Facilities Development Plan - The University of Nebraska Kearney
Facilities Development Plan - The University of Nebraska Kearney
Facilities Development Plan - The University of Nebraska Kearney
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CHAPTER 5: <strong>Facilities</strong> <strong>Development</strong><br />
<strong>Plan</strong> Concepts & Recommendations<br />
Overview<br />
Goals that have guided this facilities<br />
development plan are fundamentally the same<br />
as the goals that shaped UNK’s 1997 <strong>Facilities</strong><br />
Master <strong>Plan</strong>.<br />
1. To provide our people with the highest<br />
quality learning, teaching, and research<br />
environment.<br />
2. To encourage a greater sense <strong>of</strong> community<br />
among all students, faculty, and staff.<br />
3. To maintain the highest standards while<br />
developing facilities, image, and resources,<br />
and to conserve those resources while<br />
devoting particular attention to: (a) the<br />
health, safety, and welfare <strong>of</strong> our people;<br />
(b) the current and potential aesthetic and<br />
environmental qualities <strong>of</strong> our community;<br />
(c) effi cient and economical location,<br />
construction, and operation <strong>of</strong> facilities<br />
and supporting infrastructure; and (d)<br />
development <strong>of</strong> technological capabilities to<br />
enhance both academic and administrative<br />
service.<br />
Under that guidance, since 1997 we have<br />
undertaken a number <strong>of</strong> initiatives to achieve<br />
specifi c objectives with respect to land use,<br />
buildings and facilities, circulation, outdoor<br />
space, and utilities. <strong>The</strong>se have included the<br />
following:<br />
We consolidated elements <strong>of</strong> the College <strong>of</strong><br />
Education in a new state-<strong>of</strong>-the-art facility.<br />
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We comprehensively renovated the West<br />
Center.<br />
We modernized and expanded the<br />
<strong>Nebraska</strong>n Student Union.<br />
We completed fi rst renovation phases in the<br />
Bruner Hall <strong>of</strong> Science and Otto Olsen.<br />
We developed the Spillway Park and built<br />
the Main Street Bridge over the Canal.<br />
We developed Foster Field into Cope Stadium,<br />
a multi-use recreation and sports facility.<br />
Other projects are now underway, including an<br />
expansion and renovation <strong>of</strong> the Bruner Hall<br />
<strong>of</strong> Science and the establishment <strong>of</strong> a modern<br />
central utilities system. Time and resource<br />
constraints have, <strong>of</strong> course, importantly<br />
determined our development agenda over<br />
the last ten years, in ways that the 1997 plan<br />
did not anticipate. We have also benefi ted<br />
from infusion <strong>of</strong> new resources (e.g., LB 605,<br />
donations, and renewed bonding capacity)<br />
that gave us options and opportunities not<br />
specifi cally envisioned in the 1997 plan.<br />
Now, looking ahead, our circumstances have<br />
changed, in large part because <strong>of</strong> the progress<br />
we have made in implementing our 1997 plan.<br />
As we go forward to achieve enduring goals,<br />
our current vision has the following new initiatives:<br />
We have acquired substantial western<br />
farmland property that may be appropriate<br />
for uses formerly envisioned for land closer<br />
or adjacent to campus. Concepts for such<br />
use might include joint UNK/community<br />
projects and could develop within the next<br />
few years.<br />
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