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Urban Campus

Conference Presentations

A Growing Business School’s Vertical Campus in a Leased Downtown Location

 This session will delve into the opportunities and challenges involved with locating a Johns Hopkins University's new business school in a leased, downtown, high-rise building mixing students with other occupants of the building.
Webinar Recordings

Back to School Through the Lens of ASHRAE

 Panelists Susanna M. Baker, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Bill Bahnfleth, ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) and Penn State University, discussed requirements for a typical campus upgrade and reviewed ASHRAE recommendations on improving campus safety in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. They also addressed some of the unique challenges for an urban campus response to maintaining campus safety.
Conference Recordings

Bringing it to the City

 Come learn how to develop strategic partnerships among university, developer, and consultant stakeholders at your institution as well as optimize site development for long-term improvements in recruitment, retention, and revenue.
Conference Recordings

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.
Conference Presentations

Campus Transformation and Community Revitalization

 Binghamton University has become a catalyst for transforming and revitalizing an economically-challenged community while maintaining its historical footprint.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Creating a New Campus Destination

 The project offers preservation, building revitalization, and adaptive reuse as an alternative model for sustainable campus growth.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Creating a Sense of Community on Urban College and University Campuses

 Urban campuses have unique planning and design challenges when it comes to creating a sense of place that reflects both their global ambitions and local commitments to a variety of stakeholders.
Conference Recordings

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.
Conference Presentations

Creating an Ecosystem of Innovation in Non-traditional Academic Space

 In this session, we will demonstrate how Drexel University used a mixed-use high rise building within an urban innovation zone to support growing enrollment.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Creating Global-Ready Places

 Global demographics are shaping new civic patterns which will strengthen the relationship between universities and cities in ways that create local prosperity.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Data Collection as a Means for Integrated Higher Education Change

 Six institutions measured the community impact of their anchor mission efforts along several social and economic dimensions using the Anchor Dashboard data tool.
Conference Presentations

Exploring the Role of Campus Architecture in Revitalizing Urban Downtowns

 In this session, we will demonstrate how Rutgers University aligned its development model with city planning initiatives to be a partner in urban renewal at its Camden and Newark campuses.
Conference Presentations

From Industrial Wasteland to Modern Campus
Conference Recordings

How a Substation Project Enabled a New Academic Research Building at Penn

 This session will explore how the University of Pennsylvania is achieving new student learning and research spaces within an infrastructure project.
Conference Recordings

Make No Little Plans

 Master plans are more than a campus-wide tool, and with thoughtful planning and execution, institutions can craft a vision tailored to student needs related to housing, dining, and the co-curricular student experience.
Conference Presentations

One Yale

 Yale has unified its community with strategic development along its two-mile-long urban campus, strengthening diversity and inclusion while the historically dispersed communities of the residential colleges continue to flourish.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Planning Takes Tragedy to Triumph

 After the 2017 earthquake in Mexico City, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey underwent a transformative rebuilding process. Civic engagement was prioritized, resulting in buy-in, support, and representation from the community.
Conference Recordings

Promoting Just and Resilient Urban Communities Through Integrated Planning

 In this session, we'll discuss how urban institutions are serving essential roles in their cities by addressing inequities in education, economic opportunities, and health.
Conference Presentations

Putting the Green in Infrastructure
Conference Presentations

Reimagining Safe and Affordable Student Housing for a Dense Urban Campus
Conference Presentations

Rubik’s Cube

 Yale University's new Yale Science Building and its associated renovation projects illustrate how a new facility can integrate under-utilized space, meeting program needs and connecting existing science buildings.
Conference Recordings

What We’ve Learned and What’s Next

 We'll highlight approaches and lessons learned from two New York City institutions during the pandemic, including creatively retrofitting their campus facilities amidst a crisis period of declining revenue and enrollments.
Report

When City Parks Are Your Quad

 This is a SCUP Fellow Research Project Final Report for the 2022–2023 program. This report explores how the urban campus can best support student development in a safe, yet open environment.