In January of 2006, a series of three public forums were held to gain insight and direction for the Long Range Campus Development Plan. Over 1400 comments were gathered from students, faculty, staff and the local community. These comments were sorted by major theme and have been used to point the way for MSU-Tomorrow and may be viewed in the following sections. Note: Some sections are still under construction and are not yet active.

Section 1: Architecture

  • I think we need classrooms - it's nice to have research space but it doesn't need to be smack dab in the middle of campus. We are selling the students short! The periphery is a better place for research - scheduling classes is a nightmare to put it mild
  • Need to find a location for a new Student Health Center Building. The current facility is outdated and inefficient.
  • Don't lose the old for the new.
  • Vision - recruitment and retention of students. This is a regent's goal. Build your buildings to be impressive. We need to have a showplace to attract students and faculty. Keep the "green" and campus planting programs alive and well.
  • Keep our beautiful buildings! No ugly buildings!
  • Identify obsolete and buildings planned for destruction.
  • Football expansion to stadium.
  • Recreation complex - get the remodel finished! Recruitment tool, visually attractive. It's what the students want! It keeps us fit.
  • Bobcat Plaza? When will it happen?
  • Replace aged and out of date building - especially campus housing.
  • Efficient use of space is poor - MT Hall example. New administration building needed.
  • Areas for sports teams that will never be restricted because of gatherings in the Fieldhouse. Track complex/football practice fields.
  • Less new construction. Save the students money.
  • Make function more important than beauty (like new chem. building seems extravagant)
  • Want to insure indigenous design of buildings. They should be suited to our climate. What is good for California or Arizona may not be suitable for our area.
  • Historical preservation important.
  • Open to contemporary architecture - arch/arts buildings should be state-of-the-art
  • Maintain sense of history - keep and restore MT Hall, Herrick Hall, Linfield, Lewis, Roberts, Taylor, Romney
  • Make architecture timeless. Think UC Boulder, for example.
  • Don't just do "makeshift" solutions to problems. (Such as the dorky little roofs over entrances to Traphagen to catch snow and ice off the roof.) Implement quality solutions that look appealing.
  • Maintain integrity of existing buildings (build new rather than add on insensitive appendages)
  • Preserve historic architectural features and details.
  • Current buildings are too different, we need a common theme/style.
  • Maintain old architecture.
  • Pay attention to small details (appealing window treatments, restrooms in the right locations).
  • No flat roofs on buildings because of Montana winters.
  • No prison-looking brick buildings.
  • Need new admin building.
  • Plan for research space and product development.
  • Keep old brick buildings and renovate.
  • No vertical expansion at the expense of larger environments.
  • Devote resources to maintain historical integrity of buildings - regular repairs and maintenance not done leaves shabby looking buildings.
  • Wright was right, emulation not imitation. No gobly-gook, use as few materials as possible, give some sense of unity; build for today, not some silly idealized past that has never existed and can never exist. Too many cooks ruin the soup.
  • Please use models, so everything lines up with everything else, have a sense of order and unity; a sense of place, buildings so connected to site that they can't be imagined anywhere other than right where they are. Squares belong with squares, circles belong with circles; have some clear flowing vision.
  • SC Johnson Wax - great inspiration, look at it. Eaves of building, curtains are proof of poor design, lack of research concerning light, sun, etc. Think of sound, vision, all the senses - a place you actually want to be in.
  • A plan for the entire campus, not piecemeal, one vision for it all (i.e. Florida Southern College.
  • Consider the idea of clusters of buildings for the colleges. Example: Ag buildings located together, Letters & Science buildings together.
  • Long live the Chemistry Building.
  • All student service offices should be housed in one building, i.e. Financial Aid in the same building with Student Accounts. Something similar to Griz Central at MSU.
  • Architectural features on buildings are important. So when budget cuts cause cuts in building projects, the distinctive features should not be cut. We don't want to produce box shaped buildings because we can't afford anything else.
  • Academic activities should get space priority in the center of campus. Put new classrooms in close, new programs and non-academic centers out of the main mall area.
  • Establish design guidelines to keep architecture all related and consistent. Coherent and beautiful.
  • Additions to historic buildings must be in the same design as the building's original design. Example is the addition on Linfield Hall.
  • In viewing the pictures, there seems to be a recurring architectural theme of arches and archways. Is that a theme we want to incorporate in future buildings? Example: Romney Gym, Roberts Hall, SUB Theatre entrance.
  • If you expand buildings and facilities - will have greater and greater impact on parking. Who parks where, why?
  • Campus buildings and design should be more futuristic.
  • Condense on campus to avoid sprawl.
  • Cluster campus.
  • Taller buildings - more open space. Wind problem - tree lines for wind breaking barriers. New big sport center.
  • Need to make a distinction between pretty offices and classrooms and viable research space. Research space is practical needs, not aesthetic. Maybe divide main campus and fringe campus with 2 different plans and rules.
  • I think classrooms and labs should be central while "centers" and administrative offices should be around the perimeter of campus.
  • Open Wilson Hall's 2nd floor outdoor walkway to public use.
  • Do plan new buildings to allow for vertical expansion, save on space.
  • When the library is connected to Reid, leave a ground-level passage beneath with architectural detail similar to arched bridge. Supports beauty and function.
  • More open classrooms needed.
  • Think snow and snow run-off when planning anything on campus. Snow run-off creates ice at night.
  • Think about climate before building. It snows here, things freeze, we have 4 seasons.
  • Montana Hall is a beautiful but unsafe and poorly functioning building.
  • Keep using brick.
  • Design facilities that encourage and promote cross-discipline teaching and learning.
  • Avoid stairs to buildings. Access issues, weather hazards.
  • Rid multi-floor elevations that do not connect on level floor, i.e. Roberts Hall, Cobleigh.
  • Use North side space for: combo use building with city residents once those buildings are replaced.
  • Plan for enhanced, new and expanding IT capabilities on campus (including renovating old buildings IT structure).
  • MSU needs buildings that are technology friendly.
  • Maintain common theme (colors, materials etc) throughout campus to make it a cohesive design.
  • Pods for easy access for servicing and staging. Disguised by landscaping/faux fronts. Design maintenance into the ultimate design (Disneyland is a good example).
  • School of Architecture will be working on this project…Art & Architecture Building should be unique!!
  • Clusters: All Ag Programs together and all athletics together, etc.…grouping by likes. But draw back might be to hinder interaction across campus.
  • I'd like to see a larger and/or second library. I'd also like a quieter study space outside the Sub or Library.
  • McCall Hall and the unused field behind it could be redeveloped into a multi-story building which could use the space more efficiently.
  • Design buildings for long term quality use. They need to be adaptable for future uses and be aesthetically pleasing to match campus design for future generations.
  • Possible space for development into an academic building: the filed between the SUB Parking and H&PE Complex.
  • One easy way to get more classroom space would be to extend Traphagen Hall towards Gaines. This would make Traphagen more symmetrical and wouldn't interfere with major green space. Perhaps could link Traphagen with Gaines, like EPS/Cobleigh/Roberts.
  • Door in the rear of the Library please.
  • If more buildings are needed, they could be placed on existing parking lots. Parking spaces could be increased by building tall parking garages. They save valuable space.
  • Have planned areas where new buildings will go and don't plant trees there! Thus, fewer trees will need to be cut down per project. It is very difficult to re-grow trees here in Montana.
  • School of Architecture should be expanded to fit more students and give them more space.
  • Windows - Give a Classical paned look.
  • I have been troubled by the shrinking size of faculty offices in buildings built in recent years. I don't know what other departments need, but Geology/Paleontology needs offices as large as those in Traphagen.
  • SUB area - Improve. Not welcoming as it is - bad atmosphere.
  • If attendance picks up, a new stadium will need to be taken into consideration. A stadium to be proud of.
  • Place where first year architects could study and work. Romney's "dungeon" doesn't cut it.
  • When new buildings are designed, it would be fun to think more about architecture the old ones (buildings) look better. A building is more than a box.
  • Develop a constant coherent academic core.
  • Make better use of lab space. Lots of professors have big size labs they hardly use, while other employees are cramped up in smaller space.
  • Better first year Architecture Studio.
  • Gains Hall and the Chemistry labs…need I say more.
  • Avoid architecture that is too "cutting edge" if Architecture students want to do that, they can go else where.
  • I thoroughly enjoy studying in the Plant Science Building because of its windows and views. I propose creating a study center with large work spaces and expansive views would promote more studying on campus.
  • New Health & Fitness Building i.e. Missoula is pretty nice, take a look.
  • The renovation of the Sub and H&PE Complex will be great, but no alternatives were made to accommodate the closures of the pool and other facilities. Seems like construction is going to be a big problem if no alternatives are given.
  • I hear that the Football Program wants to build a huge state-of-the-art, full-size, indoor field/stadium. A 400 meter track would be put around it. This sounds great, but the track team would never use it - indoor tracks have to be less than 300 meters. Put a hydraulic lift in the existing fieldhouse.
  • Especially troubling is the trend of the new buildings. Ag Science? YAWN!! It's not a terrible building, but who cares about it. Worse yet is the Chemistry Building. Lets see something inspiring (notice how all your PowerPoint pictures are of the BEST buildings; Romney, Montana, etc) Build more of these!
  • My biggest complaint is with the architecture. There are several great buildings:: Roberts, Romney, Montana, Heating Plant-OH yes, the Heating Plant is better than most - the engineering building). Cobleigh? Terrible as is : Wilson, Reid, Leon Johns, AJM Johnson, the PE Complex etc.
  • The remodeling of Renne Hall needs to happen. Need to incorporate more easily navigable aisles and more social space.
  • Preserve the brick post-gothic architecture ala Traphagen and Montana Hall with modern feel ala Ag Science.
  • Given the geological hazards around Bozeman, all future buildings should be built to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 (again, Hebgen Lake 1959 was at least a 5.6) Steel girder buildings (like Ag Bioscience) survive earthquakes better than steel-reinforced concrete. No building on campus, no matter the size should be built from un-reinforced masonry. If a small inexpensive building is needed, go stick, wood-frame construction that does better in earthquakes.
  • Could preserve historic façades - (see Vassar College and its new Performing Arts Building) - but it needs a new super structure.
  • General Plan: Spend 3 to 5 years on intensive building/structure repairs.
  • General Plan: Maintain building spaces at no less than 50 feet.
  • Artfully clustering buildings to maximize the use of space, leaving pods of green space.
  • Some buildings can be retrofit to meet changing needs and others can not.
  • Student Services Building - parents and students need to be able to access.
  • Need a new Administration Building - move to Hedges. Approximately 34 offices per building with 2 conference rooms per floor plenty of restrooms.
  • New ITC Building - would put all ITC staff in one place better service, closer to center of campus.
  • New Classroom Building with higher use flexibility of use, yet still have connections to faculty offices.
  • Library: Has outgrown space. Addition would compromise open space.
  • New gym facilities are needed.
  • Need new Facilities Services-move to the edge to campus.
  • Future buildings should have pitched roofs - save on future roof repairs.
  • No more construction in the core campus area, i.e. the new Chemistry lab.
  • Montana Hall is too overcrowded.
  • Roberts/Cobleigh/EPS look like a hodgepodge of architectural styles. Future buildings should somehow complement each other.
  • I appreciate campuses that incorporate the historical features of the campus into new buildings.
  • Areas like the main entrance to SUB are bewildering and a waste of space. Bad images like this leave negative impressions.
  • Try to define common architectural themes or elements and continue to incorporate them into new buildings.
  • Love ivy and brick! Feature the old buildings more by creating/keeping spaces that focus on them.
  • Administrative space.
  • Cluster building on campus.
  • Improve the western (bookstore) entrance area to the SUB. There seems to be a lot of vehicles and it's not a good-feeling people place. As a pedestrian, it feels like you're going to get hit by a car.
  • Build up - not out.
  • Building up will only block our wonderful views. Build out!!
  • Our buildings look "disjointed". Can we promote a common unifying look?
  • We need more meeting space for larger gatherings, luncheons, etc. The SUB does not offer enough choice.
  • Leased buildings off campus need guidelines considering what operational services and utility/communications can efficiently be provided by MSU support departments.
  • I like the idea of clustering buildings and making better use of open space. Right now we have big open spaces which are just "cow paths".
  • Begin planning to move physical plant to make way for expansion of academic campus.
  • Don't put offices in basements. This is terrible for employees stuck in them and causes "rich & poor" benefits for staff. Use basements for storage, equipment, or short term use.
  • Build a facility by main mall for community and evening classes. Build large parking by this building with park and ride bus shuttle between this facility and main campus.
  • Classroom space is badly needed. Don’t forget importance of comfortable learning areas.
  • Storage space or alternative. Lack of storage space in general. Current space requires people to injure themselves in order to access anything - document imaging in lieu of more storage - just requires more data storage.
  • Move administration to Hedges. 34 individual offices per floor; 2 conference rooms per floor (old showers); parking for students available on campus; parking for admin by Hedges (further out); no major remodel needed; 2 bathrooms (1 men/1 women) per floor.
  • Need larger lecture venues, etc.
  • Addition space for offices and research labs for faculty.
  • Ditch the gym concept! It is not a requirement for education - luxury.
  • Better access to electrical outlets outside for outside events.
  • There is a real shortage of admin space. Lack of electrical capacity where admin space currently located. Central break rooms instead of each office having their own.
  • Put a building between MT Hall and Hamilton Hall for a student services center. No one uses that space because grass is too wet - just a messy cow path - low, for nice views.
  • Classrooms - better size, diversity, technology, acoustics.
  • Student services building - for all student centered functions.
  • New admin building.
  • Build conference center/classroom space - good acoustics.
  • With increased student numbers, staff needs to increase. A new, larger administration building is needed. A new research administration building is also needed.
  • Move facilities further out.
  • Consolidate geographically student service related functions.
  • Appropriate workspace conditions are lacking.
  • Health Center/Rec Center remain in the center of campus.
  • ITC Building - staff, infrastructure, public service.
  • As student enrollment grows, we need a student services building which houses all student related services: admission, registrar, student accounts, financial aid, grad office, etc.
  • Create academic district, or mix it all up? District - can create a community.
  • Build new facilities west of 19th.
  • Need to make "connected" community - buildings set the edge - open space enclosed.
  • Utilize space "off-campus" to help alleviate over-crowding - but be able to continue receiving campus services; mail delivery and cleaning.
  • Student admin space - combine student services in one building. Really inconvenient and embarrassing what a student has to go through.
  • I like the idea of "cluster building" - avoiding the old model of spacing buildings out with space around each - to maximize open space around areas of density.
  • Why not grow the campus south to the soccer fields and move those fields out past 19th to the west.
  • Expand campus south or SE, not west.
  • Main entrances to buildings should never be on the North. Snow removal is too difficult.
  • Classrooms need to be expanded.
  • Do the best you can on design & quality. Something that will last.
  • Pigeons: Annoying!! Buildings look nice, but make for too many pigeon roosts.
  • Architecture is a slave to the fashion of the time. Need continuity in Campus design. All Architectural designs do not all fit together. Need a common theme - using same palettes, materials window styles.
  • Some buildings are "heroes" while others are merely soldiers. Lets at least, make them GOOD soldiers they do not have to be totally without creativity.
  • Are there buildings on Campus that we want to be sure new buildings relate to?? Guidelines.
  • Want buildings to look like a "whole" when it's (the plan) done. That they fit together better, using cohesive materials, windows, etc.
  • Area where Facilities Services is located good area for future expansion. Move OFS across Nineteenth.
  • Growth should be upward.
  • Renovate the H&PE Building.
  • Demolish older dysfunctional buildings.
  • Rejuvenate older buildings. Older buildings give a sense of history and character.
  • Long term- AG Quad gives students a critical mass, but also then creates isolation from the main Campus.
  • Have future agricultural research facilities close together to make movement of research material easy. Students involved in AG research should be able to easily move (walk) from research facilities to classrooms.
  • Build an AG District on main campus - by Ag Bioscience & Plant Growth Center.
  • Clustering - enable Student focus on courses.
  • Any plan must incorporate facilities across South Nineteenth - Marsh Lab & VMB facilities
  • How many Land Grant Universities did you (A/S/G) view -What are their best designs? Worst?
  • SUB and public student facilities need to be inviting - They are tired now.
  • AG building development. Define the AG part of Campus. AG Departments in one place is a great idea. All AG Buildings surround Linfield Hall.
  • Increase in AG Technology facilities and faculty.
  • AG is too spread out now, results in loss of time and energy. Centralize the AG Department.
  • What will be done with existing buildings at the Teaching barns? Need long term plan for repairs/improvements and enhance the teaching and learning experience.
  • Build new wool lab and turn the old one into a Visitor Center; it is historical and cute and good location.
  • Buildings designed - internally and location - to facilitate intra- and inter-disciplinary collaboration.
  • Get rid of high rise buildings.
  • Infill, careful infill! Create connection with museum and campus.
  • Create guidelines that allow for "modern" architecture that respects and complements MSU's historic architecture.
  • New buildings should replace parking lots, NOT green space.
  • Diverse forms and styles of buildings on campus embody the history of the campus. Rather than one unifying architectural style - restore, maintain, and beautify campus buildings to look their best as they are.
  • Build for 75-100 year building life. Anticipate increasing importance of energy conservation. Do not use radical design in mid-campus. Save this for campus edge.
  • Build up - buildings 6-10 stories.
  • Bring large buildings up near busy roads with sidewalk and/or bike lanes, i.e. Denver University on University Blvd. For example along 19th and Kagy - big, sprawling parking lots like around tower dorms - bad.
  • In-fill buildings on campus. Green space outside 11th/Kagy, 5th and College.
  • Quad, old main gym - great design with open space inside.
  • For campus plan to be most effective, a projection of student population in the next 20 years and a prioritized list of buildings to be built/renovated in this time frame are necessary.
  • Historical recognition of MSU campus! (Nat'l register of historic places!)
  • New buildings for admin purposes - especially a centralized buildings for students (i.e. new student services, financial aid, business office, one card, etc.).
  • Plan community use building, cultural center, convention center.
  • To mitigate shortage of lab space, consider an "interdisciplinary science and engineering" building as a priority. Such a building would serve the needs of a broad selection of disciplines and foster interdisciplinary research and teaching efforts.
  • High quality teaching/learning rooms. Renovate and build.
  • Better quality classroom. Need more classrooms. Classrooms with windows.
  • Convention center Could be at college and 11th - makes a nice entry.
  • Buildings that are flexible for programs and uses.
  • More seminar rooms with appropriate furniture.
  • Improve classroom facilities - windows, technology, quality, atmosphere, chairs. Reconcile classroom schedules.
  • Improved campus conference facility - large capacity.
  • Conference/convention center.
  • The college has no space for growth, particularly in terms of research offices for grant funded research, but also for faculty/staff office space as the Bozeman upper division grows and the graduate program grows. We are badly in need of Sherrick Hall renovation and expansion. More classroom and clinical laboratories are also needed.
  • Faculty require state-of-the-art teaching space. This includes audio/visual equipment that could potentially reduce "on-campus" requirements for students.
  • Human scale buildings eliminate tower dorms.
  • Building design should promote collaboration within university and with community.
  • Centrally located buildings offering multiple use classrooms. Collaboration.
  • Go back to the Cass Gilbert Plan - it was beautiful.
  • Get rid of Roskie and other hideous dorms.
  • Lower residence halls. Less institutional style.
  • Expansion of Administrative and Research. Where would be the best area?
  • Create a visible visitor's center. VISIBLE
  • Running out of office space, classroom space. Need more. Scheduling issues too.
  • Consistent architectural theme throughout the campus. What to do with the buildings from the 50's-60's that don't fit into the theme.
  • We need a more formal meeting/gathering space at the Stadium.
  • Preserve the site north of the Museum of the Rockies for a Performing Arts Center. Make the site available and it will come someday. The site is near perfect for such a project.
  • Grow the Stadium. Close the bowl. This will grow community support and be The place to be on Saturday.
  • Need better married student housing.
  • Put a performing Arts Center near the Museum of the Rockies.
  • Love the warm red brick buildings. Creates a warm feeling.
  • Keep Campus at lower height, but views are nice from the existing towers.
  • Preserve the existing structures. Some departments, like the Architecture Dept need updates.
  • All building sites should be considered for important buildings. Could demolish under utilized existing buildings.
  • Should there be a more consistent design theme. Ties with historic elements.
  • Could build several buildings at Eleventh and Grant (3 corners available) could be a very nice corner.
  • Use buildings to define intersections. Make edges definite, leaving green spaces that are intimate and smaller.
  • Finish the construction of Traphagen Hall.
  • More modern looking buildings.
  • Keep the classic style of architecture instead of experimenting with trends that turn out to be disastrous in 20 years.
  • Tear down old halls, especially Hamilton Hall. They are ugly and inhibit productivity.
  • I like the historical feel of many of the buildings. New buildings should have a feel of that history while integrating new technology and architecture. We have a very good architecture school on campus, but many of our buildings look awful. Maybe use our own strong points in the future.
  • Large library with more computer stations, quiet areas, and talking areas.
  • Build an aerobics classroom that has mirrors on the walls. Then it's easier to see if you are doing all the exercises right.
  • Taylor Hall and Cooley labs might be demolished/replaced by better designed (both aesthetically and mechanically) buildings.
  • Architecture - When designing a building, make all four sides attractive. Hide dumpsters and mechanical units. Good examples: Montana Hall, Romney. Bad examples: Hapner, Leon Johnson, Taylor, Cheever, satellite building on Grant & 11th.
  • Keep a classical feel to the campus. With the blind feeling Bozeman has embraced, it will be nice to have a place where the beauty of classic brick is all around.
  • Arts students are under-represented with facilities. This is not proportionate with the percentage of incoming students. E.g. 17% of 2005 frosh are engineering. 16% are in arts (music, art, arch.). However, there are more engineering buildings.
  • I've noticed the trend for a compact campus. If this continues, tall multifunction buildings should be incorporated. i.e. Building with classrooms, labs, study rooms, computer labs, and multilayer underground parking.
  • Student workout facilities - it would be nice to have a room with windows and views of the mountains - the current place is like a box.
  • Things I like: brick structured buildings, open space, greenery, duck pond, fieldhouse, and open field behind the Hedges.
  • Make sure new buildings fit in with existing.
  • I like the architectural continuum presented by the new buildings (dorms), the Ag Bioscience building, and the new chemistry building.
  • Buildings which should be demolished and replaced because they are ugly and too small: AJM Johnson, McCall Hall.
  • More classical architecture, like Roberts Hall, MT Hall, old part of SUB, old Gym.
  • More classroom space for non-engineers. Lots of buildings need to be redone/torn down. Hamilton, Lewis, Traphagen, Herrick.
  • Consider tearing down old buildings for building sites on campus before using new ground.
  • Architecture - When covering the A/C units, make it fit in with the style of the building, and not just a big box of ugly bricks.
  • I think that there is a definite need for a better stadium.
  • Save old buildings that give the campus character.
  • Remove older buildings that do not work well and replace with new more efficient buildings.
  • Save barn.
  • There was a plan at one time that was diverted from - there has not been a real plan since the end of World War II. We made major mistakes in the past, and we now need to identify what is sacred and good.
  • Try to develop the use of buildings as edges and boundaries to green spaces and pedestrian cores.
  • Do we try to make the core of campus more dense or which direction should we look for expansion. South to athletic fields? Southeast where current OFS is? West to where old bungalows are located.
  • Would rather see four-story buildings than two-story. More use in the same amount of space - but DO NOT high rise.
  • If it is necessary to build more high-rises, pick location carefully as you don't want to block great vistas again, but you can see a wide panorama of the valley from its heights.
  • A performing Arts Center: Collaboration between MSU and the Community. A good location would be near the Museum of the Rockies.
  • When building, every site should be considered. Locate "non-contributing" buildings.
  • Eleventh and Grant have three good areas where new building could be placed, also Kagy and Eleventh. Need GOOD buildings, good strong materials and good aesthetics.
  • Can't expect a "one-size-fits-all" style, but rather should strive for commonality.
  • Do we want to define an architectural theme, heights, define window styles, entry styles and maintain certain palettes of materials and color
  • Engage and encourage the Schools of Architecture and Engineering to be involved. They are a great resource and they get very few opportunities to brainstorm and engage in changes.

Back to Top

Section 2: Campus Character

  • Keep the history.
  • Create a plan and stick to it; don't let money and favoritism decide where buildings go.
  • Visitor's Center located on 8th would make a nice entrance to campus.
  • Have a separate visitor's center.
  • Are there ways to make Campus more aesthetically pleasing during the winter months (instead of piles of dirty snow)
  • Shift Campus expansion to the west, not between Fifth and Eleventh.
  • Keep MSU "Mountains and Minds".
  • Remove ugly "artwork" from Campus. Maybe add some nice ones.
  • If we are a campus that sells itself by its location in the mountains, we should have windows in the buildings so the mountains an be seen.
  • Hide utilities.
  • Explore, discover, and then enhance whatever campus characteristics will increase MSU's competitiveness in a world that may become increasingly internet/distance delivery oriented (Univ of Phoenix Model).
  • Where is the center of campus? Is there really a focal point?
  • The Campus environment - way it feels is a very high consideration when a student picks a campus.
  • If we are forced to end animal experiments, we need to decide what direction to go. Urban and agriculture are not necessarily incompatible i.e. Iowa Pioneer Production Farm
  • Maintain the heritage of the School and the State.
  • Save the old farm and barns, but make a new "showcase" for a state-of-the-art agricultural facility.
  • Respect the past, but there are new avenues to explore.
  • Do something to the north side of Johnstone (along College) to be a better neighbor rather than turning campus back to town.
  • Maintain historic aspects of campus.
  • Stop turning your back to Bozeman - 6th Street, College. Imagine living across from the back of the physics or Johnstone buildings.
  • Preserve the historic elements. Promote historic elements to broader community.
  • Native American Center - great idea, very important to support all our tribes in MT.
  • Celebrate the winter experience on campus.
  • Celebrate winter spaces. Provide glass areas that allow protected access to light and outdoor views.
  • The Duck Pond is a great place to bring our kids and start to share stories about MSU from our time there as students.
  • Kagy is not an appropriate "Gateway" in its current condition.
  • Improve edges and gateways.
  • Research academics and Extension Services need to be the focus of Campus.
  • Campus appears somewhat disorganized in it's layout - could use some direction.

Back to Top

Section 3: Campus Community

  • Physical space - more meeting space on campus; suggested sizes: 275-276 SUB, Hall of Fame in Fieldhouse, 271 SUB. Some centralized, some not.
  • Athletics - possible more stands built for around the outdoor track.
  • Carefully infill campus. Maintain open space, low profile buildings and create clusters that don't block vistas.
  • Administration does a great job noting achievements of students but utilizes their varied talents and abilities very little in practical, hands on ways - a huge dynamic resource being passed by.
  • Online learning will never be the wonderful experience that interacting with people can be. Focus on the traditional styles (but give teachers freedom to make use of the internet - don't restrict them).
  • Promote more use of campus in summers. Improve the aesthetics of the campus in the winter.
  • Bring back the College national Finals Rodeo (big $$)
  • The presence of Native American students/tribes should be visible on campus - art, structures, etc. Everyone should see that this demographic is valued at MSU.
  • Keep departments in one building.
  • MSU-Bozeman campus should grow towards the west - not crowd what we have currently.
  • Serving the needs of students should be the central focus of all planning. Students must take a priority, since they are the reason for the institution.
  • How about a MT American Indian theme, e.g. big buildings dedicated to each reservation in Montana: Blackfeet design, Crow, Sioux, etc.?
  • Serve students better by having central location of admissions/registrar/student accounts/financial aid, and…??
  • Remember that learning is life-long - design facilities to accommodate all ages.
  • Ensure that each department (of each college) can have faculty, grad students, offices, classrooms, and lab facilities all in one building. The department in which I work is in 3 buildings on 2-3 different floors in each building.
  • Graduate teaching assistants need adequate space for their own studies and meeting with their students.
  • Try to get staff/offices/departments out of basements with no or minimal true daylight.
  • Do not expand outward too much, it is difficult to get between classes far away within the ten minutes allowed between classes.
  • For My Kids: Campus pride (not necessarily sports related)..
  • For My Kids: Enjoyable atmosphere to visit.
  • As a Campus, we need to create a sense of pride in who we are. This Campus needs a place that you are proud to come back to as an alumni. Take interest in the people who have graduated and potentially have money to donate. Get the alumni more involved and keep them proud to be a Bobcat!
  • Build a student services center.
  • I like how Campus just blends into the neighborhood to the east and northeast. I don't think that gates would be fitting. They'd be more like barriers.
  • Gathering spaces developed. Steps and walls for sitting. Table & chairs in more secluded spaces.
  • Negative on "districts" on campus - territorial.
  • Positive on "districts" on campus gives a sense of "home". An affinity to a location.
  • With "Districting" there will still be a need for central areas (SUB) students and faculty will still need these centralized areas to visit and function in.
  • Centralized areas need to maintain "centrality" - avoid letting these areas gravitate to the virtual edges of campus.
  • How would we integrate districts and find the balance so we take advantage of the good points of all.
  • Staff are very crowded. "Breathing each other's air" - not good for morale.
  • Focus campus "core" on student-centered facilities.
  • We need a student services center. An attractive area for new students to first come to campus and get all their classes and fees taken care of.
  • Focus on student, faculty/staff health; we need clean, appealing gyms with modern equipment.
  • Keep SUB - center informal living room of campus.
  • How about an "International Place" - a space that brings the global dimension tangibly to the campus for students. (The best I have seen is the Global Lounge at Yonsei Univ in Seoul, Korea, with TVs showing international broadcasts…)
  • What can we do to draw people to stay on campus so it becomes a living/learning environment?
  • The campus "dies" after 5pm. How can we increase the vitality after hours to make it a community?
  • Don't put total emphasis and money on faculty. Support staff and administrative departments are also main asset of MSU. We deserve attention and decent facilities.
  • Utilize more of the expertise on campus for our own projects - architecture students. Horticulture staff - eliminate weeds.
  • Facilitate, design quiet places on campus. Places to reflect and enjoy Montana.
  • We need a bar on Campus. Heating Plants future as a micro-brewery.
  • The Barn should be a sacred icon. The smokestack was the loss of an icon, lets not lose anymore.
  • AG needs to be made a part of the campus still if moved across Nineteenth.
  • What if your projections are wrong for 2030? i.e. Bozeman is greater than 100,000 population. MSU needs to be 25,000 students?
  • Ag needs sufficient classroom space.
  • Need far more classroom space. Classrooms need to be modern.
  • Revival of the AG district will give the students a sense of place but might encourage isolation from Central Campus.
  • Reclaim some of the small gathering places for students and faculty to meet.
  • MSU should offer classes and programs for non-traditional students. It would help working people and create a source of revenue for the university.
  • Continue to grow to the west connecting to industrial technology park.
  • MSU should sponsor a daycare on or close to campus for all employees.
  • Adequate space needed for students to hang out - study or not - so as to encourage the sense of community among students and faculty/staff.
  • Common space to meet with students etc. outside of classrooms.
  • Need flexible classrooms for changing size and need.
  • Need some unique food services. Where do you as a faculty member take someone to lunch?
  • Keep western - cowboy/native American heritage on campus.
  • Get the Rodeo (CNFR) back - may be wishful thinking.
  • Try to build a sense of community on campus. I had a great experience with residence hall life, interaction with faculty that lasted 20+ years.
  • Need more public places and places to hang out. Develop the Duck Pond Space.
  • Transit systems need to be developed as well as on-campus shuttles.
  • Have services close to campus. Can campus make space at the edge available for retail/services.
  • Things I don't like: How far Hedges and other dorms are from campus, track outdoors is hidden behind football, library is far from dorms, especially when it snows, hard to find classes - need more direction.
  • Address the issue of more students going part-time. Approximately 1000 students now go to MSU part-time.

Back to Top

Section 4: Housing

  • Get campus out of married housing business - too much space is used that should be for academic needs.
  • Get out of the married student housing business/replace campus housing.
  • Eliminate on campus and grad housing in favor of space and private enterprise - and expanse.
  • Reserving space for future student/graduate housing, also retirement housing.
  • Put all dorms together - not spread on the campus foot print.
  • Be very cautious in working with a developer for housing.
  • Is it really MSU's responsibility to provide housing? This would be easy to push to the private sector. In any case, it should be high density.
  • Married student housing needs to be replaced.
  • More faculty housing and retirement housing in the future (good income generator for Campus). Age of students is going up.
  • Do Students want to stay on Campus? Dorms may not be the solution. Apartments or "house-style" more favorable.
  • MSU should be the "Landlord" of the housing - beware of private developers - may tend to over build and we'll be stuck with more houses than we can use.
  • Students view dorms as a negative due to rules.
  • Develop west of Nineteenth with arts and residences.
  • Move housing to other side of Nineteenth.
  • Remove small white houses.
  • Build more single/graduate student housing - big demand.
  • Ever notice how hideous the dorms are? Since everyone has to live there the first year, it hurts the campus image to have buildings that incoming students wouldn't want to live in. Worst of all, the "New Buildings" are indistinguishable from the terrible nouveau- west subdivisions.
  • The 1940's pill-box houses should be consolidated into more efficient condo-style family housing and another set of twin apartment houses for single graduate students.
  • Future undergraduate dorms should be built with larger rooms than is seen in Roskie/Hedges Complex. Langford should be the standard for double occupancy rooms (in terms of square footage). The New Residence Buildings should be the standard for single occupancy dorm rooms.
  • Put high rise residence halls in football practice fields by fieldhouse. This should be the focal point for Campus expansion. This also puts the SUB a the center of Campus. It would be expensive to create a separate campus west of 19th.
  • Get rid of the shanty houses on the west side of campus. Replace with apartments.
  • Move family/married student housing to the other side of Nineteenth and take the area currently occupied by the "little houses" off of College and turn it into a building for Art or AG or even dorms.
  • Move family/graduate housing across Nineteenth. Use existing family/graduate housing for new development.
  • Have more apartment-style affordable (competitive with Bozeman market) living on Campus within CLOSE walking distance.
  • More apartment/suite style living in small groups would be nice. Use the Quads as an example, only nicer facilities recommended.
  • Take out old student housing and replace with duplex/condos for students who would like to live on Campus, but not live in a "walk-in closet" aka North Hedges!!
  • Suite-style housing is the wave of the future. Students don't want to live in halls made in the '60's - They expect more, so do their parents.
  • On-Campus Living: Phase out single family (low density) housing in family and graduate areas to allow for more living i.e. condos and duplex units.
  • Allow non-married couples/friends to live together in the family housing. Very old fashioned like it is today.
  • On campus living is an area that needs some improvement. Move graduate student housing. A place for sophomores, juniors and seniors to live that is also affordable
  • Dorms seem very far away from actual center of student learning. Equals - lazy freshmen don't go to class.
  • On-Campus Living: Students need this experience.
  • Build more student apt housing where WWII housing exists. New housing has appeal to students if build like new housing behind Hedges.
  • Increase college housing density. Nice housing & not just for married or graduate students.
  • New Housing: New dorms where single family houses are now - keep parking close - but give a cost break for parking farther out vs. next to the dorms.
  • Where do you intend to move displaced married student housing/ West of Nineteenth? Bungalows are deteriorating. Auxiliary Services needs to look at replacing these…higher density housing could use approximately 1/3 of the current space being used.
  • Get out of the housing business at MSU. Market price is the same as what MSU charges.
  • Get out of student housing business. Leave it to the private sector.
  • Should develop some partnership growth activities to provide affordable housing for students and faculty, as well as safe transit lanes for pedestrians and bicyclists.
  • Keep replacing married student housing. Add visiting faculty housing and retired student (is there such a thing?) housing.
  • Need to make housing which is appealing to students. "Apartment living," new urbanism design, places for dialogue, open space, high density.
  • Keep student housing. It is the only affordable option for many families.
  • Make dormitories more attractive to students so that they'll stay there and be reasonably happy.
  • Keep family and graduate housing!!!
  • Workforce housing with coordinated means to reach campus.
  • Get away from dormitory style housing. Use mixed use, condo style houses that incorporate yards, family recreation areas, and a greater independent life-style. Ex: 3rd floor apartments above parking structures that also incorporate store front.
  • Improvement of barracks and married student housing. Could be a great neighborhood.
  • Please do some decoration and landscaping to the "little" houses.
  • Students are forced out of Bozeman, due to the high local rents. Therefore, most of them MUST drive. Lots of resources being used as well as lots of space just for parking
  • Keep family housing. Many people need that interim step.
  • Large waiting lists for family and graduate housing and post-doc/faculty.
  • Students don't like dorms - viewed as being warehoused.
  • Replace Bungalows with higher density apartments.
  • More than 5 unrelated people within a dwelling is the largest City Code violation. Caused by students trying to lower high rental costs. Also causes a parking problem in town.
  • Residence hall parking close to the hall.
  • High rise dorms do not give a sense of community that the smaller dorms provide.

Back to Top

Section 5: Innovative Thinking

  • Outdoor clubs practicing indoors - lacrosse, ultimate Frisbee, baseball, soccer, rugby. Current club groups occupy indoor spaces already very crowded. Club sports are growing and will continue to grow.
  • In ground heat tapes to remove snow in walkways.
  • I'd like to see a distance education classroom in every building.
  • Athletics and recreation - build a shaved "sport turf" field on campus. This would help free up much indoor space during out of season (winter) practice and provide practice space for inclimate weather. i.e. football, lacrosse, ultimate, soccer, baseball.
  • Academic Scheduling - Move some classes to early morning and late afternoon/evening for better access for community and better space utilization - increase FTE. There is very little use of academic space after 3 or 4 in the afternoon.
  • We need a general classroom building that the registrar controls. This will allow for much greater flexibility of scheduling and renovation of current buildings.
  • Online HE increasing nationwide among reputable IHE. This includes "virtual libraries." Will this reduce the perceived requirement for physical space?
  • Efforts to/for private co. who can provide training and research.
  • Satellite campuses
  • Need to acquire property around campus. Develop a land acquisition program.
  • We need to focus on what needs to be done and what we would like to see and begin to search out creative ways to raise revenue for projects.
  • Look at on-line education. This may be a solution to the need for more physical buildings and classroom space. Research what effect it is having on the need for physical space on campuses.
  • Sport-turf field - it's an artificial turf that can be utilized all year long. Could be covered and utilized by the community as a funding source. Rugby, soccer, baseball and Lacrosse are all currently played indoors in less than ideal spaces.
  • Explore Story Mansion purchase for MSU-Bozeman
  • More, smaller places to eat would help lessen foot traffic distances.
  • Demographics can lead to other conclusions than those presented. Older students - work and night school. Younger students - computer literate class. Money of school - need for cheaper alternatives.
  • Think about a small scale waste-to-energy plant. There's enough garbage on campus to think about it, and we could even take in city trash to help generate revenue.
  • Remote learning; multi campuses.
  • Build "waste-to-energy" plant. Ex: Spokane, WA
  • Consider roof top gardens or terraces for informal gathering, small class meetings and views.
  • Move away from the out of date methods of space allotment. We are not using the space we have efficiently. There is software available that can help.
  • Wireless everywhere.
  • Snow melt systems (stairs/entries) need to provide some place to drain to.
  • Heat sidewalks - safety vs. energy consumption. Cost of energy, social cost of sustainability.
  • New power plant with gas turbines for cogeneration of heat and electricity.
  • Use advanced technology at entrances, new buildings.
  • Put more resources into developing a cyber campus using modern-day technology. Break out of the "bricks & mortar" paradigm. We don't need more/new buildings. We need forward thinking leadership that doesn't feel the need to stay in the box.
  • Distance learning may reduce need for class space.
  • Interactive work from remote or home affects traffic, parking, and SUB needs.
  • Online education needs to be developed to a greater degree with the opportunity to attend labs on campus as well.
  • Allow for flexible hours for staff.
  • More night classes need to be offered.
  • Diversify class time offerings to accommodate non-traditional and part-time students.
  • Wireless internet everywhere.
  • Responsible campus outdoor lighting system that reduces light pollution.
  • Bozeman and MSU have decent dark skies - future plans should incorporate appropriate lighting to balance safety with seeing the stars and avoiding lighting glare for drivers.
  • Provide wireless internet access everywhere on campus, including the dorms. Provide more tables with power outlets for lap-top computers.
  • Most campus lighting is good for avoiding light pollution and glare, but there are exceptions. A conscious attention to this should be part of the plan.
  • Wireless everywhere.
  • Have a Doggy Daycare on Campus. It seems like dogs are very popular among MSU students, but many end up sitting at home all day because their owners have class.
  • It is really great that the Architecture Dept is involved with this Campus Planning but, other Departments could easily be involved. Like the Landscape/Design students who specialize in the function, form and aesthetics of planting design, which can be combined with artistic work to create a place of interest, which is currently lacking anyplace on campus.
  • Please install Blue Light phones on Campus to upgrade safety/security.
  • Add art to the Campus in places that do not interfere with open spaces.
  • More performance spaces - theatre, cinema, art galleries.
  • More historical art. Montana is rich in history. Display it.
  • Sell some food/cafeteria space to off-campus companies. On-campus food needs more variety.
  • Pub on Campus designed after the Plew Power Building with big windows and wrought iron.
  • If there is a way, increase the amount of student-friendly businesses around/on campus, so students don't have to find a ride to Main Street or target e.g. A retail core on the north or south side of campus.
  • Sell beer in the SUB (could even be a fund raiser for good causes). Make the Campus a WET CAMPUS. It will encourage students to spend more of their recreation time on Campus.
  • Build a bar on Campus.
  • More retail/services around campus to meet student needs.
  • Large conference space facilities needed with a performance venue. Special Events Center - join forces with the City of Bozeman this & Performing Arts Center
  • Research requires space - lease space off campus. Integrating research and learning. How do we do this in areas which are off campus - harder to maintain infrastructure.
  • Move athletics to the periphery of campus rather than trying to maintain in the center.
  • Satellite Campus: Move half of Campus to west of Nineteenth.
  • Include at least one large capacity performance venue. This would be valuable not only for the campus, but the community which is struggling on this issue.
  • We need to consider faculty/staff childcare (more than we have).
  • One-stop shopping concept - for student accounts, financial aid, registrar's office, e.g. Griz Central at UM.
  • Facilities for information technology infrastructure. Allow data center growth, adjacent offices for better mgt and dept cohesiveness.
  • Establish satellite campus locations.
  • Establish degrees at night for non-traditional students.
  • Close off the campus to auto traffic entirely (Grant, maybe 11th). Plan ahead for more walking conduits that are visually appealing.
  • Come up with a forward-thinking plan for technology integration both in campus life and academics. A plan that has long-range generalities but short-range specifics.
  • Wireless internet needs to be available everywhere.
  • University should build retail space and lease these areas as a source of revenue for infrastructure.
  • Iowa's "Living History Farm" (an example). AG can live within an urban area. Some activities are incompatible, while others benefit the united community.
  • Urban and AG interface. MSU could set the national tone, There are art students out there (on the farm) now.
  • How will AG Research farms fit into the Campus Plan? Post Farm? Animal facilities?
  • Need greater promotion of the Agriculture School. The importance of AG to the Gallatin Valley and the economic benefits of AG education. Keep the farms on main campus and Huffine.
  • How to plan to maintain the image of an Agricultural College as the area becomes more urbanized.
  • Should we buy some of the residential property along the edge of Campus now before it becomes more expensive.
  • New approach to housing - Combine classroom and other assembly areas or commercial areas. A work/line model. And increase housing and classrooms now before the population increases, so the neighborhood homes can be returned to private, family use.
  • Research integration with both undergraduate and graduate students.
  • Embrace natural patterns when expanding. A great resource book: A Pattern Language/by Christopher Alexander
  • AG heritage could be the piece along Nineteenth that is visible. Not a museum, but a working farm.
  • I believe it is important to maintain multiple species of livestock for teaching and research purposes to enhance the student experience. Increase use of land with other departments.
  • Towne Farm - Create integrated demonstration/learning centers. I.e. Cornell Plantations; Iowa Living History Farms (DesMoines); Prairie Swine Center.
  • Towne Farm - West of Nineteenth - Vision: Create LONG TERM Urban/Production Ag/Teaching/Open Space/Center to maintain Student/Community contact with agriculture.
  • Running and walking trail across Nineteenth. Use as a history trail and connect with the City trail system.
  • Create an overpass/tunnel at Nineteenth to safely connect the two sections of campus.
  • AG/Urban interface needs to be explored more deeply.
  • Set a precedent for a working AG/Urban model.
  • Need to develop a master financial plan as well. Most of the Campus planning will need to be done incrementally
  • This is a golden opportunity to show how we can maintain Montana's Heritage for Agriculture, not just AG lands, but an opportunity to increase integrated research and teaching back into our community and University.
  • If the vision is good enough and strong enough, the State AG community will be behind it.
  • Is there currently any plans to purchase additional property around the College? If there are opportunities, they should be taken advantage of to prevent the Campus from becoming totally land-locked. (Sometimes purchases may upset parts of the community).
  • Transportation across Nineteenth. Overhead tram system would be safer. (No lights on Nineteenth)
  • Incorporate technology as much as possible - Demonstration projects that will serve the areas productivity and usefulness.
  • Some grazing and livestock facilities need to be maintained near Campus to allow for hands-on research. Increase plant diversity. There are many more aspects to the farm, including horticulture, bee farming, coal bed methane research, sod farming.
  • If done right, the heritage portion of the land can be maintained as a working farm with wide diversity and room for research.
  • Maybe make the future artery of Fowler a boundary for animal facilities.
  • Clustering - Core curriculum buildings/classes need to be clustered as well as the Departmental clustering.
  • Improve/provide outdoor classroom possibilities - study wetlands, design/const. Projects for students.
  • All of campus should be an outdoor classroom. Have wetland habit opportunities etc.
  • Class schedules - more night classes for non-traditional students.
  • Integration with the College of Technology to accommodate developmental programming on MSU's campus for MSU students. Classroom space.
  • How is distance learning going to improve future planning (research).
  • Plan web-based education system.
  • WiFi needed campus wide in work areas - library, SUB, other gathering and study areas.
  • Use the wool lab as the information center with MSU gift/book store and create a defined "entrance" to campus.
  • Create a historic preservation office within the facilities department. Design guidelines should be considered.
  • The infrastructure for technology needs to expand - it is insufficient for academic programs. We need all smart classrooms and conference rooms with podiums which house polycom (interactive video) so that classes, committee meetings, etc. can be connected around the state to make academic programs accessible around Montana.
  • Improve wireless technology across campus and research space across campus.
  • See the Book by Will Toor on Boulder Colorado. Many innovative ideas.
  • Wireless everywhere.
  • May need to look for more funding as if we were a "private" institution to fund future expansion.
  • I would like to see our campus be as energy efficient and environmentally friendly as possible. As more campuses are being drawn to such a plan, internet resources are available to develop or undertake a program. One site is [email protected]
  • Provide on-line Core Classes with lab availability (if needed) on campus in the evenings.
  • Older students need more options to attend classes to start their education or complete it - maybe at least allow to take Core classes via the Internet.
  • Keep all education oriented buildings together so students don't have to walk so far between classes.
  • Need greater opportunities for non-traditional students. Evening classes. Certification classes. Career expansion/change while still being able to maintain a job during the day. On-line Core classes.
  • MSU has the best gym facilities in Bozeman. Get revenue from the community by opening up the gym for a fee.
  • MSU needs to have a wider variety of on-campus stores. These include a store where you can go buy groceries with your one-card, a store where you can buy affordable necessities, etc.
  • How about a student bar?

Back to Top

Section 6: Landscaping

  • Less money on elaborate landscaping. People are here to learn. If they want auspicious views, go to the mountains.
  • Plan vegetation that does not damage sidewalks, etc.
  • Landscape - replacement of trees lost during current construction; grounds does a great job with flowers in summer; increase number of shrubs around campus - interior is good - need more on exterior.
  • Do not have a clear definition to the edge of campus. Where does it really begin?
  • Replace trees.
  • If you lose trees - we do not have the climate here where they will grow back in a reasonable time. Consider this.
  • Each building should have some greenery and outdoor seating.
  • Keep the duck pond.
  • Old growth trees are a landscape feature that many folks like. We should plan our building sites and landscaping now and get those trees planted.
  • Set perimeter boundaries and infill rather than sprawl. Establish/maintain vehicular connections.
  • Plants - why dead grass or spots with no grass at all? Dead/mismanaged shrubs, bushes, trees, scrub.
  • Mark edges of campus so people entering campus can clearly see the difference between off- and on- campus, but be careful to not put too many tall, long areas of fences or walls without breaks that would inhibit pedestrian traffic/access.
  • Design landscaping with low maintenance/ease of maintenance. "Flowing" lines for ease of moving. Good quality edging. Adequate mulching.
  • Our 5-yr old daughter loves the duck pond - thank you for providing this for the community and please protect it!
  • Water the grass less in the summer, but still enough. Way too much water is wasted now. The grass would be green with half the water.
  • Outline parking lots with privacy hedges. That way one doesn't look at cars. Creates a feeling of greenery.
  • More benches in park spaces and on sidewalks. Benches are much nicer when they have backs.
  • Treeless campuses are ugly, and small trees project immaturity. When this plan is coming into existence, have mature tall trees already there. Decide on a plan quickly and plant trees 20 or more years in advance and the aesthetics of the buildings and open space will not be wasted. This plan will make you look like heroes.
  • Complaint: Surface or landscape, all dirt foot paths.
  • Sidewalks: Keep lawn elevation lower than sidewalk to ease in snow removal and prevent lawn damage from snow plows.
  • Do not cut down trees - plant MORE trees.
  • Streams are soothing and tranquil. I say that we run one the full length of Campus and culminate it in the Duck Pond.
  • General Plan: Plant trees and shrubs in groves at various locations.
  • General Plan: Build hard-surface or plant shrubs in high-traffic areas which are not intended to be as such.
  • Don't waste money to put flags (banners) on all (or every other) lamp post on Campus.
  • Trees need to be planted where they WON'T be cut down in 50 to 200 years.
  • Big bobcat statue at MT Hall entrance.
  • We are here to learn, not to feed the ducks.
  • For every tree that is cut down re-plant 10 more trees, bushes, or shrubs.
  • There are very few flower gardens on campus that could replace dirt areas.
  • Keep the duck pond. Add 30-minute parking for people feeding them. Fun for community and kids (future students) but parking Nazis give a bad impression.
  • Nicer park benches and picnic tables.
  • More trees.
  • Trees really matter!
  • Need more natural elements in/around campus to mirror the natural environment like water, streams, rocks, gardens that reflect the alpine motif.
  • Plan entrances, walkways with snow removal in mind.
  • Raised grassy areas would help alleviate cow paths. It's more work to climb up or lift a bike up than to stay on the designated walkways.
  • Tree planting along boundaries of Research Center.
  • Landscaping is minimal. Why not institute a policy of planting 2 trees or shrubs for every one removed.
  • Need a greater diversity of species for landscaping. Spruce, juniper and green ash don't enliven campus much.
  • Label trees by name and species.
  • Landscape on campus. Replace a plant removed, with a new one. Need more variety, could be used as an outdoor classroom.
  • Diversity of species for landscaping would be nice. Currently, our range is rather limited. Diverse species can be used as a teaching tool. Campus Arboretum lost funding and impetus. It would be nice to revive.
  • Soften the edge of campus which borders the historic district. Blend MSU history with neighborhood history.
  • Mature trees -please don’t cut down any more trees.
  • Map existing plantings (inventory). Identify plants and locations.
  • Consider more perennial plants to save money and staff time for annual planting.
  • More art structures - you can see the "noodle" from all the way down 7th. It's great!
  • Save the trees, please.
  • Public art to reflect new student population such as Native American.
  • Capitalize on presence of Mandeville Creek on campus for aesthetics, study of urban waterways, use for education.
  • Mature trees on campus - borders can be a pedestrian visibility problem (trunks at an angle create a visual mass that obstructs view).
  • Eighth should be beautiful to make a grand entrance into Campus. Right now, there is not "front door". No link to downtown.
  • More shade trees on Campus.
  • Trees - Preserve them and plant more.
  • Restore creeks) and riparian areas. Use resources like Chemistry, Biology, Landscape Architect, and Engineering students and faculty. Make these areas living classrooms.
  • The edge of the flagpole area is ugly.
  • Edge of campus is generally poor. There is no attractive entrance.
  • Plant trees in strategic locations - for shade, etc.
  • Campus edge and entrance - provide definition for corners and edges of campus. Improvement needed at: Plew Building, Kagy & MOR, Hannon Hall.
  • The overall feel of the landscape of the campus is not comfortable. The aesthetics are dull and doesn't flow well. Too many squared and cropped edges and borders.
  • In terms of landscaping, a balance of rectilinity (geometry) and fluid, organic planting/development should be used. (Reopening the rectilinity between Linfield and Herrick would be good. Do so at the rate the intervening trees die.) incrementally)
  • More trees.
  • Try to define the campus core boundaries, especially from the north and east.
  • Picnic benches.
  • Move trees along the Mall so we can give our campus a college feel, not a strip mall.
  • Do not build around duck pond. Firstly it is a favorite spot on campus for contemplation. Secondly, it is the site of an active spring. I don't know if that can be engineered around, but with all the water/mold problems Trapagen Hall has recently experienced, I wouldn't chance it.
  • Don't bury the "Roskie" creek, make it a place that students can enjoy like the duck ponds.
  • New Centennial Mall is very nice.
  • Duck Pond is well loved by the Alumni.
  • It is awkward to get to the north side of Campus. Nothing draws you north and south, need to make a new mall similar to the Centennial Mall's east to west structure.
  • Edges are not well defined.
  • Decoration and landscaping is needed to give current family housing a better community feel.

Back to Top

Section 7: Local Community

  • We are lucky that nearby neighborhoods have not become student ghettos. Let's keep it that way.
  • Help maintain the integrity of the adjoining residential neighborhoods, especially as it relates to the historic district.
  • Trends in development - The city and county are rapidly "urbanizing." Will this result eventually in an "urban campus" bound by residential and commercial development? How will you address this?
  • Maintain the integrity of the historical residential district near Campus.
  • Residents on Harrison St and other nearby areas highly value the open space west of South 8th and south of Harrison. Please keep this land as open space (what's left of it).
  • Promote community/campus interaction. Design parking that will allow campus and community interaction and communication so community members can more easily participate with campus.
  • There needs to be a buffer around campus, especially east and north.
  • Embrace the greater Bozeman community. Regularly entice the community to be an integral part of the University.
  • Public access is needed. Ease of entry to meetings, activities, events. Hassle free-friendly-welcoming.
  • Do not view land west of Nineteenth as incompatible with the community.
  • Embrace the greater Bozeman community.
  • Campus is not very user friendly for visitors.
  • Visitor parking is difficult - unfriendly.
  • Need Visitor Center at entrance, and a helpline for visitors.
  • Recognize urban evolution. Bozeman has grown, is growing, and will continue to grow. Parking garages are good! They don't take our green space away.
  • Communication - increase overall events and outreach to community. Task force? Possibly partner with the city to produce something autonomous from the Chronicle.
  • Need to address connectivity with outlying communities - Livingston, Belgrade, Three Forks, Manhattan - for students and employees.
  • As a neighbor to MSU, I would like MSU to 1st be a good steward of the local landscape, and 2nd, I really like walking on campus, great views of surrounding mountains.
  • Open campus to community - when I was a child, community members used campus day and night. Possibly provide community college - like night classes.
  • As a resident, I love fields and recreational access to areas green space. Thank you.
  • Prepare a new plan (that involves the neighbors) to use Greek Way for student housing.
  • Neighbors who bought here after College build have to live with the shortcomings. They know/knew the deal!
  • Linkage to downtown center - pedestrian, transit, bike, etc.
  • Students and faculty will increasingly be living in Belgrade… and commuting. Need to account for this in trans. Network. (Network has multiple jurisdictions - MDT, city, county…)
  • Develop opportunities that result in greater loyalty with alumni to the University, to help both financially and mentoring to students.
  • Think big! Respect the City of Bozeman's overall plan and adjacent land uses. Both can be great together.
  • Develop/increase an interlink between the Bozeman community with an enhanced transportation corridor.
  • MSU is a great place to bring children on the weekends. room to play and run, duck pond.

Back to Top

Section 8: Maintenance

  • Maintain all historic architecture.
  • Design designated snow piling areas? In concert to designing the typically unattractive service areas, so as to be out of sight? Is that feasible?
  • Replace the sprinkler system with another system that will prevent over watering. Perhaps a drip system.
  • Additional funding for custodial and maintenance. Building upkeep must start on a daily basis.
  • Better trash pick up in parking lots; dumpsters too visible.
  • Snow removal terrible and creates unsafe conditions on all surfaces.
  • Paint in buildings makes a huge difference!
  • "Deferred maintenance" is the bane of facilities programming and maintenance. Existing structures must be maintained to the fullest extent and programmed for modification/enhancement or replacement.
  • Athletics - put a permanent indoor track in the fieldhouse - don't have to set up and put down temporary track. Also, would be a 200 meter track.
  • It is important to keep up the maintenance and availability of existing facilities. Often, the better answer may be to create a new facility rather than to cram activities and personnel into spaces designed for other uses.
  • Take care of deferred maintenance and improve snow removal.
  • Is there any planning for building maintenance?
  • Funding is going down, therefore it is harder to keep up with Maintenance issues.
  • Maintain all historic buildings.
  • Please leave open spaces for better snow removal. Tight and organized creates more mess than a common storage area.
  • Screen or relocate dumpsters so they are not as visible as they are now.
  • No snow removal on streets to the point cars can barely drive. Why remove snow on the sidewalk to the point it is a sheet of ice? Leave enough snow to make walking safe.
  • Provide an elevator with limited use (key? code?) so that maintenance doesn't need a workspace on every floor using valuable space and allow delivery of heavy items.
  • Provide a few more trash containers (they're often hard to find!).
  • Conceal ugly dumpsters.
  • Have maintenance committed to a building or floor long term to keep some pride in their work - this is "mine".
  • Provide adequate space for snow storage/removal in landscape designs and building designs.
  • Fix the roads. It's horrible conditions with potholes, scours, etc.
  • Pick up trash on campus from ground.
  • Make maintenance more efficient - outside bids.
  • Empty trash outdoors - especially in parking lots, more often.
  • Please listen to the department responsible for upkeep before you create a final design. If they don’t like it, they won't take care of it.
  • Infrastructure location is critical - must be able to have service areas.
  • Tunnel is a great tool. Please continue to expand this with new buildings - and to dorms.
  • Adequate exterior water sources - faucets on buildings. Quality, frost-free, easy to repair (accessible).
  • Complete maintenance before you go off an any tangent.
  • The cobble stone surface in the mall is a failure that should not be repeated. It's difficult to walk on with heels. Wheelchairs have difficulty and maintenance is an issue.
  • Fix mess behind Leon Johnson.
  • Get rid of all ice everyday.
  • Deferred maintenance is a wrong headed and dangerous type of thinking, i.e. the brick of north Leon Johnson tower.
  • Post-snow sidewalk maintenance - there are far too many places on campus that remain icy for pedestrian safety. On critical ice spots (like slopes where driveways cross sidewalks) use SALT!!
  • Define time frame for "temporary" solutions such as terrace around LJ Hall.
  • Lighting is horrible in the majority of the older buildings.
  • Are there other colors than white?
  • We do not have the staff and money to maintain buildings and facilities.
  • Sprinkler systems should be used less often or replaced by more efficient systems (drip systems) to avoid muddy grass-space.
  • Building maintenance. Keep the old look so buildings keep unity and make the campus look organized and respectable.
  • Improve drainage (Stop re-freeze) especially on the north end of campus. Lots, walks, and streets that ice over (especially this year) DO NOT CLEAR in part , due to the poorly placed, poorly maintained/blocked or non-existent drains.
  • Sweep streets, especially in the spring after the snow melts to keep the bike lanes usable.
  • A lot of the family housing apartments need to be renovated.
  • Traphagen Hall needs total renovation/bulldozing. When it rains…it rains inside.
  • Complaint: Repair, redo service drives.
  • Complaint: Fix sidewalks inside Wilson Hall Courtyard.
  • Sidewalk maintenance is fine as is. No "Heated sidewalks" or covered walkways are needed. The sidewalks are almost always perfectly clear within 48 hours after a storm anyway. Remelt is a real problem though.
  • Facilities services needs to consider aesthetics in their work. The A/C in the basement in MT Hall is hideous inside and out.
  • Adequately support infrastructure such as OFS, ITC, police, etc.
  • Provide better maintenance of public areas - entrance ways, elevators, hallways, bathrooms, to keep them painted, cleaned, repaired. They are a first impression by visitors, public, job candidates, prospective students.
  • Building maintenance needs its own endowment. State money will never be available. Can Alumni Association do a capital campaign?
  • Campus not clean. Lots of debris/garbage builds up in places like Wilson, bushes, etc. - cig. butts...
  • Trash on the ground encourages more littering. MSU needs a full-time litter picker upper.
  • Dumpsters are very ugly. Surely other universities have figured out ways to make them less unattractive. What can we learn from them?
  • Do: deferred maintenance before any new project or any building scheduled in long range plan.
  • Put more money into maintenance of buildings and walks and parking lots.
  • Difficult to support off-campus infrastructure, i.e. at tech park.
  • Deferred maintenance needs to be worked on or upgraded incrementally.
  • We don't have the staff and money to maintain buildings and facilities.
  • Is there any planning for building maintenance?
  • Maintenance of buildings.
  • Continue clean-up at Livestock Teaching Center.
  • Remove fences, make it more open. Clean it up, make repairs.
  • A building maintenance plan needs to be implemented for the historic buildings on campus/historic landscape and plan of campus.
  • Upgrade heating an and cooling systems.
  • Maintain old original buildings. Maintain and beautify them.
  • Plow the parking lots more often, in particular in the family housing.
  • Service drives and dumpsters are too visible from Centennial Mall.

Back to Top

Section 9: Miscellaneous

  • We need a campus plan organization.
  • Direct development into west and north side of campus.
  • Too many posters and notices plastered all over campus - makes us look trashy. Electronic posting.
  • Establish a list of buildings slated for replacement/demolition - available building sites.
  • Badly need a Classroom building that has Registrar control rather than departmental
  • Need more recreational/intramural/extra curricular indoor and outdoor space.
  • Move mall drop box by SUB to accommodate drive up mail.
  • Staff use buildings need to include lunch room/break room space.
  • This is higher education. Think less elementary.
  • Use Danforth Chapel or get rid of it. Also, Danforth Park should be gardened of have somewhere to sit instead of little stone junk.
  • Books for classes are WAY too over priced and selling back books after you read through them gets you about one tenth of the original price, even if it's in top condition.
  • Towne Farm west of Nineteenth: 950+ acres surrounded almost entirely by new proposed subdivisions. Central Campus is only 45 acres.
  • Research facility would free up classroom and faculty space (academic). Make research more peripheral.
  • The Art Program (and faculty) at MSU is really stellar. Unfortunately, there are few sections open due to lack of funding, makes getting a spot in class difficult. Students SHOULD NOT have to wait two hours in a line for a class that's full anyway.
  • Get rid of the ugly sculptures, including the weird art/sculpture projects that pop up outside the art building.
  • Remove the water fountain from the 3rd floor in the library. It's a QUIET area.
  • I urge you and MSU to re-establish wrestling as a major competitive sport offering at MSU> I captained the MSU Wrestling Team for two years 1957-58 and 1958-59, and was appalled when I learned that wrestling was discontinued several years ago. Montana has an excellent high school wrestling program;however because only MSU-Havre is the only school in Montana that continues to offer college wrestling, as I understand it, it forces our good state wrestlers to attend a university outside of Montana. The shortsightedness of the previous decision is outrageous. Wrestlers are and have to be disciplined athletes and scholars. Please pursue reestablishing wrestling to MSU. I do not want to hear about the Title, whatever legislation, as that is about as nuts as it gets. Creative imaginative ideas can lead to reestablishing wrestling as a major sport offered at MSU. Let the ladies do ballet or needlepoint or whatever. But lets no hide behind some screwed up legislation that makes absolutely no sense. Or, let the ladies wrestle them, I would enjoy that, I think!

Back to Top

Section 10: Open Spaces

  • The open space from south of the Gatton Lot to south of the Stadium.
  • Do not complete the New Building cluster (by adding a third building on the north side of the oval) as it would destroy the views from the current buildings.
  • Unscheduled green space; number of clubs have increased.
  • Need open space on campus for unscheduled use. For students, clubs, pick-up games, ultimate Frisbee, etc.
  • Too much emphasis on open space.
  • Maintain the remaining open space on the north side of campus.
  • Need more open space. We have lost much of our open space due to construction. Place for club and informal activities on the grass.
  • There is a finite amount of "open space". Structures can be made very attractive, but how do you build without encroaching on physical space? Has the potential for remote or satellite "campuses" in the Tech Park?
  • Maintain open ag lands west of 19th. Create a running/walking trail system out there so we can all enjoy it.
  • More open space. How can you build without encroaching on open spaces.
  • Need spaces for people to gather for informal Frisbee/baseball etc. games.
  • More outside areas for sitting and congregating. Wilson Hall center area lost seating and is a lovely small space inside a horrible building.
  • We need to stop cycle of paving green space and then ripping up parking lots to place buildings which then requires paving more green space.
  • No Frisbee space - that's what city parks are for.
  • Open space and site-lines must be maintained. We are a Big Sky campus and need to do all we can to maintain that feel.
  • Open areas for people to have fun - non-scheduled.
  • Maintain all available open space and large trees/landscaping. An "open" campus embodies Bozeman and MSU. People need to walk/move, so a sprawling campus contributes to good health.
  • Preserve as much open space as possible - green space, views, current historical architecture, TREES. If MT Hall is emblematic of MSU, don't crowd it out of the focus point with more buildings.
  • At the beginning of the school year this year, I had a chance to hang out at the UM campus. There I saw tons of students relaxing in their center courtyard. There should be a way to get students to hang out more on campus.
  • More recreational space. The Rec center is not enough.
  • Maintain open air campus - avoid enclosed "gerbil tubes"/tunnels (connect with the outdoors)
  • Campus could use some more benches in the park areas to eat lunch and gather.
  • Open plazas with food and drink available, covered plazas for shade in the summer. Table and chairs can be moved out for winter maintenance.
  • Keep the current green spaces - Hannon Lawn, Romney Oval.
  • Put Frisbee fields at dorms and student housing.
  • Open space on campus is NOT a priority.
  • Open space is a huge draw of students to campus…keep it that way (west of 19th and central campus).
  • Quit selling off MSU land.
  • Keep the open space, even at the loss of development.
  • Preserve green space.
  • Preserve and provide centrally located open areas for student outdoor activities such as the space that currently exists in front of Langford and Culbertson Mullen Halls.
  • Reserving space for Frisbee is not an academic function.
  • Keep our unique view sheds intact.
  • Preserve open space for contemplation.
  • Keep it green!
  • Preserve the mountain views as much as possible.
  • Maintain green space and areas for students/staff to visit/hang out.
  • Allow informal paths used by students.
  • We need barriers to prevent "cow trails" as shortcuts across lawns.
  • You have a nice sitting area/courtyard near Herrick and Wilson - SE of there. It is dilapidated and falling apart. You could fix up those benches and create a nice seating area there again.
  • Planned no-build zones dedicated to construction staging areas instead of ruining a new green space each time a project demands the space.
  • Use one area of campus as a "project staging area". Keep it there.
  • Keep a sense of our rural roots. The ag farm needs to be made something other than a stepchild.
  • Harrison St. residents highly value our view of the Tobacco Roots and sunset to the west - please do not obstruct this.
  • We are a land grant college. Our farm and farmlands should be a showcase!
  • Improve area between Gaines and the SUB. Add picnic tables and benches.
  • The MSU Campus is not the most "lounging" friendly campus. It would be great if more benches, lawns and quads were created.
  • Martha's Courtyard by the AG Bioscience building is very cozy - make more of that kind of area.
  • I wouldn't build on the lawn between Montana Hall and Hamilton. It would be too hard to service (no service vehicle access).
  • Avoid developing too many hard-surface plazas. It doesn't fit with the character of campus.
  • At what point does the land across Nineteenth hinder the growth of Bozeman and urban expansion. I think we need to look into perhaps some condo-type student dorms. More on-campus living a little further from campus.
  • Cattle paths through grass areas are unsightly. Perhaps raised grass areas behind retaining walls would promote students walking around, rather than through. For example, the section in front of Montana Hall.
  • Don't eliminate any more of our open space.
  • Preserve all of the existing Lewis & Clark Fields (everything between Harrison and the next transverse sidewalk extending from Cleveland Street). It is a heavily used recreational space.
  • Raised green spaces.
  • Can we put picnic tables in the green space near the flagpole?
  • Considering that most of this "Agriculture Based" University is green space, we need to enhance the aesthetics of what we know best - the land. We need more plants, especially since the oldest trees on campus were recently cut down. We need to incorporate our open space into interactive open space, gardens with sculpture all stemming from and created by students.
  • The views from campus single handedly and instantaneously made Montana State my choice for college. BOTTOM LINE, open space and mountain views not only draw students, but also draw the type of students which give the school community the type of character which defines MSU-Bozeman and Montana.
  • A lot of students come to MSU for the outdoors and the green spaces on Campus. We need to create more green spaces on this Campus….sell your natural resources to the potential students.
  • Keep the green spaces as best as possible. Keep the views of the mountains.
  • More picnic tables and benches located in the open spaces.
  • More picnic tables and benches. Study areas outside.
  • More tables and chairs/benches in the wide open spaces. Especially the space with the big American Flag pole.
  • Open Space: If it's used, keep it!!
  • Maintain the green spaces. I work with students everyday - they come here because it is beautiful and the residence hall students need spaces for activities.
  • The remaining open spaces need to remain as such. It is a critical cultural element to both the Campus and the Community.
  • Develop the fields across Nineteenth. Spreading out is not a problem if you put on entire College over there.
  • Keep green spaces by the residence halls for games and hanging out.
  • General Plan: Keep Lewis & Clark Fields intact.
  • General Plan: Keep Parade grounds by Romney Gym intact.
  • General Plan: Use empty space by Brick Breeden Fieldhouse for classroom/laboratory building expansion.
  • General Plan: Keep park areas by Eleventh & College intact.
  • General Plan: Use empty areas in the Family & Graduate Housing area, mainly for parking.
  • Romney Oval/Cobleigh Courtyard - outdoor spaces for classes and meetings (lawns are usually too wet and areas too noisy)
  • Spaces for kids to play not just formalized scheduled activities.
  • Ugly space on west side of Montana Hall - plain cement, ugly fire escape, and dangerous icicles.
  • More student leisure/study space.
  • Move athletic fields further out.
  • Keep long-range views of mountains, etc.
  • Make a plan to develop land west of 19th to support research and tech transfer - and to establish another long term revenue stream.
  • Define open/green spaces and enhance them. (Landscaping, foliage, etc.) And then respect the space.
  • One of the main attractants to new and existing employees is the "park-like" setting of the campus. Low salaries can somewhat be offset by a beautiful setting and not a downtown or strip mall atmosphere.
  • Open space - is essential to the success of the university. It affects people's attitudes and desire to be there. If you preserve it… they will come.
  • Maintain green spaces where people can gather throughout the day.
  • Don't generalize athletic and recreation fields together. Athletics and Rec serve a whole different purpose. Rec fields need to be close to students and dorms. Also, there is no more physical education. There are no more activity classes taught.
  • Keep green space - trees, grass, etc.
  • Do not build in the space between the Library and Reid. This could be a beautiful plaza, a continuation of the plaza south of Montana Hall, and connect into Romney oval.
  • I would like to see the open space remain. Old garden between Herrick and the Chapel needs more tending. I would prefer to see more concentrated buildings with open space around them.
  • Maintain open spaces, green spaces, and views.
  • Green space is bland. No interactive gardens. Need art, foliage & color. Art needs to "move" across Campus.
  • More open areas that are naturalized, with stone walks, picnic tables.
  • Maintain campus vistas.
  • AG wants a core of buildings with some open space around it. It should stay close to the University Campus.
  • Preserve open space.
  • I thought MSU valued open space and the "green lane" of agriculture? The removal of the trees for the new Chemistry Building was ridiculous. Keep the trees, open space and quit selling the land.
  • Remove fences.
  • Make the land more esthetic-better open space.
  • Open area up. Remove fences repair deteriorated areas and improve visual appeal.
  • Don't eliminate the pasturelands because it would remove the livestock. Research facilities need animals right near by.
  • Towne Farm-West of Nineteenth- This land serves (and there is a need to continue to serve) vital agricultural needs. It is NOT simply available open space.
  • Lets not view it as "open" land, but rather as an opportunity to integrate with the community. Teaching opportunities within the community.
  • Incorporate a running/walking trail that draws the east and west sides of Campus together.
  • Need an integrated trail system.
  • West side of campus at 11th avenue needs work. No great spaces there. It's simply a place to go for living spaces.
  • Open space is great and "makes" MSU, however for someone with a disability/handicap the open space and distance between buildings feels like miles. Buildings should be kept compacted and localized.
  • Reserve green space and trees. Encourage biking to work - more bike racks.
  • Must maintain green spaces and trees! Love the duck pond!
  • Move Biochem building to the west to allow for green space in front of MT Hall, ala Cass Gilbert.
  • Consider more passive open spaces. It appears public art is considered an asset according to photographs.
  • Open space - very important both aesthetically and for athletics. This is a walking campus. People can walk the trees! There were 30+ trees cut down for the chemistry building. In our climate they do not regenerate very fast.
  • Maintaining open field play space. Keeping open fields for student play close to dorms, evening "pick-up" play.
  • Make sure open space is adjacent to dorms for students to recreate at times when they have breaks. The new chemistry building has stopped the activity of students in those fields.
  • What about section of land on north side of main street toward Four Corners? Now it is Ag experiment. Best future use?
  • More places for faculty to congregate and meet with students both indoors and outdoors.
  • Utilize Ag lands for more than Ag issues. Used towards advancement of university mission.
  • Ag lands off of 19th on west, MSU on East as well. Good location for a formal entrance.
  • Retain open feel of Campus - emphasize views.
  • The open space (Romney Oval) is wonderful. Keep it as a Student Commons.
  • Open space in from of Romney Gym is great, but shabby. UM oval in Missoula is an example of a better looking area.
  • Green space is important. Proximity to student living situations is important, as well as the quality of the space rather than quantity.
  • If we have so much MSU land west of campus, why not move the athletics practice field across 19th St. and build parking/buildings south of the pay lot.
  • If campus is expanded into the outer lying lands some effort must be made to include them into community.
  • We need to make/reserve more green space for lounging, as centers for communities on campus. Ex: benches, trees, flowers, BIRDHOUSES! MURALS!
  • Complaints - Empty field by Montana Hall and Wilson Hall needs to be landscaped or it needs a structure. Dirt-worn spots by Gaines Hall need to be addressed. Either shrubbery or land surface should be added. Re-open the sidewalk by Byron Johnson II.
  • Green space - preserve green space on campus (lawn areas) by building retaining walls to prevent pedestrian traffic and bike traffic. Hopefully, this can prevent "cattle tracks."
  • Keep the open space.
  • Develop a Main Street (commercial) atmosphere with shops in the fields towards the police station and Fieldhouse. This is a good place for future campus building expansion (i.e. residence halls, academic buildings). It is close to the center of campus, and will have more opportunity to allow space between buildings and connect the stadium to campus.
  • Well-planned and utilized "open space" rather than simply a large grass lawn with "cattle tracks."
  • Don't build on green areas!! Rather build on parking lots, increase the cost of parking passes and improve public transportation in Bozeman in order to force people to walk or use public transportation offered.
  • Try to keep grassy and tree areas. Build on parking lots instead.
  • Steer back towards the outdoor culture of MSU "Mountains & Minds." This is a great recruiting asset. It brings in over half of out-of-state undergrads. Bring back outdoor programs (MSU expeditions).
  • Open and rec. space ala Lewis and Clark field is what makes the campus attractive to prospective frosh. SAVE the SPACE!!
  • Protect football practice fields. Move expansion southeast through OFS and old faculty housing.
  • Public space is lacking near Cheever Hall. Make a path/mall area to link some of the more disjointed areas of Campus.
  • Condense campus and don't worry about green space. Any 2-block direction gets in view of the scapes.

Back to Top

Section 11: Partnering

  • Research is growing and space to house them is short.
  • Increase research.
  • Would private companies and/or groups be willing to volunteer and adopt flower bed maintenance or shrub maintenance to allow more flowers on campus with less money from MSU itself?
  • The Child Development Center in Herrick Hall provides an important link to community, educational opportunities for students, and early education for young children of faculty and staff.
  • Daily staff and faculty - sports users could be sent to private clubs and reduce cost to operate and alleviate space demands.
  • Need: space for research and development.
  • Integrate campus into community/region as destination node.
  • Money needs to be spent more for research and for the researcher's benefits. SO program budgets should not be cut.
  • Parking of course, but parking close to school (parking garage). Easier way to arrive at school without searching for parking for 1/2 hour.
  • Parking! Develop a comprehensive and consistent parking management plan. Do we want shuttles? A garage? More space management?
  • Parking is NOT an issue (instead what we have is a laziness issue). ALL parking should be moved off the main campus and a bus system put in place. In addition, if you live within a mile of a Campus, you should not be allowed to drive.
  • Take an existing parking lot - one with access to many buildings and build an ATTRACTIVE parking garage. Build on the southwest corner of Eleventh & College, put services/commercial on ground level. Makes an edge and a node at a busy campus intersection.
  • We need to start a Park & Ride situation. Perhaps placing a parking lot on some of the farm ground and running a bus to campus every 10 minutes.
  • Parking is not bad here. Everyone that wants to CAN park on Campus. This is not true at many Universities.
  • No Parking Garage EVER!!! Develop an area for access and transition for the bus system that will be implemented sooner than later. ENCOURAGE alternate transportation, by not building a parking garage or taking farm land and paving it!
  • General Plan: Find areas in which to increase parking. Either by Fieldhouse or Family & Graduate Housing.
  • County/City partnering sharing fields with the High Schools in the area (would bring shared revenues) may free-up space within campus if these activities move to the perimeters of campus.
  • Park and rides are a plus for non-handicapped faculty, students and staff.
  • Parking needs to be well lit on the edge of campus with shuttles/extended bus system.
  • Build a performing arts center. It will benefit the campus and the community and end the dilemma facing the arts community.
  • Incorporate the Towne Farm into the plan and the city's plan. Ag research may need to be moved to Red Bluff (or elsewhere).
  • Additional space for research administration.
  • Research surge space - need research facility. Research is eating up too much space in our academic space.
  • Share space with local high schools - training.
  • Common high school/campus for phys ed, ECT.
  • If campus is west of 19th crossing will be a problem. Who pays for underpass? 19th - MDT.
  • Performing arts center in conjunction with private and local monies - good idea. Amphitheater for outside classes and summer performances.
  • Integrate private enterprise for revenue, i.e. sandwich shop in parking structure or food services in Chem. building or physics.
  • Move Ag research west of Nineteenth.
  • Athletics could go west of nineteenth too. Non-athletic recreation fields.
  • Parking/Entrance - Find way around campus. Getting pass at Police Station, Directories, visitor access difficult. Way finding - man-gates-etc.
  • How does AG incorporate the expansion of the community, to make the AG lands more appealing to the public.
  • What is the best of AG (to be sacred). Where are the areas where Campus (non-ag) might expand.)
  • Intra-disciplinary collaboration with dept./community.
  • Partner with city and downtown Bozeman to build a development downtown. Art center, class space, housing…? Retail services, MSU store…
  • Research and industry connections are essential.
  • Communication - if city gets community access channel - look for creative partnerships to communicate directly to citizen and broader community perhaps use as opportunity for student involvement.
  • Work with city to create bike routes into campus.
  • Work with the transportation coordinating committee and Bozeman's transportation plan to fit with broader community. Seamless traffic flow is MSU and city goal.
  • Help preserve the Bozeman historic district (east of campus).
  • Consider impact on Irving School for children of older students.
  • Integration with the College of Technology to allow sharing of facilities and students with MSU.
  • Coordinate efforts with city planning to improve traffic patterns. Determine growth pattern.
  • You forgot extension services as an integral part of MSU. Needs: easy access/parking, welcoming atmosphere for guests; these operate like businesses.
  • Contribute/cooperate with developing mass transit system.
  • Partner with city, MCT, county to help with traffic/parking/flow.
  • Buy the story mansion and make it a center for continuing education classes for the community. It is a great way to hire experts in the community, provide opportunities for local revenues, and generate revenues.
  • Build research space, new admin building, student center, performing arts, conference center.
  • Research buildings and classroom buildings - if buildings house research primarily they should be built outside the classroom epicenter and not sacrifice open areas for so few people.
  • Performing arts center.
  • Focus growth on research as opposed to student growth. Focus on 5 year vision but not bigger than 20,000 students.
  • Research needs to increase. Cap student levels at maybe 15K. Less student, more research. Research brings revenue.
  • IF - visitors can find you, there is no place to go. Partner with downtown so private enterprise can make ago of a business near Campus. Build structures with college functioning facilities above and shops on lower levels.
  • Research provides a lot of funding.
  • Don't try to completely cut streets out of Campus. The community visitors need to have ways to come to the campus and get the feel of it before walking through.
  • …I look forward to hearing in the future how I might be able to help financially.

Back to Top

Section 12: Physical Needs (includes ADA)

  • Handicap accessible buildings especially buildings that house upper administration.
  • Handicapped people find it much to their advantage to have buildings close together.
  • Don't put handicapped access toilets on the 4th floor of a building with no elevator.
  • Provide enough restrooms in each building.
  • Do we still anticipate 5% growth every 5 years? Fewer high school graduates in the future will likely level the numbers. However, older student numbers are on the rise. Accessibility may become more of an issue…allow golf carts/shuttles.
  • Make Montana Hall ADA compliant. Not enough women's bathrooms in MT Hall.
  • As campus and population gets older, will need to accommodate more people with disabilities.
  • MT Hall is not handicapped accessible. More of an issue for staff who have put up with it for years than students who do everything online now.
  • Smoother sidewalks for mobility challenged students and staff.
  • Keep handicapped parking clear of ice and hazards.
  • ADA access for walking mobility impairment, handrail from parking space to building. Handicapped parking on right side of road, open rail on right side to building.
  • Handicapped accessibility campus-wide is crucial. For instance - no elevator available in Sherrick Hall - the College of Nursing.
  • Stability handrail from handicapped parking area by SUB to an area where you can access the building without fear of falling due to the ice.

Back to Top

Section 13: Parking

  • Need more bike racks on west side of Reid.
  • We need more parking space. It is not fair to pay for a year ticket and not find a place to park.
  • Parking garage - we need it. Limited space available horizontally; plenty of space vertically.
  • We need more parking but not a parking garage and not necessarily by the building I work in. Something that will help keep the cost down.
  • Develop parking south of Fieldhouse/Stadium. Utilize Stadium for daily parking. Parking garage.
  • Parking must be convenient and secure regardless of how organized. If parking is not immediately proximate to the job (or residence or classroom), then it must be made simple and convenient to get from parking to building.
  • Locate the proposed parking garage on a main traffic thoroughfare like 11th, College, or Kagy.
  • Parking - pave lots at Fieldhouse and Stadium.
  • We need a parking garage or two - save space.
  • Parking is atrocious and will only get worse. Make an underground garage - we may pay for it now but we'll be thankful for it in the future!
  • Closed in parking a must unless surfaces are always clear and free of ice.
  • Fieldhouse parking lot needs to be paved. Better pedestrian corridor between Fieldhouse and main campus.
  • Are there shared parking plans for general campus parking and athletics?
  • Move most parking to outside of campus.
  • Sports - special events should pay for self - including parking.
  • Parking should be paid for by participants and event goers.
  • Parking needs to be at the perimeter of the campus unless an individual is handicapped. It is just not too far to walk.
  • We have enough parking. We need to make it work. Shuttles/pedestrian corridors.
  • Incorporate a multi-story parkade.
  • Fieldhouse parking area is best location - same distance to classes as Harrison Street and fewer traffic problems for neighborhood.
  • Parking should be earned by students, not a right.
  • No garage on 8th! Would make too much traffic. How about incentives for not parking?
  • Parking: Need to have paid parking for spectators at sporting events.
  • Campus needs parking garages to solve parking needs. Building up is more practical than wasting more of our precious land by spreading out.
  • Quit adding reserve parking space signs. Ugly!
  • There is no parking problem, there are plenty of spaces a short walk from everywhere.
  • Keep parking away from center of campus.
  • Arrange parking by golf cart or hybrid car - smaller spaces. Conflicts between academic space, parking, open space.
  • Make parking more understandable. Too many tags. Dorm residents should walk rather than drive.
  • Several centralized, covered bike parking sites which could encourage more bike riding more often. Now I only know of 2 spots with covered bike parking.
  • Utilize the stadium parking for free parking as the Fieldhouse parking lot used to be.
  • Underground parking should be used.
  • If financially practical, provide parking lot monitoring systems that indicate how many spaces are available in a lot and direct drivers to areas where vacancies exist. If lots are full, provide signal at lot entrance so people will know it is full.
  • There are no bike racks in front of the library, so bikes pile up out front. I counted 30 bikes outside last spring. Either ticket the bikes or put out racks.
  • Sports NEEDS to pay for self and especially parking fees.
  • Parking area outside SUB/AJM/Library - bad. Don't let cars out there at all. It's a pedestrian area.
  • Parking garage with walkways to buildings.
  • Parking garages instead of so many far flung parking lots. They should have large trees around and well landscaped. Pick up points for electric trolleys.
  • Prioritize parking close to buildings for faculty/staff. Don't allow freshmen to park on campus except in lots next to dorms.
  • High speed rail underground could help with parking. Much parking could be moved off site.
  • A parking garage should NOT utilize valuable green space.
  • Provide some kind of free parking for visitors.
  • Bike racks vs. "no bike signs". Develop alternative travel systems where bikes ARE ok. Encourage alternate forms of transportation.
  • Give premium parking to hybrids and golf carts…could double the available parking spaces with these smaller vehicles. Capacity of parking is a distance problem.
  • Parking in far lots is rarely a problem. People just done; want to walk. Maybe a shuttle throughout the day from the far lots to the campus center.
  • Free parking.
  • Too many vehicles parking in front of the SUB.
  • If parking garages are built; less than four decks. They should be engineered such that they could eventually be four decks IF needed.
  • Parking spaces are painted as parallel straight slots. Change to parallel angled and it will increase the number of cars per lot. Easier to get large pickups in and out of an angle than a straight slot.
  • Set up a bus shuttle system that runs from distant parking lots. Then promote it! The buses MUST be efficient to deliver students to the SUB in an efficient amount of time.
  • If "F" Lot is NEVER full, why would we need a garage? Lets nix the garage idea and channel that energy toward busses, bikes etc.
  • Increase bus routes on campus & citywide. Run shuttles from parking off Campus.
  • Increase retail areas close to/on campus. Promote mall area with parking garage.
  • Have a parking spot that I pay for. If I have an S/B sticker tag, I want to be able to park in S/B - not in the F lot! If I want to park in the F lot, I would pay for an F tag.
  • Well-lit, non-muddy parking on the edge of campus with a shuttle; NO parking garage; don't need more parking, just put people further away.
  • 8th street boulevard needs to be narrower in the center to allow for street parking (residential) and fix the curbs.
  • I like the idea of remote parking lots with regular bus service to campus, i.e. park & ride lots.
  • MSU needs more parking space overall.
  • Admin increased parking? I think as a university we should be thinking about alternative to having more places to park. Be more proactive, reclaim space currently used by parking lots.
  • Remove parking Kagy to College, 11th to 5th along streets.
  • Parking is really fine. Re-educate campus perhaps to work toward changing expectations.
  • Build parking garage next to H&PE to serve both the campus and the Fieldhouse.
  • You need many more visitor parking spots (pay or non-pay) scattered around campus so people feel wanted. Current parking admin is much to hardnosed and needs to improve their signage and friendliness.
  • Use Fieldhouse and Stadium parking. More parking is needed.
  • Increase parking pass fees to an outrageous amount - this will solve your parking problem.
  • Repaint lots with diagonal parking. It will increase the number of vehicles per lot and the number of rows. One way traffic through lot.
  • Parking Innovations: Parking lots eat up valuable space. Create a train or tram to the center of campus. Long term lots farther away from center of campus.
  • Move freshmen "warehouse" parking out from the core of campus.
  • Better system for visitor parking, especially those visitors coming to guest lecture.
  • Improve visitor parking service - meters?, access to passes, improve way finding for visitors.
  • Charge more for parking. Demand raises, price should rise. Then increase transit service , increase access work/live and pedestrian, and build more parking structures and build on the surface lots.
  • Put the parking garage in an area where surface parking exists.
  • Parking garage proposal - AGAINST - impact on historic district, impact on Irving School, inappropriate and unnecessary.
  • Parking - more "quick stop" spots in helpful places on campus - 15-20 minutes.
  • Parking - free parking for employees, or at the very least discounted i.e. 50%.
  • Institute FREE park & ride parking lots away from campus that students and employees could park at for free during the day and ride a bus to campus every hour to alleviate neighborhood traffic.
  • Although a parking garage is not needed (there is enough parking per MSU police) if one is built, look long and hard at 11th and College. I don't buy the utilities argument for not putting it there.
  • No parking garage on areas of campus that would increase traffic in historic neighborhoods where children walk to school, i.e. proposal on Cleveland/Harrison & 8th for a parking garage.
  • Parking - If you need more parking please build the parking garage near a major road such as off Kagy which is near the Fieldhouse football fields. Traffic through the historic neighborhood (Cleveland/Harrison/8th) is already a problem.
  • Need for parking - 1) better use of Kagy dirt lot, free if necessary. 2) Sliding scale for permits. Auction them like E-bay - set time, etc. People who want to park close will pay - AUCTION.
  • Concerned about idea for parking garage developing on 8th & Harrison. Traffic studies have not been done to see how it would affect neighborhoods. Currently too much traffic - Cleveland - what will happen if it goes there?
  • Keep parking along major traffic routes.
  • No parking garage on Harrison & 8th!
  • Employee parking should be designated, separate from students and enforced. This would alleviate us having to purchase "reserved" parking sticker so you can leave and return to work in a timely manner.
  • Parking for employees should be free - we shouldn't have to pay to come to work.
  • Parking garage should be huge and off 11th if it's needed at all. Use the ground floor for retail? Offices? Anything but parking.
  • No parking garage. Put more parking on distant south side of campus. Provide shuttles to all parking areas on regular schedule. Provide more shuttles through Bozeman and Belgrade to MSU throughout the day.
  • Parking garage will be needed in the future but an alternative location should be considered. Major existing travel routes (e.g. Kagy, Willson, 11th, Grant) should be maximized. Could lot be constructed on current Grant parking lot?
  • There is very limited "visitor parking" and is very hard to use campus as a resident. Change lots to "pay as you go" lots and less permit only.
  • No parking garage in north side of campus.
  • As far as the parking garage, we as a neighborhood feel the traffic patterns would change as well as the landscape of the open space.
  • Free parking for staff reserved.
  • Use parking lots for new buildings. Use intersection corners for new buildings.
  • Parking garage is likely needed, but where to put it is a big issue.
  • Potential parking is pretty good off of 11th.
  • Parking lots: Need more pay-per-use lots.
  • The cars/pickups and delivery trucks outside of ITC and SUB Bookstore are distracting and unattractive. The beautiful flagpole area sharply ends when you enter that car/pickup area.
  • The campus is not parking friendly to the greater community. Perhaps add community parking spaces throughout. This will result in more interaction/support from the city.
  • Keep parking reasonably close to education oriented buildings.
  • If you have to have surface parking, do it well…trees, islands, pedestrian paths, etc
  • Need better parking - perhaps a parking structure. I am sure this has already been proposed.
  • Could be a parking garage (attractive) built at Eleventh and Grant.
  • Local residents do not want to see a parking garage off of Eighth. Concerns about Aesthetics for "historic districts" and for the residence halls in those neighborhoods.
  • Build a parking garage on an existing parking lot. Also, improve bus system so students will be more likely to use it and make it free for students (or included in student fees).
  • I don't know about parking, as I don't have a car, but I would like to see pedestrian rights preserved as they are.
  • Park & ride in a low traffic area.
  • Build parking garage where the existing parking lots are today.
  • Provide more on-campus resident parking, or better bus/public transportation.
  • Put parking farther away from campus and keep buildings close instead of keeping parking as is and putting buildings farther away.
  • Put big parking garage way out by football stadium with nice walkways to campus.
  • Don't need more parking near stadium, but near residence halls and campus.
  • Parking needs to be fixed on the northeast side of campus around the residence halls.
  • Parking sucks! We need more - and it needs to be affordable.
  • No parking garages! Ban cars for freshman to open up lots.
  • The parking passes restrict you to only one section, which causes illegal parking and more tickets. Which is understandable because the school needs money.
  • If a parking garage were to be built the best lots, to do it on, are those to the south of the Student Union Building. The SUB appears to be a frequent arrival/leaving point for students on campus.
  • Parking is not a big problem. Plan ahead. Get here early, walk a little, grow up!!!
  • Parking complex: build underground so the land on surface can be used.
  • Safety issue: girls are not safe to cross the campus at night from parking lot. Is it possible to switch male/female dorm?
  • Parking lots should all be plowed after every snowstorm. Why didn’t they plow this year?
  • There is no "in and out" parking near the SUB, Not very friendly.

Back to Top

Section 14: Policy

  • Smoker's outposts detract from campus appearance.
  • We need more public art - perhaps a program similar to 1% For the Arts, which is used for Federal building and could be applied to campus.
  • Think of a campus pub as a revenue option.
  • Minimize use of temporary storage structures.
  • Forget rules which are not followed or enforced. Bikes will always be on campus, provide racks on the main mall.
  • Giving the increasing value of land in the Gallatin Valley, NO land currently owned by the University should be sold, especially not to developers. Sales to other government agencies should only be done rarely , if ever.
  • Need a sustainable, responsible balance between research and academic campus space and funding.
  • An equal distribution of funds across all colleges, so that all students benefit , not a select few.
  • This university, through its staff and students has a wealth of knowledge at its disposal. It is proposed that we utilize this knowledge better in the future. Instead of contracting architects and graphic designers and engineers, lets start to use our own.
  • Construction: Try to wait for good construction times, group smaller projects together and attract national builders.
  • Allow local businesses to provide food on Campus instead of having all food services operated internally.
  • For My Kids: Affordable tuition.
  • Less bureaucracy regarding on-campus restaurants/food and stores.
  • Students should be allowed to bring food from off campus onto any part/building on campus and not be punished or fined.
  • Make the entire Campus non-smoking indoors and outdoors. Smoke comes in through doorways and gets trapped under the trees in the Wilson Courtyard. It makes you want to get off Campus as soon as possible.
  • Sell prime commercial land and lower tuition.
  • See ART GET Money!!
  • Use academic resources to improve Campus. Architecture School can design new buildings, Art Students can make art for buildings. Keep projects cheaper, by using student population instead of paying a lot externally. If necessary, have firms work WITH classes to get work done.
  • Our campus needs a Pub/Sports Bar and Grill!!! This would be a way to make campus an area to congregate during non-school hours. A Pub is NOT a drunk tank but more of a social gathering. Remember that most of us are adults and can act responsibly. i.e. In England you go to the Pub not the SUB
  • We need more food on Campus that is NOT ASMSU or Catspaw Grill….Pita Pit.
  • Water rights/Access. Secure our water future now.
  • Hesitant to really see what kind of impact students will have on this process because the logo was not something the students had a great deal of say on and does not represent the Student or the School.
  • Make sure the students are involved. Make sure you don't forget who we are and why we love MSU. Don't try to change MSU into what some other college is. I worry about this because our new logo seems generic and mostly chosen without student input.
  • Don't let over-budgeting stop plans, re-budget, don't restructure plans. Cheap building only creates more frequent re-construction.
  • "Shared Vision" : Is it SHARED or is it the Administrations thoughts and idea??
  • How can we effectively plan into the future when today's issues are not addressed or addressed only by those in power. i.e. Chemistry/Engineering etc.
  • Land: Keep ALL land that is currently owned.
  • Avoid moving Campus west as long as possible
  • There is a city ordinance requiring bicycles to be operated on streets and obey traffic laws. Why are they on campus sidewalks?
  • Utilize the resources that you have. Get the students of various Colleges involved in design, art, gardens and even construction on Campus.
  • The University is mandated to take bids publicly and to use the lowest qualified bid. New buildings seem to be notorious for "cut corners". This process seems flawed.
  • How will development pressure influence the disposition of Agricultural land - on main Campus and along Huffine?
  • AG Development - All development for Agriculture on Campus should be the AG Department's ideas and plans, not the whole University should have input.
  • Allow and keep agriculture as MSU's main goal. Development should be only for the future of Montana's heritage and Noumber One industry - Agriculture.
  • Who owns what property on the MSU Campus?
  • Maintain the AG heritage of the School. Don't hear negatives from the people (community) only the higher Administration.
  • Let MSU continue to be a Land Grant University. Where is the value and importance of this today? Where is the support of the Agriculture Open Space.
  • 12,000 Students is fine. More students-less time for professors to be with each individual student.
  • MSU needs to quit selling MSU Agriculture land!
  • Land Grant - Focus - Impacts on facilities, ownership, funding , direction.
  • AG Complex - needs greater backing. What property belongs to the AG Department on Campus? Needs to be defined.
  • Can College of Agriculture/Experiment Station do anything pro-active to guide the future? i.e. appropriate land trades to gain usable facilities/labs etc.
  • Money needs to be spent more for research and for the student's benefit. So program budgets should not be cut.
  • Important Mission (College of AG) Is to provide the opportunity for students and community to be informed of the AG Production /Research/Direction.
  • Why is Agriculture repeatedly sold-out by the Administration? Agriculture has lost land (by the Chronicle) Swine Building, etc. Roads and land selling seem to be more profitable and important to MSU
  • Continue surplusing items. Clean up appearance.
  • Continue sharing resources with department (labor, machinery, etc.)
  • Preserve land for AG teaching/research within one mile of campus. i.e. Towne Farm
  • Need to maintain pastureland and livestock facilities for research programs.
  • Save and maintain the agriculture on campus. Agriculture is our future. Don't lose the buildings and history of agriculture on campus
  • AG Experiment Stations owns property across Nineteenth. Agriculture statewide will not want other uses to take the land.
  • Will the University put any money into the new buildings at a new AG Complex?
  • Need to have a public record as to who owns what pieces of campus. The AG lands ownership needs to be determined. Land Grant/Experiment Station ownership.
  • Legislature has put limits on the ability to sell any of the lands across Nineteenth.
  • Keep the lands west of Nineteenth as AG lands.
  • Need more small commercial around campus with pedestrian-friendly access.
  • More commercial/retail service needed around and near and on campus. Like College St. area but more of it.
  • Strategic land acquisition plan to purchase land if/when available.
  • Keep student population at 13,000 - add quality.
  • Need to work with state government to eliminate the "lowest bid" requirement for contract award. We work very hard to "design" requirements for buildings, then scrap them to accommodate "cost constraint." We need to be smart about design and build.
  • Land acquisition at edges of campus should be part of the plan. 20 acre farm with barn.
  • CFNR - get it back.
  • Bring back the rodeo.
  • Use campus assets: artists, architects, transportation planners, etc.
  • Does or will MSU consider a development role - such as buying nearby structures?
  • Policy change for parking problems - don't let freshmen have cars on campus since they have to live on campus anyway.
  • Who are the study group to suggest how will MSU do? How do they decide? During the gym renovation, MSU is expected to keep the existing two indoor upstairs tennis courts, am I right? Whoever play tennis in Bozeman know that our community is short of indoor tennis courts badly. MSU need keep the two indoor tennis courts or even build more.
  • Can we acquire adjacent lands
  • Sell the ag lands to acquire other property.
  • Registrar can't assign a space that is already "booked" but often these rooms are in fact sitting empty. Classrooms are often juggled weekly due to this.
  • We should develop a property acquisition zone and purchase first right of refusal on houses along 6th, 3rd and 8th.
  • Design guidelines should establish and reinforce context-not be overly prescriptive.
  • Look at the untapped architectural and planning talent within the School of Architecture. Use the student body, engage them and showcase the growing talent that's caged in Cheever Hall.
  • Ask the students what they want.
  • Use art funds from building (funds for the noodle and other sculptures) to benefit student population. Decorative clocks on campus to tell students how to get to class or enclosed work places. Annexes are great!
  • Need a set of guidelines and principles which will make the Campus feel connected.
  • Use some of the Construction Classes to one-by-one raze and rebuild some of the old married student houses.

Back to Top

Section 15: Security & Safety

  • It would be nice to have more light in the area in front of Gaines Hall.
  • If campus police is going to start ticketing evenings and weekends in utility drive parking areas, put up signs there that tell a person it's not acceptable.
  • Do something about dangerous ice spears hanging off buildings.
  • Ice on sidewalk will happen, it's Montana. Even though the sidewalks are plowed/cleared, I have seen students walk through 6" of snow on a cow path rather than a cleared walk. I don't believe it will ever change, so don't think about that issue for too long. It's a waste of time and money.
  • The snow and ice are big problems. Lack of removal. Risk to safety. Parking lots are very icy.
  • Heated walkway.
  • Better snow removal on campus walkways. "Polishing" the sidewalks.
  • It seems that facilities quality is behind the times. For example, many chemistry labs are still not capturing their hazardous extraction waste. Ether, methylene chloride are still being evaporated out through the stacks. This should be fixed.
  • I understand the University wishing to minimize light pollution at night, but walking up the Mall after dark is uncomfortable when you reach Montana Hall. It is completely black and needs to be dynamically lit to retain its importance as the campus icon.
  • Make the Campus Police more visible on Campus…walk around ..I would feel safer.
  • Make sure that an emergency phone is located in ALL parking lots and busy areas. Also, whenever there is a new construction happening, make sure that the area is well lit at night (i.e. Chemistry Building site) to ensure comfort and safety.
  • Make a study of safety issues. Exactly who is afraid? And of what? Maybe blue lighted emergency phones on Campus are necessary.
  • Lighting safety during construction.
  • For the parking safety issue, perhaps the Eighth Avenue lot should be reserved for girls living in Hapner/Hannon simply by giving the tags and lot a different designation. I do not feel that Campus is particularly unsafe.
  • There is a need for street lights along the south side of the intramural fields along Lincoln. It is a safety issue.
  • Campus Police are incompetent and a HUGE liability. Two years ago a close friend broke his upper back & suffered from minor nerve damage. While laying motionless in front of Roskie dorm, waiting for paramedics, Campus Police were VERY insistent that he try to move BECAUSE they thought he was faking. He would have been a possible quadriplegic . NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN.
  • Districts help with ADA concerns on the premise that most classes are within the pod.
  • The less you have to go back and forth across campus the less safety issues and access on a day-to-day basis.
  • Improve Campus lighting. At 4:00 AM on Campus, especially during construction there needs to be better security. More Emergency phones.
  • Make Hannon and Hapner boys dorms…move the girls to more secure areas.
  • Police facility is hard to find (visitor parking permits/security issues).
  • Lights at Kagy & 11th and Kagy & 7th are critical to support increasing growth on campus.
  • More stop lights are needed to move traffic out of the area better while providing super movement of pedestrians at key intersections (College & 11th, Kagy & 7th).
  • When developing parking and entrances into Campus, MSU needs to consider pedestrian safety. Collaborate with MDT and City/County Planning to ensure our traffic patterns maintain a high level of safety BEFORE the traffic causes too many horrific accidents.
  • Stoplights on streets through campus, allowing cars passage instead of waiting forever for students crossing the street. -OR- Bridge overpasses, allowing students to walk over the street.
  • Snow removal in parking areas needs improvement. Also, snow removal on the side of streets should improve for those of us that bike to school year round. Would it be that hard to shovel the bike rack areas?

Back to Top

Section 16: Signage

  • Signage - better directional signage to campus from all sides. Continue building outdoor signage of building names.
  • Redo signs at campus entrance - 11th/Kagy.
  • More signage to direct traffic onto major streets (arteries) - major events and day to day.
  • A theme for all campus signage would create more of a cohesive environment.
  • Need better signage to better channel traffic. Possibly stagger schedules to improve traffic congestion.
  • Put up signs with names of parking lots at entrances to lots. Would help when referring to lot with campus police, etc.
  • Provide more attractive building signs.
  • Each building should have a clear directory for the building - like where restrooms are and dept. offices.
  • No point in naming parking lots on maps if they aren't named with signs!
  • Add campus directories and/or maps for pedestrian traffic in high-traffic areas, but make them easy/inexpensive to change.
  • Would like to see a formal entryway on South 8th - whether it is a gate or a flower garden with a sign or even a sculpture.
  • Campus directory on the mall, like they have in shopping malls to guide people.
  • Improve way-finding on campus for visitors and others coming to campus.
  • Need better signage for Campus directing people to our entries (with Campus Maps).
  • Don't forget connectivity and signage to off-campus units - VMB, Museum of the Rockies, MMEC, WTI, Spectrum lab, etc.
  • Need formal entry that is attractive (likely off of 11th and Kagy or 19th).
  • Designate an area when you exit and enter the campus so you know you've entered or left, i.e. College/11th intersection.
  • Entrance on Eighth has been lost. It would be nice to revive it.
  • Entrances: Grant and Wilson are kind of the back-door to campus. Transportation corridors lead to Kagy - ugly parking lot is the first thing you see. College and Eleventh is a nice site. Eighth used to be main entrance..now is confusing.
  • Identify where the Campus boundaries are.

Back to Top

Section 17: Sustainability

  • This campus is awful for recycling. We need to be recycling at the campus level, they need to get involved.
  • Solar energy and wind energy for campus buildings. Green buildings.
  • Green buildings - non traditional methods of power/light/heat/etc.
  • Use bio-engineering to reduce heating/cooling costs.
  • Noticing the changes that have occurred over the last 100 years and the progress we've made in technology and architecture, it is almost blindingly obvious the best technology is yet to come. Therefore it is only wise to consider such advances like renewable energy to be self sufficient because that is how Montana originated, through sustainability and courage.
  • Efficient heating/alternate energy. Develop fiscally responsible alternative energy. Increase the insulation of current buildings to reduce costs.
  • Environmentally friendly campus in all aspects, regardless of costs.
  • Recycling - at least aluminum on the campus and in the dorms.
  • A real recycling effort on campus is needed.
  • Recycling bins in buildings.
  • Recycling - I'd like to think that we love the planet. The Recycling Club should not have to tote thousands of cans away on a bicycle.
  • For My Kids: "Green" energy efficient campus.
  • I've seen garbage cans at other schools with recycling (cans/bottles) attached. Replace all garbage cans with these.
  • Develop a responsible conservative water management plan. i.e. efficient sprinkler systems. Don't water sidewalks use conservative techniques.
  • Lead the sustainable campus movement! Green dorms, responsible energy (solar, wind), organic/local food options in dorms and SUB. Green purchasing program - cleaning supplies, materials used, carpets, furniture.
  • MSU should lead, not follow in creating a sustainable community. Green buildings, farm to school food projects, alternative energy.
  • Green university - energy efficiency, public transit, recycling.
  • Food services all over campus need to use recycled products and have ability for people to separate their trash into aluminum, plastic, etc.
  • Sustainability and recycling needs to be stepped up.
  • Watering conservation should be practiced. Don't sprinkle sidewalks and streets, or water till it's soggy.
  • Xeriscape entire campus are at least a portion. Use as a boundary or keep some areas as "parks".
  • Use motion detecting switches to help save power.
  • Build and grow sustain ably, with respect for the community, the environment and the learning process.
  • Alternative energy - focus on alt. energy and our energy problems are not going away. Sun is a great resource for Bozeman. A walking campus with public transport.
  • Bozeman is a city that's expanding rapidly and the University is a pillar. It's a responsibility of the university to promote and exemplify sustainable development before resources become scarce.
  • Water conservation on campus. Don't water sidewalks and streets.

Back to Top

Section 18: Traffic

  • Entrance - designate an athletic corridor. Tennis facility - south through track for expansion.
  • North/south pedestrian corridor needs to be established. It would be nice to see a tunnel through Romney and the PEC so that Montana Hall is your focal point.
  • Where is the entry to the campus? Are there identified campuses within the campus?
  • Entrance/connection - close Grant from 11th to 7th to make pedestrian corridor.
  • You'll never stop people from taking the shortest routes from point A to point B, but you can make them look nicer.
  • There are many runners, bladers, etc. on campus and in the area. A "jogging trail" marked and maintained as such that winds through the campus would be nice. Perhaps consider a European style path?
  • Designate 4 main entrances to campus.
  • We aren't doing much to support biking. Too few bike racks, don't accommodate mountain bikes, clogged with abandoned bikes and parts. No bike paths. I have to pay to register a bike?! You should pay me for not driving!
  • Though cow paths are unsightly, they cannot be eliminated without drastic fencing measures. Put in paved paths where needed, just deal with it where not. It won't kill you.
  • Conditions of walkways during snow is poor. Broken sidewalks and walkways in wrong spaces.
  • Get rid of stairs at exterior entrances - in planning consider weather issues.
  • Develop campus west of 19th. Walkway over the top of 19th for access at several points.
  • Covered walkways for new building and connectors.
  • Concerned about increasing traffic on Harrison, College, and south 8th due to a parking garage in the area. Lots of families and kids in these areas!
  • Auto traffic - there are no main arteries on campus. Kagy/Garfield need to go through to the west and another "19th" needs to be built farther to the west.
  • Work with the city to minimize effects of traffic on minor streets; channel traffic onto major arteries.
  • No main gate to Campus. Need gates on North-South corridor. Need an Athletic gate.
  • All building designed with entrance steps heated by subsurface system or ramps only. Steps are dangerous and difficult to maintain in winter.
  • Improve 8th Street entrance to campus.
  • No bikes allowed on campus.
  • Put sidewalks in where the "cattle trails" are on campus rather than putting sidewalks in and having people walk in other areas.
  • Connect SUB to Library - Annex. Make it a student-centered enclosed solarium space; more vibrant than library.
  • Bike - pedestrian conflicts; how to address this - encourage more bikes.
  • Encourage bicycles and bike parking - alternative means of transportation.
  • Create bike-friendly ways to traverse campus.
  • How about a large block-size indoor or covered walking area? Maybe a big "tunnel" above ground connecting several buildings where we can walk, especially during winter. Like skywalks in St. Paul.
  • Regions planned for commuters coming to work on campus.
  • Tour routes for "Campus Visit" - Design/designate 2 routes through campus: one drivable, one pedestrian. These should receive best design and maintenance treatment/dollars and should highlight the best the campus has to offer visually in terms of buildings and landscape. Should be protected from construction blight.
  • Covered walkways help with snow and ice. Heated walkways on campus.
  • Add gravel sidewalks where paths are worn through the grass.
  • Do not "baby" campus users - encourage walking for those who are able, while providing convenience for handicapped (not lazy).
  • Bicycle lanes through the campus.
  • Encourage and accommodate bicycle usage as well as pedestrian traffic.
  • Provide "drop off" places for drivers with passengers for campus that are safe and well-marked.
  • MSU should become involved with community mass transit system to alleviate some parking problem and massive parking lots.
  • "A short 10 minute walk" from parking to our office is NOT OK under icy conditions. Small lots similar to the one for Roberts Hall is a great idea for staff. Larger lots farther away will work for students.
  • ….So students can fall and break their necks???
  • Promote healthy lifestyles - encourage walking with realistic sidewalk designs where people walk!
  • Please minimize steps (exterior). Safer - less snow removal hazards.
  • Walking surfaces need to be level, smoother (i.e. cobble of Mall - rough and irregular).
  • Need covered walks. One now needed is to connect parking by Fieldhouse to campus.
  • I would like to have pedestrian bridges across College and Kagy for those of us that walk and fear crossing these streets during busy hours.
  • Second floor walkways between close buildings, covered and glassed in.
  • Encourage all forms of alternative travel on campus.
  • Plan for bicycle parking - numbers, location. Provide adequate, suitable (hard surface) bike rack areas. Continue standardization of bike racks.
  • Travel within campus - having a circular driving area for bikes to go around the outside edge and maybe electric commuter busses or trolleys to move pedestrians within campus as it gets bigger, also name the sidewalks after mountains or famous people on campus so they find their way around easier. Baby boomers getting older or handicapped people.
  • Eliminate/discourage "desire lines" across lawns (paths people create to get from point A to point B faster).
  • Enforce areas where bikes should be pushed, not ridden, in busy areas.
  • Spend some time on traffic flow. Can bus service be added from the far parking lots to campus, or make an MSU parking lot in Belgrade or Four Corners that staff can park there and be bussed to campus in time for work at 8am. Entice folks by having these be no fee lots.
  • Many people now - and many more as development grows - use S. 7th from Figgins and Alder Creek, and other subdivisions, by foot and bicycle. But crossing Kagy and competing with the VLT Building traffic is difficult. Make all of 7th pedestrian and bike friendly.
  • Require all freshmen to NOT bring a car to campus. Relieves existing parking, promotes riding bikes and bus.
  • Establish/maintain vehicular connections across/through campus.
  • Provide continuous shuttle services from other spots in town, especially when there are big events.
  • Work more toward community transit issues/parking problems. I would use a park and shuttle service.
  • Campus access intimidating to non-campus community.
  • Covered walkways and bike racks.
  • Heated sidewalks? Increases safety but should we use our resources for this.
  • Campus & facilities Services need to have ways to service buildings without having to drive trucks and vans on sidewalks. Aesthetic horror!
  • The campus should have designated bike lanes and corrals all through campus.
  • If new buildings are built on the Mall, can skyways connect them.
  • Do not have major student crossings over busy streets. i.e. Eleventh and Nineteenth.
  • To make/open underground tunnels for students to use during winter months and rainy days.
  • No covered walkways. Heat the darn things. Save the scenic sightlines and outdoor social space.
  • Make it safer for bike riders on campus (maybe close-off some streets like Eleventh).
  • Use buses on weekend nights to discourage drunk driving. This will improve the standards in Montana, and help MSU students not to make bad decisions. Buses run from housing/campus stops to bars and back again at scheduled times.
  • Eliminate the current campus bus system. Instate a parking shuttle system. Create with the City a City/MSU bus system. Reorganize routes, pick-up times and drop-offs.
  • A focus on alternative travel.
  • Bike racks near Library. I know it is against the rules, but the bikes are there anyway and ugly.
  • Gravel walking paths that won't turn into mud though the open spaces.
  • It would be nice if the City would actually plow the roads to make biking and walking accessible in the winter.
  • The service drives for many buildings are too visible.
  • Bike racks: Keep bikes OFF ALL lawns.
  • An expanded bus system would greatly improve existing traffic problems. Cyride (www.cyride.com) is a well-functioning, sustainable example of a city similar to our size (Ames, IA - approx. 50,000 in size) Can we develop something similar.
  • Perhaps a bike system, and keeping more well maintained all of the existing trails, would promote biking to school and not so much driving.
  • I would like to see better bike access throughout campus. We should have bike only zones/trails NOT "No bikes allowed".
  • Less roads and more grass and trees.
  • Heated sidewalks and walkway over Eleventh of the Mall.
  • Utility easement thru farm already - request for road easement likely.
  • Nineteenth Street to become a 5 lane from Freeway Interchange to Stucky Road.
  • Encourage alternative modes of transportation. Pedestrian and bike friendly campus.
  • Negative side of shuttles - not very efficient and golf carts (for handicapped) not good most places due to terrain steepness. Would put vehicular traffic right back into the heart of campus.
  • Walkways above the streets (11th & 19th) should be considered as campus expands to the west. Separate cars and pedestrians.
  • Bike and skateboard rules should be enforced.
  • Since 19th street is going to be 5 lanes, make sure we will be able to connect the future west side and the east side campuses. Construct the new 19th underground so there is adequate pedestrian corridors to cross 19th but will appear to be ground level. Do not build overpasses. Build underpasses.
  • Encourage people to traverse campus rather than park right next to where they work. MSU-Bozeman does not have a parking problem.
  • Have commuter transportation from Belgrade (at least - would love it from Three Forks) that is reasonable price and timing schedule.
  • Consider creating dis-incentives intended to decrease ease/attractiveness of traveling to and around the campus via personal automobile, i.e. actively force/incentives alt/pedestrian friendliness/attractiveness. This will evolve perhaps "naturally" since UC Boulder has 5000 spaces for 30,000 students - as the campus grows - parking need not increase, but alternatives should.
  • Focus more on a pedestrian-friendly and bicycle-friendly design for future.
  • Covered walkway from parking - avoid ice build-ups.
  • Figure out more creative ways to direct foot traffic besides construction fences (those hideous orange ones). Use landscaping creatively.
  • Students/staff walk through campus via the shortest distance. Why not put sidewalks where they walk. Green space could be created where old "unused" sidewalks are.
  • N-S pedestrian mall (ala Centennial Mall) along 11th between Cleveland and Grant. Start planning for it now!
  • Put sidewalks in consideration of student efficiencies - quit fighting the cow paths… they materialize for a reason.
  • Cow paths through campus need to be eliminated by either placing bark or some other natural product on them or enforcement by bushes, shrubs, or other natural attractive barrier.
  • "Cobblestone" mall makes it difficult to walk, for wheelchairs, etc. Use practical materials for Montana.
  • Figure out a way to mark sidewalks and obstacles so that landscaping and infrastructure don't get torn up every winter thanks to snow removal. Stop the insanity!
  • Promote alternate transportation. It would be nice if the city plowed well enough for bikes to be used all year around. Clean bike paths, not just driving lanes.
  • Current bus route is not frequent enough to accommodate most peoples schedules. ASMSU and Galavan are currently working on an expanded system.
  • Design sidewalks where people walk naturally…Students are the only ones who can take that first step to stop cow paths by policing themselves.
  • Covered walkways - block views and hold smoke in the area - no ice, but restrictive - feeling of being trapped.
  • Heated walkways: Many people enjoy the various climate changes. Still outdoors, but may be safer.
  • Are there plans for an overpass to cross 19th, if AG was moved. Groundwater is a problem for a tunnel.
  • Need to connect to property across Nineteenth.
  • Improve bike/pedestrian access to Technology Park/Towns Farm & Marsh Lab. Nineteenth is a barrier.
  • Walking/running trails in and around campus that are quiet and away from traffic.
  • A walking loop that can be completed in 15 to 20 minutes for taking a work break.
  • Close South Eleventh to through traffic, either full-time or part-time.
  • Define a main entrance on Nineteenth, Big sign/booth. Visitor orientation.
  • Eliminate Eleventh Avenue? Close for a portion of the day? City owned road-City has turned down previous efforts.
  • Main Campus difficult to navigate. Way-finding difficult. Visitor parking unclear or non-existent.
  • Land near Nineteenth will be more accessible in the future than the central campus of today will be.
  • Incorporate (campus) entrance with Garfield.
  • Need a Visitor Center. A way to get directions.
  • Labs, such as the grain lab need to be easily accessible to the rest of Campus to allow students to work in these labs yet easily maintain their academic schedules.
  • Nineteenth will be MSU's visual Edge (for both sides) Lets develop that edge now for the future..
  • Eliminate driving on Eleventh from College south. Would make a nice mall. This is a City street, need to approach again about reduced speed/closure during school hours.
  • Learn from pedestrian mall failures… some cars able to penetrate the perimeter actually changes the campus… and allows for people to be exposed to the campus who may not otherwise stop (no parking) and walk (time). Perhaps we think about a designated auto tour route and enhance the corridor.
  • Keep pedestrian scale - access, ease of use by bikes and walkers. Small, short "blocks" on grid roadway network.
  • Functional entries vs. ceremonial entrances.
  • Entry corridors into campus need to be improved. 8th Ave. treated like backdoor, has no sense of a front door. 11th street, 19th street need work.
  • College and 11th seems to be the entry to campus. Can it be improved?
  • Entry corridors into campus - 8th could be a fantastic entry. Need a front door - has been broken and fractured.
  • 8th is a good linkage between aisle and downtown. Trees are a positive on 8th.
  • Access to and from campus - the less time the better - quick commutes.
  • Define a campus entrance.
  • Keep major entrances to campus on major roads.
  • Give campus a "front door." Right now it would be 11th and Kagy?
  • Formal main entrance: 19th and Lincoln.
  • Campus plan revolve around a transit oriented skeleton which includes pedestrian, bike, and transit schemes.
  • Make greater use of 11th Street park. Transit stop at 11th, 8th St. as pedestrian access, 19th as vehicle access.
  • It will be critical to provide transit access in and out of campus. This will require coordination with city and state traffic control.
  • Provide shuttle system on campus. Propane powered, reduce automobiles on central campus.
  • Think transit oriented development in the 25 year plan.
  • What happened to the traffic control after the games, concerts?
  • Bus system that works with the university. Updated.
  • Pleasant pedestrian areas need to extend off-campus - provide corridors for pedestrian access to campus from town and vice versa.
  • Need a transit center and structured parking development on campus with connections to Belgrade and downtown Bozeman, etc.
  • Grants for mass transit is only temp.
  • Traffic - Harrison and Cleveland are already busy - look at safety issues of the surrounding historic neighborhood. Maintaining your historic neighborhood will enhance campus as much as campus enhances our neighborhood. Irving Elementary is on 8th.
  • Bicycle access should be considered in designing transport corridors to facilitate and encourage use of bicycles.
  • Campus roads - better access and signage. Directing traffic.
  • Open Cleveland back open (it used to be) between 8th and 11th. Would that help traffic flow?
  • Traffic flow around campus needs to be improved. Get rid of 4-way stops and add traffic lights.
  • Encourage walking and biking by easing navigation.
  • Transportation planning for easy travel between MSU campuses and future College of Technology campus.
  • Our children walk to school! K through 12! Increase traffic will endanger them.
  • With expansion of campus to west, a means of crossing 19th must be provided.
  • Need to integrate with local traffic better - important to have Lashaway et al contribute to greater Bozeman area transportation plan update.
  • Concern about traffic, safety, and historic nature of the neighborhoods.
  • Channel traffic onto major streets (19th, 11th, Kagy).
  • Need for campus shuttle system to integrate with a city plan for public transportation. Safer option for students who head into town at night and drink. Eliminates need for freshman cars on campus.
  • Sidewalks on S 7th behind MOR would be nice to have… they would provide better access to the track and to the old VLT building and to the community walking trails.
  • Do not put public transportation expense on taxpayer. Cost self-paying or forget it.
  • Public transport/campus busses - huge need - decrease the number of students/freshmen who drive.
  • Keep traffic out of the neighborhoods.
  • Concern about traffic, safety, and historic nature of the campus.
  • Provide mall electric carts on campus for elders, disabled. Individual carts and small electric shuttles for small groups of people.
  • Don’t increase traffic on Harrison, Cleveland, or adjacent neighbor.
  • No parking garage. Proposed site for parking garage will create gargantuan traffic problems - very negative for neighbors, students access to campus - very expensive for all, but only some can use.
  • Keep skeleton of Master Plan based around transit, bike, pathways. Let buildings define the edges of these. Set transit areas. Exterior spaces.
  • Expanded "Bobcat" transit is being worked on. Do we have transit drop-offs planned into this plan?
  • We like to work here, but we want to get home quickly. Coordinate with City/County re transportation routes and numbers of vehicles/day
  • Nineteenth as a 5-lane. Quicker in/out buy makes a physical barrier.
  • How does the entry work today. How will it work in the future. Likely 19th is the future entry. Still need to address the connecting between the east and west halves of Campus.
  • Get rid of the street that goes through campus (11th Street). Make it green space/landscape.
  • Pedestrian Friendly and encouraging walkways, public transit apposed to parking ramps.
  • Entry to Bozeman is important too. Seventh Avenue connects freeway to downtown. Eighth Avenue connects downtown to Campus.
  • Nineteenth Avenue does not provide good impression on drive to Campus.
  • How do we draw back into the campus, the area north of Montana Hall? Centennial Mall tends to feature and focus on the areas south of Montana Hall. It takes effort to even tour there (north) when showing someone the Campus.
  • Entrance to Campus needs to be defined. Nineteenth is the main artery. Eleventh is OK. Eighth is not so good, but probably the most common "First-Time" entrance for new comers through a pretty section of town. Right now, no one main entry into campus.
  • Hard to bike safely through town. Even marked bike lanes would help. Work with City/County to develop safe lanes.
  • Sidewalks are largely unshoveled and unsafe.
  • Walking through and along parking lots can be very intimidating.
  • When developing the campus, focus on pedestrian traffic and bicycle accessibility.
  • Promote development of bicycle and pedestrian routes to campus from growing residential areas.
  • The campus should have limited traffic running through it. Parking should be on the perimeter. We do however need more parking but not tall ugly garages. Underground parking would be best, maybe under new buildings.
  • Covered walkways to parking.
  • Traffic - main avenues need to be developed for rush hours. Alternate routes need to be developed. This is a serious issue with Bozeman's increasing population.
  • Better people circulation in the following buildings: Montana Hall, Wilson Hall, Hamilton Hall.
  • Fund off-campus paved foot and bike trails. We can't bike on ice-packed roads.
  • Widen College St. between 8th & 19th.
  • Bike rentals - see: UM's bike rental system.
  • Corridors - maintain Centennial Mall and the new corridor near Linfield and the new Chemistry building.
  • Good ideas: the Century Mall is laid out well. Trees are well situated over most of campus. Bozeman skyline is still visible today. Newest academic buildings have very good architecture.
  • The "goat trails" going through the middle of green space should be eliminated/maintained. Example: put gravel or sand down, like the City of Bozeman's trails.
  • I noticed diagonal sidewalks on the original Gilbert plan - today naturally diagonal walking paths are suppressed by ugly snow fences to save the grass. In the future, better sidewalk design would be good.
  • Develop a simple trail system on the undeveloped west end (Ag lands) of campus to give students a place to recreate and exercise close to campus similar to the M trail at the U of M.
  • How about a functional underground system? Tunnels for poor weather travel, links to basement levels… are we geologically stable enough?
  • The sidewalks in Family and Grad Housing are always icy in the winter.
  • Bus system: regular bus runs 7 days or 5 days a week traveling between campus and north of the town. The bike rack can be installed on busses and encourage students to use bike instead of driving.
  • Good ideas: street infrastructure is laid out well (streets go where they do good, no extraneous streets). Bike paths along streets help reduce sidewalk congestion. Engineering and science buildings are a single complex.
  • Nineteenth and Kagy is the first impression most new comers get of the campus - poor.
  • Up Wilson to Cleveland is a very scenic route to campus through old historic, beautiful portion of town.
  • Nineteenth is now a huge entry into Bozeman, where North Seventh used to be along with the East Main Entrance. City Needs to remake North Seventh as the entry into Bozeman. MSU remake Eighth as Main entry into MSU.
  • Rethink transportation. Discourage cars. Promote pedestrian traffic. Provide transit system and shuttles.
  • Need to loop around Montana Hall to include the north side of Campus. Need to draw people around to that north side and complete the axis.
  • Before sidewalks are installed watch how people go to and from the building for a few months. I have seen times when our Campus has had the "cow" trails between buildings and the mess the extra dirt causes to our buildings and the extra maintenance. People always develop very effective ways to move from building to building. Why fight the collective group when if you give them a very little time they will by default show you where to put the sidewalks and even the size needed.

Back to Top

Section 19: Additional Comments (e-mails)

1)CAMPUS TREE MAPPING: Undergraduate Student Leah Grunske has a special research project that presents inventoried campus tree locations and species. This information can be very useful for studying plants within our plant science courses and serve as a reference to the campus landscape management staff. We need to digitally transfer this information onto the campus master plan. We request assistance with this process. Her email and phone is [email protected] (406) 587-9393. Of course, I can help coordinate this work as well. 

1)PROMOTE DESIGN PROGRAM ELEMENTS THAT FOSTER AN INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENT WITH VARIOUS SCHOLASTIC PROGRAMS. The campus plan should facilitate outdoor class room activities from wetland area restoration, to special design projects to public art. Potential program interaction could occur, within properly designed spaces, that enhance creative learning opportunities, in educational projects in the departments of LREC, Agriculture, Landscape Design Architecture, Art, and engineering. 

1)TRANSFORM SOME OF THE VISITOR PARKING INTO METERED PARKING. Diminish the inconvenience of visitors of having to receive parking permits just to park on campus. Not enough time and a true hassle for visitors. 

1)TRULY MAKE PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE TRAFFIC TOP PRIORITY. A)Plan a inner campus free shuttle from the north end to the south end of 11th. The shuttle should demonstrate futuristic non-gas consuming transit (i.g.- propane (golf cart style), hydrogen electric or other) B)Link to the City of Bozeman transit system with bus stop locations. C)At the north end of 11th utilize the Arboretum park space to create a PARK AND RIDE TRANSIT CENTER. The area could serve as a place for bicyclist and motorists to park and utilize transit. THE CAMPUS PLAN MUST PROMOTE T.O.D- TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT!!! 

1)THREE AXIS CONCEPT- 8TH STREET: Emphasize the historical linkage and the tree lined corridor connection to downtown 11TH STREET: Emphasize Transit oriented circulation- bike, shuttle and pedestrian corridor. 19TH STREET: Make this the conventional automobile work force transit corridor. Put the vehicular hierarchy to the back of campus. Make the front (the north side) a pedestrian oriented experience. Colleges should be grouped together for easier access to students in the upper divisions. As we get more students & traffic, bridge over 11th and possibly over 19th. If we are expanding past 11th to 19th to Ferguson - Bike paths or small shuttle bus system needs to be in place. Student Building: Housing, Business Office, Registrar, Finacial Aid am in charge of a 16-person design unit for the Montana Department of Transportation. We previously were housed in Cobleigh Hall and recently moved to a new location in the CFT Building just south of campus on Seventh Avenue. Many of our student designers and staff commute back and forth to the MSU campus several times a day. The current roadway (Seventh Avenue) from our office to Kagy Boulevard is narrow and has vehicles, pedestrians, and bicyclists competing for the same space. I would like to see consideration given to a separated share-use pedestrian/bicycle path from Kagy to the CFT Building Complex and a tie in to the Bozeman Trail system that is adjacent to our office complex. This shared use path would improve the safety of all users and would possibly reduce some of the vehicle congestion on campus. If a good quality path is developed, I believe that you will see many more users leaving their vehicles at home or in the office parking lot and walking or biking to campus. I have a suggestion for an alternative energy source for campus. Check into putting up a wind machine at the east entrance of the Centennial Mall. Every time I walk down the Mall, it is like a wind tunnel. I was wondering if I could add a suggestion to the Campus plan of tomorrow. I was thinking that a little more Landscaping is in order around Campus. I would like to fous mainly on the eyesore that is between Montana Hall and Hamilton Hall. That Empty lot seems to small to build a building so why doesn't the University make a garden there? It would add a huge amount of appeal to Campus. Like with some local trees and wild flowers and benches? that would look a whole lot better than the worn grass that currently inhabits that lot. Just my opinion, I hope others share it around campus so that we can all benefit in the future. Thank You. Keep the students in mind, especially the middle to lower class who are greatly affected by tuition hikes, when deciding whether or not we need a new piece of frivolity to adorn our already beautiful campus. One idea I heard in two meetings about the next 25 years involved an Academic conference center, with performing arts capability, and an out-sourced hotel. This would be a terrific addition to the campus, and fill a need for both the community and the university.

Back to Top