This guide outlines a program for creating and maintaining an aesthetically pleasing school environment. The improvement program consists of these steps; set the notion into motion, secure administrative approval, establish a planning committee, prepare a statement of purpose, evaluate present situation, identify resources, potential projects,…

Higher education administrators are finding that they can cut construction costs, improve communications, and provide for future changes, by removingoffice walls. (Editor/PG)

A detailed analysis of Buck County's development program that managed to retain the historic image of the County while providing expanded facilities for students. (EA)

To combat the feeling of isolation for Rhode Island Junior College's mainly commuter students, an urban environment was created in a multipurpose building that houses classrooms, theaters, lounges, cafeterias, and a gymnasium. (Author/PG)

Hofstra University attempted to set up a laundry service and failed due to transporationn costs, lack of storage space, linen losses and inventory problems. (PG)

One way to meet the problems of space needs of new programs and a wider constituency without resorting to new buildings is to modernize available campus space. With costs of new construction steadily rising, with space on which to build dwindling and with the growing affection for old, familiar buildings on campus, modernization often serves as…

Union College's Victorian-style Nott Memorial has mysterious and intriguing architectural features, a checkered history, and serious problems of neglect and underutilization. The college must resolve its future soon. (MSE)

There is no problem in book buying during peak periods at the Fredonia Store at the State University of New York; the manager uses a temporary spacious room set aside for book "rushes" during registration periods. (PG)

A 3-phase building program will add $11 million worth of new physical plant to Lakeland Community College's 500 acre campus by 1975. (Editor)

The University of Chicago has restored historic buildings (Harper Library and Wieboldt Hall), modernized them to serve the same use better, and rebuilt the interiors to correct code deficiencies. (Author/PG)

The recent experiences of North Carolina State University and Wake Forest University in the planning and construction of campus buildings are described as illustrations of the planning of space to meet the goals and needs of the institution in the future. At North Carolina State University, 780 additional acres were received from the state, and a…

Describes some of the problems that student rejection of traditional campus residence halls has created at colleges and universities. Offers some solutions. (Author/MF)