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Enriching Place and Purpose

Expertly linking place and purpose, Edulorics advises institutions in deciding which strategic investments to pursue, where to make them, how to fund them, and how to execute.

We remain partners through the life of each project tailored to each institution's needs and capacity.

Through a series of x-rays we identify latent physical, financial, and philanthropic capacity. Working with senior institutional leadership, we then create, cultivate, and implement actionable interventions at multiple scales, advancing mission in multiple ways including generating auxiliary revenue.

J. Timothy Cloyd, PhD
Tony Sease, PhD
Garry Cutright, CCIM

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"There was, and is, a form of power that emerges from uniqueness... not the least of which is the uniqueness of a place. This form of power draws us toward the place and causes us to desire to be within... to be a part of it, to belong.

"When we are within that place we are protected by the spirit that radiates from its particular uniqueness... We are embraced by the spirit of the loric..."

Walter Brenneman, Jr. - Building, Dwelling, Environment

Leveraging Place,

Advancing Purpose

At Edulorics, we help clients advance institutional mission by leveraging place always through the lens of purpose. Through a series of scans including underutilized physical assets, philanthropic positioning, academic and student life programming, surrounding market contexts, and institutional differentiation, we help identify, enhance and elevate the differentiating and unique characteristics of each institution. The 'loric' characteristics of a place, when mined and cultivated, insure richer experiences, increased resilience, and enhanced affinity for an institution and its community.

20 years

30 states

Diverse experience in physical planning, urban design, and development implementation

Higher education presidential leadership

Strategic Planning, Advisory & Implementation

We create, cultivate, and implement strategic interventions across multiple dimensions to leverage place, always through the lens of purpose.

Transforming spaces: strategy & implementation

Transform physical assets into strategic advantages that enhance educational programs and help express the ethos of the place. Institutional control of physical interventions through prospective partnerships is essential

Generating auxiliary revenue

Drive differentiation through placemaking and through the integration of programs with engaged learning and increased opportunities for serendipitous encounters.

Selected experience at the nexus of place and program:

  • Augsburg University

  • Dominican University of California

  • Drury University

  • Duke University

  • Harding University

  • Hendrix College

  • Mars Hill College

  • Lake-Sumter State College

  • University of Arkansas, Little Rock

  • University of Michigan

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • University of Notre Dame

  • Vanderbilt University

  • Virginia Tech

Project Types

Driving differentiation through strategic planning for higher education institutions.

Activating assets

Enhancing programs through effective use of physical assets - land, buildings and setting - capturing the ethos of the place

Philanthropic positioning

Advancing missions with tailored strategic planning and capital campaigns.

Institutional differentiation

Activating assets in support of and integrated with academic program differentiation.

Enhancing programs

Developing and implementing strategies to align and support the institutional mission across multiple dimensions and multiple constituencies - students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community partners.

place + purpose = ethos

Contact us:

Strategy

Driving differentiation at the nexus

of place & purpose

Implementation

Institutional differentiation

contact@edulorics.com

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