CAMPUS PLANNING - Roger Williams University

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2002-2003 RWU Presidential Fellowship Report: Campus Planning Managing Growth vs. Planning for Excellence This plan did not develop in a vacuum. The current administration is very focused on establishing more regular and more comprehensive planning procedures. The Town of Bristol and outside accrediting agencies now require long range planning reports as a part of their oversight of the University. Many universities have departments of institutional research or planning. In spite of an impressive record of growth and achievement the University’s entrepreneurial approach did not value long-range thinking. The Facilities Management Department, as its name suggests, is reactive and not proactive and is not equipped to deal with the demands now being placed upon it. These types of growing pains are to be expected and are compounded by the fact that the University now finds itself in a unique position. A University with many outstanding professional programs and a liberal arts core, it represents a distinctive blend which has few precedents. It’s beautiful setting also offers unique opportunities and challenges. The University can no longer afford to continue to grow simply in response to market forces; but must now confront the physical limits of its remarkable site. All of this requires various modes of planning or research at various levels within the University. What is the role of satellite campuses, what is the ideal enrollment, what is the carrying capacity of the site, what is the impact of graduate programs Is Roger Williams a niche player in a larger regional or international market or is it a prized local resource 5
2002-2003 RWU Presidential Fellowship Report: Campus Planning The Master Planning Process Primary Steps: 1. Create a Vision 2. Establish a Team 3. Establish a Process 4. Develop a Campus Plan 5. Implement the Plan 6. Conserve and Maintain the Vision 7. Repeat as necessary As the outline above indicates I am placing the Campus Plan within the context of a larger Master Planning Process in order place emphasis on the unique role of the "Plan" as something which can give real physical expression to the goals and aspirations of the University, something that transcends the immediate private concerns of any one body and looks at the physical environment in a comprehensive way. It links past and future, natural and manmade (nature and culture) and offers and clear vision for the future form of the institution. I realize that in placing so much importance on the plan I am setting rather high expectations; but I am doing so with the knowledge that, in an ideal sense, the campus plan is but one component of the physical design process. There should be precinct plans and ultimately individual building site plans. All of these inform, elaborate and even modify the "Campus Plan". Yet, a good Campus Plan has the power to inspire future designers for generations to come. Our plan will reference past plans and there will be other plans to overlay this one. 1. The Vision Mission “Roger Williams University is a community devoted to teaching and learning wherein students pursue both personal and intellectual growth. The University’s mission is to teach students to think, reason, and communicate; to develop expertise in their chosen fields of study; to appreciate established disciplines and to investigate interdisciplinary connection; to experience study and life abroad; to value cultural diversity; to develop ethical awareness; and to preserve intellectual curiosity throughout a lifetime.” “Roger Williams University is committed to the creation and delivery of distinctive undergraduate and graduate programs that involve discovery and curiosity and that are characterized by an ethos of inquiry and civic responsibility.” More recently, Roger Williams University’s President Roy J. Nirschel defined the “core values” at the center of the University mission as follows: 6
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