Facilities Planning and Campus Services

Welcome to Facilities Planning

Provides leadership and support for campus facilities planning, helping to guide development such that it gives physical form to IU Northwest’s mission and strategic plan. The facilities planning efforts shall be designed to:

• Enhance effectiveness and efficiency
• Identify potential improvements in facilities usage
• Provide accurate space information

Guidelines & Vision-Based Long Range Priorities for Facilities Planning Committee

Preamble

The Facilities Planning Committee is charged with developing a process and a
plan that addresses the physical environment* and:

• Supports facilities that are consistent with the academic and strategic direction, vision and mission of IU Northwest.
• Considers achievement of annual operating needs.
• Includes the capacity to react to unforeseen opportunities for improvement.

*Physical environment is defined as buildings, land, landscape, parking, furniture,
technology, utilities, entries, physical image, community plans and connectivity with the City of Gary.

General Principles

1. Promote and participate in the development of a campus master plan.

2. Plan for campus expansion and reconfiguration in collaborative and cooperative ways with the neighboring community.

3. Promote improvements and/or reconfiguration to sustain, maintain and improve campus facilities.

4. Promote the unique identity of IU Northwest and are consistent with the campus student centered principles.

5. Produce an inclusive environment conducive to learning and the pursuit of scholarship, discovery, creativity and service.

6. Promote well-being through a safe and secure environment.

7. Promote the real and perceived accessibility of the campus to the community we serve.

8. Promote an aesthetically pleasing environment that is engaging to students, staff, administration, and the community at large.

9. Are environmentally responsible and address sustainability issues to the extent feasible for the university.

10. Support an appropriate balance of space for a wide range of activities.

Identified at Strategic Planning Retreat, 11/04
Revised February 2008
Revised December 17, 2010

Vision-Based Long-Range Facilities Required

High Priority

• Aesthetically significant facility to replace Tamarack Hall which houses
  • Discipline-specific student and faculty scholarship and applied excellence space.
  • Interdisciplinary and multidimensional activities and projects within our areas of excellence, cultural discovery and learning and sustainable regional vitality
  • Space for community outreach meetings and activities.

• Create a campus master plan which includes
  • Removal of Lindenwood and Sycamore
  • Campus parking structure
  • Land acquisition
  • Campus gateways
  • Pedestrian friendly design
  • Assessment of the functionality of Raintree Hall and recommendations for future action
  • Recommendations to safeguard the campus against flooding

• Interior and exterior signage that promotes a student friendly environment and includes way finder signs for easy navigation on campus.

Medium Priority

• Review the feasibility of student housing
• Faculty/staff lounge that can be used for meals and conversations.
• Small study group areas throughout the campus with wireless access as well as data ports.
• Comfortable furniture for a diversity of sizes and shapes.

Low Priority

• Expand athletic facilities
• Expand conference and special event facilities

Revised December 17, 2010

Policies and Request Forms

Furniture and Carpet Policy

Facilities Request Form

Minutes

• February 4, 2011
• April 8, 2011
• June 17, 2011
• August 16, 2011
• October 14, 2011
• December 13, 2011

Reports

Resources

Facilities Information Management System

IU Architect's Office

IU Campus Maps

Parking Utilization Studies 2010

Parking Utilization Studies 2009