Campus Master Plan Update

1. Campus Master Plan Update Campus Master Plan Task Force Reports March 8, 2010

2. Task Forces • There were eight task forces in this phase: • Academic Needs and Space Utilization • Community Partnerships • East Campus Vision • North of Boulder Creek • Living-Learning Environments • Recreation, Open Space and Athletics • Transportation • Sustainability Campus Master Plan

3. Task Forces • Nearly 120 people participated • Composed of faculty, students, staff, City representatives, and community representatives • Worked October 2009 to January 2010 • Final reports are nearly ready • 4 reports are on web site, the rest will be up by the end of the week. Campus Master Plan

4. Task Forces • Charged with • Examining their areas in light of Flagship 2030 Strategic Plan goals • Looking for areas of cooperation and potential partnerships • Improving the utilization of our resources • Studying specific issues of their focus area Campus Master Plan

5. Planning Assumptions • Growth Drivers • Enrollment – historic rates vs. state rate • Undergraduate – small increase • Graduate – moderate increase

6. Source: WICHE

8. Planning Assumptions • Growth Drivers • Enrollment – historic rates • Undergraduate – small increase • Graduate – moderate increase • Research – continued strong growth • 2004 to 2008 expenditures of $1.29B • Growth of between 3% and 6% per year • Employment • Employee loss is not sustainable • 300 employees lost between 2001 and 2009

9. Planning Assumptions • International students • Increase 900 to 1800 more students • Housing • Freshmen live-in rule is retained • Raising upper division undergraduate (Soph., Jr., Sr.) residents from less than 5% to 20%. • Greater emphasis on family housing for graduate and international students • Address the demand for faculty and staff housing

10. Planning Assumptions • Housing (cont.) • Unmet demand of 1500 undergraduate beds after 1000 beds are brought on line in 2011 • Family housing stock is at the end of its life • 300 Tenure and tenure-track (TTT) faculty will be hired between 2007 and 2020. • Increased research facilities • Increased research staff (assume 3 professional, 3 student)

11. Academic Needs & Space Utilization • UG enrollment growth from 25,408 to 26,951 by 2030 • GRAD enrollment growth from 4,788 to 7,100 by 2030 • International students up 900 to 1800 by 2016 • Sensible plan for 250 new TTT faculty by 2020 Campus Master Plan

12. Academic Needs & Space Utilization • Facilities Improvements • Large Classroom (600 to 750 seats) • 1,000 seat performance venues (Music and Theater) • 3 additional science buildings (Geosciences, Chemistry 2, NREL) • Library welcome / Information Center • Science Museum • As facilities as provided, allow for instructor needs; Consider use of former IBS buildings & other backfill space for instructors • Convert vacated Henderson Museum/ MCOL and ENVD • Convert underutilized, obsolete space on MC for faculty and graduate student offices with partitions Campus Master Plan

13. Community Partnerships • Key Principles • Institutional relations & cooperative planning • Regular meetings of leadership • Commitment to transparency, shared information • Provide incentives and broaden the definition of faculty teaching, service, and research to encourage community engagement • Create an affiliate culture that supports diversity and mutual understanding • Resource leveraging • Move the city and university toward a creative economy Campus Master Plan

14. Community Partnerships Creative Economy: “We propose that campus planning draw from the tenets of a “creative economy” as a “hybrid” model for economic growth, one premised upon technology, the arts, information, culture, the environment and entrepreneurialism.” -Community Partnerships Task Force Report

15. Community Partnerships • Design Elements • Seek common values that sustain economic, social & environmental growth and responsibility • Sensitivity to proximity • Develop common areas that promote public safety, functionality and a Boulder “aesthetic.” • Reserve space for future development • Infill and density planning that supports decongestion and efficient economic development • Promote alternative transportation Campus Master Plan

16. East Campus Vision • Five Academic-Research Cores • Life Sciences (CIMB, Biochemistry, ChBE, IPHY, etc.) • Geosciences (ENVS, ATOC, INSTAAR, USGS, CIRES, etc.) • Energy (RASIE, NREL) • Astrophysical & Space Sciences (LASP, CASA) • Social Sciences and Humanities (SLHS, Linguistics, Philosophy) • Engineering and Federal partnerships integrated into Academic-Research Clusters Campus Master Plan

17. East Campus Vision Campus Master Plan

18. North of Boulder Creek • Partner with UDFCD and City on flood mitigation Campus Master Plan

19. North of Boulder Creek

20. North of Boulder Creek • Partner with UDFCD and City on flood mitigation • Create partnerships to replace affordable family housing in higher density development • Graduate students • International students • Faculty/staff • Retired campus constituents • Alumni • Active and passive recreation and athletic fields in floodway • Strengthen pedestrian linkages to the campus • Childcare • Conference Center Campus Master Plan

21. Living-Learning Environments • Implement plan to increase the number of RAPs from 9 to up to 30 by 2030 (Flagship 2030 goal) • Developing programs (discipline specific, honors, thematic, common interest) • Identifying faculty leadership • Creating adequate facilities • Developing new financial model Campus Master Plan

22. Recreation, Open Space & Athletics • Investing resources in recreation centers, athletic facilities and open space will result in powerful recruitment and retention tools. • Existing facilities condition, combined with 20% growth in student enrollment over the past two decades, have placed extreme pressures upon facilities which now require immediate attention • Demand cannot be met without both renovated and new facilities • Geographical distribution of facilities cause operational difficulties • Floodway/floodplain ground remains desirable for facilities  • Preservation of existing open space Campus Master Plan

23. Recreation, Open Space & Athletics • Indoor • Minimum of 160,000 asf new (standard 12 sf per student) • Renovate Student Recreation Center (220,000 gsf) • Construct indoor practice facility with track • Expand Dal Ward • Outdoor • 6 lighted natural turf multi-purpose fields (or 4 lighted synthetic) • Minimum of 4 lighted, natural turf softball fields; 1 lighted baseball field • Ancillary facilities for athletics and recreation • Sustainable landscape/grounds • Partner with City and school district • Indoor tennis • Competition swimming pool • Indoor/Outdoor running tracks • Ice rink Campus Master Plan

24. Transportation Campus Master Plan

25. Sustainability Campus Master Plan

26. Smart Growth Principles • Smart Growth strategies: • Mix of land uses • Take advantage of compact building design • Create a range of housing opportunities and choices • Create walkable neighborhoods • Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place • Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty and critical environmental areas • Strengthen and direct development toward existing communities • Provide a variety of transportation choices • Make development decisions predictable, fair and cost-effective • Encourage community and stakeholder collaboration in development decisions

27. Sustainability Campus Master Plan

28. Next Steps • Scenario Plans to help decide direction over the next 45 days. • Framework plans for North of Boulder Creek

29. Next Steps • Scenario Plans to help decide direction over the next 45 days. • Framework plans for North of Boulder Creek • Formal Space Need Assessment • Detail study for East Campus with programs • Undergraduate housing analysis • Area updates for WV, MRS and misc. properties

30. Next Steps • Results shown at a public open house in late May. • Draft plan over the summer • Public open house in late September • Formal adoption process begins in November • CCHE approval in March 2011

31. Campus Master Plan Updatehttp://www.colorado.edu/masterplan/ Campus Master Plan Office of Facilities Planning March 8, 2010