Working with Perkins Eastman, UCSF held three workshops in 2018 to provide a forum for participants including UCSF faculty, staff, leadership and the consultant team to discuss the opportunities and challenges of rejuvenating the Parnassus Heights campus. Here are the reports summarized by Perkins Eastman.

January 2019: Preferred Alternative Workshop Summary

November 2018: Plan Alternatives Workshop Summary

July 2018: Blue Sky Workshop Summary

UCSF convened four working groups, comprised of faculty and staff representing a cross-section of the University, that met and presented their recommendations to the Parnassus Master Plan Steering Committee. Here are their final reports, which are reflected in the final Comprehensive Parnassus Heights Plan.

Co-Labs (originally called “Central Research Labs”)

This group discussed ideas and several options on how to design a new model for central lab resources on the Parnassus Heights campus that capitalizes on critical personnel, cutting-edge methods, and technologies while maximizing impact and engagement. The group’s April 2018 report to the steering committee was received enthusiastically. A 2019 summary of the CoLabs plan is also available here. The launch of phase 1 of the CoLabs (mid-2019) will bring together many of the components of this new initiative on the eighth floor of the Medical Sciences Building. Planning for phase 2, which is designed to incorporate all elements of the CoLabs in a centralized, state of the art facility, is now being integrated into the comprehensive plan. 

Digital Hub

This group discussed a vision for UCSF to be the premier university in the world by “streamlining Digital Health at UCSF to seamlessly support the needs of clinicians, researchers, trainees and external partners and allowing current UCSF Digital Health assets to work together to deliver a true Learning Health System.”

Education

This group engaged with stakeholders in all education mission areas including students, adopted the UCSF 2030 education space values, developed guidelines for implementation of its recommendations, issued a call for innovative education proposals (which garnered 14 responses) and worked with Perkins Eastman to evaluate the scope and utilization of current classrooms and recommend a revised portfolio.

Research Space

This group developed guiding principles for research space at the Parnassus Heights campus with a final recommendation that was presented in December 2018. The group recognized the “unique opportunity to create an integrated campus at Parnassus Heights comprising cutting-edge patient care, world-class biomedical research and highest standard education programs in life sciences and health professions.”

A subsequent task force was convened to provide additional clarity on research space programming and made recommendations to the UCSF Space Committee in September 2020. The Space Committee accepted the report and endorsed several of the recommendations.