By Kait Campbell & Emma Picardi. SUNY Potsdam approached the Conway School to develop
a comprehensive campus landscape plan with a focus on climate resilience and student life enrichment. Through conversations with a core team of university educators, administrators, and students, and through on-campus engagement sessions with a wide variety of community members, the Conway team developed four key objectives to inform the development of a comprehensive campus landscape plan:
• Identify areas that provide opportunities for improvement of ecological function and resilience to
the impacts of climate change.
• Recommend ways to minimize the campus’s carbon footprint.
• Develop outdoor spaces for student learning, living, and community-building.
• Improve student safety in outdoor spaces.
