Resources are available to assist institutions to efficiently and effectively fulfill requirements of the Jeanne Clery Act.
Integrating the right signage into your campus can aid in building identity and marketing for use in the wider community.
Cooperation between a college or university and the surrounding community leads to development, jobs, income and success for all. Here's why it matters -- for everyone.
Finding the best solution for securing college and university doors is a challenge for security professionals.
Build and manage a strong image for your institution.
A sensible balance must be found when deciding how to renovate and repurpose historic campus structures to meet todays programming needs.
Will giving students permission to carry guns on campus make college life safer? Opinions differ.
Here's how two campuses are satisfying administrators by saving money and satisfying students by increasing sustainability in their restroom and locker room renovations.
More college and universities are finding success in using campus teams to manage troubled students.
Leveraging Disney's organizational behavior for emergency management at colleges and universities.
A trend in residence hall design, amenities, decor and furnishings is transforming dormitories into fashionable, stylish living spaces.
Thoughts about the silent consumption of energy on campus.
Rewarding students for staying the course.
As the value of a college education is questioned from various quarters, we must broker a resolution to how American higher education creates a system that is flexible enough to address workforce preparation as a common policy goal.
Wesleyan University’s student-designed permaculture garden blooms to life.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design offers design choices that can enhance safety and security.
Ask questions and institute the changes necessary for compliance.
Technology is modernizing the traditional instructional environment. The modern college student arrives on campus with more than just a suitcase in tow. An array of gadgets will also be on hand, including a tablet computer, a smartphone, an MP3 player, perhaps a laptop.
Communication is key, especially during emergencies. Technology can help spread the word.
Collaborative learning involves teamwork, as does the designing of environments in which collaborative learning can thrive. Educational facility design experts know what works - and what doesn't - when it comes to creating collaborative spaces that allow for multiple uses and accommodate multiple learning styles. When creating collaborative spaces, keep the following in mind.
As with other campus spaces, fostering collaboration is a decisive influence in the design and function of todays campus libraries.
New beginnings for College Planning & Management. In addition to the magazines that many of you have come to depend on, over the next few months you will notice the expansion of our brand.
New York's Nyack College has a plan in place to retain adult students.
Being organized and planning ahead can improve the bottom line.
Affordable new access control technologies are changing the way students get into college buildings.
Keeping historically significant facilities weatherproof and energy-efficient while preserving architectural features takes care and planning.
Here are five metrics for establishing and tracking performance and customer satisfaction in your outsourced campus services.
For the past decade, fire safety programs on college and university campuses have focused on keeping students safe while in campus residence halls and fraternity and sorority houses, buildings that are often most at risk. While from a numbers standpoint, campuses are relatively safe from the effects of fire, there are a number of small, too often deadly, fires in student housing on campus generally caused by student carelessness. There are a number of ways to enhance student fire safety.
Today, in college classrooms, instead of the silence of students taking notes in notebooks, one may hear the soft tapping of laptop keys. Technology in the classroom has been evolving at a rapid rate, leaving teachers and students sometimes running to keep up. Multimedia technology, which specifically refers to technology related to audio and video, is no exception.
Something old, something new? That may work great in weddings, but how about campus renovations? In constructing new buildings, assuring good indoor environmental quality (IEQ) is a basic consideration. But when it comes to renovating older facilities, special efforts must often be taken to apply modern standards in acoustics, daylighting, thermal comfort, and air quality.
The days in which a professor stands at the front of a huge room and simply delivers a lecture while students dutifully listen and take notes are disappearing. Todays students and educators demand far more interaction and flexibility. Thoughtful facility design can help colleges and universities meet these expectations.
Darrell Smith, executive director of the International Window Film Association, speaks with College Planning & Management concerning the uses and benefits of window film for new and existing campus facilities.
Despite the fundraising challenge that confronts any two-year, private college, the ensuing capital campaign for Spartanburg Methodist College (SMC) proved successful and led to Ellis Hall being built and dedicated last November (2012). The facility was the first new academic building on the 110-acre campus since 1967. The 48,000-sq.-ft. building increased the College’s academic space from 15 to 29 percent of the total physical plant. SMC’s seven student residence halls account for most of the balance. SMC’s administration can focus next on upgrading existing buildings.
While increased enrollment is widely regarded as a positive development, understanding ways to manage the influx of additional students, providing a high-quality educational experience, meeting academic goals, and staying within budget requires administrators and architects to minimize new construction and maximize existing space.
As architects and designers we are uniquely able to incorporate sustainable strategies into all of our projects, regardless of whether or not the project will be filed to achieve third-party certification. Sustainable strategies can be incorporated into any project through passive strategies, mechanical systems, and finish and furniture selection.
The congested college and university marketplace means that every presidential communication must further institutional branding and messaging. Contemporary presidents are the public “face” of the institution, and competition for audiences’ attention has never been fiercer.
As colleges and universities focus on strategies to make their campuses more sustainable, they are increasingly turning to green flooring products such as carpet tiles. While many schools are still installing traditional broadloom carpeting, they are using carpet tiles on floors that were once covered with vinyl or other hard surfaces, such as those in classrooms.