UMass Amherst Campus Planning Hosts the Society for College and University Planning North Atlantic 2022 Regional Conference

UMass Amherst campus planning, a division of facilities and campus services, recently hosted the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) North Atlantic 2022 Regional Conference.

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As conference chair and a member of the SCUP North Atlantic Regional Council, senior campus planner Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham celebrated with her regional peers the many campus improvements UMass Amherst has implemented since 2011, the last time the university hosted the conference. 

The theme for this year’s conference, which was held March 16-18 and was sold out with over 400 attendees, was ‘Together Again: Reimagining the Future.’  The conference explored the central question of how recent events, such as the pandemic, are reshaping higher education organizations and their physical spaces, and how these experiences will impact our future.

Tilman Wolf, senior vice provost for academic affairs and associate chancellor for space and capital planning, presented the opening keynote address in the Student Union Ballroom. The keynote on March 17 included a panel discussion on sustainability and decarbonizing the campus featuring Ezra Small, campus sustainability manager.

UMass Amherst campus planning staff also shared lessons learned from institutional projects in four presentations during the conference, while Pavlova-Gillham and other university faculty and staff representatives offered campus tours to conference attendees.

Joining Pavlova-Gillham and Wolf on the campus host committee, which worked to assist SCUP with organizing the event and showcasing the campus’ most significant accomplishments, were: Richard Yeager, director of campus planning; Steven Goodwin, deputy chancellor and chief planning officer; Douglas Marshall, assistant director of facilities programming and planning; Simon Raine, campus designer/planner; Thomas Huf, senior program manager for campus planning; and Dawn Bond, director of residential life student services.