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.
There may be help from afar.
A trend in residence hall design, amenities, decor and furnishings is transforming dormitories into fashionable, stylish living spaces.
Hygiene and vandalism resistance rank as key concerns in today’s more collaborative K-12 restroom and locker room designs.
Turning a 60-year-old high school into a 21st-Century learning environment.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design offers design choices that can enhance safety and security.
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.
How flipping classrooms will alter classroom design, furnishings and technology to help students learn more.
Strong opinions aside, the truth is that many school districts outsource one or more services, and for reasons that include financial savings, as well as enhancing organizational flexibility, economies of scale, risk avoidance and access to capital invest
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.
Creating a sustainable building envelope can be complicated, but worth it. Think about today and tomorrow. Educational institutions need to plan for sustainable management of their built assets both now and in the future. Building envelopes are part of that effort.
Affordable new access control technologies are changing the way students get into college buildings.
Will your school access control approach really stop a determined aggressor? Important information and observations on access control.
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.