Department of Urban Studies
and Planning
Campus and Community -- The Planning, Design, Financing and Management of Research Institutions
Seminar 11s73 Fall Term 2003
Instructor – O. Robert Simha,
Joost Bonsen (TA) and Guests
Schedule: Tuesdays from 3-5 PM
The Campus and Community
seminar is a special seminar devoted to the challenges of planning, designing,
building and managing research university campuses and crafting the conditions
for a supportive and vibrant learning community. The focus of the seminar will
be on how institutional leadership prepares for their roles, how they make planning
and development decisions, how resources are marshaled and how an understanding
of the planning issues, combined with creative leadership, can guide the
development of a successful campus and community.
The seminar will engage both
past and present MIT presidents, provosts other university leadership, public
officials and faculty in candid presentations and discussion of real world
planning and decision making. The seminar participants will have the
opportunity to discuss institutional policy making and be expected to select a
topic about the MIT campus development or a community concern, and prepare a
whitepaper, article or issue analysis, which is suitable for publication in an
Institute publication.
Seminar speakers will include:
MIT President Charles M Vest
MIT President and Chairman emeritus
Paul E. Gray
MIT Provost Robert Brown
Executive Vice President
John Curry
MIT Treasurer Allan Bufferd
Chancellor Phillip Clay
Dean William Mitchell and Campus
designer Laurie Olin
Professor Tom Allen, Sloan
School
Cambridge Officials and Community
Leaders
Limited Enrollment – open to
15 students with permission of the instructor who can be reached at simha@mit.edu (TA Joost Bonsen jpbonsen@mit.edu