What would make it appealing to live farther away from campus?

Provide your answer in the comments section. Feel free to post photos or links to elaborate on your thoughts and leave your e-mail address if you’d like a private response! See other discussions  here.

What would make it easier and safer to move around campus?

Provide your answer in the comments section. Feel free to post photos or links to elaborate on your thoughts and leave your e-mail address if you’d like a private response! See other discussions  here.

Event Notice: Plan Your Campus — Campus Master Plan Information Exchange

Plan Your Campus:  Campus Master Plan Information Exchange
March 26, 2012
Queen’s Centre Student Street
11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

What do you love about the Queen’s campus? What would you like to see changed? What type of spaces would improve your learning experience? What would make West Campus a destination? What would make it easier and safer to move around campus? Come by the Queen’s Centre on March 26 between 11 am and 2 pm to provide your input and learn more about the Queen’s Campus Master Plan project.
 
Queen’s University is updating the 2002 Campus Plan. This is a significant undertaking and a strategic milestone in the university’s evolution.  Our new Campus Master Plan (CMP) will establish an engaging and attainable vision and framework that will guide how the university physically changes over the next 10 to 15 years.

The university has retained a multi-faceted consultant team to prepare the CMP. The team is led by Urban Strategies and supported by a number of other consultants specializing in different aspects of campus growth.

The CMP team is in a critical early stage for engaging students, faculty, staff, and the wider Kingston community to learn about aspirations for the Queen’s campus, and its perceived strengths and challenges. The Information Exchange on March 26 is a key opportunity to learn more about the plan, meet the consultants, and share how you experience your campus.

Drop by the Queen’s Centre anytime between 11 and 2 pm to view information panels, meet the team, and provide your input. This is your opportunity to help plan your campus!

For more information:

Visit the project website
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Follow us on Twitter and join the discussion by using the #planyourcampus hashtag!
Like us on Facebook and RSVP to the event

Queen’s Library wants your input: Take the LibQUAL+ survey before March 1

Did you know that in addition to the Campus Master Plan (CMP), Queen’s is also preparing a Library and Archives Master Plan (LAMP)? While a separate process from the CMP, the two plans will inform one another. We at the CMP team want to make sure you’re involved in both studies.

Adjunct to the LAMP process, Queen’s University Library is surveying the Queen’s community to learn more about our users’ perceptions and expectations of the Library.

The survey is called LibQUAL+ and is part of a national effort to develop effective measures of library service quality and identify best practices. Previous iterations of this survey were conducted at Queen’s in 2004, 2007 and 2010 and provided data and feedback that the Library has used in further developing services and providing resources that its users value.

Find a full description of the survey here. (PDF 130KB).

Your consent to be part of the study is implied when you complete the survey. It will take approximately 8 minutes to complete.

Click here to start the survey.

As a token of appreciation for your completing the survey, you’ll be offered to enter a draw for a GoPro Camera.

Missed the lecture?

Watch the video of Joe Berridge’s public lecture on Tuesday, Jan. 29 here.
We’d love to hear your feedback in the comments section!
Video Part 1
Video Part 2

Public Lecture draws a crowd!

Thanks to all who braved the storm warnings and joined us on Tuesday night for Joe Berridge’s lecture on “The Campus and the Community”. A great start to a good conversation about the future. Check out some of the conversation on Twitter about this event! A standing room-only crowd filled the foyer at the Agnes.

Looking forward to seeing you tonight!

Don’t forget – tonight’s lecture with Joe Berridge on “The Campus and the Community” will start at 5:45. Join the conversation live on Twitter #planyourcampus!

Join us for a lecture: Jan. 29

Joe Berridge, the lead consultant in charge of the Campus Master Plan, will present a free public lecture on “The Campus in the Community”. Please join us!

Project Team meets Advisory Committee

Joe Berridge, lead consultant, presents to CMPAC

Urban Strategies and the consultant team (Rickes Associates, Stantec, Willowbank and Betty Dion Enterprises) met with the Campus Master Plan Advisory Committee (CMPAC) on December 4, 2012, to officially kick off this exciting project.  The CMPAC will meet with us at least five times at key junctures of the project, in order to  provide feedback on major deliverables and offer strategic direction with respect to campus challenges, the campus Vision and the draft Campus Plan.

Participants view campus map

Yvonne Holland, Manager, Campus Planning, participates in the session

Members of the CMPAC listen to a presentation by the Consultant Team.

CMP is underway

The first phase of the Campus Master Plan is moving ahead. We have started the process by reaching out to Queen’s core community and will gradually broaden to include the City and residents of Kingston. One of our first tasks involves extensive one-on-one and group interviews with stakeholders, including faculty, staff, administration, students, external groups and City representatives. We anticipate approximately 24 stakeholder interviews and 15 academic interviews for a duration of 45 minutes to 90 minutes each. Over the course of the project we will approach the broader public for input, via social media tools, the press and a series of events.