Learning by Design (in Partnership with SCUP)

Articles from SCUP members and collaborators are featured three times a year in their print and online magazine that showcases education facility design and innovation. Additionally, a special issue is dedicated each July to the award recipients from the SCUP Excellence Awards Program. The awards are presented yearly at SCUP Annual Conference.

For more information on SCUP partners and collaborators, please visit: Strategic Alliances

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SCUP Featured Article:
Permeability by Design
Fostering flow, creating connectivity, promoting creative solutions.

by: Jeanne L. Narum, Thomas Hickerson, Barbara J Speziale, and Jorge A Vanegas

Permeable spaces invite people in, encourage use, are flexible and memorable, and allow coming and going. You can infuse permeability into almost any learning space. Read how three campuses (Texas A&M University Campus, Clemson University, and University of Calgary) are using permeability in their emerging design elements.

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SCUP Featured Article:
Creating a Perfect Union

by: Dr. John Taylor, CEO, Association of College Unions International (ACUI), and SCUP Content Collaborator

SCUP member Daniel Maxwell, vice president for student affairs at University of Houston-Clear Lake, notes that planning committee members can be an important stakeholder group for a college union project, and should be comprised of individuals that bring a diversity of thought, ideas, and needs. 

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SCUP Featured Article:
Not Just Student Housing: The Next Step in Public-Private Partnerships

by: Kacey Clagett, principal at Appleseed Strategy and SCUP member

With [P3s] potential to provide greater financial options to universities and, in some instances, social and economic revitalization to their surrounding communities, public-private partnerships will continue to gain greater acceptance.

Other SCUP members contributing to the article: Barbara Chance, president and CEO of Chance Management Advisors, Philadephia, PA; Brian Karasick, manager of space allocation and compliance at McGill University, Montreal, QC; Christiana Moss, principal at Studio Ma, Phoenix, AZ; David Neuman, founding principal of Neu Campus Planning, San Francisco, CA; Sam Olshin, principal at Atkin Olshin Schade Architects, Philadelphia, PA; and D. Keith Storms, architect and principal at Hanbury, Blacksburg, VA.