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Master plan will guide university’s transformation |
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UB 2020 calls for UB, already the largest and most comprehensive campus in the State University of New York, to grow by increasing enrollment by 10,000 and faculty and staff ranks by more than 6,700. Building UB is of historic size and scope, a $5 billion investment to create 7 million square feet of space to be constructed over a minimum of 20 years. By growing on its three campuses, UB will significantly increase its economic and cultural impact on the entire region. In the next two decades, implementation of the plan is projected to generate an additional $20 billion or more in regional economic impact. The plan is the result of two years’ work and the input of thousands of people, including members of the university community and the public. Input and feedback was gathered by UB officials during more than 250 meetings with internal and external stakeholders and at three public forums. John Simpson, president of UB, said that the planned growth of the UB north, south and downtown campuses will help the university rise among the ranks of the nation’s public research universities. UB Provost Satish Tripathi said the comprehensive physical plan will lead to the creation of great new learning spaces, facilities and landscapes that will help UB attract the best faculty and students, and make it competitive with the very best universities in the nation. Implementation of the plan will require approximately $2.9 billion in special requests for state funds, known as strategic initiative allocations, to build core academic facilities, plus $2.1 billion to be funded by UB from revenue streams earned in concert with private partners, philanthropy and other sources. The money required is to be invested carefully over time following the principles of the plan, UB officials emphasized. UB is seeking state legislative reform to allow it to act more independently and more efficiently. Such reform would give UB the financial flexibility to fulfill the potential of UB 2020 and the comprehensive physical plan. Elements of the plan, including several projects totaling more than $400 million in funding encumbered from previous state budget cycles, already are being implemented. These projects include a clinical and translational research center (CTRC) and a UB biosciences incubator on the downtown campus, a South Ellicott student housing project and new engineering building on the north campus, and a new building called Kapoor Hall, for the school of pharmacy and pharmaceutical science on the south campus. “It’s a physical manifestation of an academic planning process,” said UB Professor Robert Shibley, senior adviser to the president for campus planning and design who has been overseeing development of the plan. “It avoids building for the sake of building, or growth for the sake of growth. In its entirety, it is specifically targeted to where UB wants to be in the 21st century, how we want to contribute to this region and, intellectually and academically, how we see ourselves rising in the ranks of first-tier research universities.” The plan is detailed in a 248-page book entitled Building UB: The Comprehensive Physical Plan and in a 32-page booklet, Building UB: Toward A Great University, which offers a summary. UB’s new comprehensive physical plan was developed by the university working with a team of consultants led by Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners. The plan calls for one great university with three distinctive campus environments that are tailored to their respective suburban, urban and downtown settings, better connected with each other, and better integrated with their surrounding neighborhoods. Spaces on all three campuses will promote interdisciplinary collaboration and create fertile environments for teaching, research and service. For the complete article, visit http://buffalo.edu/news/10606. |
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