3 Short Learning Space Design Video Interviews From a SCUP Conference

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. We're only 14 weeks-out now!

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Roxane Assaf Interviews the Pros at SCUP–43

In this series of three videos, Roxane Assaf, director of teaching and learning programs for the Studio Classroom Project at Truman College, Chicago, interviews attendees at SCUP–43 in Montreal, in 2008. Her focus is on learning space design, including learning theory and the integration of technology. Her selection of interviewees demonstrates both the diverse array of very thoughtful people who plan on campus, and the professionalism of SCUPers from campuses and from companies that service campuses.
She concludes: "This SCUP conference was tremendously productive—the people that I've met, their insights their input—the collective experience was invaluable."

Part 1 (6:01)



Part 2 (7:12)



Part 3 (8:01)

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SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are:

• May 22–23, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
• July 10, Minneapolis, MN - Step I (in conjunction with SCUP–45)
• October 2, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
• January 21–22, Tuscon, AZ - Step II and Step III

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.

Smart Planning: Why Do Any Other Kind?

This brief article highlights, for readers of University Business magazine, some of the programming that we enjoyed at SCUP–43 in Montreal back in July—while making the case for smart planning:

Who should be doing smart planning? Everyone on campus who has any administrative or leadership role. Sadly, many plan without even realizing that is what they are doing. Even a senior administrator who manages a large budget may not be conscious of the fact that a budget is, in reality, a plan, expressed in dollars instead of the letters of the alphabet. Fewer still plan with the context of the entire institution in mind. Some are so focused on departmental or unit issues that they do not consider the effects of their planning on other units, or the potential synergistic opportunities that arise from integrating with the plans of other units. All of us can do our job better if we work at integrating our planning with the work of others. That’s just smart.

Where to Get Your Canadian News!

Beyond the campus (and, of course, covering campus as well), the following links will take you to places where you can soak up the current national Canadian perspective on news, events, and more:

• The Globe and Mail - daily news; 
  
• MacLeans - monthly news; 
  
• Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) - various media, including radio, television, and Web; 
  
• A collection of Canadian newspapers; 
  
• Tourism Montreal; and
  
• Wikipedia on Montreal.