Campus and community master planning has been taking place for many years. The comprehensive nature of the planning this study examined includes many aspects of campus life. The survey looked at the types of planning being done at universities, from the aesthetics of the campus environment to the management of campus infrastructure.This assessment asked about whether particular issues were addressed in the campus master planning effort, not about the quality of the completed plans. Assessing whether a particular area of campus life has been studied and planned can be a somewhat objective activity. The assessment of whether those plans achieve a certain level of quality and the degree to which they are implemented is certainly open to a substantial amount of conjecture.
Campus Master PlansNinety-one percent of survey respondents noted that their university possessed a campus master plan. However, only 65% of the master plans had been updated in the past 8 years.
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