Office of Facilities Planning and Campus Services

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:

• Support the strategic direction of the campus.
• Allow achievement of annual operating needs.
• Include the capacity to react to unforeseen opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure facilities that are consistent with the Shared Vision and Mission of IU Northwest.
• Establish plans for campus expansion and reconfiguration in collaborative and cooperative ways with the neighboring community.

General Principles

(Revised February 2008)

In making facilities recommendations, the Facilities Planning Committee will ensure that

The Facilities Planning Committee ensures that

1. Recommendations promote the unique identity of IU Northwest as:

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  • A campus of IU, and
  • An institution known for excellence in cultural discovery and learning and sustainable regional vitality.

2. Recommendations produce an environment conducive to learning for diverse groups and learning styles and conducive to the pursuit of scholarship, discovery, creativity and service.
3. Recommendations are consistent with the campus’ “Student Centered Principles.”
4. Recommendations promote well-being through an environment that ensures the safety and security of all who come to campus.
5. Recommendations promote the real and perceived accessibility of the campus to the community we serve.
6. Recommendations promote an attractive and convenient environment that is engaging to students, faculty, staff, administration, and the community at large.
7. Recommendations are consistent with our goal of providing an environment that is esthetically pleasing.
8. Recommendations are environmentally responsible to the extent feasible for the university.
9. Recommendations address sustainability issues.
10. Current and future design, space and infrastructure recommendations provide for flexibility in terms of immediate and longer-term use.
11. Recommendations for facilities reallocation are appropriate as program prioritization determines programmatic change.
12. Recommendations ensure that there is an appropriate mix of space for intimate gatherings and larger activities.

Vision-Based Long-Range Facilities Required

High Priority

• Discipline-specific student and faculty scholarship and applied excellence space (clinics, studio space, practice rooms, radio/recording space, etc.).
• Health and human services facilities to support wellness and health issues of the campus and community.
• Aesthetically significant facility to replace Tamarack Hall which houses interdisciplinary and multidimensional activities and projects within our areas of excellence, cultural discovery and learning and sustainable regional vitality.
• Provide a space to which priority is given for community outreach meetings and activities. (Added as a short-term high priority until the bullet item above is achieved.)
• Small study group areas throughout the campus with wireless access as well as data ports.
• The design, location, proximity and scale of signage that optimizes our unique identity, IU Northwest, cultural discovery and learning, and sustainable regional vitality.
• Create a facilities master plan.
• Review the feasibility of student housing.

Medium Priority

• Comfortable furniture for a diversity of sizes and shapes.
• Faculty/staff lounge that can be used for meals and conversation as well as community purposes (Glen Park Conversations, etc.).

Low Priority

• Removal of Raintree Hall and converting vacant space into a quad.