Chapter 5 - Transforming the Campus: Central, West, and East
Investments in facilities enable the work of our faculty and students and help create a distinctive campus environment. Through new construction, renovation, and reuse, we must ensure that our facilities are up-to-date and constantly evolving to support the changing needs of our faculty and students. Continuing to develop the facilities on Duke's campus - on Central, East, and West - is essential if we are to create the kind of distinctive community we envision.
- In recent years, we have become far more deliberate about the role of facilities in institutional planning:
- The 2000 Campus Master Plan and subsequent 2002, 2004, and 2006 Action Plans have provided a framework for campus development understood throughout the campus community.
- The Provost created the Academic Space Planning Working Group in the summer of 2003 to identify long-range space planning issues and ensure that academic space is allocated efficiently to the highest priorities.
- The Executive Vice President introduced a more disciplined capital budget process and a parallel capital projects approval process.
- The Provost and Executive Vice President have jointly supported efforts to improve reliability of, and access to, space utilization data and corresponding floor plans as well as related financial data, facilitating planning, decision making, and project management.
Guided by the goals in Building on Excellence, the university is nearing completion of a set of major projects, with new projects on the horizon. New facilities such as the Bostock Library and von der Heyden Pavilion, the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering and Applied Sciences, the School of Medicine's Snyderman Building and MSRB II, the Westbrook Addition and Goodson Chapel, the West-Edens Link (Keohane Quad), the Fox Student Center, the Bell Tower Residence Halls, Rubenstein Hall, Genome Sciences Research Building II, and the Nasher Museum of Art, all dramatically underscore how space and facilities can enhance our institutional environment and culture, helping to attract the type of faculty and students we seek and facilitating our work in productive scholarship and education. In winter 2007, the French Family Science Center is slated for completion. From 2000-2005, Duke's net investment in property, plant and equipment increased by approximately $600M. We know that many other institutions invested at similar rates, many critical projects are underway on those campuses, and those capital investments in key priorities are continuing, and so must our own.
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