BU Seeks Your Input About Campus Spaces
University Operations officials invite students, faculty, and staff to complete a survey to inform the next 25 years of campus space planning
The University’s physical spaces have changed and adapted along with its robust and dynamic community. Now, as campus planners look ahead to the next 25 years, they want to hear from you.
BU Seeks Your Input About Campus Spaces
University Operations officials invite students, faculty, and staff to complete a survey to inform the next 25 years of campus space planning
Just 25 years ago, Boston University’s campuses looked nothing like they do today. In 2000, there was no Student Village I or II, no Agganis Arena or Fitness & Recreation Center, no Medical Student Residence, and no Duan Family Center for Computing & Data Sciences stacked up into the skyline. Green spaces such as the lawn in front of the College of Communication were not nearly as inviting as they are today.
The University’s physical spaces, in Boston, Brookline, and around the world, have changed and adapted over the years to meet the needs of a robust, dynamic, and changing community. And now, as BU officials look forward to the next 25 years, they want to hear from students, faculty, and staff to inform campus space planning.
University Operations administrators have created an interactive survey to collect your feedback about how students, faculty, and staff use BU’s physical spaces, and what changes they’d like to see in the future.
“How do you use our campuses? Where do you work, learn, and gather with friends, peers, and coworkers? How do you get around?” Derek Howe, senior vice president for operations, and Gregg Snyder, vice president for campus planning and operations, wrote in a letter to the campus community.
The survey results will be incorporated into a broad vision for BU’s three campuses in Boston and Brookline—Charles River, Medical, and Fenway—as well as the University’s physical presence elsewhere domestically and globally, including spaces in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, London, and Sydney. This living document, called the Campus Framework, will provide a “flexible roadmap” for campus planners as they make decisions about how BU’s spaces will adapt into the future, Howe says.
“While the Campus Framework will support our Institutional Master Plan—a document detailing the development of construction projects on campus that is required by the City of Boston—this framework will go beyond that. It will inform decisions about space planning, facility renewal, and daily campus activities. This framework provides the big-picture direction to bring BU’s physical spaces through 2050,” Howe and Snyder wrote in their letter.
Students, faculty, and staff have until Friday, November 14, to complete the survey and enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to either the men’s or women’s Beanpot tournaments or one of 10 Amazon gift cards worth $100 each.
To take the interactive survey, drag and drop the icons at the bottom of the screen to their corresponding places on the map. You can also navigate between the three tabs above the icons to draw a route of your typical day (under “Route”) or fill in an area (under “Shape”). Once you’re done working with the map, click “Done with the Map” to fill out the optional demographic information.