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Keck Consultation Reports

Counsel at an Early Stage of Facilities Planning
The Keck/PKAL Consultation Program

On this campus, the Keck/PKAL consultants recognized that the community had moved too quickly to consider new facilities. They recommended a significant ‘step-back’ from thinking about spaces and suggested that a first step in the process of successful facilities planning was to have a broad consensus on goals.

Essay

A PKAL essay: Leadership in building a facility for STEM education

Frank G. Rothman
For campus leaders, providing appropriate facilities for science* education represents both a major challenge and a major opportunity. Typically, a new building should last for 30 years; it must therefore provide facilities for the science of the future, which cannot fully be anticipated.

A PKAL essay: Planning, leadership & community

The process of reaching a campus consensus on the shape of programs and/or spaces for the future of undergraduate STEM programs in itself can create a healthy community, one that is informed about, sympathetic with, and supportive of, a strong science program.

Another Way to Articulate Community

Building Communities: Asking the Right Questions

Jeanne L. Narum
Questions that must be asked first and asked persistently- before and beyond the process of planning a facility.

Characteristics of the Ideal Spaces for Science

Investing in Facilities - The People and the Process: The Role of the Dean

Elizabeth S. Boylan

Planning Spaces that Make a Difference: Critical Questions