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A Capital Idea: Blending Strategy and Opportunity to Manage College Assets

The time has come to examine development partnerships as an opportunity to move forward as the deep recession eases.

Strategic Procurement Teams

Strategic & Tactical

Is separating the procurement department into tactical and strategic teams right for your institution?

Green Campus and an acceptable ROI

Tipping the Scales

School administrators walk a tightrope, balancing their desire for a green campus with the need for an acceptable ROI. Here are three examples of how campuses strike that balance — or, in one case, not worry about it at all.

Maintaining the Campus Landscape

Maintaining the Campus Landscape

Whether it's mow and blow or a little more complicated, landscapes demand constant attention. Grounds professionals speak up about what it takes to stay in the green.

Visual Communication in Schools

Building Identity

Art can proclaim a building's identity while promoting educational goals.

Complying With the Clery Act

Resources are available to assist institutions to efficiently and effectively fulfill requirements of the Jeanne Clery Act.

Show Me the Way to Go

Show Me the Way to Go

Integrating the right signage into your campus can aid in building identity and marketing for use in the wider community.

improving school restrooms

Flushed: With Respect For Restrooms

Articles about improving school restrooms too often miss one big point.

Building Information Modeling

Building Information Modeling's (BIM)

Something called Building Information Modeling offers a new and better way to manage maintenance.

School Security Assessment

Security Assessments: Truly Reducing the Risks

Keys to effective and practical school security assessments.

Cost Effective Maintenance

Be Mindful of Maintenance

Cost-effective and efficient maintenance and housekeeping operations begin at the programming and design stages of residence hall construction projects.

School Floors

It's Not the Destination, It's the Journey.

Using floors as a way-finding method.

locking university doors

Locking the Doors

Finding the best solution for securing college and university doors is a challenge for security professionals.

Evidence-Based Design Influences Interior Design

Evidence-Based Design Influences Interior Design

How do architects and designers know that they're creating schools with interiors that positively affect student performance?

Troubled Students

It Takes A Village

More college and universities are finding success in using campus teams to manage troubled students.

emergency management

What We Can Learn From Mikey Mouse

Leveraging Disney's organizational behavior for emergency management at colleges and universities.

Total Transformation

Total Transformation

Turning a 60-year-old high school into a 21st-Century learning environment.

Renovation vs Historic Preservation

Renovation vs. Historic Preservation

A sensible balance must be found when deciding how to renovate and repurpose historic campus structures to meet today’s programming needs.

Guns On Campus

Guns On Campus?

Will giving students permission to carry guns on campus make college life safer? Opinions differ.

sustainability in restroom and locker room renovations

Satisfaction in the Restroom (and Locker Room)

Here's how two campuses are satisfying administrators by saving money and satisfying students by increasing sustainability in their restroom and locker room renovations.

Bullying

Bullying

There may be help from afar.

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