PSU seeks to maintain a vibrant urban campus landscape that provides an attractive and functional linkage to the built environment and natural areas surrounding the campus. With the expansion of campus over time, creating an open space plan provides guidance for the University to ensure that PSU will continue to value and create multifunctional landscapes across campus.
Through community outreach and in partnership with the Campus Planning Office and support from the Student Sustainability Center, the Campus Sustainability Office has conducted focus group interviews, an informal student survey and invited students, faculty, staff and community members to participate in hands-on visioning workshops to identify the principles that should guide the open space plan. A draft of the plan is expected to be completed by fall 2018.