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Higher Education Faced Mounting Enrollment and Security Challenges in 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These changes reflect growing concerns about campus security and the increasingly complex political environment surrounding higher education. Among emerging risks, adversarial regulation and political climate instability ranked as the most significant challenges, scoring 4.6 out of 7 respectively.

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5 ways to turn underused space into a vibrant environment

University Business

Our old school cafeteria was sitting unloved, waiting for someone to come along and repurpose it into a more useful, engaging space for the modern learning environment. the school’s facilities team purchased and installed chalkboards that students use for graffiti art). Think outside of the box. Enlist help from everyone on campus.

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Coppin State University: A Renaissance of Purpose and Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The university offers the perfect environment for me to grow and explore my interest." The campus has seen significant upgrades to its facilities, creating modern learning spaces that foster collaboration and creativity. Muhammad, a cybersecurity engineering major, is the youngest first year student in the schools history.

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Survey: Campus facilities' impact on student success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: A common concern among campus facilities directors has long been not having a seat at the table of top institutional officials. In other words, facilities leaders shouldn’t just be brought in to execute building projects after details have already been determined. Don’t give up that seat.” block:block=176].

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University of Tennessee Health Science Center Opens $45-Million Dental Facility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The 68,000-square-foot facility – named after Delta Dental of Tennessee and CEO Dr. Philip Wenk, chair of the UTHSC Advisory Board and a 1977 graduate of the College of Dentistry – will have more space and facilities to train students and treat patients, including a clinic for patients with special needs.

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Paul Quinn College to Create an Innovative Housing Model and a Mixed-Use Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sorrell Sorrell said that the grant will launch a campus housing initiative that will eventually be accompanied by a larger mixed-use development that includes student and family housing, retail and restaurant spaces, parks, outdoor meeting areas, and classroom facilities—all designed to serve both the campus and the surrounding community.

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Facility reinvestment, bogged by inflationary costs, manages upswing in 2024, report

University Business

Colleges and universities are trudging through inflationary construction costs to successfully reinvest in their existing facilities as students’ interactions with the campus community change in an ever-digitalized world, suggests data from the 11th edition of the State of Facilities in Higher Education report.