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digest Industry News & Events By Anita Dosik facilities Save the Date!! 2013 APPA 2013 – Celebrating Innovation & Preparing for the Next Horizon APPA U in September Join us for a week-long professional development experience that is unlike any other for the educational facilities professional. Comprising the Institute for Facilities Management and the Leadership Academy, APPA U is designed with you in mind and delivered by experts in our community. The networking opportunities are unsurpassed. Feel free to contact the APPA Professional Development staff at education@appa.org any time with questions as you prepare to join us! September 8 - 12, 2013 Fort Lauderdale, FL Register at www.appa.org/training/ eventregistration.cfm February 2 - 6, 2014 Dallas, TX Registration will open on November 1, 2013 Make sure to attend APPA 2013, August 2-4 in Minneapolis APPA Welcomes New Content Coordinator for BOK PDC Section Guckert Daigneau APPAinfo: Just ask! APPAinfo is an e-mail discussion list for educational facilities professionals where you can find the answers to many of your everyday problems simply by posing a question to your peers—1,100 of them! How should your school handle graffiti and vandalism? How can you creatively deal with customer service issues? What strategies 6 | july/august 2013 | Facilities Manager Don Guckert, associate vice president and director of facilities management at the University of Iowa, has agreed to serve as the new content coordinator for the Planning, Design, and Construction section of APPA's online BOK (Body of Knowledge). As a longtime faculty member and dean for PDC for APPA's Institute for Facilities Management, Don is well qualified to serve as a content coordinator for the BOK. His responsibilities with the BOK will include reviewing chapters and topics for updating, and identifying and working with subject matter experts and chapter authors. Don replaces Bill Daigneau, who recently retired as chief facilities officer at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and now serves as an educational facilities consultant. APPA and Maggie Kinnaman, BOK's editor-in-chief, welcome Don to the BOK Editorial Board, and thank Bill for his many years of service on the BOK and its predecessor, the Facilities Management manual. Learn more about the BOK at www.appa.org/bok. ? ? ? are you using to tell the facilities story to your senior campus administrators? The possible discussion topics are endless. Just ask! Subscribers can post their questions and responses to appainfo@lyris.appa.org. To subscribe to the APPAinfo discussion list, go to www.appa.org/discussionlists/index.cfm. Contact Steve Glazner at steve@appa.org if you have any questions. ?