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Plan Big UNL Campus and Landscape Master Plans PLAN BIG UNL CAMPUS & LANDSCAPE MASTER PLANS NOVEMBER 2013 2 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Understanding the Context for the Plan 4 Engaging the UNL Community 48 Plan Big Vision 56 Big & Green 68 Big, But Well-Connected 86 Thinking Big 98 Implementing Plan Big 104 For detailed information on campus utilities, please refer to Appendix A which is available under separate cover. 4 5 UNDERSTANDING THE UNL CONTEXT FOR THE PLAN 6 FLEMING FIELDS NEBRASKA INNOVATION CAMPUS HAYMARKET PARK PINNACLE BANK ARENA Existing conditions on City and East Campuses 7 UNDERSTANDING THE UNL CONTEXT FOR THE PLAN In June 2012, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) grow and strengthen its place among national peers in landscape goals, so that together they contribute to a launched Plan Big: UNL Campus and Landscape Master academics, research and athletics. Plan Big encourages cohesive, high quality sense of place. Plan, which will guide the university’s growth over the flexibility and entrepreneurship, and positions the Central to Plan Big is the notion that the university next fifteen years and beyond. Emblematic of the name university to anticipate and adapt to change while must aspire and reach beyond today’s confines. Rather is the significance of this plan for the university, which always building toward a long-term vision of campus than conceiving of singular, circumscribed projects, is occurring at a time of ambitious growth aspirations, and community. the plan suggests ways that the university should a new position within the Big Ten conference, and new Plan Big capitalizes on UNL’s national reach while create collaborative places that are conceived of as visions for UNL’s campus and landscape identity. It is remaining true to the university’s place, tradition and contributing to and reinforcing the whole. For example, truly a pivotal moment for the university. As Chancellor identity in Nebraska. Today, UNL is consistently ranked each building or landscape project is envisioned as Harvey Perlman states on the Plan Big website, “I’m sure in the top 50 of US public universities by U.S. News part of a broader district strategy that links together most of us can sense the momentum of our University— and World Report. It is an internationally renowned building program, exterior landscape ideas, and there’s evidence everywhere of growth.” research institution in the arts and sciences recognized circulation strategies to create and enhance a sense of UNL’s 2013 master plan, Plan Big, provides a framework for its deep commitment to undergraduate teaching. place. Similarly, UNL is celebrated for its relationship for growth to ensure the highest quality campus learning UNL’s land-grant roots are still strong, and the university to the City of Lincoln and its broader context. The and research environments are created to help the remains committed to its home state of Nebraska. The plan ensures that the university will be a strong university achieve its goals and mission. As Nebraska’s plan is centered on students, faculty, and staff. It was partner to both the private and public sectors, creating only land-grant, comprehensive, research university, created through engagement with and input from the connections to the City of Lincoln and burgeoning UNL’s mission is to teach, to conduct research, and UNL campuses and City of Lincoln communities. Innovation Campus. to serve the broader Nebraska community. With the Plan Big amplifies and builds on the identity and university’s June 2010 entrance to the Big Ten, the UNL character of each campus—City and East. It creates community has broadened in scope. Consistent with an recommendations for a connected, two-campus system internationally-significant Big Ten institution, Plan Big where future development is highly integrated with aspires to provide the physical framework for UNL to 8 UNL MISSION AND MASTER PLAN ASPIRATIONS The master plan provides the physical framework GROW THE UNIVERSITY TO 30,000 STUDENTS WHY GROW? and environment needed to support the university’s UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman outlined bold growth 1. Talent: To attract talent and realize the three-part mission toward research, service, and teaching. and student success initiatives in his 2011 and 2012 economic potential of the university, To accomplish this, Plan Big aspires to grow the student and Nebraska. State of the University addresses. The university has population to 30,000 students, to achieve ranking as the laid out goals to increase enrollment, tenure-track 2. Resources: Growth, properly managed, premier Midwest institution, and to create a memorable faculty, research expenditures, and graduation rates to can increase UNL’s resources. UNL identity across all campus environments. achieve these visions of academic achievement and fiscal 3. Opportunities: To yield funding, research, sustainability. While growth will be transformative in a and staffing opportunities and make positive way for the university, it must be thoughtfully UNL more competitive with other Big 10 planned and balanced with existing needs and institutions. TOTAL FALL ENROLLMENT, 2003-2012 opportunities on both City and East Campuses. Plan 4. Service to Nebraska Big creates a framework within which this growth can 30,00030000 happen, accommodating future development sites and UNL BY 2017 the transportation/parking infrastructure required to 25,00025000 • 30,000 students support growth. • 1,300 tenure / tenure track faculty 20,00020000 • 6-year undergrad graduation rate of 70% 15,00015000 • Research expenditures of $300 M 10,00010000 • Double the number of faculty with national recognition for research and 5,0005000 creative activity 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2030 9 “The next decade will be characterized by a determined effort to become bigger without sacrificing excellence.” — Chancellor Harvey Perlman, State of the University, September 1, 2011 BE THE PREMIER MIDWEST INSTITUTION UNL’s 2010 entrance to the Big Ten established a new set of academic peers at the national level. Among these peers, UNL has many strengths and unique attributes that set it apart. Plan Big seeks to embody UNL’s strengths and unique attributes in an identity that is expressed in the physical environment through campus design and landscape. UNL is the westernmost member of the Big Ten, which impacts the university’s landscape and image. As one moves from the eastern U.S. toward UNL’s central location, there are decreasing precipitation rates, de- creasing tree canopy, and increasing predicted droughts. These conditions contribute to a landscape character at UNL that is respectful of its climate. They also influence research trajectories, such as the Water for Food Institute. Among its Big Ten peer cities, Lincoln has one of the largest populations and UNL’s location immediately north of downtown Lincoln creates tremendous opportunity to capitalize on the vitality of a proximate downtown relationship. Plan Big embraces City Campus’ downtown edge, celebrating the north-south corridors that connect the City into the campus and the transition from city to Aerial view of City Campus, today, looking northeast campus along Q Street. toward East Campus 10 CREATE A MEMORABLE UNL IDENTITY counterpart at East Campus. Each campus has a unique character that is shaped by its history, topography and A clear sense of campus image and identity will be ecology, campus uses, and immediate adjacencies. critical to ensure that future growth occurs in a way that A key differentiator among its peers and a powerful reinforces and strengthens UNL’s national reputation and dimension of the university’s identity, these distinct provides a clear sense of campus image and identity. It is campus identities are embraced by Plan Big. Developing often said that potential recruits—whether faculty, staff each campus consistent with its own character will both or student—make a decision about a campus within the accomplish the mission of the programs as well as enable first few moments of an initial campus visit. This speaks greater diversity of experience, a stronger sense of place to the importance of campus identity and ‘sense of and a greater appeal to a broader community. place’—an elusive yet critical emotional connection we make to a physical environment—for UNL and its future. The Plan Big campus master plan and landscape plan City Campus A high quality, interconnected built and landscape is a chance for the university to plan for its future in an environment speaks volumes about the aspirations and integrated way that coordinates the multiple systems that priorities of an institution. make it work—from learning environments to mobility to campus landscape. Plan Big presents a holistic, UNL has grown incrementally over time, from its systems-based approach to a new, more sustainable era— inception as a public institution in 1869 through several taking a step back from the specific concerns of today eras of planning, growth, and changing needs. The to create a greater, bigger view of the university’s future incremental growth pattern has enabled the campus to potentials. Specifically, Plan Big improves the quality of grow and form as resources emerged over time. Today, landscape systems and spaces, increases connectivity on however, Plan Big offers the chance to reflect on the campus and to the surrounding context, and strengthens campus’ historic evolution and create a holistic view of the potential for innovation and collaboration in the the university’s potentials. A central observation of Plan learning environment. Big is the uniqueness of the two-campus system: the historically urban City Campus and its more pastoral East Campus 11 CAMPUS HISTORY Although they differ today in character, City and East EAST CAMPUS Campuses share a clear development pattern. This historic pattern offers lessons for future planning about what forms of campus development work best on UNL’s campuses. Development on both campuses began in the southwest corners, perched on high and dry urban ridgelines.
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