calgary's Veterinary Medicine program has been a catalyst for several initiatives on campus, including the development of a long range plan, creation of an inclusive program, and development of micro degrees.
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Fearlessly Forward: Charting a Path from Suburban Flagship to Innovation Center

 Transforming older campuses into healthy, walkable green environments with high-impact programming requires investments in infrastructure, circulation, and buildings?all while addressing legacy assets?
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Finding Innovation in the ‘Space Between’

 As the University of Houston (UH) plans for its second century, the campus is looking to the 'space between' buildings, such as landscape and public space, for innovative opportunities to expand cross-disciplinary discovery.
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Finding the Beauty in Right-sizing the KU Campus

 The constraints that universities face in terms of capital, declining enrollment, and surplus capacity in campus facilities causes escalation of deferred maintenance costs.
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Good, Better, Best: A Collaborative Approach for High-impact Program Proposals

 The University System of Georgia's (USG) academic program proposal process aims to align program development with system-wide strategic goals while increasing graduate employability to meet workforce demands.
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Harnessing the Disruptive Power of Collaborative Intelligence

 This session will illustrate how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Intelligence (HI) combine to create Collaborative Intelligence (CI), which will transform and disrupt every process and practice it touches. Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is building on its track record of preparing students for the future by leveraging CI and a clean sheet design approach to create a revolutionary new instructional model.
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HBCUs and the Fourth Wave: Opportunities and Lessons Learned

 In a time of racial segregation and limited opportunity, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) became pillars of the African American community, fostering academic excellence and a sense of cultural identity.
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Higher Education, Congress, and the Administration in 2024

 2024 has been an incredibly busy and difficult year for U.S. higher education. Policymakers must look closely at numerous current issues impacting the campus, including free speech and DEI, the cost of college and federal student aid programs, as well as various federal regulations impacting our institutions, such as Title IX. This session will provide an overview of what has been happening in Congress, with the U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies, and what the 2024 elections might mean for higher education.
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How to Create a Flexible, Holistic Campus Master Plan

 Developing a flexible master plan is critical for keeping up with the pace of education, increasing enrollment, and improving the surrounding community.
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Improving Campus Character and Performance Through Renovation and Adaptive Reuse

 Breathing new life into old buildings is one of the most sustainable available campus strategies and offers benefits beyond carbon reduction. Renovation and adaptive reuse support a triple bottom line of environmental, financial, and social wellbeing.
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Inside Out: Understanding Space and Building Consensus in a Dynamic Environment

 Building consensus is challenging, but planners who are empowered by knowledge of their campus's space can make informed decisions on how to plan for its most efficient usage.
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Institutional Transformation in Turbulent Times

 Alvernia University can provide inspiration for planners who must undertake the difficult task of transforming their institution in turbulent times. In four years, Alvernia University has raised $25 million in external support, garnered a $400 thousand grant, and raised enrollment by more than six percent.
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Integrated Campus Master Planning for Unprecedented Capital Improvements

 Universities are complex organizations that must align many different types of plans to maximize success.
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Integrated Master Planning for Campus Sports and Recreation

 Athletic and recreation facilities occupy a significant campus footprint but oftentimes master planning doesn't integrate these spaces holistically into the campus. Recreation and wellness are critical components of student life on campus, and proactive planning can create a seamless experience on game days and for everyday athletics.
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Integrated Planning for an Innovative and Efficient Design Process

 Designing a forward-thinking research building without identified occupants is a bold undertaking.
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Integrated Programming and Human-centric Design for Student Neurodiversity

 With a growing population of neurodiverse students, Rutgers Center for Adult Autism Services (RCAAS) acts as a national prototype for institutional change to increase engagement and success of autistic students through purpose-built environments and programs.
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It’s Alive! Georgia Tech’s Bold, Comprehensive Campus Plan

 Planning for certainty in higher education's unpredictable climate is impossible.
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Keep Focus: Improve Outcomes and Engagement With a Communications Calendar

 Focusing on a specific goal each month increases strategic plan success.
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Leadership Lessons Learned: Assessing Strengths, Skills, and Knowledge

 Higher education leaders carry the responsibility of vision and building new strategic directions for colleges and universities.
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Leading from Reactive Whirlwind to Integrated Strategy

 Intentional leadership is necessary for moving an organization from a revolving state of reactive whirlwind into a future with integrated strategic focus. This session will discuss leadership principles for moving an organization strategically forward during a period of unprecedented challenge and change.
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Lessons Learned From a Successful Strategic Plan Implementation Process

 You have a beautiful, shiny new strategic plan?
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Leveraging Progressive Design-Build Delivery for Capital Projects

 California recently passed legislation that permits its public entities to leverage Progressive Design-Build (PDB) delivery methods for capital projects.
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Leveraging Your Resources to Build a Comprehensive, Data-driven Strategic Plan

 Institutions can align their needs with innovation and insight by creating a strong integration of data and research processes for a data-driven, impactful strategic plan. We'll demonstrate how to build a data-driven strategic plan by applying research methodologies, leveraging public data, optimizing institutional data, and constructing a content analysis.
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Live, Dine, Thrive: Fueling Futures with a Nexus of Transformative Resources

 Championing excellence through campus initiatives, Morgan State University's Thurgood Marshall Hall centralizes diverse student services at the student's doorstep for a holistic focus on sustainability, wellness, and living-learning.
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Master Planning for Campus Water Resilience

 Water-related disasters pose a serious risk to an institution's mission, physical assets, and reputation.
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Measuring Campus Initiative Outcomes of Diversity and High-performance Teams

 The planning, designing, and building of campus initiatives requires broad and diverse perspectives.
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Navigating Academic Success: Dashboards for Data-informed Decision Making

 The role of data-informed decision-making can't be overstated.
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Navigating Enrollment Challenges Amidst Demographic Shifts

 This session will delve into the evolving landscape of university enrollment, focusing on the impacts of demographic changes.
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Next-Gen Academics Driving ‘Now’ Spaces in Higher Education

 Education is rapidly evolving to meet changing workplaces, fueling a race among institutions to offer wider academic tracks tailored to emerging industries. How universities compete with new, responsive programs may need to evolve, too.
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Planning for Neurodiverse Campus Communities

 No two individuals are 'wired' to process information or stimuli in their environment in the same way, yet the design of campus environments often focuses on the 'norm'.
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Open-concept Faculty Neighborhoods for More Collaboration and Communication

 Traditional, siloed faculty offices are no longer the best option for serving student and staff needs.
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Planning, Designing, and Delivering a Fully-electric Dormitory in Toronto

 Buildings are a major source of carbon emissions.
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Pursuing Carbon Neutrality Through Campus Master Planning

 Climate commitments and carbon neutrality are becoming top priorities for many campuses.
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Reconnect, Reuse, Revitalize, Recruit: Addressing Aging Campus Facilities

 Institutions are constrained by housing modern programs within aging facilities.
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Reimagining OSU’s Campus Gateway District Through P3 Integrated Planning

 In order to reimagine and capitalize on the potential of its campus gateway, The Ohio State University (OSU) employed specific planning and development processes to achieve successful outcomes.
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Relationship Building: Strategies for Inclusive, Student-Centered Design

 The Dr. EJ and Margaret O'Brien Hall at Marquette University showcases the ways in which relationship building between people, disciplines, space types, and contexts advances design to achieve human-purposed, inclusive outcomes for the department and campus.
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Renew, Revise, or Reject: Presidential Turnover and Strategic Planning Impacts

 Since the average presidential tenure is now fewer than six years, campuses need to design and implement circumspect planning which will prove stable even in the event of leadership changes. Using examples from eight institutions across the U.S., this session explores the challenges to campus strategic planning when new leadership arrives.
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Research Space Utilization Metrics: Putting Them to Work for You

 The cost of building and operating research space continues to increase alongside the profile of these spaces on campus.
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Resetting the Clock: Duke’s Facility Renewal and Program Enhancement Plan

 Aging campus buildings can have a negative impact on student retention and faculty ability to conduct modern research.
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Shaping Tomorrow’s Campus: Current Trends in University Landscape Architecture

 University landscape architects (ULAs) use integrated planning methods to reshape the campus built environment and address the ever-evolving needs of students, faculty, and staff. In this session, five members from the Association of University Landscape Architects (AULA) will present on current trends through work at their respective institutions.
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Slight Differences and Lots of Similarities
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Strategic Restructuring: Creating an Office of Strategy, Planning, and Analysis

 Institutions require accurate data to support decision making and planning, so they can and should carefully consider how this data is organized.
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The Architecture of Belonging: Informing Planning Through Social Research

 A sense of belonging is critical for student wellbeing, engagement, and academic success.
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The Ecosystem Project: Revealing the Hidden Dynamics of Higher Ed’s Ecosystems

 The Ecosystem Project aims to develop tools and methodologies for depicting the complex ecosystems that surround and make up higher education.
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The Final Frontier: Measuring Space Utilization and Implementing Bold Changes

 How can institutions measure the efficiency of campus space use and communicate to stakeholders to create buy-in and lead to better use of facilities and resources?
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The Future of Remote and Hybrid Work Environments on Campus

 Academic office spaces have historically followed established norms.
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The Power of Partnership: Planning for Innovation

 Colleges and universities are seeking to engage in equitable planning and design processes that uphold institutional values and reflect the needs of broad, diverse audiences to create spaces that inspire innovation.
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The Strategic Doing Methodology at Northern Michigan University

 Many institutions face challenges in evolving traditional, and often ineffective, planning processes into fully participatory systems that use collaborative methods and techniques for improving outcomes.
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The Value Proposition of Higher Education: Planning a Campus for the Future
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Transforming Streets into Bustling Places for Campus Life

 Many institutions are rethinking the presence of vehicles on campus and facing a need for more sustainable and multi-purpose circulation spaces.
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Using Occupant Evaluation Data to Inform Higher Education Design

 Campus facility design is a complex process that involves many sources of opinion and influence. Educational environments must enhance evolving pedagogies, support learning, administrative, and social functions, and accommodate ever-changing institutional needs.
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Visioning for Campus Planning to Enhance the Student Experience

 This student panel will exchange ideas on the impacts of capital planning in three phases: on campus today, at graduation, and ten years in the future. An educator and design expert will join students from Philadelphia-based institutions to share their perspectives on how short and long-term visioning for campus planning can create more engaging, inclusive, and impactful student experiences.
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What Students Want: Lessons and Outcomes From a Student Center ‘In Use’

 Students have long valued a holistic post-secondary experience.
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What’s In It For Me? The Benefits of Data Asset Management

 Data is a pillar for organizational mission and for driving results. Planners must not undervalue the importance of data-informed decision-making and its link to institutional wellbeing and sustainability. Montgomery College's (MC) integrated planning incorporated robust community input that culminated into a successfully built plan that supports agility and flexibility.