Cathy Deino Blake

Learning to incorporate your student accommodation program into your campus masterplan will assist your university in providing a safe and enriching environment for its students. Doing this will also give student accommodation providers ideas for what they should consider to provide a fully integrated living and learning experience. Stanford is currently in the process of rethinking the role of housing in the education of its students and will share some ideas currently under consideration.

With an average 17,000 enrolled students per year and 8000 acres of land, Stanford University is regularly finding ways to innovate their student accommodation spaces. Cathy Deino Blake, Stanford University’s Director of Campus Planning and Design, is aware of the importance of creating an ideal residential experience for their students which incorporates innovative programming and living spaces to improve student life. 

It is here Cathy will open the conference with a discussion of the university’s plans to integrate student accommodation into the masterplan within their 800-acre Central Campus area