Emory Campus Master Plan: Values Platform

"Spaces where students go to hang out include the DUC/Coca Cola Commons Frat Row, Chill Hill, Cox Hall."

"There is a need for a large reading room shared by the undergraduate college somewhere on campus."

"Emory's grown with baroque complications."

"There needs to be a simpler and more defining center of Emory of a learning place."

"Emory's mission is to generate, preserve and distribute knowledge."

"This process should give us road map of how to develop over the next 20 years."

"Every dollar we spend has to be about supporting the academic agenda, and the way we plan our physical environment can move us forward or move us back."

"I'm about to graduate and I don't have a shared sense of experiences with other students and faculty."

"The new plan should create spaces where conflict can happen while people feel safe."

"Emory's strengths include its history, its natural environment, its youth, its eagerness."

"Emory's weaknesses are that it is not a perfectly formed body. It has a jagged sense of itself due to its patchwork planning. In addition, there are no symbols of tradition."

"This plan should be the physical implementation of choices and responsibilities."

"The physical plan should be based on a clear cut unambiguous statement of values and principles which are clearly represented in a buildable plan."

"Emory's physical plan is currently a reflection of its recent governance - i.e., a completely decentralized fiefdom mentally, defined by the strength of Deans."

"Over the course of the University's rapid growth, there has been a gap in the creation of strong civic/community space."

"Other than the quad, there is nothing which says, 'this is profoundly Emory.' "

"There is now a disconnectedness of the physical plan vs. an interdisciplinary connectedness."

"Emory is a diverse community with an academic focus of right now/real world applications."

"We can either inch our way up, or frame a different concept of education and change the equation."

"Emory trains students for the world they will be graduating into - to be ethical leaders."

"One thing is universally felt here - that is that spaces don't work to encourage an intellectual community - and we must make spaces which encourage student-to-student, faculty-to-faculty, and faculty-to-student interaction."

"We must have buildings of lasting grace and dignity which relate to and define the spaces they are in."

"Everyone in the Emory community needs to come to grips with the aesthetic dimension and potential positive visual impacts of this plan."

"There needs to be a careful delineation around the campus which is a defined edge while being porous."

"This plan needs to build collegiality and create the sense of an intellectual community. With a more visible bookstore and college town."

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