As university architect and assistant vice provost for campus planning at the University of Washington (UW), Rebecca Barnes, FAIA, is a member of the university's senior leadership team charged with planning and design of the university's campus and the adjacent "U District". Before joining UW, Barnes served as director of strategic planning for Brown University, Barnes was involved in developing university/community relationships as the institution's long-term vision began to focus externally. She has held senior positions in the public sector including chief planner for the City of Boston, director of urban design & architecture for the "Big Dig" in Boston, and led the City of Seattle's widely admired planning initiative in the early-1990s that matched infrastructure investments and amenities to growth of the city's diverse neighborhoods.

Curtis Howell is a senior in the Foster School of Business. He has been a student using PACCAR Hall since it opened in the fall of 2010. He had also spent some time in the pre-PACCAR facilities, so he can compare and contrast the experiences. Howell's areas of focus are entrepreneurship and informatics. He has participated in several case competitions, has interned at Microsoft, and studied abroad at the Copenhagen Business School. He currently serves as a volunteer student ambassador for the Foster School. Foster School student ambassadors assist with on-campus special events, campus tours, off-campus recruitment efforts, high school college fairs, and provide staffing at college and alumni programs. Howell knows the school and its programs well, and he is very familiar with the student experience in PACCAR Hall.

George Shaw is a recognized authority in architectural planning and design of major higher education, performing arts, and civic facilities across the country. With an emphasis on overall project leadership and the integration of design with technical development and environmental sustainability, his involvement spans all project phases—from programming and concept design through technical documentation and project delivery. Recently completed performing arts design assignments include the Conrad Prebys Music Center at University of California, San Diego and the City College of San Francisco Performing Arts Center Complex. He provided partner-level leadership on the New Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, which opened in September 2010, and the Huntsman School of Business Addition at Utah State University, which will be opening fall of 2013.

Dr. Susan Hippensteele is a professor and strategic planning coordinator at University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she has been a faculty member since 1991. She is a research psychologist and has worked extensively on campus accreditation, academic planning, and integrated strategic planning. Her research has involved university and organizational compliance, alternative dispute resolution, harassment and discrimination on university campuses, and most recently, faculty career pathways in STEM and innovative models for improved student learning. Hippensteele is a licensed attorney.

Harrison Fraker, Jr.,FAIA, was educated as an architect and urban designer at Princeton University and Cambridge University and is recognized as a pioneer in passive solar, daylighting, and sustainable design research and teaching. He has pursued a career bridging innovative architecture and urban design education with an award-winning practice. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for creating a new College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota and was appointed the founding dean. He was granted Fellowship in the AIA College of Fellows for his distinguished career of bridging education and practice. He has published seminal articles on the design potential of sustainable systems and urban design principles for transit-oriented neighborhoods. He teaches a design studio and believes in integrating pragmatic and theoretical analysis to create new knowledge about the most critical environmental design challenges facing society.

Frank Fuller is a principal, architect, and urban designer with Field Paoli Architects in San Francisco, California. Fuller's architectural work includes mixed-use projects for American urban settings, retail, and performance venues. His urban design and campus projects have included plans for cities and universities in California, the United States, and China. Fuller received a bachelor of arts in architecture degree from Princeton University and masters degree's in both architecture and city planning from the University of California at Berkeley. He has won numerous awards for his architecture and urban design work, and has lectured at international conferences and universities.

Assistant Vice Chancellor Emily Marthinsen, University of California, Berkeley's (UC Berkeley) campus planner, heads the office of physical and environmental planning (PEP). PEP provides comprehensive physical and environmental planning services for the UC Berkeley campus. As the campus planner, Marthinsen works closely with campus clients through early planning phases of all projects, emphasizing program and project definition, alternative space development, and alignment with campus plans and planning policy. Marthinsen is responsible for the campus design review process, coordination with the City of Berkeley related to planning issues, and the implementation of the 2020 Long Range Development Plan. She has taught undergraduate and graduate studios, worked on department accreditation, and guided programming and planning for Wurster Hall's seismic retrofit. She is a frequent presenter and writer on campus planning issues.

Clayton Halliday is the assistant vice chancellor and campus architect for design and construction management (DCM) at the University of California, Davis. As senior manager, he is in charge of approximately 90 professionally licensed architects and engineers, construction administrators, contracts specialists, and support staff. He is a member of the administrative and resource management's senior leadership staff and actively engaged in a wide variety of policy issues and leadership initiatives. Under his leadership, DCM is responsible for the implementation and delivery of the capital improvement program, which has active projects in excess of $800 million and consists of new buildings, renovation and renewal projects and infrastructure improvements. Before joining the university, he worked in the private sector as a project architect and project manager for a wide variety of office, retail, media, entertainment, resort, public utility, and community college private sector and public projects in northern California and New Mexico.

Linda Rock is the vice dean for administration for the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). She has responsibility for the general administration of the USC Viterbi School, including space planning, human resources, and payroll administration. Rock has more than 20 years of experience in human resources and financial administration. Prior to joining USC, she was the financial and human resources manager for Hill & Vaughn, Inc, and an engineering administrator for Lockheed Aeronautical Systems. From 1995 to 2004, she was human resources manager and then director of human resources at the Viterbi School. Prior to re-joining the Viterbi School in her current position, she was director of human resources at the USC Marshall School of Business. She earned a master of arts in international policy studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a bachelor's degree in international relations from Loyola Marymount University.

Named "Outstanding Young Architect of the Year" by the AIA, Paul Woolford is a director of design for HOK on the west coast, and is responsible for some of HOK's most creative projects. He is a recognized industry leader in Education Architecture, whose designs focus on sustainability. His work has been widely published and honored with numerous awards including: R&D magazine's "Laboratory of the year Award" and the "AIA National Design Excellence Award" for the State Archives & Library of Georgia. Woolford earned his bachelor of architecture at Cornell University with honors in 1983. Woolford has taught design at University of California, Berkeley; Cornell University; and Savannah College of Art and Design. He lectures around the world for organizations including AIA, USGBC, Urban Land Institute, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Living Futures Institute, and SCUP.

ormer American Council on Education Fellow (2011-12) and senior vice provost for strategic initiatives and communications at Temple University, Elizabeth Tutelman is known as an innovative, entrepreneurial, and visionary leader. Recognized as a strategic thinker, she has collaborated with leaders to engage the community in implementation of the strategic plan and developed the web presence that highlights initiatives and progress toward goals.

Since launching Paulien & Associates, Inc. in 1979, Dan Paulien has consulted with several hundred higher education institutions. In 1999, Paulien received a Distinguished Service Award from SCUP, and also served as that society’s president from 1995-1996. Prior to founding Paulien & Associates, Paulien was a staff member of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE), where he developed vocational technical laboratory guidelines and co-authored Guidelines for Site Selection, Long-Range Facilities Master Planning, and Facilities Program Planning. Paulien prepared 16 program plans for the original campus development of the Auraria Higher Education Center as its director of planning.

Susan Schwartzenberg is a visual artist and photographer who lives in San Francisco. She has exhibited and published her work internationally. She has developed public art projects for numerous cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle, and now Stanford University. She holds a senior staff position at the San Francisco Exploratorium. Some of her projects include The Rosie the Riveter Memorial, 2000, Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, 2008, and the Harvey Milk Recreation Center.

Chris Shay serves as manager of capital projects at Stanford University's School of Medicine. Previously, he was the general service officer in Hanoi Vietnam, working as a Foreign Service Officer for the US State Department. He holds a master's degree in construction management and an undergraduate degree in civil engineering, both from Michigan State University.

Sean Clerkin AIA, LEED AP, is a partner at Clerkin & Clerkin Architects, located in Pasadena California.He is responsible for the firm's educational work. He has designed, planned, and managed over 200 varied collaborative university projects. He brings technical and design innovation to the process of meeting the complex needs of educational program.The firm has received awards for challenging and unusual projects. His prior experience includes international institutional facilities and high rise design. Clerkin holds a bachelor of arts from Columbia University and is a licensed architect in California since 1987.

Diane S. Stephens is associate vice president in the Department of Academic Resources and Planning at California State University, Northridge, and has over 20 years of experience in higher education. She is responsible for budget planning and management, academic facilities planning and utilization, web programming, and staff human resources planning for the academic affairs division of the university. Stephens acts as administrative liaison for the university's Institutes for Sustainability and Community Health and Wellbeing, is executive secretary for the Educational Resources Committee of the Faculty Senate, is chair of the Classroom Technology Committee, and chair of the Academic Resources Council. She also coordinates a multi-year professional development series for over 150 campus leaders and is active in a variety of university committees that focus on business process improvements. Stephens is membership vice chair for the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Pacific Regional Council and serves as faculty for the SCUP Planning Institute. She holds a MBA degree from California State University, Northridge and her continuing education includes completion of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education Management Development Program, the Western Association of College and University Business Officers Business Management Institute, and the Society for College and University Planning Institute.

Patrick Hyland is an architect and associate with Westlake Reed Leskosky. He is deeply interested in the American college campus, its history, development, and future. He has worked on various campuses including Pennsylvania State Univeristy, the University of Mount Union, Lake Erie College, Baldwin-Wallace University, Case Western Reserve University, and Ohio State University.

Gordon Turow is Pennsylvania State University's (Penn State) director of campus planning and design. A member of SCUP, Turow is responsible for ensuring the highest standards of quality for campus planning, architecture, and landscape design at Penn State and its 24 campuses throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. His responsibilities also include development and implementation of campus master plans, design review of the university's capital projects, development and enforcement of university design standards and guidelines, and selection of architecture consultants. Turow serves on a variety of committees, including the Environmental Stewardship Committee and the Physical Assets Committee. He is the facilitator of the university's Facilities Planning Advisory Board and the Master Plan Transportation Committee.

Paul Westlake is the mangaing principal at Westlake Reed Leskosky, a national integrated architecture-planning-engineering design practice. He is an accomplished and award-winining planner and designer of over 100 peforming arts venues across the United States. He is currenlty leading academic arts projects at Pennsylvania State, The Ohio State University, Oberlin College, George Mason University, University of Mount Union, Point Park University, Tarleton State University, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York Institute of Technology, and Slippery Rock University.

Janice Fournier, Ph.D,. is an educational psychologist with a background in the learning sciences and human development and cognition. Her research focuses on learning in both formal and informal settings. She has worked for over 10 years at the University of Washington (UW), beginning at the Program for Educational Transformation Through Technology (PETTT) and later joining UW Information Technology. She conducts educational research on teaching and learning with technology as well as user research to inform the design of web applications and campus learning spaces.

Jill Morelli, FAIA, is the director of facilities at the School of Medicine for the University of Washington, a position she has held for six years. Prior to that, she was the university architect at The Ohio State University. In her present position, she manages space for a college-level unit of one million square feet, projects from $5,000 to more than $160 million, and asset management after it is constructed. She handles the teaching and research mission of the school, ranked second in federally-funded research in the US.