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Download full textNitecki, Danuta A.; Simpson, Katherine – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2016
Lack of commonly used vocabulary for informal learning environments hinders precise communication concerning what is observed, assessed, and understood about the relationship between space and learning. This study empirically extends taxonomies of terms and phrases that describe such relationships through content analysis of descriptions of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Taxonomy, Vocabulary, Content Analysis
Grieb, Teri; Horon, Jeffrey R.; Wong, Cassandra; Durkin, Jessica; Kunkel, Steven L. – Journal of Research Administration, 2014
Challenges that face the academic research enterprise are numerous. These concerns include, but are not limited to: declines in extramural funding for investigatorinitiated research, an aging faculty workforce (the average age of securing a faculty's first R01 is over 42), insufficient funds to support faculty laboratories, and limited access to…
Descriptors: Research Administration, Program Improvement, Governance, Educational Facilities Improvement
Direct linkMayer, Fred – Planning for Higher Education, 2008
The University of Michigan is almost always in the midst of a building boom. Year in and year out, Michigan has one of the most active programs of building renovation and new construction of all American universities. This program is very carefully managed to ensure that substantial architectural design work is not undertaken until there is a…
Descriptors: Building Design, Universities, Educational Facilities Improvement, Program Descriptions
Waters, John K. – Campus Technology, 2008
As campus renovation projects go, the Ohio State University's plan to turn its main library into "a library for the 21st century" is ambitious. The author describes the decade-long, $109 million transformation of the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library. The overhaul calls for a complete replacement of all mechanical and electrical…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Improvement, Library Services, Library Facilities, Academic Libraries
Nakashian, Mary – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2008
Researchers in the Boston University Department of Environmental Health conducted a case study of the Boston Schoolyard Initiative, a project that provides funds and technical support to community groups dedicated to renovating schoolyards in Boston. Researchers described the process by which the Boston Schoolyard Initiative came into being and…
Descriptors: Technical Support, Educational Facilities Improvement, Program Descriptions, Evidence
Austin, Philip E. – Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education, 2002
Billion-dollar investments in public higher education do not come easily in the State of Connecticut--or anywhere in New England. So, when in 1995, Connecticut Gov. John Rowland and the state's General Assembly approved the $1 billion comprehensive infrastructure improvement and private support incentive program known as UConn 2000, this was…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Investment, Politics of Education, Educational Facilities Improvement
Valcik, Nicolas A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2007
The purpose of this research is to discuss development of the Logistical Tracking System (LTS)1 and evaluate the changes in processes and procedures at the University of Texas-Dallas (UT-Dallas) that were due to implementation of a new type of technology. The chapter elaborates on the positive and negative aspects of designing and constructing a…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Facilities Planning, Facilities Management, Higher Education
