Making The Future - A Plan for the Lehigh Campus

Making the Future: A Plan for the Lehigh Campus is a 30-year framework to guide decision-making in support of the Lehigh Strategy, Inspiring the Future Makers. Creating synergies while preserving optionality for the future, Making the Future seeks to reinforce the unique qualities of Lehigh's distinct areas while improving connectivity and fostering unique pathways of discovery across all that Lehigh has to offer.

The Lehigh University campus offers a 1600- acre contiguous collection of diverse experiences. You will find vibrant urban and metropolitan areas and historic college campus charm; 870+ acres of natural beauty surround inspiring industrial spaces perfect for large-scale experimentation – and all within a welcoming and supportive campus community.

A Plan Shaped by the Lehigh Community

The Campus Plan provides a roadmap for achieving the University’s strategic goals while maintaining flexibility for the many unknowns of the future. The planning process, and the outcomes of the Campus Plan, were based on measurable analysis of existing conditions, capacities, and benchmarking followed by thorough and rigorous evaluation and comparison of options.

Quantitative and qualitative input and insight from the entire Lehigh community over the course of more than 15 months helped shape the Campus Plan through robust, inclusive, and interactive engagement throughout the entire planning process.

Making the Future realizes the full potential of the campus as a place to bring together a community of makers and mentors to drive student success and meaningful change. It recognizes the campus’s evolution from a single area of origin, to its growth into three separate campuses, to today’s limitless opportunity of one activated campus shaped by six distinct districts.