EdUp Campus Planning
EdUp Campus Planning
Podcast Description
The EdUp Campus Planning podcast, hosted by Chris Morett, highlights the challenges and opportunities higher ed faces in managing its facilities and spaces effectively and efficiently. Conversations with a varied slate of guests provide timely and usable insights.
This topic has never been more important or complex, with factors including fiscal challenges, enrollment trends, developments in teaching and learning, XR, and hybrid work demanding new approaches. Meanwhile, financing and partnership options, new technology platforms, and the greater availability of data provide new opportunities
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Content Themes
The podcast covers essential themes in higher education, focusing on campus planning, student success, facility design, and strategic resource allocation. Examples of episodes include discussions on defining student success in episode 5, redesigning campus spaces for neurodiversity in episode 3, and effectively managing research spaces in episode 4, emphasizing how fiscal challenges and technological advancements intersect within these domains.

The EdUp Campus Planning podcast, hosted by Chris Morett, highlights the challenges and opportunities higher ed faces in managing its facilities and spaces effectively and efficiently. Conversations with a varied slate of guests provide timely and usable insights.
This topic has never been more important or complex, with factors including fiscal challenges, enrollment trends, developments in teaching and learning, XR, and hybrid work demanding new approaches. Meanwhile, financing and partnership options, new technology platforms, and the greater availability of data provide new opportunities
It’s YOUR time to #EdUp
In this episode, #32, YOUR guest is Caitlyn Perry Dial, Director of Development at the Michigan State University Libraries. YOUR host is Dr. Chris Morett. Thanks to our sponsor, Tradeline, Inc. – check out their 2026 lineup space and facility conferences.
Join us as we discuss:
* What motivates donors to contribute to capital projects.
* The increasing importance of philanthropy to capital funding.
* How taking the perspective of development can inform the planning and design of new spaces.
* Unique aspects of fundraising for university libraries.
* The Night of 1,000 Donuts, and MSUL tradition.
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