Proposed UMC Master Plan Goals and Objectives:
  1. The Master Plan must reveal the functions of a hi-tech university and contemporary research station and create a technological image for the campus.

  2. The Master Plan must promote the development of an active residential campus with social spaces for students, staff, and faculty.

  3. The Master Plan should permeate the barriers between the academic and agricultural realms of campus.

  4. The Master Plan must create a "sense of place" that solidifies and refines the campus identity.

  5. The Master Plan must provide aesthetic and physical improvements to campus entries, circulation systems, and "wayfinding" to campus destinations.

  6. The Master Plan must incorporate improved visual, electronic, and physical connections with community resources.

  7. New construction, renovations, and landscape developments must contribute to the "visual wholeness" of campus.

  8. The Master Plan must maximize existing physical assets and correct existing physical liabilities.

  9. The Master Plan must embody the principles of a baccalaureate polytechnic university and a research station.

  10. The Master Plan must accommodate future instructional and research technology.

  11. The Master Plan must creatively accommodate program needs on campus.

  12. The Master Plan must embody the principles of collaboration and shared use among campus units and entities.

  13. The Master Plan must embody the principles of partnership with community, regional, and state entities.

  14. The Master Plan must  promote the formation of environments that are barrier-free and promote independence and productivity in all campus users - specifically users with disabilities.

 

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