Originally published in Parking Today magazine. You timed your schedule perfectly. You decided to forego your Starbucks coffee so you’d definitely be there in time for your lecture. You carefully checked waze for your scheduled time of departure. And you calmly arrive on campus with time to spare, inwardly reviewing the fine points of your…
Helping Students Uncover Hidden Parking A popular University in California with multiple student parking lots helps students find elusive parking spots each day with the OpenSpace parking guidance platform. The Client California State University San Marcos (CSU San Marcos) is an educational institution located in beautiful San Diego, CA. The forward-focused University is located…
The semester’s drawing to a close, grads are scheduling celebrations, and the prospect of summer is right around the corner. But now is the time to start planning for smarter parking next fall. And it’s not because parking guidance is a long and laborious project that needs all the spare time you can muster. Although…
After the longest break in the history of university life, schools are finally (for the most part) back up and running. But as you smooth out the wrinkles of new beginnings, is there a simple way you can help students and faculty park faster? When you envisioned reopening, you probably thought of happy students chatting as they…
Welcoming Students Back As the Fall of 2021 approaches and restrictions continue to lift, colleges across the country are planning for a long-awaited return to campus. Hundreds of universities have sat empty for over a year now. Others were used only by small groups at a time. The excitement is of course peppered by logistical…
The Learning Must Go On Universities haven’t shuttered their doors. Certainly not virtually. Distance learning programs for the fall are purported to be more robust (and certainly more well planned) than their spring counterparts were. But many students are still headed back to campus. Universities are often offering a mix of in-person, distance, and hybrid…
3 Ways To Improve The Student Parking Process Rush Hour is When? Unlike in a corporate environment where there’s a predictable morning and evening rush, university campuses can have veritable “rush hour” multiple times every day. With classes starting and ending throughout the day and varied schedules for different students, campus parking lots can be…
Green Campuses College campuses across the country are working on becoming greener, setting goals to reduce carbon footprint and improve the natural world around them. Some schools have gone so far as to ban plastic water bottles while others reduce electricity use with solar energy. But how about sustainable parking? With myriad students and faculty…
Nurture Your Vision at the C3X Campus Conference What if your campus could do things differently? Smarter? What if you could impact student success with innovations that started outside the classroom with implications that reached far beyond it? More than 650 campus professionals from more than 300 higher education institutions will gather at the upcoming…
Wrapping Up & Prepping Ahead The school year is over, the angst and challenges of the year are behind you, and summer lies ahead. Your student body and faculty probably exhaled a collective sigh of relief at the completion of another year with all it held. But if you work in college administration and parking,…