On September 19, the design team was privileged to meet Elder Ted N. C. Wilson, President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, at the GC World Headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. This meeting allowed the team to introduce itself and to discuss various questions regarding the physical environment of Christian education. Several of the questions pertained to the relevance of counsel given by E.A. Sutherland and Ellen G. White...

The design team has almost completed its travels in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia to study various existing campuses in preparation for the design phase of the master planning process. So far, this has included the College of William & Mary, Richmond University, the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins University, the Maryland Institute College of Art, Goucher College, St John’s College, the US Naval Academy, and St...

The Campus Design Studio conducted the first campus planning workshop on Sunday, September 9 at the Hoosier and Lincoln Rooms of the Campus Center. More than seventy-five students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community residents attended the two-hour workshop, which was opened with some motivating remarks by President Andreasen. The event began with an open-house presentation of more than forty large-scale maps, diagrams, and outlines...

The team has spent the past week getting ready for its first campus-wide participatory workshop, which will be held at the Lincoln/Hoosier Rooms of the Campus Center on Sunday, September 9 from 4:00 to 6:00pm. The twenty graduate teams have been preparing preliminary studies and evaluations of existing campus conditions as well as known plans and challenges. Some of this work, which will be presented at the Sunday workshop, is informed by a...