Letter from the President
January Update
Administrators Conference: Pathways
Program Committees
Each of the ACSA Program Committees this year is addressing one or more of the objectives of the 2022-2025 Strategic Plan.
- Leadership Committee: Expanding frameworks for new faculty development. The Leadership Committee is charged with surveying and evaluating new faculty positions aimed toward diversifying faculty and expanding teaching, research, and scholarship on issues of social and environmental justice, racial equity, and community engagement.
- Education Committee: Disseminating Best Practices for Successful Community College Transfer. The Education Committee is charged with continuing its work to strengthen articulation between community colleges and professional and pre-professional architecture programs and formulating a plan for a convening of institutions and organizations seeking to advance community college transfer in early summer 2023.
- Research Committee: Advancing Scholarship on Climate Action in Built Environments. The Research and Scholarship Committee is charged with assessing scholarly work in the discipline on the intersection of climate action, equity, and social justice in the built environment.
Upcoming
- In late March ACSA’s fully in-person Annual Meeting returns in St. Louis, with keynotes by Topaz Medal winner Sharon Egretta Sutton and the soon-to-be-announced Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medalist, a faculty workshop called Racism Untaught that brings experienced design educators in to help think through equity in the studio and beyond; tours of St. Louis neighborhoods, a steel fabricator, and even the Mississippi River.
- We continue our partnership with the European Association for Architectural Education in Reykjavik, Iceland, with the biennial Teachers Conference, which will explore the spaces and pedagogies for developing notions of cosmopolitan citizenship. The host school has given us unprecedented access to the city and its leaders. This June 22-24 event is not to be missed.
- Three student design competitions are open to ACSA members for this spring. The registration deadline is April 5.
- Multiple opportunities to volunteer and serve ACSA are available. From NAAB visiting teams to editorial boards and future program committees, we will be posting calls for volunteers now and throughout the winter. Visit our Volunteers page to find out what’s available and how to submit an application.
Questions
Heather Albarazi
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202-785-2324
halbarazi@acsa-arch.org