Student input sought for campus master plan

Members of the student body, including the student association president, and Student Senate and CAB officers, met April 22 with representatives from two Lincoln-based architectural firms, who sought student input about a campus master plan covering the next 10 years.

The students’ hour-long meeting with Bahr Vermeer, and Haecker Architects, and The Clark Enersen Partners, conducted via LifeSize videoconference, focused on the physical attributes of  the campus, including landscaping, parking, and housing.

CSC’s Dale Grant, vice president of administration and finance, and Blair Brennan, the college’s physical facilities coordinator, moderated the meeting.

Issues raised by the seven-member student panel included the water-damaged breezeway in the central High Rise-Kent-Andrew’s residence complex, the “clinical atmosphere” of the King Library, and shortage of study locations.

Master-plan teams from the two architectural firms are scheduled to visit campus again in the fall to perform a more extensive on-site evaluation.

Then, the student panel will again meet with representatives of the two firms to provide further input from the student body.

The architects project that the master plan will be developed and submitted to the NSCS Board of Trustees at its final 2011 meeting in December.