The aim of this study is to evaluate the current state of, and the causes for, the substantial variation in the tuition rates of America's land-grant universities. This aim was pursued with the objective of trying to identify consistent and revealing policies and external characteristics related to the high level of variation that exists among…

Auburn University--a prominent land-grant and comprehensive research institute in Alabama--is no exception to the need to grapple with transportation planning. Auburn launched its transit system (called "Tiger Transit") in 1997 to address the needs of student commuters and a shrinking parking supply. However, by 2007 Tiger Transit faced…

Concurrent with the rise of the new land-grant universities at the end of the nineteenth century, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-93) introduced ideas about campus planning and landscaping in the United States that still animate much of contemporary university planning. While he never established rules or guidelines, his various reports reflect five…

Many university planning committees make bad decisions out of ignorance of the university's original plan. A brief history of American campus design is presented. The collegiate quadrangle design and land grant colleges' designs are compared, and master plans are discussed. (MLW)

The master plan developed for Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University provides a guide for incremental response over time to the constantly changing needs of the institution, and includes potential for facility improvement and expansion, improvement of safety, and regeneration and renovation of existing space. (MSE)