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    Tracey Lerminiaux

    Tracey Lerminiaux is a content and conference producer for influence group focused on healthcare, higher education, and hospitality. She's a lifelong learner that loves connecting intriguing minds and hearing a good story. Though, if a cute dog crosses her path, all bets are off and she will be stopping to say hello
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    How Cornell, UC San Diego, and USF Are Navigating Budget Cuts, Deferred Maintenance, and Impossible Trade-Offs

    “We’ve stopped talking about deferred maintenance. It became this big, ugly number that no one wanted to tackle.”

    Lisa James, Associate Vice President of Facilities Operations at Cornell University, wasn’t trying to be provocative. She was...

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    Inside HEFF 2025: Where Campus Facilities Leaders Worked Through What’s Next

    Budget cuts keep coming. Enrollment is shifting. Leadership turnover makes long-term planning harder than ever.

    That’s the reality for campus facilities right now—and exactly why senior campus facilities leaders from universities across the country...

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    Why Higher Ed Facilities Leaders Can’t Miss HEFF 2025

    If you're a higher ed facilities leader, you're looking for something different from the typical large conference experience. You want conversations that challenge your perspective. Connections that actually matter. And ideas you can bring back to...

    By Tracey Lerminiaux  |  
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    How Sports Venues Make Sustainability Work—and What Higher Ed Can Learn

    Roger McClendon knows how to build a global sustainability strategy and make it stick. As the first Chief Sustainability Officer at Yum! Brands (Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC), he helped implement sustainable design standards across 5,000 restaurants in...

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    Georgia Tech Stopped Saying 'Sustainability' — And Started Getting Funded

    The word was costing him money.

    Not a lack of strategy. Not bad data. Just... the wrong vocabulary.At the Higher Ed Facilities Forum (HEFF), James Stephens, VP of Infrastructure & Sustainability at Georgia Tech, told a room of college and university...

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    How San Diego State Cut $400 Million from Its Housing Plan

    “What happens when your campus needs housing for thousands of students, but you're facing impossible housing costs, limited capital, and mounting pressure to move fast?

    At the Higher Ed Facilities Forum, Bob Schulz, Associate Vice President of Real...

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