Academics
- Creates flexibility for curriculum evolution and enrollment while adequately meeting accreditation standards
- Supports a skills-based education approach with simulations and demonstrations
- Adapts to the changing and evolving workforce and workplace
- Recognizes research in evidence-based practices
- Promotes team building and problem solving in a transdisciplinary environment
Student Success
- Focuses on developing a sense of community that will promote success
- Promotes student interactions with study and other spaces throughout the facility; building needs to be alive with interactions and collaborations
- Promotes access among faculty, staff and peers
- Creates an environment that promotes students’ well-being
- Provides access to clinical environments
Infrastructure
- Embraces technology that encompasses all aspects of the facility
- Creates the flexibility for technological advancements
- Designed to support adaptability
- Has the ability to interface with regional campuses
Efficiency and Flexibility
- Has the adaptability of a 100-year building
- Creates flexibility with the building structure and all spaces that allows potential future changes in the education curriculum
- Creates office configurations that are efficient and flexible
- Easily navigated and explored by all
- Provides integration with existing facilities
Identity
- Creates an image/brand with a lasting impression that elevates each college
- Develops a clear identity of each college for learners, alumni and the community
- Promotes and enhances Alumni engagement
- Showcases the development and history of each college