Emory Campus Master Plan: Values Platform

"We need more electronic kiosks and coffee areas with places for people to gather, discuss ideas."

"The division of schools has fostered a division of campus with nothing bringing people together."

"We should invest in facilities and open space as much as we invest in Coca Cola."

"You can't tune in to a problem when you don't experience it."

"We need (along with accepted new academic functions): faculty housing, graduate housing, residential colleges, multi-purpose space for up to 2,000, rec sport fields, green space with fountains and gazebos, more and better fund choices, better retail, more well-designed loading docks."

"There needs to be a symbolic center for the Medical School."

"A synergy between undergraduate programs and research needs to be fostered."

"Now is the time to create an atmosphere which unifies our mission - time to slow down and make Emory as hospitable and beautiful as possible."

"Recent planning has been land-pinched, donor-driven, with architects trying to show off."

"The only way the University Apartments will be a successful village and part of the campus is if we physically connect it."

"The plan should help the Health Sciences Center tie to the rest of campus while creating the feeling of a scientific campus."

"There are three Emory tenets: 1) community spirit, 2) community unity, 3) pursuit of knowledge within an academic atmosphere of excellence."

"We have a collection of buildings rather than a sense of the whole.""

"There has been a tendency for architects to view new buildings as their buildings vs. Emory's buildings."

"All post-Hornbostel planning seems to focus more on traffic and buildings than people."

"This is a beautiful campus, but not in total - the whole is not greater than the sum of its parts."

"The quad was democratic and sublimely porous - now it is overshadowed by one building."

"We should introduce more water to the campus."

"If the University is now disparate parts, we need to enhance multidisciplinary approaches and diversity by reconnecting these parts."

"We need to identify a location for a multi-disciplinary center - an ethics center - not on the margin, but in the center of campus."

"The campus has two sides - one nicer traditional side and then a drastic break to a more modern side of glass and steel, without much of a tie between the two."

"A clear central theme for the campus is lacking."

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