PLANNING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY:

PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS

Tony Dorcey

29th March 2001

Our Goal:

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

My Strategy:

Working together

My Style:

Collaborative leadership

Celebrate, Review and Feedback:

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

OUR PROGRESS

Working Together & Collaborative Leadership

• Student participation in faculty meetings expanded
• Director's participation in bi-weekly PSA meetings
• Second year participation in Orientation program
• Student participation in admissions process
• Student participation in recruiting
• Student participation in CHS Management Committee
• Task group on clarification of project/thesis

New Professionalism, the Profession and Community

• PSA-PIBC September meeting
• New community-based courses- Gibsons and Royston; Cuba and China
• CAPS Conference Report
• PlanTalk (Monday Night!)
• Capacity building: From Downtown Eastside, to Vietnam, China, Sri Lanka and Brazil

Internet, Intranet and IT

• CHS's sites for Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Brazil and China
• SCARP's brochure, handbook and forms on the WWW
• PSA WWW site welcomes new students
• Lasserre on the backbone
• SCARP Newsbytes 3 issues

Planning for Planning: Practicing What We Profess

• Implementation of curriculum changes (Omnibus, project, distribution)
• Major focus on recruiting for 5 positions
• Strategic planning focused on CHS Review
• Revising Draft Academic Plan
• Mission
• Vision
• SWOT
• Strategies

ACKNOWLEDGING ACHIEVEMENTS

Faculty, students and staff

UGF's

Graduating students

Upcoming SCARP awards

Killam teaching award nominations

IN PROSPECT

New Budget

• Significant new funds for UBC
• New positions for School
• End of bridging monies

New Administrator

• Rhoda returns July 1

New Faculty

• Elizabeth Macdonald July 1, 2 courses second term
• Leonie Sandercock July 1, 2 courses in first term, research second
• John Friedmann July 1, upto 2 courses per year
• Hadi Dowlatabadi July 1, (SDRI & Liu), courses to be decided
• Michael Douglass, negotiations continue (SCARP & IAR)
• Jeff Kenworthy, negotiations continue (SCARP & SDRI)
• New chair, land use and transportation planning (SCARP & Commerce), asap

New Courses for Next Fall

• Check the School's web site
• Summer courses: Ecological Risk Assessment (Tim), Foundations of Design (ARCH), LARC field course
• Fall urban design studio with ARCH and LARC (Penny)
• Two courses in urban economics (Will Strange)
• Under consideration for short courses: writing proposals, ethics

New Masters Curriculum

• Project option under new approvals for September 2001
• Discussion of curriculum revision resumed with new faculty
• For discussion
  • Reduce the total credits required (e.g. 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)
  • Major changes formally in September 2003, at earliest

New Space

• Urban design studio with computers in Lasserre 207
• Seminar room in WMA 128-134
• Under discussion:
  • Consolidation of SCARP/CHS among Lasserre, WMA and Choi
  • Renovation of WMA

SCARP'S FUTURE, MY VIEWS

Accreditation reviews in 1999-2000 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.

We exemplify where UBC wants to go.

SCARP has been given enviable new faculty positions.

We have attracted outstanding people to join us.

There are huge opportunities to obtain additional funding for teaching, research and capacity building.

The challenge is to seize the opportunities, building on our strengths and remedying our weaknesses.

Next year is SCARP's 50th Anniversary:

• Special Orientation Week
• CIP annual conference in Vancouver

ANOTHER YEAR?

Trip wires

• My family
• The Grouse Grind
• Your support

Your comments and questions, please.