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Focus: Schools and Institutions From the Desk of Heather Taylor March 18 will start No Planes, No Trains, with the remarkable No Automobiles! SimKatherine Newman, ply click to get your system chancellor for ticket for transport to academic programs the Virtual 2021 SCUP and the senior VP for North Atlantic Regional economic development Conference – After the at University of “Fall”: Reimagining the Massachusetts, author, Future. We are embracand labor market ing the virtues of being sociologist. Katherine virtual. We welcome Heather Taylor will provide valuable insight on how participants and speakers from across our global changes are affecting the region and beyond. We are incredibly foracademic, research and public service tunate to have assembled a powerhouse mission of higher education. On March group of keynote speakers. This is not to 19, our day begins with a panel of be missed! presidents from the U.S., Canada, and Ireland, including Frances Bronet from Pratt Institute, Vianne Timmons from Memorial University, and Kerstin Mey from University of Limerick. The panel We kick off on March 17 with Edie will be moderated by Deirdre Fernandes Weiner, CEO of The Future Hunters. She of the Boston Globe. will captivate you and inspire us to imagConcurrent sessions both build on ine the possibilities with what we know the conference theme and provide some has been transformational change in this much-needed breaks from all-pandemic past year. We are honored to have Edie topics. Sessions include discussions on sustainability, technology, teaching join us. If you can, please check out Edie’s models, retention, planning for urban website at https://thefuturehunters.com/.
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institutions, state-wide system planning, the changing dining experience, student engagement and interesting/relevant project case studies, and more. Conference participants are in for a bonus this year, as tours and a roundtable are included. They cover some interesting and hard-to-get-to projects and a discussion of different perspectives on student housing and addressing the pandemic from institutions in Ireland and England. Each day will also include a virtual chance to network and engage conference attendees. Check out more about the conference on the Society of College and University Planning (SCUP) website at https://www. scup.org/conferences-programs/2021north-atlantic-regional-conference/. Again, a huge thank you to our sponsors (there are still opportunities available), the conference planning committee, and the leadership and staff at SCUP National. SCUP is all about planning – academic, institutional, strategic, fiscal, and facilities planning have been the cornerstones of the organization and, of course, engaging and networking with peers from institutions
and professionals dedicated to working with institutions – all in the name of advancing institutional missions and educating the next generation. How we learn continues to change and, this year more than ever, we have been catapulted into a future of new ways to learn and socialize. The Conference Planning Committee is chaired by the immediate-past regional chair and director of capital planning, John Fogarty, and includes Jackie Falla, director of client services, Elaine Construction; Nasrin Fatima, associate provost for institutional research, effectiveness and planning, SUNY Binghamton; Bob Hicks, senior project manager, Stantec; Jillian Kavanagh, manager, office of the VP, Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University; Yvonne Kielb, program manager, State University Construction Fund; Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, senior campus planner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Jennifer Stone, partner, Robert A. M. Stern Architects; Heather Taylor, campus planner/architect, Phillips Exeter Academy; and our partners from SCUP National. Heather Taylor is a campus planner and architect at Phillips Exeter Academy and the chair of the SCUP North Atlantic Regional Council.
A Message from Debi McDonald The Society of College • May 2021: The Future and University Planning of Learning (SCUP) provides valu• May 2021: Outdoor able content to its memEnvironments Postbership through a variety Covid of learning resources • June 2021: Equity, together with national Diversity and Inclusion and regional conferences on Campus and programs. • July 2021: Annual The BSA/SCUP BSA/SCUP Summer College + University Debi McDonald Event Roundtable is an Join us for an upcoming BSA/SCUP extension of SCUP’s regional event session! Announcements are posted programming. An AIA Knowledge on the BSA website at https://www. Committee of the Boston Society for architects.org/. Architecture (BSA), BSA/SCUP presents Debi McDonald, FAIA, NCARB, a range of topics relevant to higher LEED AP is New England higher educational institutions in a format that education market sector leader and encourages engagement and interaction. senior project manager with Jacobs, and BSA/SCUP celebrates a 21-year co-chair of the BSA/SCUP College + collaboration between SCUP and the University roundtable. BSA and we are pleased to expand our SCUP relationship through the support and guidance of the SCUP North Atlantic Regional Council. BSA/SCUP co-chairs: Donna Denio, Upcoming BSA/SCUP roundtables for spring 2021 include:
consultant, Team Dynamics Boston; and Niusha Arndt, Perkins + Will
• April 2021: Faculty Workspaces Post-Covid
BSA/SCUP committee: Patrick Murphy, Vanderweil; Parke Rhoads, Vantage Technologies; and Kim Sousa, iMAKE YOUR MARKeting
• March 2021: Campus Community from a Student Life Perspective
• April 2021: Campus Decarbonization: Colby College, Dartmouth College, Amherst College