Building the Campus of the Future

HP was born on a university campus. Our founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard met while attending the Stanford University School of Engineering where Bill’s graduate project, a resistance-capacitance oscillator, became the company’s first product. Even today, HP’s headquarters sits on Stanford University-owned land. Since our founding, HP has been committed to scientific inquiry and a research mindset first formed at Stanford. Higher education is an important part of our DNA.

From community colleges to research universities, the purpose of higher education is to provide knowledge and skills to students, while producing research and scholarship. While these institutions differ in scale, resources, curricula and mission, they share a common set of challenges: student success, academic reputation, operational efficiency, and security and risk management.

Today at the EDUCAUSE 2017 Annual Conference in Philadelphia, HP announced our Campus of the Future framework to meet the growing challenges of higher education and break through the frontiers of instructional innovation and research. The strategic framework was created to improve student success, mitigate risk, increase accessibility and enhance teaching, learning and research for institutions across the world.

The framework migrates from the device-based approach first used with Gen Xers. Based on learnings from those earlier implementations, the Campus of the Future framework is designed for today’s millennials to encompass maker spaces, virtual reality and design labs, and fabrication facilities. Our goal is to help build a future of next-generation experiences for students while equipping them with technology to pursue their passions – whether it be in particle physics or drama.

As part of this initiative, I’m pleased to introduce immersive computing applied research at elite universities, and new solutions and procurement technologies specifically suited for higher education institutions.

HP Applied Research Network: Insights for the Campus of the Future

As part of our applied research with university partners, HP and Yale University released a research report, “A Year in the Blender,” which chronicles the research findings from an interdisciplinary research project at the university. Building on the success of the Yale University Blended Reality research, HP also announced the expansion of applied research on campuses to explore the most effective and impactful use cases in virtual reality, augmented reality and 3D printing. From holographic teleportation to accessibility, elite colleges and universities including Dartmouth College, FIU College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts | Miami Beach Urban Studios, Gallaudet University, Hamilton College, Harrisburg University, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Lehigh University, Syracuse University, University of San Diego, and Yale University will provide direct input into HP’s Campus of the Future architecture.

Announcing HP Campus Foundry

EDUCAUSE lists innovative learning spaces as a Top Strategic Technology for 2017 and we absolutely agree. Now, universities can create amazing, immersive and engaging learning spaces powered by HP. Newly announced HP Campus Foundry epitomizes creativity and innovation, combining HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D Printers, HP Indigo digital presses and HP DesignJet large format printers. These technologies enable campuses to fabricate 3D molecules, building prototypes, GIS maps of campus or print custom runs of student dissertations.

HP OMEN eSports Arenas for Higher Education

Student Affairs (SA) is an essential function of campus leadership and is focused on helping students develop necessary skill sets, while keeping them engaged in the campus community. eSports is the latest phenomenon engaging the next generation of students. Online gaming is now a televised sport, and campuses all over the world now have intercollegiate eSports teams. HP announced the advanced HP OMEN eSports Arenas to bring gaming to the next level on campus. Whether students are a sponsored gaming pro or a first-year student taking a break from homework, HP OMEN delivers the goods. Universities can give their students pro-level eSports experiences using OMEN PCs and HP designed arenas, and take on rival schools in Overwatch™ or League of Legends™ using state of the art gaming tech designed for universities.

HP2B for Higher Education: an all-new shopping and purchasing experience

HP announced HP2B for Higher Education, an all-new B2B platform developed to minimize purchasing frustration, while enabling the smooth management of campus purchasing. Universities can enjoy a fully-customized online campus purchasing portal, available with punch-out capability, which they manage in the cloud. Custom catalogs, campus standards and purchaser profiles enable an improved experience from procurement to end users. With HP2B’s configurator, faculty and staff can create their own custom models and submit them for approval to their divisional business manager, so that they can discover their next molecule or write their next masterpiece.

Learn more about the Campus of the Future framework and HP’s commitment to higher education.