SCUP-45

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Updates!

Preliminary Program PDF now available. NOTE: This will be updated every two weeks (next update is March 15). SCUP will not be mailing this to members in compliance with our sustainability efforts.
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Travel Discounts now available.

The five regional winners of the free full-conference registration drawing are pending based on their ability to accept.

Mid-Atlantic: Heather Bishop, Facilities Planner, Towson University, Towson, MD
North Atlantic: Diane Bernicker, Strategic Planner, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY
North Central: Pending
Pacific: Andrew Cunningham, Principal, Flad Architects, San Francisco, CA
Southern: Alan Artibise, Provost, University of Texas-Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, TX

Don't Plan Alone!
Join more than 1,000 other higher education planners.

SCUP–45 is your opportunity to:

- Meet planners from all parts of campus and share ideas and new perspectives.
- Learn tools and tips from experts.
- Discover new approaches to integrated planning.
- Be re-energized.

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Here are what we consider the TOP 10!(PDF)

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Topics Include:

- Accreditation
- Performance Measures
- Sustainability
- Finance
- Budget
- Master Planning
AND MORE.

Minneapolis - The place to be in July!

Minneapolis is your ticket to groundbreaking art, architecture, and performing arts.

With nearly 40,000 people living in downtown Minneapolis, you're sure to see plenty of activity 'round the clock. The variety of what Minneapolis Saint Paul has to offer will delight all ages.

Fast Fact: Due to an influx of "starchitect"-designed buildings, Minneapolis has been dubbed "Design City."

You Won't Want to Miss These
Inspiring Plenary Session Speakers!

Sunday Plenary
Jerome Ringo
President
Apollo Alliance

Jerome Ringo is an environmental pioneer and president of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of labor, environmental, national security, civil rights, and business leaders fighting to make America independent from foreign energy. Ringo is also an associate research scholar at Yale University, an author, and a lecturer. He currently teaches Environmental Justice at the University of California Santa Barbara. In 1996, Ringo was elected to serve on the National Wildlife Federation board of directors and, in 2005, Ringo became the chair of the board. Ringo was the United States’ only black delegate at the 1998 Global Warming Treaty Negotiations in Kyoto, Japan, and represented the National Wildlife Federation at the United Nations' conference on sustainable development in 1999.

Monday Plenary
Mark David Milliron
Deputy Director, Higher Education
US Program
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Bio coming soon.

Wednesday Plenary
Mark Valenti
President
The Sextant Group, Inc.

A professional for over 25 years in broadcasting and communications, Mark Valenti founded The Sextant Group in 1995. He is an expert in digital media technologies, architectural acoustics, psychoacoustics, and market trends in the multimedia industry. In his role as a consultant specializing in planning and design, Valenti's work extends across a broad range of projects, including feasibility studies, master plans, high-technology learning environments, recording, production, and broadcast facilities, performance spaces, and other places of public assembly.

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