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Contents
VOLUME 22 ISSUE 3 | APRIL/MAY 2019
Features
[ FACILITIES ]
16 APrescripton
for Healthy Roofs
SPECIAL SECTION
27 Impact on Learning Program
Facility roofs are your first line of defense against the elements. Monitoring, main- taining, and knowing when to replace them is essential. BY KEEGAN TUNE
19 LightingforHumans Today’s latest lighting technologies can
enhance student success, safety, and en- gagement on campus. BY AMY MILSHTEIN
[ SAFETY & SECURITY ]
22 WildfiresGotoCollege
Fire-safety plans should cover not only the potential of fires on campus, but also the threat of fires from the surrounding environment. BY MICHAEL FICKES
The Impact on Learn- ing program was developed, not to fo- cus on whole building design, but instead on specific solutions that impact the learn- ing environment and
aid in facilitating teaching and learning and engage today’s students. On these pages you will find projects we are highlighting for 2019.
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On the Cover
8 Campus
Housing:
Back to Basics
CP&M recently surveyed college and university housing administrators to find out what issues concern them in their daily operations. Here is what they told us.
BY SHANNON O’CONNOR
Columns
5 Editor’s Note
6 Emerging Technology
Departments
3 Campus Scene
3 Ask the Expert 24 Facility Focus
Products
38 Case Histories
39 Product Showcase
39 Advertiser Index
[ COVER PHOTOGRAPH ]
Richard and Nancy Donahue Family Academic Arts Center, Middlesex Community College, Lowell, MA. Photo © Robert Benson Photography
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IMPACT ON LEARNING
SOLVING REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS, ONE PIECE AT A TIME
DO THE FACILITIES IN WHICH OUR STUDENTS LEARN REALLY MATTER? THE ANSWER IS YES!
Everyone supports higher standards
for education, yet many still ask, “Do the facilities in which our students learn really matter?” The answer to that question is YES! Classrooms that are inflexible and outdated—science labs from the 1950s, an- tiquated technology, roofs that leak, HVAC systems that are inadequate—affect an instructor’s ability to teach and a student’s ability to learn. Research supports this
theory, noting that students’ college choices are influenced by facilities that support and enhance academic experiences.
solutions that impact the learning environ- ment, while allowing money saved to be reinvested in education.
While we may agree that facilities
impact learning, most institutions can’t
afford to replace an entire building in order
to bring it up to date. With this in mind,
the Impact on Learning program was
developed, not to focus on whole building
design, but to focus instead on specific
A SPECIAL SECTION TO COLLEGE PLANNING & MANAGEMENT
The projects on the following pages were submitted by sponsors of this, our an- nual Impact On Learning program, and give examples of solutions that have made the educational environment in these institu- tions better and more comfortable places for students to learn.
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