After decades of significant investment in campus development, U.S. universities are confronted with enormous challenges ranging from declining enrollment to rising facilities maintenance costs. In a new study, Mohammed Abdelaal, a recent graduate of the PhD in Planning program at UMass Amherst, and Professor Robert Ryan, landscape architecture and regional planning, examine how 11 public R1 universities in the Northeast and Midwest are addressing these issues through a review of campus plans and interviews with senior planners and administrators. The study is based on Abdelaal's dissertation that explores emerging trends in campus planning.
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