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Colleges Are More Than Just an Education but a Capital Investment into Our Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There are compound reasons that colleges fall behind in facilities management, renovation, and new construction duties. As a generation that puts everything on social media, pictures of these poor living conditions can easily become public knowledge, and cause the exact kind of virality that keeps university administrators up at night.

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Engaging With AI: 5 Tips for Institutional Leaders

University Business

billion in capital and operating budgets, the report is the premier publication on the key trends and data influencing facilities management in academia today. Drawing on their exclusive higher ed database of 43,000 campus buildings, 1.1 billion gross square feet of space and more than $13.5

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[PODCAST] Funding Campus Green Energy Projects with Tax Credits from the Inflation Reduction Act

University Business

In this podcast, a Tax Principal at CLA and the Associate Vice Chancellor in the Department of Facilities Management & Planning at the University of Denver discuss how the university’s leaders are including clean energy in capital project decisions and utilizing the clean energy tax credits that are now available.

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Why your institution needs an up-to-date flexible work policy

EAB

Before you begin creating an official policy, ensure you’ve considered the following: 4 takeaways for navigating flexible work policies and space utilization in higher ed To effectively make decisions about flexible work , ensure you first understand stakeholder preferences, equity concerns, space redesign options, and regulatory requirements.

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The top concerns for higher ed Facilities leaders in 2023

EAB

Review EAB’s Guide to Launching In-House Talent Development Program in Facilities Management. Deferred maintenance and space utilization remain a pressing concern on many campuses EAB spent much of 2022 focused on the design of campus space in the post-pandemic world.

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What Keeps Facilities Leaders Up at Night?

EAB

EAB’s Michael Fischer and Maya Graham discuss findings from a new survey of higher education facilities leaders. The survey explores topics such as talent retention, carbon neutrality efforts, deferred maintenance, space utilization, and computerized maintenance management systems. Give these folks to listen and enjoy.

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Facilities Maintenance and Operations in Higher Education: The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 5

The Change Leader, Inc.

Many are taking the first step of contracting for space utilization studies to determine how to use existing space more effectively. A 2018 College Planning and Management column on higher education trends suggests that leaders should focus on efficiency and flexibility when considering their space.