The Planning Process

The work of the PKAL LSC builds on best practices from PKAL facilities planning efforts since 1992. The central thrust of those best practices is getting the planning right, beginning with clear goals and strategies for the process of planning. These practices also reflect research on planning for organizational change. We introduce the PKAL Planning Process with this essay.

Questions

• Arriving at STEM Spaces that Make a Difference
  Jeanne L. Narum

• Asking the Right Questions: Toward Building Communities- Jeanne L. Narum
  From the Facilities Resource Archive (PKAL).
   
• Understanding Key Questions
  Jeanne L. Narum
   
• From Audits to Quick Fixes: Critical Questions
  Jeanne L. Narum
   

Audits/Assessment

• Work-in-Progress: LSC Assessment Rubrics
  As a first step in developing the LSC protocols, we are drafting an assessment rubric for STEM learning spaces, anticipating its use by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) for their June Conference. (Posted April 2012)

• Learning Behaviors Project
  Since 2006, several institutions have used a pair of Learning Behaviors & Learning Spaces questionnaires developed by Scott Bennett. For more information, see Scott's Library Space Planning website.
   
• Characteristics of Ideal Spaces for STEM Learning Communities survey
   
• Information Commons: Meeting Millennials’ Needs
  Joan K. Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information

PowerPoints from Past Facilities Events

• Linking Planning of New Spaces for Science to Institutional/Long-range Planning
  A presentation from Michael J. Reagan, Burt Hill; Douglas A. Weldon, Hamilton College; Lee W. Willard, Duke University
   
• Welcome and Opening: Beginning with the End in Mind - Jeanne L. Narum, PKAL LSC
  From the 2011 LSC Workshop at University of Wisconsin-Waukesha

Thought Pieces

• "Envisioning a Transformed University" - James J. Duderstadt, et al.
  Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 2005.
   
• The University/College in 2015: Imagining What It Might Be
   
• Social Creativity: Making All Voices Heard from Gerhard A. Fischer
   
• What Difference do Improved Facilities Make?: A Report of the PKAL Committee of Visitors
  From the Facilities Resource Archive (PKAL), 1998
   
• Keck/PKAL Facilitating Interdisciplinary Learning Project (Collaborating Partner)