Barry Moore 
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At KIPP Public Charter Schools in Houston, the school nurse’s office has morphed from a place that provides Band-Aids into a mini health clinic offering an array of services for students. A unique partnership between KIPP and Legacy Community Health Services is creating what could become a new model for health care delivery on school campuses.
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America’s Urban Campus emerged as a seminal idea at a Dialogues panel discussion out of Gensler’s Chicago office last June. The term has since gained momentum among the city’s government leaders and its higher-ed institutions to re-envision Chicago as the next-generation college town. Coined by panelist Mark Kelly, Vice President of Student Affairs at Columbia College Chicago, the term characterizes Chicago’s institutional network as a hotbed of intellectual and inventive capital with the potential to drive the city economically, culturally, and urbanistically. With 65,000 students in the downtown Loop alone and 210,000 students throughout the city, Chicago is among the largest college towns in the United States, and the city is poised to become the leading destination for the collegiate experience and a thriving center of ideas, innovation, and talent.
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To kick-off another school year, Gensler’s Chicago office hosted its fourth event in a four-part panel series on trends at the forefront of higher education. The focus: student unions.
David Broz 
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In July 2013, the SCUP 48 conference in San Diego California hosted a discovery session. Two leaders from Cornell and Lynn University gathered with me and over 100 attendees to react to the Changing Course research that Gensler published in the fall of 2012.We led a discussion on the topic. Everyone that attended the session was charged with creating knowledge based on their collective experiences and conversations to better understand what the campus of the future will look like.
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How can design improve on-campus life? From this simple question emerged a seven-week intensive design exploration between Barnard+Columbia Design for America and Gensler. Harnessing an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire for good design, four interdisciplinary teams made up of Gensler summer interns and DFA members, produced a diverse range of projects focused on community needs on college campuses and the development of scalable campus solutions.
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