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Friday, January 29, 2010

The 6 Principles of Facilities Stewardship


This downloadable PDF is of an article from Facilities Manager by Karvey H. Kaiser and Eva Klein, which is in turn an excerpt from a forthcoming new APPA book, Strategic Capital Development: The New Model for Campus Development.
[I]n the words of Teddy Roosevelt, the buildings and grounds of an in- stitution must be treated “as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.”
The notion of value can, and should, mean financial value. But, value has a broader implication, which includes the value an institution ascribes to its tradi- tions, to the protection of its symbolic features, and to the continued utility of its structural components. Ideally, a statement proclaiming stewardship principles should form the grounding for a comprehensive facilities plan or master plan. Also ideally, facilities stewardship should reflect a broad responsibility of govern- ing board members and senior leaders—in addition to the president or chancellor. Today, as the average tenure of a president/chancellor is less than seven years, their decisions must be part of a lengthy, continuous stewardship process—pro- tected because it is an indispensable, shared responsibility.
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