Summary of Education Provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

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As you probably know, there were some postsecondary education related items within the total package of provisions recently passed by the U.S. Senate and House. The American Council on Education (ACE) has published this summary of the pertinent education-related positions: Summary of Education Provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (PDF). Those provisions include: 100 Percent Direct Lending; Pell Grants Changes & Increases; Investment in HBCUs, HSIs, and Tribal Colleges; Community College and Career Training Grant Program; College Access Challenge Grants; Income-Based Repayment; Technical Assistance for Institutions; Perskins Loan Program; State Not-for-Profit Servicing Contracts; and Loan Servicing Jobs in the United States.

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ACUPCC Annual Report: Campuses Modeling Behavior for External Communities

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The new annual report for the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is available now (PDF). It includes vignettes about successful projects on a wide variety of campuses, and describes efforts to facilitate using what has been learned on campus in local and regional communities.

The ACUPCC grew in impact, stature, and size in 2009. With 665 ACUPCC signatory schools by the end of 2009 and a 5400% growth since the launch of the program, the higher education sector is now the first in society to substantially commit to achieving carbon neutrality. Notably, 195 Community Colleges, where thousands of students are being trained for clean energy jobs, are now a part of the ACUPCC, with 29 having joined in 2009.
After completing their greenhouse gas inventories in 2008, the first cohort of signatories reached their next major milestone in 2009: the creation and public release of Climate Action Plans. The Plans, available online at the ACUPCC Reporting System, illustrate the specific steps schools are taking to reduce their emissions through strategies including: using renewable energy, improving energy efficiency, reducing waste, and improving public transportation options. Schools also outline in their Plans innovative ways they are re-orienting their educational offerings to prepare the approximately three million students who graduate each year from their institutions to meet the massive challenge of climate change.

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Is Higher Education an 'Industry' That is Evolving?

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Paul Kim examines some of the implications of looking at higher education as an industry and whether or not, as an industry, it is under external pressures to evolve:

In 1859, Charles Darwin proposed in The Origin of Species that living organisms adapt and evolve through natural selection (survival of the fittest). In the same vein, Charles Fine claimed that when industries face new challenges or environmental pressure, they must evolve or adapt in order to avoid extinction.1 In addition, scholars such as Takahiro Fujimoto2 viewed competency-building competition as part of industry’s evolutionary process, while Ki-Chan Kim and Hi Sook Kim3 viewed “feed forwarding” as an important survival and growth instinct in industry evolution. Although some in higher education might consider such ideas nonsensical when applied to colleges and universities, we can adapt some of these views in trying to make sense of today’s higher education ecosystem.

Listed as key takeways from this article in EDUCAUSE Quarterly:

• To survive and thrive, living organisms, industries, and institutions — including higher education — must evolve or adapt to changing environments.
• The slow evolutionary clock speed and failure to adopt contextualized open interfaces in the higher education ecosystem may threaten its continued survival in the face of new environmental pressures.
• More effective and efficient knowledge creation and distribution can increase the evolutionary clock speed and fuel successful evolutionary changes.
• The higher education ecosystem has produced some projects demonstrating an evolutionary shift in approach that could fuel further successful evolution.

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Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time!

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Is higher education more like health care or more like the publishing industry? Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams examine why, if higher ed is more like publishing, it hasn't resulted in what Peter Drucker predicted in 997, that "university campuses will be 'relics' within thirty years." Partly, they think it's because higher ed is more like health care.

As the model of pedagogy is challenged, inevitably the revenue model of universities will be too. If all that the large research universities have to offer to students are lectures that students can get online for free, from other professors, why should those students pay the tuition fees, especially if third-party testers will provide certificates, diplomas, and even degrees? If institutions want to survive the arrival of free, university-level education online, they need to change the way professors and students interact on campus.

Many will argue: "But what about credentials? As long as the universities can grant degrees, their supremacy will never be challenged." This is myopic thinking. The value of a credential and even the prestige of a university are rooted in its effectiveness as a learning institution. If these institutions are shown to be inferior to alternative learning environments, their capacity to credential will surely diminish. How much longer will, say, a Harvard undergraduate degree, taught mostly through lectures by teaching assistants in large classes, be able to compete in status with the small class size of liberal arts colleges or the superior delivery systems that harness the new models of learning?

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Adaptive Re-Use On Campus: Pros, Cons, Considerations

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This is a concise exposition of pros and cons, as well as a checklist of pertinent considerations for deciding whether to build new or re-use.

As designers, it is our underlying goal to understand our client’s objectives and help move them forward in a direction that best meets their current and future needs. This is no different when evaluating an existing building for potential reuse.

Generally, the choice to “reuse” will include the decision to renovate a significant portion of the existing facility to accommodate the new program. When evaluating “reuse” versus “build new,” it is important to consider the pros and cons of each choice.

The pros and cons of new construction are more straightforward than with a reused building. With a new building comes the ability to include state-of-the-art energy-saving building systems, modern materials and forms, and current design trends. The cons to new construction are rarely discussed, but they include the difficulty of finding open land on a college or university campus in the perfect location for the required program. Additionally, new construction will always go through a time when the design is “old” and “out-of date” before it becomes appreciated again.

The pros and cons to building reuse are sometimes less obvious.

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The Perfect Building: But Needs Renovation & Underpass Access

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Montgomery County Community College (MCCC) found an historic building but it was separated from campus by a freight railroad line, requiring a mile walk for students. MCCC staff and corporate partner renovated the first floor of the building and discovered and reconstructed a previously filled-in underpass that et students take a shortcut under the tracks. This is a brief but interesting article at University Business by Melissa Ezarik. “I think it’s triggered a camaraderie there.” Students are staying on campus longer and can often be found in local restaurants and volunteering downtown. “The community is so appreciative," notes president Karen Sout. More.

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Don't Know Why I Have the Nicest Office in the Building

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In the Chronicle Forums, a current question is getting a lot of attention: "embitteredhistorian" asked the question: "How does your university decide who gets what offices?" Some responses:

• "I've no idea why I got possibly the nicest office in the building."
• I received the office vacated by my predecessor and have clung to it stubbornly.
• All the furniture is standard - we are not allowed to bring in our own chair, table etc.
• Due to remodeling, reorganizations, new construction, leases ending, the hiring or firing of bigwigs, and the facilities staff and/or president having prophetic dreams, I get moved into a new space every year or two.
• My department, like many others nationally, has steadily lost tenured and TT lines over the years, so all of us have gotten an outside office with a window upon hire.
• it's our departmental administrator who makes the decision, according to what we suspect is a sort of 1950s sense of who "counts" (senior men, junior men; then, far below, senior women, junior women; and last, adjuncts, also sorted by gender).

Having a window that actually opens seems to be the most frequently mentioned desirable amenity.

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Buildings & Grounds Blog Update

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Lawrence Biemiller and Scott Carlson at The Chronicle of Higher Education continue to author the most frequently updated information source about facilities planning in higher education, the Buildings & Grounds Blog. We expect that Carlson will be covering a number of sessions at SCUP–45 in July.

Recent posts include:

• Florida Southern Plans to Add a Usonian House to Its Wright Collection
• Book Highlights Modern Architecture at Princeton
• Webster U. Plans New Academic, Science Buildings
• Pasadena City College Arts Center Is Delayed by State Architect
• U. of Wisconsin at Oshkosh to Turn Food and Yard Waste Into Energy
• Dickinson College Will Turn Unused Cupola Into a Birdhouse
• In New York, Sullivan County Community College Plans New Dorms
• Master Plan Would Make Appalachian State U. Campus Pedestrian-Friendly
• Presidents' Climate Commitment Report Released
• Virginia Tech Unveils Plans for $89-Million Arts Center
• In Arid Palm Springs, the College of the Desert Plans a Green Expansion
• Missouri State U. Students Protest Cost of Planned Recreation Center

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What Recession? Ontario to Add 20,000 Student Spaces in 2010 Budget

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Ontario, is the Canadian province with the most universities and colleges in Canada. Its 2010 budget provides $310M to add spaces for 20,000 more students in September, after already investing in this way over the past year. The new budget also contains funding to promote Ontario higher education internationally, and to support the implementation of a credit transfer system. All of this is within the Open Ontario Plan for Postsecondary Education.

Isn't there a recession up there?

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New Blog: Global Higher Ed: Surveying the Construction of Global Knowledge/Spaces for the 'Knowledge Economy'

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Global Higher Ed is new to us, since we just discovered it, via Inside Higher Ed. It's not the kind of blog you normally read, instead its posts are quite lengthy and the writing is more formal rather than colloquial, often consisting of the text of published reports or interviews. It is self-described as "The GlobalHigherEd weblog and Twitter feed are both designed to highlight and then archive information about new developments (e.g., a new policy or development project), resources (e.g., reports, websites), analytical networks, and so on, so as to better track what is happening with respect to the construction of new globalized knowledge/spaces. We are interested in how and why new knowledge and new spaces (including socio-technical networks) are being developed in association with the emergence of the ‘knowledge economy’, and what the implications of this complex development process are, especially for global public affairs."

Recent posts include

• "International perspectives on higher education funding structures,"
• "Bologna Policy Forum Keynote Speech – Building the global knowledge society: systemic and institutional change,"
• "Budapest-Vienna Declaration on the European Higher Education Area,"
• "International perspectives on higher education funding structures,"
• "Celebrating, protesting and reflecting about the 10th anniversary of the launch of the Bologna Process,"
• "Europe 2020: what are the implications of Europe’s new economic strategy for global higher ed & research?,"
• "A Southeast Asian perspective on university development cooperation as a means to enrich academic quality,"
• "Tweeting about Phoenix’s Chicago, Chicago’s Phoenix, and other matters,"
• "Euro-Asia university cooperation as a means to enrich academic quality,"
• "OECD launches first global assessment of higher education learning outcomes," and
• "TUNING USA: Echoes and translations of the Bologna Process in the US higher education landscape."

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Fancy Building, Fancy Science?

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Not strictly higher education, but the blogger at Corante has some interesting perspectives on the design of science facilities, as do his commenters.

[I] kept wondering, where have I heard descriptions like this before? Oh yeah, the last time I moved into a new building. Actually, every single time I’ve moved into one, come to think of it. I was part of a gigantic corporate move in 1992 into what was billed as a “high-interaction facility”, which was nothing of the sort. And then at the Wonder Drug Factory, one of the new lab buildings had the whole research area behind a large glass wall; it was the first thing you saw when you came into the place. Unfortunately, since it was full of snazzy equipment, it became part of the standard tour for visitors (the combichem labs were largely abandoned by then), and the people working there sometimes felt like zoo animals. And my current building has the labs all around the outside walls, and a huge atrium in the middle of the building (to what purpose, no one is sure; it’s completely empty).

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'Guardians' of Higher Education Urged to Embrace More Change

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Will "the guardians of existing institutions embrace transformation, or let history pass them by"? Anya Kamenetz, writing in Inside Higher Ed, poses this question in an interesting essay which begins with a different perspective on the "Original" higher education:

In a faraway colony, one in a thousand people -- mostly young, rich, white men -- are sent to live in isolated, rural Christian communes. Some are pious, learned, ambitious; others are unruly younger sons with no other prospects. The students spend hours every day in chapel; every few years, the entire community is seized by a several-days-long religious revival.

They also get into lots of trouble. In their meager barracks they drink, gamble, and duel. They brawl, sometimes exchanging bullets, with local residents, and bother local women. Occasionally they rebel and are expelled en masse or force administrators to resign. Overseen by low-paid clergymen too deaf or infirm to control a congregation, hazed by older students, whipped for infractions of the rules, they’re treated like young boys when their contemporaries might be married with children. And, oh yes, they spend a few hours a day in rote memorization of fewer than a dozen subjects.

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UC Berkeley - Campus Heritage Landscape Planning

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Of the four SCUP researchers examining the reports back to the Getty Foundation from campuses which received heritage preservation grants from 2002–2007, SCUP staffer Claire Turcotte is assigned the analysis of the projects pertaining to heritage landscapes. Recently, she had the opportunity to walk through the UC Berkeley campus, after she had carefully read through and analyzed its report:

• This is her blog post with many photographs;
• This is the summary page on www.campusheritage.org which includes a brief description of what the grant was for, a brief summary outline of the contents of its report, and a link to the CIC's Historic Campus Architecture Project with that project's information on heritage buildings on the campus; and
• This is a link to the UC Berkeley Landscape Heritage Plan, which is a very comprehensive and beautiful website.

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Diverse Paths to the Presidency

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In University Business magazine, Melisa Ezarik (who often comes to SCUP conferences, we hope to see you in Minneapolis in July, Melissa!) shares this article which is blurbed: "With shrinking candidate pools, retirements on the horizon, and new realities for institutions and their leaders, it’s time to broaden higher education’s idea of the best career path to get there."

As higher education evolves, what it means to be a college president may well evolve, too. “Clearly the times are demanding people to think creatively and differently about pedagogy, curricula, delivery systems, and the entire process,” says Courtice. He sees some institutions deciding they don’t need to change the model of who a president is just yet, while others will realize they’ve got to change now.

Storbeck believes a close look at the expectations of presidents is in order. “The nature of the job, the 24/7 [aspect]—it’s heavy lifting in every direction. … There must be ways to make the job a little bit more manageable for people so they’re not feeling after two to three years that they’ve used up all the gas in the tank,” she says.

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Interview: Martha Kanter (US Department of Education) on Educating a Nation

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An interview from Business Officer:

When she took her first higher education job in California's Silicon Valley in the late 1970s, notes Martha Kanter, “it was a time of tremendous demographic change.” Thousands of returning Vietnam War veterans needed career training, while waves of Vietnamese immigrants and an ever-expanding Hispanic population were reshaping the state's educational needs.

Kanter worked on behalf of the evolving multicultural state in a variety of positions in the 100-plus-campus community college system, most recently as chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District. Becoming under secretary in the U.S. Department of Education—the first community college leader to serve in this position—builds on her life's work of putting education in reach of a nation with increasingly diverse learning needs. In this interview with Business Officer, Kanter discusses the Obama administration's education strategy.

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Taking the 'Institutional' Out of Institutional Design

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Writing in College Planning & Management, Tim Culvahouse emphasizes some of the design practices and concepts campus planners could learn from the hospitality industry:

The challenges are significant. Campuses have grown incrementally over many decades, during which time changing architectural fashion has diluted the sense of campus unity and identity. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, dormitories and other campus buildings were often conceived more as riot-control devices than as places of comfort and nurture. And, as is always the case, expectations have risen faster than budgets.

Even the best campus planners and architects, immersed as they necessarily are in the familiar patterns of institutional design, rarely have the tools they need to address these heightened expectations. But their colleagues in hospitality design do. Design for hotels, resorts, spas and wellness centers, restaurants, and the like is steeped in the principles of a welcoming architecture and in the planning, construction, and budgetary efficiencies of an industry that has always depended on getting the most gracious bang for the buck. What are some of the things that campus architecture can learn from hospitality architecture?

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Workshop: Linking Planning and Assessment in Higher Education: A Practical Guide

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You could not find a better presentation or a better, more-informed set of presenters on this topic.

Audience: Planners new to the use of the assessment process in accreditation activities as a springboard to integrated planning

Abstract: This workshop focuses on strategies for effectively utilizing information drawn from a broad range of assessment activities. It goes deeper into the content found in the SCUP volume, Integrating Planning and Assessment in Higher Education: A Practical Guide (2006). Participants will identify the information that should drive the strategic planning process at a college or university and that provides the evidence needed to make more targeted decisions in the allocation of human and fiscal resources. The presentation will also highlight the linkage between assessment and planning as a critical compliance criterion among all regional accrediting bodies in the United States. The workshop will use a series of exercises throughout the presentation to interactively engage participants and reinforce the concepts and principles being presented. Each participant will receive a comprehensive workbook containing presentation materials and a list of resources for use upon completion of the workshop.

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Award-Winning: The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, CA and Ratcliff, Emeryville, CA

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In 2009, the Bancroft Library was awarded a SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Architecture for Restoration or Preservation Honor Award. You can read the project description here.

The library was suffering from many problems: inadequate accessibility; tenuous storage conditions for priceless materials; poor seismic ratings; inadequate HVAC system; aging fire safety systems; poor protection from theft; inadequate instructional space; and an uninviting reading room.

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This project offers a global perspective on issues of preservation and access for academic and rare books libraries. Assessing the value of the collections to make the case for their preservation resulted in programming choices that safely promote the collections rather than sequester them for the sake of preservation. This was a key strategy in garnering private donations.

The jury said, “spectacular. . . before and after photos make you want to go there . . . turned it into a glorious place that is wonderful . . . excellent, given the importance of this to the university . . .”

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Strategic by Design: Iterative Approaches to Educational Planning

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In the push for accountability, colleges and universities resort to simplistic, linear thinking when planning—an approach not well-suited to academia. In this well-regarded recent article from SCUP's Planning for Higher Education, Shannon Chance shares her view that:

[I]t is not enough for institutions to simply shed mechanistic and deterministic traditions—the greatest rewards will accrue to institutions that are conscientiously, and consistently, proactive.

Helpful precedents for non-linear planning already exist on university campuses that offer studio-based curricula. Planning strategies employed in architecture and other design programs incorporate non-linear, iterative, synthesizing processes. The studio format itself requires high-order thinking in even the earliest classes; as such, studio-based curricula can serve as models for preparing educational planners to develop and implement responsive, well-synthesized plans. Universities can—and should—learn from the design studio example. Doing so can improve their strategic planning processes and foster critical thinking and adaptive learning among students, faculty, and administrators in all fields.

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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA - "Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats"
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"

School Security Technologies

Oh, no! You won't be getting a printed SCUP–45 Preliminary Program in the mail this year. Instead, SCUP is going green and regularly updating this digital version (PDF), which you can download at any time.

Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.

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We often find useful resources at the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF), which is headed by SCUPer Judy Marks. This (currently 16-page) resource is created by NCEF and updated quarterly, because the technologies and their use are changing so rapidly. The NCEF's mandate is for K–12 education, but this and many other resources there are valuable to higher education planners as well.

Over the past decade electronic security technology has evolved from an exotic possibility into an essential safety consideration. Technological improvements are coming onto the market almost daily, and keeping up with the latest innovation is a full time job. At a minimum, a basic understanding of these devices has become a prerequisite for well-informed school security planning.

Before resorting to high-tech security solutions, school officials should think carefully about the potential for unintended consequences. Technological fixes may be mismatched to the problems being addressed. They can be expensive. Any network will require continual maintenance, eventual upgrading, and constantly updated virus protection and intrusion detection systems (IDS) to watch for hackers or unauthorized transfers of data. A full-blown information technology (IT) department will usually be essential.

An over-reliance on electronic technology can backfire with power outages and technological failures. Some security technologies raise political and philosophical concerns. Still, technology, used correctly, can be highly functional and cost effective. Its pros and cons must be weighed carefully within the context of local sensibilities and conditions.

Don’t start by choosing a technology and looking for a problem it can solve. The process should be the reverse: Identify and prioritize the problems before jumping to solutions, and analyze solutions carefully before committing funding. It’s not uncommon for districts to invest in a particular technology district-wide before analyzing and priority-ranking the real concerns of the individual schools. Every school should be capable of quick lockdowns and evacuations, but the details beyond that can vary considerably. Some schools are in rough neighborhoods where violence is endemic, others are not. Some schools are constrained by meager budgets, others have deep pockets. Leaky roofs may take precedence over electronic access control systems.
Partial measures can prove to be wasted investments. Secure front doors are of little value if back entries remain uncontrolled. Metal detectors and ID cards won’t stop bullying behavior, nor will security cameras stop offenders, as has become all too evident at many school shootings. On the other hand, comprehensive access control and improved emergency communication systems are usually good investments.

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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA - "Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats"
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"

Learning Space Design Precepts and Assumptions

Oh, no! You won't be getting a printed SCUP–45 Preliminary Program in the mail this year. Instead, SCUP is going green and regularly updating this digital version (PDF), which you can download at any time.

Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.

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SCUP–45 plenary speaker, SCUPer Mark Valenti of the Sextant Group, defines precepts and assumptions in the learning design process, in EDUCAUSE Review. This is a 2005 article:

A precept is a rule or principle prescribing a particular course of action or conduct. Design precepts describe the overall environment in which the learning space is being developed and help suggest the context in which the design team will formulate the project.

An assumption is something taken for granted or accepted as true without proof; a supposition. Planning or design assumptions provide direction to the design team and also act as a sounding board when hard decisions have to be made. Projects often encounter budget difficulties, programmatic changes midstream, and/or other events that can force the design team to reevaluate the project. Design assumptions provide the context for making those "value-engineering" decisions.

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• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA - "Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats"
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"

New Building: Hank Greenspun School of Journalism at UNLV

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Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.

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With a focus on the pertinent technologies, Laurie Fruth, writing in Campus Technology magazine discusses the motivation and planning for what is now the fifth-largest building on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas:

Moving from an analog tape-based environment to a high-definition file-based facility was challenging but rewarding for both faculty and students. The old facility was built in the 1960s, and cobbled together with donated equipment, isolated edit bays, and antiquated wiring. Precious classroom time was lost while old equipment was repaired or while the campus engineer tried to devise ways to make disparate production systems work together. As technology evolved in the broadcast industry, administration knew that that the costly move to a file-based production process was greatly needed. The Greenspun gift made discussions toward this move possible. The campus began outlining what was needed in a new facility to best serve journalism students today, while gearing them up to the industry’s best multimedia news professionals of tomorrow . . . With the new facility and the latest in state-of-the-art production technology, it’s a goal the school is well on its way to achieving.

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• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA - "Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats"
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"

Overcoming Obstacles to Going Green

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Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.

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Writing in American School & University magazine, Mike Kennedy surveys the barriers to going green in the design, construction, and operation of education facilities. One of those barrier may be tradition:

"To come up with the most effective green strategies for a facility, designers have to determine how the various design elements interact with one another; a seemingly innocuous change in one feature can weaken the environmental benefits that other features are expected to provide.

"Architects need to bring in engineers earlier and work out issues such as artificial lighting, daylighting, heat loads," says Dordai.

It's what architects call "integrated project delivery." "It's everybody contributing — the whole team focusing on the whole building and coming up with one vision," says Dordai.

Such cooperation seems like common sense, but for architects and engineers used to working a certain way, it can be difficult to break old habits."

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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA - "Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats"
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"

Montreal Convention Center Recognizes SCUP-43 Via Roland Proulx

At SCUP-43 in Montreal, long time SCUP leader Roland Prouxl was named the city's Ambassador to SCUP's conference. Now, there is a brick in the Montreal Conference Center's 'Walk of Fame" acknowledging SCUP's conference in 2008 and Proulx's role. (Proulx, emeritus professor from the University of Montreal, was also recently named 2009 Higher Education Professional of the Year by Strathmore's Who's Who.) Thanks for ensuring that Montreal will always remember SCUP-43, Roland!

Below, Roland Proulx at SCUP-43 with David and Cathy Hollowell, the "Walk," and a close-up of the engraving regarding SCUP and Proulx.

What If College Is Not For Everyone?

At a time when many in higher education leadership, like the Lumina Foundation, among others, are calling for change to graduate more and more students with degrees, others are focusing for the moment on the question: What if a college education just isn't for everyone? "

It's fine for most kids to go to college, of course, (but) it is not obvious to me that that is the best option for the majority," says Mike Gould, founder of New Futures, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that provides scholarships for low-income students pursuing anything from a four-year degree to a massage-therapy certification. "Some education may be a good thing or it may just be a lot of debt."

The problem, Gould and others say, is that many high schools focus so much on college that low-achieving students fall through the cracks. A Public Agenda report this month raises similar concerns about high school guidance counseling. It follows up on a December survey that concluded most young workers who don't have a college degree "are in their jobs by chance, not by choice," and that guidance toward a career path "is hardly clear and purposeful."

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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA - "Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats"
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"

New Study Documents Growing Role for Higher Education in Driving Economic Development Efforts in the States

A recently released study by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, commissioned by SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher, finds multiple roles for universities in regional and local economic development:

The Institute’s research found that the importance of innovation in the economy is giving rise to a new model for state economic development programs — one in which the development and distribution of knowledge is at least as important as more traditional incentive programs. The report acknowledges the long record of SUNY campuses in economic development, so it focused on finding additional lessons from other states.

Higher education institutions and systems that are successful in this arena, the report said, appear to rely on a combination of four key factors:

• Innovation — that is, using their research power to create knowledge that can have economic impact, and then actively working to help move new ideas into the marketplace.
• Knowledge transfer that helps businesses grow and prosper, through programs such as job training, technical and other consulting assistance, and assistance to startups.
• An activist role in revitalizing the communities in which they are located, such as efforts to help local elementary and secondary schools.
• And their core mission of producing the educated populace that’s needed to build, run and work in the innovation economy.

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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA - "Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats"
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"

Workshop: 'Reimagining Higher Education Post Recession'

SCUP–45 Connections Abound!

We were exploring the careers of our SCUP-45 plenary speakers and located Mark Milliron's current "Reading List." Lo and behold, an article by SCUPers Linda Baer, Don Norris, et al., is the first listed item. A link to that article, Action Analytics: Measuring and Improving Performance that Matters in Higher Education, is here. We also need to share with you the opportunity to spend Sunday morning, July 11 with Norris and Baer in this preconference workshop: "The current recession requires both immediate, severe adjustments, and longer-term innovation and reinvention of higher education. An emerging, new generation of “action analytics” will enable higher education leaders to lift out of the recession, establish financial sustainability, and sustain competitive advantage. This requires re-imagining our policies, processes, practices, and performance for the post-recession global economy. The focus is on value: achieving elevated expectations in an era of diminished resources. Action analytics, vision, and strong leadership will be critical to our success." -Linda Baer, Minnesota State Colleges & Universities System Office and Donald M. Norris, Strategic Initiatives, Inc., Abstract for the Preconference Workshop titled "Reimagining Higher Education Post Recession" at SCUP–45.

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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA - "Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats"
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"

Learning Space 3.0 When Real and Virtual Space Collide

A number of SCUPers have been doing solid work examining and predicting the interaction between physical and virtual space. None have been more outspoken and forward-thinking as SCUP-45 plenary speaker Mark S. Valenti of The Sextant Group. It's a good thing to be looking forward to his presentation in Minneapolis. You can get something of a sneak peek at the kinds of things he'll bring you up to date about by viewing this slide show from his presentation at the September 2008 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative meeting. (We especially like the image of an 1879 class at Ohio State University, where students are viewing glass slides projected by a kerosene-fired lantern.)

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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA - "Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats"
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"

Community Colleges as Economic Saviors

From Ann McClure in University Business magazine:

“Never in my life would I have expected community colleges to be called potential saviors of the economy,” says George Boggs, president of the American Association of Community Colleges. “When the downturn started and people were being laid off, community colleges sent teams into companies to talk to workers about their options,” he explains. The importance of community colleges progressed from there.

As the recession drags on and more people turn to higher ed as a way to weather the storm, community colleges are increasingly in demand. “I think we are going to drive this economy back to where it needs to be,” says Mary Spangler, president of Houston Community College. Applications are up across all sectors of higher ed ranging from graduate school down, but community colleges are getting a double dose from unemployed adults looking for new skills as well as traditional age students looking to save money. According to AACC data, over the past two years, part-time enrollment at community colleges has increased 17 percent, while full-time enrollment increased 24 percent. “To have double-digit growth across the country in two years is incredible,” Boggs notes.

Meanwhile, four-year institutions aren’t exactly slacking in the area of economic revitalization, says George Mehaffy, vice president for academic leadership and change at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. He points to the University of Washington, Tacoma, citing a new building in an abandoned warehouse area, leading to rehabilitation of the area. All sectors of higher ed are changing their perception of their role in the community to being a steward of place, he says. “Thirty years ago, if people had said the university should be concerned about economic recovery, some faculty would have fainted,” Mehaffy says. “But that has changed.”

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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA - "Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats"
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"

New Book (free): Accelerating Campus Climate Initiatives: Breaking Through Barriers

• If you have an interest in this book, you may also have an interest in the SCUP regional one-day event happening April 7, in Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge."

This book, Accelerating Campus Climate Initiatives: Breaking Through Barriers, is the product of more than a year's research on a dozen campuses by the Rocky Mountain Institute. Download it here.

It is organized into five chapters:

• Climate Action Planning,
• Buildings & Utilities,
• Renewable Energy,
• Transportation, and
• Carbon Offsets & Associated Opportunities.

Subchapters each represent a "barrier" within the context of that chapter. So, for example, within Buildings & Utilities, there are subsections like "lack of capital," "Insufficient in-house expertise," and "Whole-system approach seems impossible." The book "explores a wide range of challenges committed campus planners are facing, including the real and perceived barriers. Real-world examples from campuses around the country help readers determine and drive projects based on a different way of thinking about buildings, utilities, perceptions, institutional structures, and all the other components comprising energy systems and campuses."

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Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring:

• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA - "Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats"
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"

In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt

Peter S. Goodman, In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt, The New York Times:

One fast-growing American industry has become a conspicuous beneficiary of the recession: for-profit colleges and trade schools . . . But the profits have come at substantial taxpayer expense while often delivering dubious benefits to students, according to academics and advocates for greater oversight of financial aid. Critics say many schools exaggerate the value of their degree programs, selling young people on dreams of middle-class wages while setting them up for default on untenable debts, low-wage work and a struggle to avoid poverty. And the schools are harvesting growing federal student aid dollars, including Pell grants awarded to low-income students.

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• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA - "Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats"
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"

Cash-Strapped Colleges Turn to Businesses for Energy-Saving Deals

This excellent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education by Scott Carlson, is blurbed: "As funds for facilities dry up, colleges sign energy-efficiency contracts that don't always work out." It'll be available for a few days at this link. (Note: There are several related sessions at SCUP-45; search for "energy".)

With dwindling state resources, tight budgets, and a renewed focus on energy efficiency, more colleges are turning to energy-services companies, commonly known as ESCO's, for facilities projects. At the same time, companies that have not traditionally worked as ESCO's are joining that market, raising risks that colleges will be stuck with deals that overpromise and under-deliver.

The business models of ESCO's have varied over the years, but today most agreements between energy-services companies and colleges follow a fairly straightforward plan: The college and the company do a detailed accounting of the college's current energy use and decide on a set of projects that will yield energy savings. The college gets a loan to cover the cost of the work to be done by the ESCO and pays back the loan through the energy savings. If the savings are not as high as the company estimated, often it will pay the difference . . . Energy-performance contracting is a complicated business, in which technical experience and a familiarity with the clients can help avoid problems later on.

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• March 14–16: Baltimore, MD
• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA

Soon You Can "Print" a Building?

This article is long on personality but has good looks at this evolving technology. "In a small shed on an industrial park near Pisa is a machine that can print buildings. The machine itself looks like a prototype for the automotive industry. Four columns independently support a frame with a single armature on it. Driven by CAD software installed on a dust-covered computer terminal, the armature moves just millimetres above a pile of sand, expressing a magnesium-based solution from hundreds of nozzles on its lower side. It makes four passes. The layer dries and Enrico Dini recalibrates the armature frame. The system deposits the sand and then inorganic binding ink. The exercise is repeated. The millennia-long process of laying down sedimentary rock is accelerated into a day. A building emerges. This machine could be used to construct anything. Dini wants to build a cathedral with it. Or houses on the moon."

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• March 24–26: Cambridge, MA - "Strengths and Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats"
• April 5–7, San Diego, CA - "Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty"
• April 7, Houston, TX - "Sustaining Higher Education in an Age of Challenge"

Raise Tuition and Enrollment Both, Now?

Please note that this blog entry may or may not be further fleshed out than what you see right now.

The intensity of the protests in California also raises questions about why officials there did not make the less difficult decision of maintaining or increasing enrollments without raising tuition fees, or raising them modestly. This is a strategy that more public and institutional officials across the country and around the world should consider as they deal with continuing shortfalls in public funding for higher education.

Arthur M. Hauptman argues that public institutions should examine carefully the option of increasing enrollments and raising tuition rather than holding tuition steady and capping enrollments. He examines four options: Capping enrollments and cutting sosts; Changing the mix of enrollments; Increasing tuition fees for existing students; and Increasing enrollments while maintaining current tuition fees.

Follow this link to more information.

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• March 14–16: Baltimore, MD
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Community College to 'Spin Off' a 4-Year School?

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Florida's Edison State College plans to create a private university to meet the needs of graduates who, its leaders say, are not being served by local four-year institutions.

Follow this link to more information.

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• March 14–16: Baltimore, MD
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A Perfect Marriage of Old, New: Emerson's 'Replication' of the Paramount Theater (Boston)

Robert Campbell, the Boston Globe's architecture critic, apparently loves everything about Emerson College's restoration of the Paramount Center. What's not to like?

Note: Emerson was a recipient of a $200,000 Getty grant in 2006 and Emerson's full report back to the Getty is available on SCUP's Campus Heritage Preservation Network (CHPN) web site.

Some stories have a happy ending. The new Paramount Center on Washington Street is one of the triumphs of recent Boston architecture and urbanism.

The center, which was scheduled to host its first performance last night, is the perfect marriage of the right client and the right place. The client is Emerson College, which brings the kind of vital youthful activity that can regenerate a neighborhood. The place is the Paramount Theatre, a classic movie palace designed in 1932, at the height of the Art Deco period, but abandoned since 1976.
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This is also a marriage of old and new. The old is the Paramount Theatre, now lovingly restored to its original seductive glamour. The new is all the amazing and exciting modern stuff that’s been added to it. Some of that is in the Paramount Theatre itself, and some is next door in the center’s other building, known as the Arcade. There’s a black-box theater, a film screening room, rehearsal and practice rooms, a new backstage with a truck dock, lobbies, classrooms, offices, a student cafe, you name it. There’s even, up above everything where the views are, a top hat of dorm rooms for 262 future students.

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This is what makes good cities: the juxtaposition of new and old in one place, so you feel connected to history while you look forward to the future. Paramount Center embodies the wonderful urban paradox in which memory meets invention, the old and new converse with each other. The Paramount interior looks all the more 1930s because of its contrast with the neighboring architecture of 2010.

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• March 14–16: Baltimore, MD
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