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MU Campus Master Plan Update Executive Summary University ofMissouri-Columbia MU Campus Master Plan Update/Executive Summary University of Missouri - Columbia Campus Master Plan Update/ Executive Summary July 2006 University of Missouri-Columbia MU Campus Master Plan Update/ExecutiveSummary Table of Contents I. Introduction ..................................................................................................................1 II. MU Campus Master Plan Process .............................................................................3 III. MU Campus Master Plan Framework ......................................................................5 IV. Campus Development Capacity & Initiatives ........................................................7 V. Major Renovation Needs ............................................................................................9 VI. MU Campus Infrastructure ......................................................................................11 VII. Potential for Future Development & Expansion .................................................13 MU Campus Planning Maps A. Regional Context .................................................................................................15 B. Campus/Community Interface .........................................................................16 C. Existing & Proposed Open Space System .......................................................17 D. Existing Planning Study Areas .........................................................................18 E. Existing & Future Traffic Circulation & Parking ..........................................19 F. Potential Building Capacity ..............................................................................20 1. Central Campus ..............................................................................................21 2. Southeast Gateway .........................................................................................22 3. East Campus ....................................................................................................23 G. Major Renovation Needs ...................................................................................24 H. Proposed Utility Upgrades & Extensions .......................................................25 I. Proposed Sewer Upgrades & Extensions ........................................................26 J. Proposed Land Use ..............................................................................................27 University of Missouri-Columbia “The campus began as a unified ensemble of buildings that, through special architectural concern with the natural environment, evolved over time into districts distinguished by unique architectural styles and color palettes.” The first campus plan from 1872 shows the original five buildings surrounding expansive open space. This pattern of open spaces framed by buildings organized at a human scale continues today. Used by permission, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia. MU Campus Master Plan Update/ExecutiveSummary Introduction he University of Missouri – Columbia (MU) Current Enrollment Figures was established in 1839 on a 44-acre tract of land a stone’s throw from the main street of During the 2005-2006 school-year, a record T 27,985 students enrolled at MU, an increase of Columbia, a small frontier town with a population of about 700 in the central part of the state, midway 4 percent over 2004’s total (27,003). Of the recent between St. Louis and Kansas City. total, 77 percent (21,644) were Missouri residents; 10 percent (2,899) were minority students and A leading Doctoral/Research University- 5 percent (1,374) were international students. Extensive public university today, MU consists Four percent (1,069) of the students are seeking of more than 18,000 acres, of which over 1,360 professional degrees, while 20 percent (5,051) are comprise the main, contiguous campus. Columbia’s seeking graduate degrees. population now exceeds 85,000, making it the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the state. A Legacy of Sound Planning and Design The Facilities Campus architecture reflects MU’s growth and development into an internationally visible research MU’s main campus contains more than 300 university. The campus began as a unified ensemble buildings with approximately 14.6 million gross of buildings that, through special architectural square feet of space for academic, research, concern with the natural environment, evolved administration, medical, athletics, residential over time into districts distinguished by unique housing, student services and structured parking. architectural styles and color palettes. Activities relating to the university’s land grant The Original Campus "Academic Hall's fiery mission of ‘teaching, research, public service and economic development’ take place in about 170 In 1875, five structures comprised the campus: Educational and General space (E&G) buildings the Neoclassic Academic Hall (the main classroom destruction in 1892 resulted in on the contiguous campus. Subsidiary educational building); the Scientific Building; a president’s functions, e.g. student and medical services, residence; a small observatory; and a “Normal the creation of an entirely new athletics and parking, are located in 149 non-E&G School” for women’s vocational training. space buildings on the contiguous campus. The 1893 Red Campus campus … Known as the Red Academic and Professional Programs Academic Hall’s fiery destruction in 1892 resulted in the creation of an entirely new campus. Within Twenty academic colleges and schools, including a year, six red-brick Victorian structures had been Campus, the area in 1974 was a Graduate School and the professional schools erected at the edges of a grassy rectangle, later of Journalism, Law, Medicine and Veterinary named Francis Quadrangle. In the quadrangle’s Medicine, occupy the MU campus. center, the old Academic Hall’s six Ionic columns listed on the National Register MU offers 267 degree programs — including more were left standing as a memorial to the university’s than 30 on-line options — and is one of only six beginnings. A new academic hall (later renamed of Historic Places." universities nationwide with schools of Agriculture, Jesse Hall) anchored the quadrangle’s south end and Engineering, Medicine and Veterinary Medicine on serves today as the campus’ main administrative the same campus. Institutional Research figures building. Known as the Red Campus, the area in show MU’s teaching and research faculty number 1974 was listed on the National Register of Historic 3,612, and is supported by a staff of over 7,000. Places. University of Missouri-Columbia 1 The East (Agriculture) or White Campus This increase, along with the post-1985 construction With the laying in 1900 of the cornerstone of of 71 major buildings, the ongoing construction and Waters Hall, both the College of Agriculture and the design of 18 structures, and the planned – through “White Campus” began to take shape. Collegiate 2010 – construction of 16 facilities, indicate the scale Gothic buildings of white limestone, dedicated of MU’s growth needs. to agriculture programs, were erected over three Research drives development decades in pasture land east of the Red Campus. Campus development is driven increasingly by An Expanding Campus MU’s burgeoning research enterprise. Over the last Increasing enrollment from the mid-1940s decade (1993-2002) for which comparative figures through the 1970s resulted in the construction of are available, the university’s 163 percent growth academic, medical science, administrative and in federal research funding ranked second among student living facilities in residential areas adjacent public AAU institutions. to the campus and on open land to the east, south During the 2005 fiscal year, scientists and and west of the Red and White campuses. These scholars at MU achieved record levels of external new structures were built in the International- or sponsorship, with total expenditures falling just By the early 1900s, the MU campus had spread south Early Modern architectural style, faced with buff- short of $180 million. This new figure, a 10-percent and east from Francis Quadrangle as enrollment or yellow-colored brick that attempted to mediate, increase over 2004, is a welcome indication of the increased. The agriculture campus, known today as if not tie together, the older red-brick and white- continued growth of MU’s research enterprise and the White Campus, is shown in the upper left area of limestone structures. a confirmation of the university’s place among this 1910 postcard. Photo credit: University Archives. MU’s Campus Master Plan was implemented in the nation’s elite research institutions. In National 1980 to unify the campus. Properties adjacent to the Science Foundation funding alone, MU leads all core campus were acquired, allowing open areas Missouri universities, is in the top 15 universities and pedestrian corridors to be created, beginning nationwide and is ranked 14th in the nation in the integration, unification and beautification research funding in life sciences. of campus districts and the development of the MU continues to aggressively seek external university’s historic “sense of place.” funding to supplement state appropriations and Planning for the Future student fees. The university continues to attract not only competitive money for research programs, Between 1985 and 2001, MU’s annual enrollment but is also