About This Website

The Campus Heritage Network is operated by the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) with the support of a grant from the Getty Foundation. SCUP's project team is reviewing, analyzing, and sharing findings from reports and other data from reports to the Getty Foundation from campus-based teams which implemented projects funded by the Getty Campus Heritage Program with grants in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. In 2007, with seed money from the Getty Foundation, SCUP conducted interviews with a wide range of planners concerned with campus heritage preservation, including planners and architects who share membership or a relationship with SCUP, the Association of University Architects (AUA) and APPA, Leadership in Educational Facilities. The interview team looked at preservation related issues of interest to the campus planning community and queried planners regarding how they would wish to receive knowledge gained from a review of the findings of the Campus Heritage Program grant recipients and other relevant projects. Following that initial research, in late 2008 the Getty Foundation award SCUP a grant for this current project to capture and share findings from reports out of the Getty's Campus Heritage Project, as follows: Identify and share with campus planners the lessons learned from the teams of planners on campuses which received and implemented Getty Campus Heritage Program grants; Identify/fill information gaps in areas in which campus planners have indicated need; Engage the campus planning community and others interested in heritage preservation, in dialogue, knowledge sharing, and collaboration to strengthen campus heritage preservation planning efforts; Congruent with SCUP's strong interest in integrated planning, identify and/or model linkages of campus heritage projects to institutional policies, operations, strategic plans, campus master plans, resource allocation decision making processes, sustainability or climate change initiatives, and learning/student life activities; and Develop working relationships/partnerships with other organizations whose members have knowledge of, and/or interest in, heritage preservation planning methodologies, vocabulary, tools, and techniques. This website is the SCUP project's initial platform for sharing knowledge and for building a community of all those interested in related issues.

About the Getty Campus Heritage Project

Since 2002, the Getty Grant Foundation's Campus Heritage Initiative has supported preservation efforts for 86 historic campuses across the country; nationwide surveys of independent colleges and of historically black universities and colleges; and a national conference on campus preservation issues. The initiative has awarded grants totaling more than $13.5 million.

Also funded by the Getty, the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) Historic Campus Architecture Project (HCAP) website provides extensive information about significant buildings, landscapes, campus plans, and heritage sites of American higher education, documenting nearly 2,100 campus sites of historical significance that have been provided by nearly 400 institutions.