PLANNING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY:

PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS

Tony Dorcey

11th April 2000

Our Goal:

Premier sustainability planning school in North America by CIP/PAB accreditation review in 2004

My Strategy:

Working together

My Style:

Collaborative leadership

Celebrate, Review and Feedback:

• Annual stock taking
• Our progress
• In prospect
• SCARP's future: My view
• Acknowledging achievements
• Another year?

OUR PROGRESS

Working Together & Collaborative Leadership

• Student participation in faculty meetings
• CoG
• Director's participation in biweekly PSA meetings
• Second year participation in Orientation program
• Student participation in admissions process

New Professionalism, the Profession and Community

• November Colloquium
• PSA-PIBC January meeting on partnerships
• Mentoring program revitalization
• CAPS Conference in February
• Regional planning oral history in March
• Community Design Council - SCARP, ARCH, LARC & CIVIL
• Capacity building: From Downtown Eastside, to Vietnam, China, Sri Lanka and Brazil

Internet, Intranet and IT

• SCARP's brochure and handbook on the WWW
• PSA WWW site welcomes new students
• CHS's sites for Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Brazil and China
• SCARP theses available on WWW
• CDRom's for capacity building projects
• Faculty meeting agendas, materials and minutes on the WWW

Planning for Planning: Practicing What We Profess

• Events planning
• Strategic planning
• Draft Academic Plan
• Mission
• Vision
• SWOT
• Strategies

IN PROSPECT

New Budget

• Probably a small cut

New Administrator

• From Alison to Curb to Helene to Rhoda

New Faculty

• Transportation planning chair for asap
• Urban design advertisement in fall for asap
• Second priority advertisement in fall for July '01
• Wild card: A 21st Century Chair?

New Courses for Next Fall

• New urban design studio with ARCH and LARC (Penny)
• Two courses in urban economics (Will Strange)
• Sessionals to cover core courses until new hires
• Partial or experimental implementation of courses for new curriculum

New Masters Curriculum

• Formally in September 2001, at earliest
• Under discussion
  • 48 credits
  • completed within 21-28 months
  • project and thesis options
  • fundamentals courses (12-18)
  • 1, 2, 3 credit modules
  • specialization courses (12)
  • specialization certificates (12)

SCARP'S FUTURE, MY VIEWS

Accreditation reviews served us well

We have a progressive program compared with other schools

Implementing sustainability is a focus on planning's cutting-edge

Democratization of planning is a powerful vision

Balancing competing goals: Respecting difference, seeking consensus

• Family, study and work
• Teaching, research, practice and service
• Coherence and diversity
• Environmental, economic and social sustainability
• Process and substance
• Academic and professional
• Theory and practice
• Generalist and specialist
• Student-centred and problem-based learning
• Tools and ethics
• Multiple literacies, beyond T.A.M.E.D.
• Masters, doctoral and professional development programs
• Faculty, sessionals and TAs

ACKNOWLEDGING ACHIEVEMENTS

UGF's including a Killam

SSHRC doctoral fellowships

Graduating students

Upcoming SCARP awards

Killam teaching award nominations

Tim's promotion to Professor

Students, staff and faculty

ANOTHER YEAR?

Trip wires

• My family
• The Grouse Grind
• Your support

Your comments and questions, please.