Campus Concept Committee Meeting

February 21, 2008

Room 134 Campus Center

Attendees:  Rameen Mohammadi, Casey Raymond, Andy Westfall, Susan Camp, Jerry DeSantis, Todd Graber, Tim Farnsworth, Tim Braun, Matt Spindler, Nancy Bellow, Joe Moreau, David Hill, Mike Flaherty, John Huonker, Kelly Roe

1.  The group welcomed Todd Graber to the committee he is replacing Fritz Messere.

2.  Project Updates:

            2.1  The School of Education program study is in draft form and will be finalized soon.  Money is in the new capital plan for design.  Susan thought we should get a vision/mission statement for the School of Education.

            2.2  Romney field house is being reviewed as a house for indoor practice fields for all athletic teams and an indoor track for all members of the campus community.  Facilities is also looking at converting the athletic field east or Romney to an all weather field.

            2.3  The sustainability mission statement has been shared with Faculty Assembly and the President.

3.  The consensus of the group was to include Penfield Library in the Hewitt Quad planning.  The group designated several groups (below) to come up with project related visions statements similar to the example handed out from the sciences. 

            3.1  Groups: 

3.1.1  School of Communication, Media and the Arts, including affiliated interdisciplinary programs and Campus Technology Services.

3.1.2  Social and Behavioral Sciences, Human Computer Interaction, History and Counseling and Psychological Services.

3.1.3  Penfield Library.

3.1.4  Auxiliary Services

3.1.5  Campus Technology Services

The focus should be what these groups want to do, and where do they want to be.  In other words “think buildingless”.  Based on the experience of the sciences it usually takes approximately 8 – 10 years from the beginning of planning to ribbon cutting.

Susan has invited interim Dean Fritz Messere and colleagues to attend the March 6^th meeting and interim Dena Rhonda Mandel and colleagues to attend the April 3^rd meeting to update the committee on their planning.

Once these plans have been received the Campus Concept Committee would review them and write a vision/mission statement for the Hewitt Quad.

4.  Joe Moreau shared information on an upcoming program from the Society for College and University Planning webcast on the future trends in higher education and indicted he was willing to fund the program if members were interested in attending.  Members should review their schedules for March 4^th at 2:00 p.m. and e-mail Joe if they are able to attend.