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Facilities Manager | november/december 2014 | 1 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2014 Volume 30 • Number 6 features HIGHER EDUCATION and the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 16 28 Higher Education and the American Experience: Community, Democracy, and New Frontiers By Anita Blumenthal At a plenary session at APPA's Centennial Conference last July, Professor Jeremi Suri traced the unique history of higher education in the United States, and he challenged the audience to find ways to enhance the distinct contributions and ethos of American universities while meeting new challenges with fresh ideas and practical innovations. Tackling Critical Facilities Issues through the Hidden Power of Lean (It's not what you might think) By Melissa McEwen, Meredith Hargreaves, and Steve MacIntyre Campus facilities leaders are facing many intractable challenges— deferred maintenance, reduced funding, rising costs, an aging workforce, broad energy and sustainability targets, and much more. As facilities leaders, we want to understand what best practices exist on other campuses, so that we can bring those great ideas to back to our own campus and replicate them. We Built, We Bought, We Shared: The Costs of Administrative Service Systems vs. the Academic Mission By Eric L. Denna, Steven R. Fleagle, Laura McCain Patterson, and Thomas Dodds Higher education institutions need to minimize the costs of administrative systems in order to invest in their core missions. Here, seasoned CIOs talk candidly about three strategies: building-your-own in the modern era; buying and implementing in smarter ways; and joining a higher education consortium that shares processes and software. APPA Thought Leaders Report 2014, Part 2, Leveraging Facilities for Institutional Success 22 53 A P P A T H O U G H T L E A D E R S S E R I E S 2 0 1 4 LEVERAGING FACILITIES FOR INSTITUTIONAL SUCCESS PART 2 p_ yout 1 10/24/14 12:13 PM Page 1