Goal #5: Enhance Physical Plant

Keeping our learning spaces in tip-top shape is necessary to create and maintain a vibrant learning community.

Goal #5: Enhance Physical Plant

  1. Renovations/enhancements to modernize the physical plant
  2. Enhance campus security measures
  3. Proactive assessment of ADA accessibility

Below are the strategies and targets the university will employ to achieve this goal. 

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Strategies:

  1. Acquire funding for HPE building renovations (the Health and Wellness Hub)
  2. Complete comprehensive campus space allocation process to determine optimal usage of existing space
  3. Analize existing building elevator reliability, to ensure continuity of daily operations and meet ADA requirements
  4. Add visitor parking spaces throughout lots, to ensure easy visitor access to campus buildings
  5. Increase campus security – in buildings, parking lots
    1. Increase part-time police officers
    2. Crime logs and incident reports – crime down
  6. Expand security cameras, controlled access within campus buildings, add license plate readers (LPRs) at all entrances
  7. Implement plans for improving landscaping, signage, mall area, community spaces, especially branded with colors, native regional plantings, etc.
  8. Ensure more than minimal ADA compliance, including automatic doors, handicap parking spots and ramps from parking lots, classrooms, bathrooms and elevators
  9. Implement enhancements at Pilots Pointe Apartments, correcting roof and foundation issues as needed and ensuring adequate hot water and Internet access
  10. Complete a comprehensive assessment of residential student needs
  11. Increase flexible active teaching spaces (both indoor and shaded outdoor), to include spaces for socialization (with benches, seating, lighting, etc.)
  12. Review existing laboratory spaces for potential renovations as funds become available, to ensure currency of laboratory facilities
  13. Review space needs currently met by 3 temp buildings and existing Biological Science Museum for potential replacement

Targets:

  1. By July 1, 2026, obtain funding and begin planning for HPE building renovations
  2. By August 1, 2025, complete report with recommendations on campus-wide space utilization
  3. Each building will have at least 2 elevators that work 99% of the time by FY28
    1. Determine the number of buildings in compliance and submit FY28 deferred maintenance request to equip all other buildings with two elevators
    2. Beginning Fall 2026, maintain a central log of downtime on all elevators
  4. By Fall 2028, 3 parking spaces will be reserved for visitors in each of the BH, BE and SC parking lots
  5. Increase the number of part-time police officers by 2 by Fall 2024 and 1 by Spring 2025
  6. Provide one full-time courtesy police officer living at PPA by Fall 2026
  7. Provide incident logs dealing with PPA to Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs on a daily basis by Fall 2025
  8. All buildings will be equipped with security cameras down all corridors by Spring 2027.
  9. LPRs will be installed at the entrance and exit of PPA by Fall 2025
  10. LPRs will be installed at the entrance and exit on Youree Drive by Spring 2026.
  11. LPRs will be installed at the two entrances and exits on East Kings Highway by Fall 2027.
  12. Modernize campus fire alarm systems by Fall 2028
  13. Conduct internal ADA evaluation of all campus buildings by Spring 2026
  14. Research grant opportunities for funding necessary upgrades by Spring 2026
  15. Proposals will be submitted to fund necessary upgrades through deferred maintenance beginning FY27
  16. By Fall 2025, survey campus, creating an Urgency List for facilities upgrades
  17. Begin implementation of 10% of items on Urgency List by Fall 2026