Donald M. Norris is widely recognized as an expert and practitioner on the planning and development of information technology and learning infrastructures for the Knowledge Age and campus facilities to support them.  In October 1998, he conducted a satellite down link program for PBS on “Creating Tomorrow’s Learner-Centered Environments – Today!”  Dr. Norris also developed a Website for the Urban Land Institute on “Shaping a Livable Technopolis.”  These programs reflected the principles espoused in Dr. Norris’ white paper on new opportunities in facilities design, “Space: The Final Frontier,” which appeared in “On the Horizon.”

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Currently, Donald Norris and Mark Valenti are providing a workshop on “Campus and Facilities Planning in the Wireless Age” which reveals the transformative impact of ubiquitous, wireless technology on facilities planning and campus master planning.

Strategic Initiatives’ thought leaders in Transforming Facilities Design and Planning include Donald Norris, Becky Mullins, Mark Valenti, Samuel Kirkpatrick, and Manny Cunard.

Our thought leadership is reflected in the following publications:
Donald M. Norris and Mark Valenti, “Transforming Campus Master Planning for the Wireless Age,” Workshop at Community and Mobile Users Conference, May 2006, forthcoming
Donald M. Norris, “Campus Planning in the Age of Ambient/Mobile Technology,” Wireless Community and Mobile Users Conference, Monterrey, CA, June 2005.
Donald M. Norris and Manny Cunard, “Creating Fused-Use Learning Spaces,” Planning, Designing, and Managing Higher Education Institutions, an invited conference by OECD/APPA, April 2005.
Donald M. Norris, "Space: The Final Frontier," On the Horizon, 1998.
Donald M. Norris, “Creating Tomorrow’s Learner-Centered Environments – Today,” SCUP Webcast, 1997.
Donald M. Norris, “Shaping a Livable Technopolis,” development of collaboratory for the Urban Land Institute, 1997.