Prioritizing Health & Well-Being
Campus Plan 2050 supports a focus on goals, objectives, and principles related to health and well-being; diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA); and the arts and humanities that span all aspects of campus planning.
Goal 1: Provide critical services to support students, faculty, and staff.
Objectives
- Invest in facilities and services that support the health and well-being of students, faculty, staff, and patients.
- Provide distributed access to wellness spaces.
Goal 2: Adapt campus spaces to improve the user experience and comfort.
Objectives
- Integrate nature within study spaces.
- Improve daylighting in campus buildings.
Goal 3: Create an environment where students, faculty, staff, and patients have access to resources and activities that promote wellness.
Objectives
- Expand the network of both passive and active recreational spaces.
- Improve access to healthy food.
- Support campus food systems programming and food production.
Goal 4: Build foundations for resiliency and community on campus.
Objectives
- Encourage interaction through multiple scales and configurations of social spaces.
- Expand and enhance access to existing academic support services.
Goal 5: Foster an inclusive physical environment where individuals can thrive.
Objectives
- Adapt learning environments to support neurodiverse students.
- Improve wayfinding.
- Enhance physical accessibility and inclusivity.
- Expand access to recreational space.
Goal 6: Promote diverse representation within the built environment to inspire a sense of belonging.
Objectives
- Encourage dialogue and learning around diverse histories through public art.
- Create additional spaces for affinity and multicultural centers.
- Facilitate opportunities to highlight the natural and built beauty of the campuses.
Goal 7: Expand campus services and infrastructure needed to support a diverse campus community.
Objectives
- Meet basic needs of all students, faculty, and staff.
- Expand access to on-campus housing.
Goal 8: Distribute resources across a variety of needs that emphasize investment in equity-centered projects.
Objectives
- Ensure equal and appropriate access across campus.
Human Health and Well-Being Principles
- Utilize universal design principles to guide the creation of accessible routes and pedestrian pathways; exterior accessible routes from accessible parking spaces, transit stations and stops, and drop-off areas to main building entrances; prioritize accessible walkways over ramps in the landscape and eliminate stairs where possible.
- Visually and physically connect interiors with nature and open space. Incorporate greeneryand other elements of biophilia within campus buildings.
- Enhance space for adaptive sports and fitness within recreation buildings.
- Locate benches along outer edges of major pedestrian routes at regular intervals to provide resting spots for the mobility impaired without creating obstructions to the public way.
- Integrate places for well-being in campus buildings and landscapes; consider different scales for personal and community well-being. Examples include space for personal reflection, prayer and meditation, lactation, virtual counseling, study, gathering, and collaboration.
- Distribute access to well-being spaces across the Ann Arbor Campus.
- Consider sound attenuation in classrooms and study spaces.
- Integrate a network of DEIA spaces and inclusive infrastructure on campus.
- Provide inclusive and accessible space for cultural events in campus buildings and landscapes.
- Consider the needs of all campus users in the selection and placement of site furnishings.