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Comparing Campuses 2026: Resilience by Design

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As the higher education community gathers in Minneapolis for the annual SCUP conference, we have been thinking about resilience and the role institutions play in helping communities navigate change. The physical environment of college campuses bears witness to how both internal priorities and outside forces have shaped space. This year’s poster captures institutional responses to environmental pressures, financial drivers, social and cultural change, external conflicts, public health disruptions, and pedagogical evolutions. A summary of shared strategies is mapped against institutional responses to highlight how some choices have supported resilience in the face of diverse circumstances.

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Comparing Campuses 2026: Resilience by Design

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