2010 SCUP Awards

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SCUP is pleased to announce the society's 2010 award recipients. Additional information including photos, descriptions and subconsulting organizations are being prepared and will appear on our website in May. Be sure to attend the awards sessions at SCUP–45.

Recipients

SCUP Founders’ (Casey) Award for Distinguished Achievement in Higher Education Planning
Jeanne L. Narum, Founding Director PKAL; Director, The independent Colleges Office; Principal, PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory

SCUP Distinguished Service Award for Exceptional Contributions to the Activities and Success of SCUP
Nancy Tierney, Associate Dean, Planning & Facilities, University of Arizona College of Medicine, in partnership with Arizona State University

SCUP Award for Institutional Innovation and Integration
Vancouver Island University for the Nanaimo Campus Master Plan – Integrated Planning Process

SCUP Excellence in Planning
Honor Award to Haverford College for the Campus Master Plan, with Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. – Planning for an Established Campus

Merit Award to Habib University Foundation, with Ahed Associates – Planning for a New Campus

Merit Award to Virginia Commonwealth University for VCU 2020: 2004 Master Plan Site, with BCWH Architects – Planning for an Established Campus

Merit Award to The University of Utah for the Campus Master Plan, with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP – Planning for an Established Campus

Merit Award to Stanford University for The Science & Engineering Quad, with Boora Architects – Planning for a District or Campus Component

Merit Award to The Aga Khan University for The AKU Faculty of Arts and Sciences University Village Land Use Plan, with Goody Clancy – Planning for a District or Campus Component

SCUP Award for Landscape Architecture
Merit Award to Duke University for the West Campus Plaza, with Hargreaves Associates

SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Architecture
Honor Award to The Julliard School for Expansion and Renovation, Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with FXFowle Architects – Architecture for a Building Addition

Honor Award to Bennington College for the Student Center, with Taylor & Burns Architects – Architecture for a New Building

Honor Award to The University of Michigan for The Museum of Art, with Allied Works Architecture – Architecture for a Building Addition

Merit Award to University of Iowa School of Art & Art History, with Steven Holl Architects – Architecture for a New Building

Merit Award to Simon Fraser University for The Arts and Social Sciences Complex, with Busby Perkins+Will – Architecture for a New Building

Merit Award to Roger Williams University for the North Campus Residence Hall, with Perkins+Will - Architecture for a New Building

Merit Award to Michigan State University for the Owen Graduate Center Refurbishment, with SmithGroup – Architecture for Renovation or Adaptive Reuse

Merit Award to San Francisco Conservatory of Music, with Perkins+Will – Architecture Renovation or Adaptive Reuse

Merit Award to Kenyon College for Peirce Hall, with Gund Partnership – Architecture for a Building Addition

Special Citation to Clark University for the Academic Commons at Goddard Library, with Perry Dean Rogers | Partners Architects – Architecture for Renovation or Adaptive Reuse

Special Citation to The Ohio State University for The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, with Gund Partnership – Architecture for Renovation or Adaptive Reuse

Read more about SCUP's awards and view awards archives here.

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Red, White, Blue, and Green: The University of West Georgia

This is one in a series of "chapters" (PDF) about college and university best practices, written by presidents for the Presidential Perspectives.org website. In it, Beheruz N. Sethna, president, The University of West Georgia, writes about his campus' successes in sustainability achievements. His "recommendations for implementation" of any successful initiative at a university are: "First, Make it an institutional priority"; "Second: Create a plan of action to generate the conservation"; "Third: Present the implementation plan to the leadership of the institution"; "Fourth: Roll out the plan with the endorsement of the leadership"; "Fifth: Monitor the progress with regularly scheduled metric analysis":

The title of this essay also emphasizes how the University of West Georgia (UWG) would not be able to realize its Green Initiative without the involvement of the entire campus. Add together, in approximately equal parts, the faculty, staff, students, alumni, and a large external community. Next, mix in undergraduate and graduate student research with faculty and staff research and continuous monitoring, assessment, and reporting. You begin to get an idea of the complexity of a Green Initiative that partners with a multitude of public entities.

The combination of academic research, staff training, and implementation of sustainable measures has made the Green Initiative and energy conservation programs an ongoing success story on the UWG campus. We have already received several best practice awards, and we have assisted in the dissemination of ideas that work. We stand ready to continue to do the same for other institutions.