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Student Activity Center Trends

What are today's students doing, and how should facilities change to accommodate their activities?

Let the School District Beware!

An offer of free roofing help for your school can be very costly. Several New Jersey schools found that out the hard way.

Thermoplastic Single-Ply Roof Relieves Water Damage and Inconvenience

Administrators at Mars Hill College had many historic buildings that needed leaky roofs replaced without damaging the facilities.

A New Curriculum: Energy Outsourcing Brings Cost and Energy Benefits

Administrators are realizing the benefits of upgrading their energy infrastructure and using outsourcing energy management functions to outside experts.

The Deep Mystical Secrets of Attracting Endowments

How do you get donors to make lasting contributions to your institution? It's easier than you think!

The Little Things That Count

By focusing on those seemingly minor things in schools, your staff can support the major components of your safety strategy and hopefully avoid major problems.

Seeing the Light

Aluminum-clad wood windows can mean a bright future for your school's maintenance and energy bills.

A Radical -- and Practical -- Approach to Classroom Allocation and Scheduling

This CSU-Fullerton administrator discovered that, with a little research and a lot of elbow grease, it is possible to improve efficiency in classroom allocation and scheduling.

How Cool Is Your Roof?

Cool roofs reduce electricity costs for air conditioning, along with the price of air conditioning units. Here is how cool roofs work.

Fun Place, Safe Place

If you can make students feel like they belong, they will then have a better chance of feeling like they are in a secure setting.

An Inspiration

There are hundreds of examples around the nation of incredible schools in places where we are conditioned to expect mediocrity.

How to Improve Your Shipping and Receiving

The guys buried in your warehouses know a thing or two about saving money. Take a look at how some campuses are shaping up how they ship out.

Establishing a Successful Smart Card Program

Successful smart card programs require comprehensive planning, support from the top and an eye toward the future.

Theatrical Comfort - From the Bottom Up

Sometimes sticking to a budget becomes a sticky situation. Ask the officials behind LSU's Reilly Theatre, who discovered audiences couldn't sit in their seats.

A List of Violence Prevention Programs And Their Websites

Valuable resources for your school.

Are You Ready? Basics of Emergency Operations Planning

Everyone talks about safety on campus during these dangerous days. Now here's what to do about it.

Getting a Grip on Facility Condition Assessments

Handheld pen computing devices and specialized software put educational facility condition assessments in the palm of one's hand.

Trends in Educational Lighting Systems

The application of new technologies is improving lighting on campus.

Time for a Calm and Measured Approach to the Threat of Terrorism

If even one major incident occurs in a U.S. school, at a school event or on a school bus, it will be difficult to calm the fears of parents, employees and students unless you already have measures in place.

Where the Action Is

As the population of Clayton, Mo., continued to grow, the community found itself in need of a new high school and a community facility. It only made sense to find a solution that would serve both of those needs - the Center of Clayton.

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