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"How A Great Campus Outdoor Built Environment Can Lead to Improved Student Retention"
Author: Kevin L. Dilliard, DLS
Date: September/October 2024

Due to the changing demographic and evolving student base, a purposeful landscape design is essential to the success of a higher education campus by helping to reduce student stress. Communal spaces are collaborative, active, connected, relaxing, meditative, and even technologically advanced, and are now integral parts of the outdoor built environments at a college or university. Many institutions use their landscape spaces for more than just connecting from one building to another. Outdoor classrooms, science gardens, learning spaces, sports, and activity spaces bring new meaning to landscape architecture for colleges and universities (Kudela & Weinheimer, 2016). Appreciating where people prefer to gather, and understanding contemporary students’ behaviors and learning styles, allows campus landscape spaces to become much more than aesthetic resources to walk by and serve as outdoor social and learning centers (Spooner, 2006).

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