University presidents and provosts are always faced with the choice of staying the course or modifying the trajectory of their institutions. Due to failing business models, rapidly evolving digital competition and declining public support, the stakes are rising. Some are asking how they should think about the campus built for the 21st century.
My first draft of recommendations:
- Build no net additional square feet
- Upgrade the best; get rid of the rest
- Manage space and time
- Measure productivity
- Right-size the whole
- Rethink capacity
- Take sustainable action
- Make campus matter
