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A framework that helps you develop more effective planning processes.
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Discussions and resources around the unresolved pain points affecting planning in higher education—both emergent and ongoing.
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- Planning Types
Planning Types
Focus Areas
-
A framework that helps you develop more effective planning processes.
- Challenges
Challenges
Discussions and resources around the unresolved pain points affecting planning in higher education—both emergent and ongoing.
Common Challenges
- Learning Resources
Learning Resources
Featured Formats
Popular Topics
- Conferences & Programs
Conferences & Programs
Upcoming Events
- Community
Community
The SCUP community opens a whole world of integrated planning resources, connections, and expertise.
Get Connected
Give Back
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Access a world of integrated planning resources, connections, and expertise-become a member!
Space Management
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2007 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) Report
How are institutions using their space? This report from the SCUP Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) aggregates space data submitted to the CFI survey from 2006 and 2007.Report
2021 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) Report
The 2021 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) report’s valuable facilities benchmarking data will help college and university leaders understand not only what they have now and how it compares, but also how things might change in the future.Report
2022 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) Report
The 2022 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) report’s valuable facilities benchmarking data will help college and university leaders understand not only what they have now and how it compares, but also how things might change in the future.Report
2023 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) Report
The 2023 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) report’s valuable facilities benchmarking data will help college and university leaders understand not only what they have now and how it compares, but also how things might change in the future.Conference Presentations
Assessing and Relocating Administrative Workspaces, On and Off Campus
Conference Recordings
Data-driven Space Strategies for Research-intensive Institutions
In this session, you'll learn multiple techniques—analytical, participatory, and action-oriented—that will help you enroll stakeholders, think strategically, and act more constructively to advance space management approaches at your institution.Conference Recordings
Data-Informed Design Decisions
Come learn how data-informed design can inform your next building project, guide space allocation, and minimize the need for new construction on your campus.Report
Data-Informed Space Utilization
This resource is designed to support business officers and other institutional leaders in developing data-informed space utilization practices.Conference Presentations
Design, Assess, and Improve Learning Spaces With FLEXspace
Planning for Higher Education Journal
Diving Into Data
Using data analytics and reviewing facility conditions helped Newberry College enhance space utilization and create a dynamic, adaptable campus.Planning for Higher Education Journal
Educational Innovation and Space Management
Conference Presentations
From “What if?” to What’s Next?”
In this session, we will explore how to plan a campus ecosystem that connects business with people, ideas, and resources to drive a new research and education model.Conference Recordings
From Siloed to Sustainable
In this session, you'll learn how to combine digital and physical environments, promote diversity and inclusion, and implement flexibility within campus spaces to prepare your institution for a more blended world.Conference Recordings
From Siloed to Sustainable
In this session, you'll learn how to combine digital and physical environments, promote diversity and inclusion, and implement flexibility within campus spaces to prepare your institution for a more blended world.Planning for Higher Education Journal
Good Academic Planning Is What Happens . . .
The division of Academic Affairs at the University of West Georgia worked with SCUP to integrate academic planning with facilities, accreditation, budget, student affairs, and student success.Conference Presentations
How to Craft a Living, Data-Driven Facilities Master Plan
In this session, you will learn how the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor’s College of Engineering created this responsive master plan that acts more as an interactive set of tools than a static document.ebook
Kings of Infinite Space
This book sketches an evolved comprehensive space planning practice, with its emphases on utilization, economic value, quality, and accountability both to the institutional mission and to stakeholders.Conference Recordings
No Net New Space
We'll share the process used at Longwood University to reallocate existing space to align with a new core curriculum centered on deep learning, creativity, and collaboration—and will demonstrate how your institution can use it to assess existing space, reallocate underutilized space, align budget, and advocate for student and faculty buy-in.Conference Recordings
Pandemic Space Planning for Now and the Long Term
We will share approaches and tools to fulfill your institution's space needs in the current pandemic, and discuss how the pandemic may influence long-term campus space planning.Conference Recordings
Planning Interrupted
From the onset of COVID-19, Moore College has demonstrated how a dense urban campus can adapt to the new normal by transforming common space for maximum use to enhance the creative arts education pedagogy—join us to learn about their innovative strategies.Webinar Recordings
Re-imagining Space Utilization
Engage with Ohio University’s ambitious approach to right-sizing and aligning physical space to programmatic needs. If you are entertaining radical change, this session will help you understand where to start, how to deliver in practice, and how to identify and express impacts that are mission-aligned to gain stakeholder buy-in.Conference Recordings
Reaping the Benefits of a New Building? Without Building New
In this session, we'll demonstrate how to renovate your campus spaces to maximize programming and performance, using a planning approach that addresses the unique challenges of modernizing existing buildings, accommodating future-focused programming needs, and minimizing operational costs.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.Conference Presentations
Space Portfolio Planning Partnership
This session will share a portfolio-based approach to space management as an institutional, governance-based framework for aligning space—its allocation and use—to meet priorities and program needs.Blog Post
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.Conference Recordings
The Changing Academic Workspace
In this session, we'll share how to develop a workspace roadmap that uses the lenses of people, space, culture, policy, and technology.Report
The Connected Campus
Campus environments play a vital role in student success. By making changes to their combination of spaces, institutions can respond to the shifts transforming higher education. Elliot Felix shares how colleges and universities can prepare for a more blended world by bringing together the digital and physical, enabling greater diversity and inclusion, and implementing flexible structures, staffing, space, and services. Sponsored Content: Knoll and brightspot strategy.Conference Recordings
The Spectrum of Space and Capital Planning in Florida and Georgia
The Florida State and Georgia University Systems employ varied approaches to their space standards, planning, and capital programs. We’ll compare these approaches and discuss best practices for determining the effectiveness of space use and the planning process.Conference Recordings
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.Conference Recordings
Using Technology to Facilitate a Safe Return to Campus
In order to facilitate a return to campus post-COVID, Penn State leveraged technology and cross-functional teams to successfully plan and implement safe social distancing measures across various rooms types using a decentralized management model.Conference Presentations
Using Visualizations and Data to Inform Space Planning
This session describes how we used data visualization to spark critical conversations as we evolved 1960s-era space guidelines into modern approaches.