Book Review: Campus Heritage Preservation: Traditions, Prospects & Challenges

This 65-page book, Campus Heritage Preservation: Traditions, Prospects & Challenges, is reviewed by George E. Thomas in CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship. The book is edited by Elizabeth Lyon and is published by the University of Oregon's, School of Architecture & Allied Arts, 2003, and includes notes, bibliography, participants list; free of charge.

Lyon reports on a conference funded by the Getty Grant Foundation in 2002:

The Getty Grants Campus Heritage Initiative prompted the University of Oregon’s 2002 symposium on college planning and heritage. The symposium, in turn, produced the booklet, Campus Heritage Preservation. Coming at a time when the Getty was making its first round of Campus Heritage grants, it was useful to raise the broadest questions about how colleges should approach preservation issues on their campuses.(2) The conference brought together old lions of preservation, the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic, Robert Campbell, and the chair of George Washington University’s program in historic preservation, Richard Longstreth, to provide a cultural historical overview, as well as college presidents and other administrators to explain the impact of preservation on their institutions. College planners and outside consultants also spoke to an insider group of preservationists, college administrators, and foundation leaders. Notably there were no students on the list of attendees.