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Conference Recordings

Addressing Mental Health and Implementing Holistic Wellness on Campus

 We'll share approaches and resources that you can use to meaningfully design healthier spaces and implement mental health and wellness programs on your campus.
Conference Presentations

Addressing the Demographic Cliff: Community College Perspectives

 Community colleges are facing enrollment declines and demographic shifts.
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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 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.
Example Plans

Creating a Legacy Like No Other

 Strategic plan for the university, which is beginning its second decade after consolidation.
Webinar Recordings

Creating a More Adaptive Institution in the Wake of COVID-19

 This interactive panel discussion will bring together different institutions’ perspectives from facilities, technology, student services, and finance to understand the impact of COVID-19 on institutions and their student experience. The discussion will be organized in three parts, each with a prompt to inform the discussion, a poll to take the pulse of the audience, and an open discussion among panelists.
Conference Presentations

Creating a Student Success District Through Transformative Renovations

 First generation and marginalized students often have difficulty accessing campus services. Holistically supporting students through integrated services so that they feel valued, respected, and included is critical to graduation and retention rates.
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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 Campus Food Venues to Build Community and Connection

 In our hybrid environment, it’s more important than ever to pull people away from their devices to build community and connection on campus. Food has the power to bring students and faculty from different backgrounds together and provide a fundamental academic experience. Through campus and workplace examples, we’ll show how food venue design can set a positive tone for interaction and support meaningful connections and wellbeing. Come learn how to plan campus food venues that serve an academic purpose, refine venue goals, and inform venue design through operations to make it more impactful and sustainable.
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Innovation in Student Services

 The authors, who are among IBM best practice partners, share they have been successful in integrating technology into their student services projects, redesigning their processes, implementing change, and extending their brand.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Institutional Process Mapping

 Minnesota State Community and Technical College coordinated and integrated processes for student onboarding to support institutional performance.
Conference Presentations

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.
Conference Presentations

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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Managing Change from the Murky Middle

 Middle managers are often blamed for change failure and portrayed as change resisters or saboteurs. However, what looks like obstructionist behavior could actually be the observable effects of role ambiguity.
Blog Post

Navigating Student Success

 To gain insight into how integrated planning to support student success can be a game changer, we turned to Paula Stossel, strategic advisor to the president for student success, and Amber Racchini, vice provost for student academic success, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. They graciously accepted our invitation to address questions about their cross-functional effort to ensure a student-centered approach to delivery of support services at IUP.
Conference Presentations

Organizational Transformation to an Efficient Student-centered Service Model

 We will show how to maintain a friendly warm-touch environment that leverages technology to streamline business processes, collect data, and utilize obtained data to cross train your team and improve productivity.
Conference Presentations

Planning for Access, Equity, and Belonging at Buffalo State University
Conference Recordings

Planning for Access, Equity, and Belonging at Buffalo State University

 As an urban-engaged university, Buffalo State University's strategic commitment to diversity, inclusion, and access has strengthened and diversified student recruitment, raised retention rates, and built community within and beyond the campus. Buffalo State's reputation of providing quality education, access, equity, and engagement requires inclusive, multi-functional spaces that foster a sense of community and develop a welcoming and equity-minded culture for all students.
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Planning for Student Services

 Through use of case studies, this book demonstrates how several institutions are transforming their traditional model for student services into a learner-centered model.
Conference Recordings

Renovating Student Services to Promote Success

 Using the renovation of Normandale Community College's College Services Building as a case study, we'll discuss how integrating student services and creating an innovative service model can better promote student success.
Conference Presentations

Residential Life and Safety at the Intersection of Town and Gown

 Colleges and universities must adapt to changing issues around student safety and determine how to address these concerns while maintaining connections with the local community.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

The Why, What, When, Where, and How of Student Service Innovation

 As the challenges students face become increasingly complex and interwoven, student service providers must innovate to meet student and institutional needs and differentiate themselves from competitors.
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Transforming Student Services

 Using Northwest Florida State College (NFSC) as a case study, you will learn about current trends in student needs and discuss how these trends drove change in NFSC's workflows, staff, space, furniture, and technology.
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Using the Student Success Trifecta to Boost Enrollment and Retention

 As higher education faces the demographic cliff, institutions must find ways to boost enrollment, improve retention, and promote student success with a focus on first-generation students, DEI, and students with learning differences.