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Wesleyan University Campus Master Plan
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Taking the Measure of the Campus
Issues Concerns Observations History Natural
Systems Built Systems Regional Context Climate
Analysis Opportunities and Constraints Summary
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Liberation through the Liberal Arts is our focus.
The point is to free people to make choices
through their lives that allow them to be
effective leaders.
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We need the University Center, so the campus
truly has a center a heart.
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We look a little shabby, our grounds could use a
lot of improvement every time you pull into an
area you face trash and curbs. We should put the
utilities on Wyllys and on High Street from
Loveland to Washington then we would have the
magnificent High Street that Mark Twain wrote
about.
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Both sides of College Row are uninviting and
could be improved. We need more and better hang
out spaces. We need buildings and open space
that promote more and more collegiality.
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Church street is a real barrier and contributes
to the campus feeling of separation - you can
spend your entire career in the Science tower.
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We need to solve the issues surrounding the wood
frame houses.
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There are too many cars on campus
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There is a distinction between how it looks v.
how it feels
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We need a coherent way of developing our campus
wide improvements and improving connections.
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University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North
Carolina (Founded 1789) Undergraduate 15,400
Graduate 8,780 Total Student Population
24,180 Faculty 2,420 Staff 6,567 Total
Campus Population 27,626 On-Campus Housing
Undergrad 6,800 Graduate/Married 306
Faculty 0 Buildings 11,389,953 gsf Land
576 acres Parking 16,210 spaces
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana
(Founded 1842) Undergraduate 8,014 Graduate
1,487 Total Student Population 15,501 Faculty
726 Staff 2,913 Total Campus Population
19,140 On-Campus Housing Undergrad 6,290
Graduate/Married 524 Faculty 0 Buildings
7,219,776 gsf Land 1,250 acres Parking
10,000 spaces
www.asg-architects.com
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The 3 CsCompaction, Cohesion, Connection
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Discrete
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Distinctive
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Disconnected
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Wesleyan University Campus Master Plan
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We dont want just to equip students with facts
but with ways of thinking about issues
courageously- to have enough chutzpah to think
that they can tackle what are totally
unforeseeable issues and deal with them in a
successful and humane way.
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Meeting with Peter Patton

• Our growth has been spasmodic
• President Ted Etherington (_at_1966 1979) built
  the arts, the science, the graduate programs
• Next President was Colin Campbell 1980 to 1995)
  Colin saved the place fiscally by adding students
  which is where the wood frame houses came in.
  Campbell oversaw Olin, and Freeman Athletic which
  was finished at the end of the campaign for
  liberal learning which raised _at_65
• Bill Chace came in and balanced the budget and
  capped enrollments by instituting the University
  Plan which was a financial plan. He started the
  maintenance fund and wired the campus.
• Doug (Wesleyan grad, class 0f 1955) came from
  Washington in 1995.
• The intellectual culture here is unique in that
  we expect the faculty to be committed scholars
  and researchers throughout their career great
  teaching and great scholarship.
• Our size is an advantage we can so more than
  some of our peers.
• Many of our departments are twice as big as our
  peers.
• We do not strive to have one department that is
  better than another, rather we try to have
  excellence with a more multi-disciplinary focus.
• At the same time we seem a little less collegial
  than some of our peers. For instance at Williams
  there seems to be more camaraderie. Our
  geography contributes to this lack of
  collegiality.
• Faculty may sense this division more than the
  students

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Meeting with Peter Patton

• We have the traditional array of
  classes/courses, but our interdisciplinary
  courses are particularly good
• Church street is a real barrier and contributes
  to the campus feeling of separation
• You can spend your entire career in the Science
  tower
• We look a little shabby, our grounds could use a
  lot of improvement
• We could make major improvements to how we access
  Olin
• We should put the utilities on Willys and on High
  Street from Loveland to Washington then we
  would have the magnificent High Street that Mark
  Twain wrote about
• We should orient our prime public space to the
  South
• Both sides of College Row is uninviting and could
  be improved
• We need more and better hang out spaces
• We need buildings and open space that promote
  more and more collegiality
• We need a solution for how we deal with our
  neighborhoods people need to know when they are
  on the Wesleyan campus
• We need to solve the issues o surrounding the
  wood frame houses
• We will need to replace Hall-Atwater
• The science tower is in serious need of
  rejuvenation

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Meeting with Peter Patton

• Davenport will be converted to academic space
• We should regularize some of the housing on High
  Street and think about other uses for them

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Meeting with Barbara Jan Wilson

• Been at Wesleyan 20 years, was in admissions and
  career planning
• Immediate improvements get rid of the area
  behind north college, think about better and more
  attractive entrances, introduce some one way
  street streets, plant some flowering trees and
  institute better landscaping better
• Improve all the areas where the campus looks
  shabby every time you pull into an area you
  face trash and curbs
• We need the University Center, so the campus
  truly has a center a heart
• Our priorities are financial aid, faculty chairs,
  and then facilities
• Low walls and landscaping at our edges would be
  better than gates
• Even though, as a liberal arts college we believe
  in change, people here dont like change
• Improve William Street and the experience going
  to Atticus
• We need to relocate parking lots to allow for
  growth and more beautification
• We need more gateways into campus that say Im
  entering a great University done with landscape
  and soft elements
• We definitely need a new science building
• We need to make better connection to the town and
  the river

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Meeting with Judith and Billie

• Wesleyan has a real vision of where they want to
  head that resonated with me this is a vision of
  an education for the 21st century which trains
  our students holistically to make them effective
  and ethical leaders in the world. I like the
  intensity of this place intensity of both the
  faculty and the students
• At Wesleyan the spirit of education and sharing
  intellectual debate is pervasive campus wide we
  like to have time to talk here
• Our strategic plan (Wesleyan education for the
  21st century) has truly informed our day to day
  decision making
• We are a selective residential liberal arts
  college/university
• Selective high performing student body
• Residential students are her 24/7
• Liberal Arts a diverse education with no
  requirements outside of the major

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Meeting with Judith and Billie

• Buildings that meet our strategic goals
• Arts Center
• Public affairs center
• Many other spaces are too small for our current
  programs, i.e. Judd Hall
• Other departments, i.e. English and Philosophy
  are spread around too much ideally these should
  be in the same building or at least close
  together
• Language departments are split
• The geography of the campus is L shaped with
  Davenport as the elbow of the L
• There is no place for faculty to gather on the
  campus
• The science library needs a lot of help
• The library has no connection to the field and
  field uses
• Our overall signage needs to be greatly improved
• We need to improve the back of College Row it
  is the most heavily trafficked route on campus

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Master plan Executive Committee

• We need to fix and beautify all our back doors
  i.e. Davenport
• Paths and drainage
• Develop and attitude about the Long Lane project
  one program element for Long Lane would be a
  living learning environment
• Improvements to the connections to athletics
• Improvements to the Cross Street

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Meeting with Marcia Bromberg

• We want to have a preliminary draft for our May
  board meeting
• There a lot of little things we can do to the
  interior of spaces
• We need a coherent way of doing our campus wide
  improvements
• We need to look out to how we will be as a
  University 20 to 30 years from now
• We need to integrate the community into whats
  happening

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