Progress on the UAA Campus Facilities Master Plan

by Kim Mahoney, Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities and Campus Services  |   

Greetings Campus Community,

Thank you for the rich engagement feedback many have provided throughout this academic year to our master planning team. This feedback is informing our edits and approaches to the draft update of the campus facilities master plan (CFMP) for all UAA campuses in order to increase vibrancy and cohesiveness on our campuses.

The CFMP team has heard the feedback and is responding by providing strategies and approaches to:

  • Right-size the campus experience to current enrollment fluctuations.
  • Welcome in adaptable collaborators to engage with our community.
  • Anchor and organize space around academic and student support clusters.

We are offering two town hall work sessions to further engage with the campus community and get your feedback:

  1. On April 22, 2022 to share a comprehensive summary of what we have heard so far.
  2. On May 6, 2022 to provide an overview of the draft master plan documents.

Your input matters, we hope to see you at one or both of the town hall work sessions and we welcome your ongoing review of our progress noted on our website.

The UAA Campus Facilities Master Plan (CFMP) ensures that the long- and short-term planning of the physical campus environment aligns with the aspirations of UAA 2025. An updated CFMP will include processes to ensure we have adequate infrastructure to accelerate excellence and continually improve facilities and space. More specifically, the master plan will promote themes generated from UAA's academic and strategic plans, ensuring the built environment is flexible and adaptive to support the mission and overall institutional direction.

Why does it matter now?
The existing master plan is outdated and no longer reflects the institution's plans, policies, and procedures. Community campus plans were last updated in 2010 and Anchorage campus master plan was last updated in 2013. The CFMP update will identify strategies that will strengthen UAA's physical infrastructure and promote improvements through increased space utilization, energy savings, environmental stewardship, sustainability and equity.

—Kim Mahoney,
Associate Vice Chancellor Facilities and Campus Services
on behalf of the master plan steering committee and associated planning team

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