Updated Preliminary Report
Strategic Planning: Updated Preliminary Report. February 2008
Subcommittee on Resources, Facilities, and Environment
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Based on initial feedback to our preliminary report – March, 2008
- Classroom space on campus – currently most do not support contemporary learning styles or pedagogy
- Preservation/Expansion of the Glen as a core academic aspect of our campus
- Links to art facilities (e.g., art museum, performance spaces)
- Housing on campus
- Students: do we want a 100% residential campus? Do we want to reorganize geographically or thematically?
- Faculty and Administrators: Providing more of what people want on the campus (upgraded spaces, larger units for families, sustainability)
- Increasing effective social spaces (e.g., Opus I, II, new ELS construction) on campus
- How about a cultural center?
- How can we best use our facilities to support campus diversity?
- Summer use of campus
- How do we balance issues surrounding revenue, furthering the college's mission, and needed time for improvements and annual facilities upgrades.
- Thinking "green" about environmental issues
- Becoming carbon neutral in 5 years
- Finding a way to link this issue to the college's curriculum and teaching goals.
- Rethinking campus vehicles and how they are used and powered (biofuels)
- Increasing alternative energy use on campus (e.g., wind, geothermal)
- Should we encourage students to help pay for "green" energy?
- Increasing environmental awareness on campus
- Conservation of energy resources
- New thermostats in dorms and buildings
- Changing campus attitudes about being more energy efficient
- Continuing to support and develop new and upcoming programs
- Environmentally sound new construction
- Composting and the Community Garden
- Recycling on campus
- Re-considering the college's land (the outlying fields) that are currently leased out for farming. How might this land be better used to support the college's academic and social goals?
Resources, Facilities, and Environment Subcommittee Members
- Chair/Faculty: Ella Gant egant@hamilton.edu 859-4265
- Faculty:Jean Burr jburr@hamilton.edu 859-4518
- Student: Greg Ray gray@hamilton.edu 859-2714
- Trustee: Jeff Little jeff_little@glmshows.com 914-421-3214
- Administrator/Staff: Bill Huggins whuggins@hamilton.edu 859-4177
- Administrator/Staff: Andrew Jillings ajilling@hamilton.edu 859-4272
