The University of Mary Washington (UMW) in Fredericksburg, Virginia, was founded in 1908. This article describes the process that led to the UMW preservation plan. Unlike most preservation plans, the UMW plan was developed in-house with limited funds. Furthermore, the catalyst for the plan was a grassroots effort on the part of students and alumni…

Examining the changes occurring in the nation's colleges and universities over the past quarter of a century, the author finds higher education in a crisis that will have deep significance for the academic planner. (Author)

This article, taken from a workshop on "Campus Health Care Services," focuses primarily on the organizational and personnel considerations involved in establishing a comprehensive health care service. (Author/MLF)

A strategic approach to institutional planning is proposed that integrates three usually isolated planning efforts as a means of making planning more manageable and of minimizing turf problems, favoritism charges, and other threats to morale and commitment to decisions. The approach includes breadth of representation on the planning team and…

Oberlin College in Ohio recently undertook a building-by-building survey of its entire physical plant, emerging with plans to recycle 17 campus structures. (Author)

The consideration of space adequacy can be divided into two major areas: (1) adequacy from the point of view of the physical attributes of the space and (2) the suitability of the space for activities of the occupant. A survey method is reported with a physical analysis rating system appended. (LBH)

Reports the results of a Ford Foundation grant for physical planning consulting services to predominantly black institutions administered by Educational Facilities Laboratories (EL). (Author)

A faculty member holds that planners, whether their concern is academic, fiscal, or physical, will have to reexamine their professional self-image if they are to rebuild the university to meet the requirements of today. (Author)

The discussion reviews preservation issues as they relate to campus planning and provides examples of how some colleges have approached circumstances requiring attention to preservation. A general process by which colleges can incorporate historic preservation into campus master planning is outlined. (MSE)

This article presents reasons for and against in-house master planning of major college campus facilities. Examples of the in-house planning process are from Mesa State College (Colorado). Guidelines offered for in-house planning include: plan for interruptions, plan for change, identify areas where additional help is needed, get consistent data…

A program is underway at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to make campus facilities more useable for physically handicapped and blind students. In particular, special campus maps containing information of interest to the handicapped are described. (JG)

College Instittions have begun to use the dispersed campus, outreach and external degree programs, and new technology to meet the space needs of new programs and a widened constitutency. Explores the solution of relying on noncampus facilities and programs. (Author/DN)

A formula for funding building renewal, it is suggested, must be responsive to two different sets of factors: those relating to the buildings themselves, and those related to the political arena in which renewal funding takes place. A formula for an individual building involving simple mathematical calculations is provided. (MLW)

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 of available campus space often serves as the answer to meet space needs. (Author/DN)

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