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Bill Jones The Master Plan of Southwestern University, a document developed during the 1981-82 academic year and now in its final stages of completion, is designed to move the University toward national maturity during this decade and beyond. The plan was one of the first items on the agenda of President Roy Shilling after he arrived on campus in July 1981. Included in the master plan are major goals and objectives to be achieved in all areas of the University by the time Southwestern celebrates its 150th anniversary in 1990. Faculty, staff, students and administrators were in- volved in developing the master plan ' s program- matic section under the direction of the University Council, presided over by Shilling. The section on buildings and grounds was developed by the Houston architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill during the spring and summer of 1982. The SU Board of Trustees heard frequent reports on the work of both groups and provided input from time to time, most recently during a series of trustee workshops held in June. The master plan calls for an institution that will have achieved a level of performance in every area of its life equivalent to that generally recognized on the national scene as appropriate for the very best in- stitutions of its kind: institutions committed to main- taining a strong liberal arts tradition, known for the high quality of their academic programs, and measuring themselves by the superior achievements of their graduates. Master plan More specifically, the master plan calls for a University with a minimum en- dowment of $80 to $100 million by 1990. It will have a select student body of at least 1,250 who pursue an attractive but rigorous academic pro- gram responding to the needs of modern society. Library holdings should be more than twice the current number (135,000), and the library itself transformed into a total media center. The already excellent faculty should be fur- ther improved and faculty salaries raised to a level competitive with the nation ' s very best baccalaureate institutions. The average faculty teaching load should be reassessed in such a way as to maximize the possibility of intensifying the teaching process and of encouraging individual research. 10 II
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sets goals Residence halls should be modernized and I the student development program oriented around the whole person concept. The physical plant and grounds section of the master plan calls for the University to raise and expend some $35 million during the next decade. It envisions a campus organized around a central pedestrian mall replacing the existing circular vehicular drive. The central axis of the circular mall will be the walkway from the Landrum Memorial Foun- tain to the Lois Perkins Chapel. Surrounding the circular mall will be the major complex of academic buildings. These will in- clude an expanded library building about twice its present size and a Fine Arts Center with a series of modifications including a small theatre. The present Jim West Gym- nasium will be transformed into an additional fine arts structure, probably housing sculpture and the plastic arts, with compensating physical education space being added to the present Sid W. Richardson Physical Education Center. The Bishops Memorial Union will be a substantially improved and enlarged struc- ture. The Cullen Building will become primari- ly an administrative, alumni and development building, and space has been allocated for new academic buildings and residence halls if needed. One of the most striking changes in campus appearance will be the rerouting of Maple Street somewhat to the west of its existing position immediately adjacent to the Cullen Building. It will run beside the railroad tracks and be lined with trees to present a new landscaping pattern for the west side of the campus. The Cullen Building and fraternity houses will then open onto a broad lawn rather than the street. Maple Street will curve back from the railroad to join the present circle drive behind the fraternity houses and continue behind Laura Kuykendall and Kurth Halls. Campus beautification, as outlined in the plan, will see the planting of trees and or- namental bushes in many parts of the cam- pus. Parking lots will be placed on the perimeter of the campus and behind major buildings, with landscaping to make them inconspicuous. The first priority in buildings and grounds will be raising some $7 million to renovate cam- pus residence halls. President Shilling and the Board of Trustees have already been working toward accomplishment of this goal and have raised some $6.25 million. It comes from the Houston Endowment Inc. ($5million), the Mabee Foundation ($1 million), and the Moody Foundation ($250,000). 11
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