Director:
Ellen Shippee
eshippee (at) plymouth (dot) edu
phone: X52254

About the Department

The Physical Plant Division plays a vital role in the operation of Plymouth State University. Its primary goal is to maintain the University’s facilities and grounds to readily support the academic mission of the University.

The intention is to accomplish this through a proactive management style and philosophy that focuses on maintaining the facilities with efficient and effective preventive, routine and planned maintenance programs. These programs are critical to providing a cost effective operation and essential in deterring the accumulation of deferred maintenance items. Appearance of the campus and its facilities is a primary concern of the Physical Plant staff. It is understood that the perceptions of first time visitors are important and every effort is made to present a clean, well-kept, well-landscaped campus, as well as clean and well-maintained facilities.

Physical Plant Mission

Mission Statement: Serving students, faculty and staff by creating and sustaining a friendly, safe, healthy, learning and living environment.  We contribute our success by:

  • Our team’s commitment to customer service

  • The strength, knowledge and experience of our dedicated staff

  • Through honor, integrity, hard work and respect for all that we serve.

Motto: Supporting the University Mission with nearly a 1,000 years of combined service!

Plants in Bloom

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August 28, 2011

At the west entrance to the HUB is an ‘Early Amethyst’ Purple Beautyberry {Callicarpa dichotoma ‘Early Amethyst’} that has very small pink flowers that will yeild 1/8″ diameter fruits in a beautiful shade of lilac-violet. The fruit is beautifully displayed above the leaves in about a months time. We need a little luck with a [...]

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July 29, 2011

In front of the Frost House is a planting of Summersweet Clethra {C. alnifolia} that is just coming into bloom. Many fragrant white flower spikes above very deep green foliage. It will spread by suckers and increase in size. It has become very popular in recent years and there is an enormous choice of varieties [...]

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July 27, 2011

Behind the northwest corner of Prospect Hall is a group of Bottlebrush Buckeyes {Aesculus parviflora} with flower spikes 18″ and longer held high above the rich green foliage with 5 to 7 leaflets. The flowers open from bottom to top and are still not fully open. There are three plantings on Highland St, though the [...]