Future of Design: Higher Education

Return to Campus RoadmapPerkins and Will proprietary and evolving document on strategies for campuses to safely return to campus

According to UNESCO, more than one billion learners affected by COVID-19Credit: UNESCO

ACE estimates a 15% enrollment drop nationwide next Fall. Credit: American Council on Education

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Repopulate

Built Environment Online Education Future…

Credit: WHO Pandemic Influenza Risk Management, WHO Interim Guidance, 2013

Current ConditionsContain the spread and follow guidelines

Transition PhasePlan in Place to test future strategies

Repopulate

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Reflect

Re-imagine

RevertRepopulate

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What is happening right now?

From classroom-based to web-based

From energized campuses to desolate campuses

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How can institutions reimagine the unknowns?

Strategic Roadmap to Return

Roadmap to Return Planning

Repopulating Campuses Framework

Operational Procedures

Communication and Behavioral Strategies

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What does it look like to repopulate campuses?

Repopulating Potential Approaches: Fully Operational with Physical Distancing and Remote Learning

Fully operational with 6-foot distancing throughout Fully operational with shelter-in-place.

Repopulating Approach 1: Fully Operational with Remote Learning

Traditional Lecture = Not Conducive to Physical Distancing

Repopulating Approach 1: Fully Operational with Physical Distancing Phasing

Short Term

Long Term

Near Term

Repopulating Approach 1: Fully Operational with Shelter in PlaceCurriculum

Revising Curriculum: Blended Model

Repopulating Potential Approaches: Fully Operational with Pandemic Master Plan

Develop a Campus Pandemic Master Plan:

• Testing for virus and anti-bodies on campus

• Cohorts are managed to keep students on campus – quarantine happens on campus with full remote services

Repopulating Approach 2: Fully Operational with Pandemic Master Plan

Testing is a prerequisite

Immunity Communities

Repopulating Potential Approaches: Fully Operational with Pandemic Master Plan

Designated Quarantine Communities

Food Service

Quarantine Housing Quarantine Housing

Classrooms with Remote

Capabilities

Access to Healthcare

Classrooms with Remote

Capabilities

Classrooms with Remote

Capabilities

OperationsProtocols• Physical Distance Analysis• Protective Equipment and Supplies• Food and Beverage• Housing• Learning Environments• Cleaning/Maintenance Protocols

Behaviors and MessagingProtocols• Create a task force to define clarity in the

messaging• Universal signage throughout campus• Instructions on new processes and

procedures through campus emails or social media outlets

• Health and Safety messaging• Messages of Inspiration, positivity, and

compassion• Clarity in direction from CDC and WHO• Move-in packets or Return to Campus

preparedness welcome kit

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How can reimagine a range from Near-Term to Long-Term

Solutions?

Campus Impacts: Near-TermIn the near-term, there will be a shift in new norms, operations, and trials to determine long-term effects.• Design to support physical distancing • Blended learning models with higher

percentage of students online• Staggering curriculum to allow for de-

densification• Non-essential academic amenities on hold• Less shared space

Campus Impacts: Long-TermIn the long-term, there will be cues taken from the near-term strategies to implement for future norms.• Hands-free world• Technology infrastructure• Healthy environments• Mechanical filtration systems• Signage• Hygiene requirements and protocols• Fewer lecture halls• Re-imagining office space

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Best Practices

De-densify

Blended Learning

Curriculum

PrototypingAdaptability

Future-proof

Assess buildings according to CDC standards to maximize spaces

Real time face to face learning connections and virtual learning

Staggered class start time, alternated weekly attendance, and extended time between classes

Repopulate by re-imagining. Taking cues of what is working and not working well through the pandemic to take strategies as prototypes to test for long term success.

Space reconsideration for its intended purpose and allow for multi-purposes and processes/procedures that can flex and new standards come forward

Adjusting more holistically to account for another wave of unknowns. Entertaining

PartnershipsDon’t go at this alone – find ways to collaborate to drive enrollment back up

PositivityBeat the odds of the negative statistics – be an innovative trendsetter to find positives solutions, communication strategies, and new ways of implementing

TechnologyDevelop sustainable technology infrastructure and practices to quickly adapt to future changes.