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Webinar: Envisioning and delivering Duke Link


PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory webinar

Edward D Gomes, Duke University, Facilitator
Wendy Newstetter, Georgia Tech, Moderator



margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; border-width: 0px;Ed Gomes, Associate Dean of Technology Services at Duke University facilitates a webinar for Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) on the vision, design, construction, and assessment of the Duke Link project.

The desire to create new teaching and learning spaces normaly results from a demonstrated need at the institutional, school, or departmental level. Support for diverse disciplines, learning styles, and pedagogies is now a requirement for any learning space project. In addition, strategic emphasis on interdisciplinary educational opportunities and “eLearning” may require flexibility in furniture, infrastructure, and techologies.

In 2008, Duke opened the Link, a ...[more]


Anderson Student Center begins construction

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Construction begins today for the Anderson Student Center at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

“The student center will serve as a wonderful gathering place that will tie together our north and south campuses,” said Father Dennis Dease, president. Jane Canney, vice president for student affairs, called the center “our living room – the real heart of the campus.”

The 225,000 square foot student center will house meeting rooms, a 9,600-square foot multipurpose room, recreation space, campus dining facilities, an art gallery, a bowling center, dance area, student ...[more]

Trends in campus design

20 April 2010

Association of Jesuit Colleges & Universities facilities conference, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH

Tom Kearns, AIA, LEED AP
Steve Erwin, AIA, LEED AP

Transformation: The planning and success of Johns Hopkins’ visitor center

15 March 2010

SCUP Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, Baltimore, MD

Thomas Kearns, AIA, Principal, Shepley Bulfinch
William Conley, Dean of Enrollment and Academic Services, Johns Hopkins University
Travers Nelson, Program Manager, Johns Hopkins University

New business school redefines Xavier gateway

Monday, 25 January 2010

CINCINNATI, OH – As an article in the current issue of the Business Courier of Cincinnati notes, the building now under construction for Williams College of Business at Xavier will transform the school’s learning environment, but it won’t stop there. As part of the new Hoff Academic Quad (with Conaton Learning Commons), the project will provide the public face of Xavier, its towers flanking the newly defined entrance.

The school itself will immerse students in a business-rich environment that brings together not only students and faculty, but also Cincinnati’s business community, called the school’s “third stakeholder,” ...[more]

Xavier board approves residence hall construction

Thursday, 17 December 2009

Xavier University’s Board of Trustees approved the construction of a new residence hall and dining facility at its quarterly meeting on December 11.

The residence hall will house 530 students in suite-style living. The 800-seat campus-wide dining facility replaces the Hoff Marketplace dining hall where students now take all their meals. The 240,000 s.f. complex is scheduled for completion by the fall of 2011. Providing housing for an additional 500 students has been a priority for Xavier as a response to increased enrollment.

Locating the complex near the Student Center and existing residence halls will bring renewed energy and vibrancy to the core of campus while unifying the rest of campus, including the academic ...[more]

The larger context: institutions and sustainable communities

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Kearns_150x150_72dpiTom Kearns’ column, which discusses on how institutions and communities can work collaboratively to advance their shared sense of environmental commitment, appears in the November 2009 issue of College Planning & Management magazine.

College Planning & Management article

Xavier faces down challenging economy with campus vision

Monday, 23 November 2009

CINCINNATI, OH – Xavier University was cited as a Cincinnati success story in an article published Friday in the Business Courier.

In the article Maribeth Amyot, Xavier’s Vice President for Financial Administration, discusses the financial challenges of undertaking major construction at particularly volatile economic time, and the press in surging student enrollment. This fall the school saw a 26 percent increase in the size of the freshman class.

Shepley Bulfinch is transforming Xavier’s campus with the completion of a series of new buildings that were proposed in a master plan prepared by the firm in 2006. The first phase, the new Hoff Academic Quad, is now under construction. It includes the ...[more]