Campus Facilities Master Plan

The final version of the Campus Facilities Master Plan was adopted by the College’s Board of Trustees at its June 2, 2012 meeting.  The entire report has been posted to the “Reports” section of this site.

220+ students, faculty, and staff  submitted comments, posted to the website, sent e-mails, completed the on-line survey, and participated in a structured workshop.

Despite the differing perspectives individuals brought to the process, students, faculty, and staff were remarkably consistent in identifying two principles that, along with the College’s mission and vision, should guide the implementation of our Campus Facilities Master Plan and our campus stewardship activities:  sustainability and accessibility.  These principles, individuals emphasized, are highly related to our mission and core values.  They were also remarkably consistent in identifying three highly mission-related and urgent facilities projects:  Lowry Center, Mateer Hall/Sciences at Wooster, and Student Housing.  The rationales for these three were also consistent.

Read the full report which has been forwarded to Dober Lidsky Mathey.   Remember, the Trustees are responsible for deciding what projects and initiatives are included in our campus facilities master plan.  The feedback report will inform our consultants and the Trustees’ thinking and deliberations.

One of the strategic initiatives within our Strategic Framework is to update our Campus Facilities Master Plan.   Work on this update began in February  2011, has involved faculty, students, staff, board members, task forces, city representatives and our campus neighbors.  We are at the point in the process where our campus master plan working group, informed by the work of our consultants, Art Lidsky and George Mathey of Dober,Lidsky,Mathey, has compiled a list of potential campus planning projects and initiatives and seeks feedback from the campus community on the list.  An earlier, very similar, version of the list was reviewed by students, faculty, and staff in campus meetings held September 15-16, 2011.  The members of the “Big 5” faculty committees also reviewed the list at their fall 2011 retreat.Continue Reading →