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The College is partnering with two dynamic design firms - Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects and Andropogon Associates - to conduct a Campus Master Plan that will help guide our development over the coming years.
A Masterplanning Committee comprised of students, faculty, staff, and design consultants is currently collecting information pertaining to the College's facilities and programs. The success of the plan relies on the ideas and observations of as many Dickinsonians as possible. The Masterplanning Committee has already met with many campus groups, and the information obtained has been extremely valuable. The Masterplanning process is guided by the goals and objectitves listed below.
Please click the image to the right to see a draft copy of the existing campus conditions analysis.
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Mission (Goal 1):
Our mission is to prepare young people, by means of a useful education in liberal arts and sciences, for engaged lives of citizenship and leadership in the service of society.
Objectives:
Plan for facilities that are designed around Dickinson education; an education that crosses boundaries between academic fields and between the classroom and the college community and beyond.
Sustain organization and targeted innovation that will maintain Dickinson’s position as a leading liberal arts college.
Become operationally organized and ready to act on opportunities as they occur.
Include art pieces throughout the campus that are relevant to the mission of the College.
Goal 2:
Create a global campus that is infused with internationalism.
Objectives:
Plan a campus that will enable the College community to act as responsible and effective global citizens.
Demonstrate through the design and configuration of facilities the Dickinson commitment to inclusiveness, pluralism and democracy.
Demonstrate through details of buildings and signage the connections that exist between activities on campus and elsewhere: locally and around the world.
Goal 3:
Provide facilities with the flexibility necessary to meet changing needs of the College.
Objectives
Plan for reconfiguration or expansion of existing facilities and for new construction to accommodate current and anticipated growth in College space and equipment needs.
Plan facilities improvements that will enrich and expand existing educational and recreational opportunities.
Invest in a consistently high quality of architecture that embodies the College’s values in liberal arts. Avoid architectural uniformity and encourage innovation.
Build spaces that are amenable to different furniture layouts and uses.
Address deferred maintenance in order to take full advantage of existing facilities.
Goal 4:
Foster good citizenship.
Objectives:
Include opportunities within and beyond the limestone walls that connect students with the wider world.
Develop and expand ties beyond campus that are reflective, reciprocal and helpful to the community at large.
Provide for an improved intercollegiate and athletics program. Plan facilities to propel sports for men and women to greater competitive success and recognition, and provide opportunities for all of the Dickinson community to participate.
Goal 5:
Continue to increase the quality and breadth of the resident learning experience on campus.
Objectives
Provide housing opportunities that offer students venues for living-learning and appropriate self-governance.
Maintain a balance of traditional and non-traditional housing which provide opportunities to build community skills.
Maintain and upgrade residential facilities that provide students with progressively more independent living opportunities while continuing to interact with the community of the College.
Encourage interaction between students of diverse age, perspectives and experience.
Provide creative student life spaces that both instigate and support an integrated educational experience, while offering flexibility of use to support self-expression.
Create indoor and outdoor spaces that harbor and encourage purposeful conversation and interaction.
Goal 6:
Create a campus culture that is committed to ecological sustainability, both operationally and academically. Make Dickinson known for the quality of its environmental stewardship.
Objectives:
Continue to integrate environmental accountability into decision-making and planning across all college functions.
Through visible application of sustainable practices, educate students, faculty and staff about the environmental impact of their actions and life-styles.
Demonstrate environmental awareness in residence halls.
Involve all community members in the process of achieving campus sustainability.
Encourage awareness and assistance in attainment of the President’s Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) by all of the campus community.
Goal 7:
Instill a culture of prudent use of resourcesand respect for the natural world that supports civilized society.
Objectives:
Practice environmental accountability and make the campus a living example of sustainability.
Consider the life-cycle benefits and ‘true costs’ including the health consequences implicit in each decision concerning campus improvement.
Implement sustainable initiatives that result in monetary savings.
Enable transition to environmentally healthy options through decisions on buildings, landscape, maintenance and resources.
Throughout the campus, identify appropriate uses for land so that open and enclosed spaces complement one-another functionally and aesthetically.
Complete each project before initiating another so that the College environment is always whole. Avoid the use of temporary structures.
Include funding with each new building to endow its proper maintenance.
Goal 8:
Strengthen the qualities of the Dickinson campus that will nurture lifelong affiliations.
Objectives:
Strengthen campus identity and keep the Dickinson story at the forefront as improvements are made.
Respect the history of the campus while encouraging innovation.
Capitalize on the place of the College in the Borough and communities of Carlisle.
Achieve a consistently high quality of buildings and landscape throughout the campus that strengthen the identity of Dickinson College.
Minimize the interruption by streets of free, interactive movement of pedestrians throughout the campus.
Reconcile the orientation of buildings with changing functions and surroundings.
Re-connect facilities that appear detached from the campus.
Make activities to, from and within buildings visible to the campus to strengthen interaction among the College community.
Strengthen the sense of arrival at each approach to campus.
Uphold aesthetic values established by the most valued features of the campus with new and vibrant additions to buildings and grounds.
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