STRATEGIC INITIATIVE 4

Create and maintain safe and secure campus facilities to advance student learning, innovation, and campus operations.

OBJECTIVE 4.1

Engage in comprehensive strategic master planning effort to chart roadmap of The Citadel for the next fifty years.

ACTIONS:

  • Complete as a living document and executed in Objective 4.2 with a planned refresh every 10 years.

OBJECTIVE 4.2

Maintain, build, renovate, and/or repurpose facilities on campus in support of the Campus Masterplan concept.

ACTIONS:

  • Establish a fund and endowment for the continued restoration and enhancement of chapel facilities and programs in support of the Citadel chaplaincy’s strategic purposes.
  • Renovate/repurpose existing spaces: Bryd Hall, Chapel Window Restoration, Fire Pump Holding Tank, East Side Stands, Duckett Hall, McAlister Field House.
  • Feasibility study for Thompson Hall.
  • Execute a Capital Renewal Program consistent with State Higher Education Facility Condition Index Model.
  • Build replacement barracks, Engineering building.

OBJECTIVE 4.3

Invest in experiential and innovative teaching and learning space.

ACTIONS:

  • Conduct feasibility studies for the use of technology to innovate student support services.
  • Design and build temporary collaboration space in the library to meet campus need.
  • Develop a summer grant program to incentivize faculty to incorporate innovative technology into the classroom.
  • Renovate the teaching and learning classroom to match the existing classroom standard and charge a faculty led group to engage in continued innovation of the teaching and learning spaces on campus.

OBJECTIVE 4.4

Enhance campus safety and security.

ACTIONS:

  • Complete fire suppression upgrade (‘Tank’ replacement).
  • Continue adoption, development, and training of Bulldog Alert (BA) mobile and desktopapplications, and its associated communications and monitoring functions for PSAF.
  • With campus partners, develop roadmap and funding for controlled facility access.
  • Build on recent efforts supporting Safety and Law Enforcement (LE) Professional retention.
  • Continued upgrades/integration of fire and other alarm systems with on-campus monitoring.
  • Integrate campus-wide pedestrian and vehicle safety and security enhancements.
  • Continue tidal/rainfall-caused flood small-scale mitigation for parking areas.
  • Ensure perimeter fencing of ‘core’ campus remains part of facilities Master Plan.