ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the landscape of the university or college campus is perceived, read and used by students, faculty and staff. The physical environment that is the university or college campus has many roles in the educational enterprise. Campus environments influence student retention through fostering social engagement. The landscape of campus is perceived and used by students, faculty, staff, administrators, and visitors. The value and utility of the campus landscape is just that: it represents employment. For the faculty and non-grounds staffs who work on campus everyday, the central working idea of the campus is that it is habitat or home ground. Many faculty and staff care deeply about the landscape, pay attention to it experientially, and mark their transit of the seasons by it. It behooves those of us who work, learn, and play on campuses to know that different users will not read the campus in the same way that others do.
