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Paulien & Associates, Inc. is one of the nation's leading consulting firms for facilities-oriented campus planning for colleges and universities. Founded in 1979, by its current president, Daniel K. Paulien, Paulien & Associates has been helping colleges and universities take the guesswork out of campus design, enrollment forecasts and space needs assessments.

Our long list of clients includes the University of Virginia, Yale University, the University of Notre Dame, University of Colorado at Boulder, Johns Hopkins University, University of Georgia,  Pima Community College District, Rice University, Emory University, University of South Carolina, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the Utah System of Higher Education to name a few.  Follow this link for a list of our Higher Education Clients.

Paulien & Associates Team

Experience of the multi-skilled staff of Paulien & Associates ranges from 12 to 30 years in major planning projects for higher education. In addition to overall planning skills, each member of the Paulien & Associates team adds his or her own special expertise to the team's planning work including the following:

Daniel K. Paulien, President

Since founding Paulien & Associates, Dan has served as a consultant to higher education institutions, architectural and educational planning firms and governmental entities. He served as the 1995-96 President of the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), a 4,200 member organization headquartered at the University of Michigan.

Prior to 1979, Dan's experience included 10 years of in-depth, higher education planning experience at the campus and statewide levels. He served as a staff member with the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) from 1969 to 1973, reviewing facilities master plans and program plans for the public colleges and universities in Colorado. He co-authored and developed vocational technical laboratory guidelines for the Commission’s Guidelines for Site Selection, Long-Range Facilities Master Planning, and Facilities Program Planning, published in 1973.

In 1973, the Auraria Higher Education Center asked Dan to prepare the educational program plan for the three-college urban renewal campus in Downtown Denver. He had full responsibility for the development of all 16 facilities program plans for the campus. His duties included preparing detailed room-by-room, course-by-course analyses of the campus space requirements. In addition, Dan planned all shared facilities (including the Library, Student Center, Child Care Center, Physical Education, Recreation, Athletics facilities, and parking), and academic and vocational facilities.
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John R. Bengston, Vice President and Principal

John R. Bengston, AIC, Vice President and Principal, provides special focus on facilities planning issues for Paulien & Associates, Inc. His professional experience has provided him with unique expertise and skills in the development of long range facility master planning and program planning for higher education, governmental and corporate clientele.

John joined the Paulien & Associates team after holding upper management positions in the building construction industry and the architectural design profession. As a Vice President and Principal, John has lead project teams in the defining of space needs, facility utilization and facility inventory analysis as an integral part of the overall planning effort. He has directed the development of long range facility master plans for over 16 university and community college campuses nationwide. He has managed the successful completion of numerous pre-architectural program planning studies for higher education clients including the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Auraria Higher Education Center (CO), Fort Lewis College (CO), Northern Arizona University, the University of Arizona, and Western Nebraska Community College. His individual strengths lie in the areas of determining the facility response to space needs issues, assembly of the statement of probable cost for project implementation, life cycle cost analysis, and working with the client and architect to ensure program and budget compliance through project completion.

John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Management from Bradley University (IL), and has taken continuing education courses at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His affiliations include election to the American Institute of Constructors in 1979, membership in the Society for College and University Planning, and as an adjunct faculty to Historic Boulder.
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Mel Lockhart, Senior Consultant

Mel Lockhart has 20 years experience in higher education administration focusing on academic resources before joining Paulien & Associates, Inc. With more than twenty years experience as a senior university administrator and faculty member, Dr. Lockhart has developed expertise in a broad range of planning and analysis processes including campus master planning, space planning and analysis, and strategic and long range planning.

A central focus of Mel’s professional career has been in facilities and space planning and analysis. She served as academic lead for the Campus Master Planning process at Emory University and as team coordinator during the design and construction of several teaching and research facilities. She has studied facilities issues, evaluated space allocation, assessed strategies for addressing facilities needs, estimated facilities costs, developed plans for new construction and renovation projects, and prepared reports describing her analyses.

In addition, Dr. Lockhart has substantial experience in financial and budgetary advising and planning. She has developed expertise in long range and financial planning with particular emphasis on financial policy and plans for resource allocation. For example, she has developed strategies for effective allocation of service unit costs and identified opportunities for cost reductions in both academic and support areas. Further, she has studied financial aid and recruitment issues and prepared reports and recommendations for senior officers and trustees that guided the development of institutional policy and practice.
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Lisa Keith, Associate Principal

Lisa Keith is a planner with over 10 years experience in space needs analysis, utilization studies, and pre-design programming. Lisa worked as an Associate for Paulien & Associates prior to 1993. During that time, she conducted many space needs analyses, utilization studies, and program plans for colleges and universities of different sizes and emphasis across the United States. She has extensive computer experience including database programming, spreadsheet application development and modeling, graphics, and desktop publishing.

Ms. Keith left Paulien & Associates to found Edu-Plan National in 1993 after moving to Baton Rouge, LA. She served as the primary consultant to the State of Louisiana Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities. She assisted the Board of Trustees in developing policy and standards for implementing campus-wide master planning, space needs analysis, space utilization, and pre-design program planning. Her practice expanded to include elementary, middle school/junior high, and secondary education and governmental agencies.

Ms. Keith rejoined the staff at Paulien & Associates as an Associate in 1998. She brings to the planning process strong communication and interviewing skills and the ability to identify needs and problem areas and to propose solutions to those problems. She is a good listener, strong team player, and views planning as an on-going interaction between client and consultant. Because of her experience across the country, Ms. Keith has a national perspective as well as a thorough understanding of academic issues.
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Yvonne M. Thibodeau, Senior Associate

Yvonne M. Thibodeau has more than twenty years experience in the field of education in the facilities, fiscal, and academic areas. Her education experience includes both teaching and the management of educational entities. She has played a key role in founding organizations with which she has been affiliated, including coordination of purchasing, leasing, renovation, and furnishing the facilities. Her consulting experience includes analyzing enrollment and retention data, and developing a retention management system for use by the Regis University Graduate School for Professional Studies.

Yvonne's experience with Paulien & Associates includes planning projects at the the University of Notre Dame, the University of Arizona, James Madison University, Auraria Higher Education Center (CO), the University of Georgia, Pima Community College (AZ), Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Vermont.  As an Associate, Yvonne provides utilization and space needs analysis, facility master planning, program planning, project management, and facility management expertise. Her responsibilities include marketing, campus space needs planning, facilities programming, and research and applications of normative standards for higher education facilities planning. She also manages client and consultant communication and interaction. Yvonne holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Science from San Diego State University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix.
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Franklin A. Markley, Ph.D., Senior Associate
Frank Markley has extensive experience at a senior level responsibility including information management, research, planning, and policy-making experience in a college setting that spans 15 years.  He brings to Paulien & Associates an extensive background and formal knowledge of strategic and long-range planning.  Given his in-depth experience of and success with administrative responsibilities, Dr. Markley is exceptionally qualified for using his skills to provide quality services to all levels of higher education institutions.

As an Associate Vice President for 7,500-student, 325-faculty, public community college, Frank was responsible for the preparation and management of a $1 million budget.  Furthermore, Dr. Markley has conducted and understands community needs assessments, long-range planning, and both institutional and marketing research.  His management experience includes oversight of complex systems and collegewide technology (telecommunications, networking, and computer services) including policy development as it pertains to technology and acquisition. 

Frank has successfully managed numerous projects while providing coordination of players on all levels:  architects, engineers, board of directors, technology consultants, and community members.  His ability to synthesize large volumes of data is evident in the development of a five-year facility master plan, three program plans, and two technology plans, that produced $20.3 million in state construction funding over a five year period.  Frank holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado, an M.B.A. in Marketing and Management from the University of Denver, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from the University of Denver.

Kate Herbolsheimer, Associate
Prior to joining Paulien & Associates, Kate Herbolsheimer worked in the fields of commercial and institutional architecture.  A strong architectural background enables her to effectively communicate facility solutions that meet the needs of clients. Ms. Herbolsheimer’s contributions to Paulien & Associates include space needs analyses, utilization studies, master plans, program plans and related pre-design documents, migration and reallocation studies, and compliance overviews.  Ms. Herbolsheimer holds both a Bachelors of Arts degree in Architecture and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Minnesota–Minneapolis.

During her four years at Paulien & Associates, Ms. Herbolsheimer has provided integral support and expertise for numerous projects.  She has developed planning solutions for government and higher education clients including the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (Fitzsimons Campus), Southern Connecticut State University,  Winona State University (MN), Western State College (CO), Johnson and Wales University (CO), Universidade Agostinho Neto (Luanda, Angola), Arcadia University (PA), Eckerd College (FL), Pima Community College District (AZ), Colorado Northwestern Community College (Craig and Rangely Campuses), Front Range Community College (Westminster, Larimer, and Boulder Campuses, CO), Pikes Peak Community College (Centennial, The Downtown Center, and Rampart Range Campuses, CO), Arapahoe Community College (CO), and Parkland College (IL).  Non-campus clients including office needs analysis for the Western Institute Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), State Higher Education Executive Officer (SHEEO), Oklahoma County (OK), and the Pima Community College District Complex and the District Service Center.
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