ASLA Council of Fellows

Fellow Nomination Guidelines

1. General Information
2. Eligibility
3. Nomination Categories
4. Successful Nominations and Nomination Examples by Category
   • Works (pdf)
   • Leadership (pdf)
   • Service (pdf)
   • Knowledge (pdf)
5. Nomination Packet Requirements
6. Jury Process
7. Nomination Notification Process

1. General Information

1. A nomination form (pdf) signed by both the nominator and the nominee - electronic signatures will be accepted.
2. Nominating group’s statement of support (no more than 5 pages) including a nomination statement signed by the nominee’s chapter president, the ASLA president, or the Council of Fellows’ chair – electronic signatures will be accepted.
3. A digital headshot image (minimum 300dpi resolution) of the nominee
4. All images including headshot must be individually submitted electronically on CD ROM.
5. In the Works category 12-20 images must also be submitted in a powerpoint format with project titles on each slide. PowerPoint may be converted into a PDF. Please note that only images submitted under Works will be reviewed by the jury.

2. Eligibility

• A chapter executive committee
• The ASLA executive committee
• The Council of Fellows executive committee

• Be an ASLA Full Member in good standing
• Have achieved at least 10 continuous years as a Full Member at the time of nomination.
• Have demonstrated exceptional contribution over an extended period of time.
• Have had a significant impact on the public and the profession
• Have received recognition for that contribution and its impact from multiple sources.
  

3. Nomination Categories

1. Works (pdf)
2. Leadership (pdf)
3. Knowledge (pdf)
4. Service (pdf)

• Exceptional accomplishments in planning, and/or design, which have been sustained over an extended period of time
• Completed works, which demonstrate mastery of the art, stewardship and social responsibility of landscape architecture
• Projects demonstrate outstanding quality and significant impact on the public and the profession

• Thoroughly summarize the significance of the nominee’s career including a list of all planning, design and/or project awards from ASLA or allied organizations including project examples advancing innovation and excellence in planning and/or design.
• Clearly identify the nominee’s role and responsibility in each project cited, not just the nominee’s title on the project or lengthy descriptions of the projects themselves. Also clearly indicate the roles of others involved in the project as these pertained to the nominee. Provide attribution for all built works.
• Explain the importance and significance of completed works, including any limitations or challenges overcome to complete the cited projects.
• Summarize activities or leadership positions in organizations promoting the profession and pertaining to this category.

• Head shot image of the nominee in digital format (minimum 300dpi resolution).
• A maximum of 20 individual high-quality digital images (minimum 300dpi resolution) of at least four noteworthy projects. Past jurors suggest concentrating on fewer projects and submitting several images of each.
• Provide a one-page image description sheet with a short summary for each image of one to two sentences, including the title of the project, the date completed, the project’s impact, and the significant limitations or challenges (if any) facing the project, and the role of the nominee in the project.
• All images including headshots and files must be submitted electronically on CD ROM.
• NEW the 12-20 images must also be submitted in a powerpoint format with project titles on each slide. PowerPoint may be converted into a PDF.

• Exceptional accomplishments sustained over an extended period of time.
• Influence and impact of this work on the profession of landscape architecture and contribution to public advancement of the profession.
• Personal leadership role and administrative ability demonstrated in the accomplishment of project initiation or design, policy formation, or planning.

• Thoroughly summarize the significance of the nominee’s career. List and explain specific activities, management, and leadership roles in organizations, agencies, and/or elected offices promoting landscape architecture and its value/values.
• List awards received that demonstrate the dissemination of the information or projects led and managed by the nominee.
• Clearly identify the nominee’s role and impact in each activity and project cited. Also clearly identify the role of others involved as those roles pertain to the nominee.

• Head shot image of the nominee in digital format (minimum 300dpi resolution).
• 12-20 individual high-quality images, in digital format (minimum 300 dpi). Images should depict work-related scenes, e.g., projects being managed, shots of a firm’s office(s) or studio(s), or the individual undertaking his or her administrative responsibilities or receiving an award, etc.
• Include a one-page image detail sheet that includes a short summary for each image of one to two sentences, including the title of the project or activity, the dates, impact and significance of the project or activity including the limitations or challenges (if any), and the role of the nominee in the project or activity.
• All images including headshot must be submitted electronically on CD ROM.
  

• Exceptional accomplishments sustained over an extended period of time.
• Specific influence of the nominee’s accomplishments in this category on the profession and on the public’s knowledge base of landscape architecture.
• Personal role in advancing education and the profession.

• Thoroughly summarize the significance of the nominee’s career over an extended period of time, including a list of accomplishments highlighting how the creation or communication of each has been recognized by peers, students, allied professionals or the public, or with critical acclaim. Include the significance of the nominee’s career.
• Clearly identify the nominee’s role and impact in each area cited. Also clearly identify the role of others involved as those roles pertain to the nominee.
• For creation of new knowledge, explain the significance of the research or scholarship. For the communication of knowledge, explain its exceptional effect.
• List citations of all published material or other original work.
  

• Head shot image of the nominee in digital format (minimum 300dpi resolution).
• 12-20 high-quality images, in digital format (minimum 300dpi resolution). Images should depict work-related scenes, e.g., lecture(s), studio(s) or project(s) being managed, publications, such as the individual undertaking his or her teaching, lecturing, mentoring, writing responsibilities or receiving an award, etc.
• Include a one-page image detail sheet that includes a short summary for each image of one to two sentences, including the title of the project, publication, or activity, the dates, impact and significance of the project or activity including the limitations or challenges (if any), and the role of the nominee in the project or activity.
• All images including headshot must be submitted electronically on CD ROM.
  

Please note that the jury will NOT review the images submitted under the Knowledge Category as a criteria for election.

Please do not submit any multiple images (image collages, separate renderings, images, drawings or insets within an image).

If you are in doubt whether an image is unacceptable, please contact Joyce DePass at jdepass@asla.org.

• Exceptional accomplishments as a volunteer at the local, state, national and/or international levels sustained over an extended period of time that are truly inspiring and serve as an example to others.
• Noticeable activities that contribute to the advancement of the profession of landscape architecture and public recognition of the profession.
  

• Summarize the significance of the nominee’s activities as a professional and public volunteer. List and explain specific accomplishments in promoting landscape architecture and its values to the general public.
• Clearly identify the nominee’s role and impact in each activity cited. Also clearly identify the role of others involved as those roles pertain to the nominee.
• List all section, chapter, state, and national committee memberships, chairmanships, and offices held within ASLA. Explain the nominee’s specific accomplishments in each major position listed above. Provide a sense of longevity in the service accomplished by the nominee.
• Discuss the nominee’s work in expanding the role of landscape architecture in the eyes of the public as well as the expansion of landscape architects’ roles in other professions and organizations.
• Indicate which projects were done for compensation and those that were done pro bono.
  

• Head shot image of the nominee in digital format (minimum 300dpi resolution).
• 12-20 high-quality images, in digital format (minimum 300dpi). Images should depict service-oriented scenes, e.g., community, licensure, university, chapter, or national meetings, activities, lectures, or award or honor ceremonies, etc.
• Include a one-page image detail sheet that includes a short summary for each image of one to two sentences, including the type of activity or title of event, the dates, impact and significance of the activity depicted, and the role of the nominee in the activity.
• All images including headshot must be submitted electronically on CD ROM.
  

Please note that the jury will NOT review the images submitted under the Service Category as a criteria for election.

Please do not submit any multiple images (image collages, separate renderings, images, drawings or insets within an image).

If you are in doubt whether an image is unacceptable, please contact Joyce DePass at jdepass@asla.org.

4. Successful Nominations and Examples by Category

The submission itself should be an aggressive, enthusiastic, honest look at the nominee’s background and credentials in relation to the category in which he/she has been nominated. It should be a clear and outstanding narrative.

Below are links to four examples of successful statements of support in each category. Please remember that the format, length of selections, and presentation style used in your nominee's submission may vary from these particular entries.

Works of Landscape Architecture (pdf)
Administrative Work (pdf)
Knowledge (pdf)
Service to the Profession (pdf)

• Focus on the nominee’s best, most significant achievements. Be certain the references directly correlate to the category of nomination. Highlight the impact of the nominee’s accomplishments by addressing the reach of the work and the positive results or the “pebble in the pond” effect; answer the “so what” factor by proving the value of the nominee’s work to the specific category; and discuss the scope of the accomplishments whether local, regional, or national.
• Clearly describe the nominee’s role in and impact on the work. Refer also to the roles of others involved in the process as those roles pertain to the nominee. Be precise in giving actual attribution for the work, specify the specific responsibilities of the nominee in team efforts, etc.
• Include awards received as those illustrate peer respect. Articles written by someone else about the nominee or his/her work clearly demonstrate this peer respect and should be included.
• Be specific! Use clear, concrete examples from the nominee’s accomplishments to support your points. Provide evidence of the resulting impacts of these examples.
• Text and images must be consistent and address each other. Whenever possible throughout the materials, the year of occurrence for the referenced items should be provided.
• The quality of the submission is extremely important as it is considered by the jury within its deliberations.
• All images submitted must be submitted in digital format (minimum 300dpi professional quality) on CD ROM. Images depicting “before and after” stages of a project are more effective than images of the master plan.
  

Beginning with the 2004 nomination process, a member may only be re-nominated for consideration as a Fellow for three consecutive years. If not elected, a two-year break is required before an individual can be nominated again.

Therefore, when resubmitting, please do not simply submit the same materials. Rather, please prepare new, fresh, updated materials, or new and different projects. Take advantage of the successful examples as much as possible as these are excellent guides.

5. Nomination Packet Requirements

1. A nomination form (pdf) signed by both the nominator and the nominee - electronic signatures will be accepted.
2. Nominating group’s statement of support (no more than 5 pages) including a nomination statement signed by the nominee’s chapter president, the ASLA president, or the Council of Fellows’ chair – electronic signatures will be accepted.
3. A digital headshot image (minimum 300dpi resolution) of the nominee
4. All images including headshot must be individually submitted electronically on CD ROM.
5. In the Works category 12-20 images must also be submitted in a powerpoint format with project titles on each slide. PowerPoint may be converted into a PDF. Please note that only images submitted under Works will be reviewed by the jury.

The guidelines for each component are listed below. Present only the material requested. Keep in mind that no additional materials (letters of support, books, videos, etc.) are to be submitted with the nomination packet. Present the statement of support and image descriptions in at least 10-point font size with one-inch margins on all sides.

Also, the nomination packet does NOT require an elaborate binder; these are not submitted to the jury and will not be returned to the nominating group. For those nominees elected to Fellowship, ASLA retains all materials and the rights to their usage.

Up to four testimonials may be incorporated as part of the five-page statement of support. Testimonials must be confined to the validation of the significance of the nominee’s accomplishments and work in the category of nomination. Do not limit testimonials only to ASLA members, current, or past officers.

• A nominating statement from the nominee’s chapter executive committee, the ASLA executive committee, or the Council of Fellows executive committee in support of the nominee, and signed by the nominee’s chapter president, the ASLA president, or the chair of the Council of Fellows, respectively, depending on the nominating group. The nominating statement should summarize and substantiate the nominee’s contribution to the profession in the designated category, as well as other relevant contributions. This statement should illustrate the impact of the nominee’s work within the nomination category. It should clearly illustrate the reason for the nominating group’s support of the nominee for election to Fellow. This statement should present a compelling argument for selection and should contain specific examples of the nominee’s excellence, and not be a reiteration of the other materials elsewhere in the nomination packet. Someone within the nominating group should write the nominating statement. The nominee should not write the nominating statement. This statement can be submitted electronically as a part of the five pages, and may include an electronic signature.
• Education (schools, degrees, dates), professional experience (firms, agencies and academic institutions, with dates), professional registration(s) (state, certificate number, date).
• ASLA Activities (services, offices held, with dates)
• General Information (cite only those activities that relate to the category of nomination)
  • (i) Honors, awards, and recognition
  • (ii) Public service
  • (iii) Membership in allied groups or organizations
    List these three elements separately. Include activities and leadership roles in organizations promoting landscape architecture and its values. Also, specify honors, awards and membership significant to the nominee’s category of election as a Fellow.
• Major Accomplishments and Outstanding Professional Activities, explaining the importance of the nominee’s accomplishments over time and their recognition by others as they relate to the nomination category. Detail the specific role and responsibilities of the nominee in these accomplishments. This section is critical in analyzing and explaining why the nominee’s activities are of such a significant nature as to merit election to Fellowship. This area should include examples that are significant and specific regarding the accomplishments of the nominee. This section should reflect the largest amount of information.
  

Images are required for nomination packets in all categories. Only images submitted under Works of Landscape Architecture will be reviewed by the jury as part of the election process.

Please note that the jury will ONLY review up to 20 images. Any nomination in the Works category that contains more than 20 images will have those images exceeding 20 removed from the submittal and the jury will NOT review them.

The jury will NOT review multiple images. Any nomination in the Works category that contains multiple images (image collages, separate renderings, images, drawings or insets within an image) will have those multiple images removed from the submittal and the jury will NOT review them.

If you are in doubt whether an image is unacceptable, please contact Joyce DePass at jdepass@asla.org.

For the Works category:

• A maximum of 20 high-quality, digital images (minimum 300dpi resolution) will be accepted. Past juries suggest concentrating on a few projects and submitting several images of each.
• PowerPoint and PhotoShop are not accepted,
• Images should be of completed projects, avoiding sketches whenever possible.
• Limit the number of master plan drawings submitted as well, but be sure to label them well when they are used.
• Be sure the images are of a good quality in regard to color, focus, and composition (minimum 300dpi resolution). The images should reflect the significance and scale of the project.
• Using only a single, one-sided summary page for these descriptions, describe each image in one or two sentences by providing the title of the project, the project’s accomplishments and importance, the limitations imposed (if any) upon the project, and the role of the nominee in the project. This page is in addition to the five-page statement of support materials.
• Images should be numbered 01 through 20, and should correspond to the descriptions in the one-page summary.
• Images must be submitted digitally on CD ROM at minimum 300dpi resolution. An effort should be made to utilize a horizontal composition for the images.
  

• The format guidelines must still be reflected when the document is downloaded from a CD ROM: five-page limit for the statement of support; one-page limit on image descriptions; font size of at least 10 points; and one-inch margins on all sides.
• The nomination form and statement of support may both be submitted electronically with electronic signatures. Electronic signatures will be verified through confirmation emails sent to both the nominee and nominator with a copy to the respective chapter president.
• The nomination packets may be submitted as Word or PDF documents
  

6. The Jury Process

The ASLA president appoints a five-member jury from the Council of Fellows. All jury members are appointed to a three-year term, and in any given year, the jury will have at least one member in their first year of service while others are serving for their second or third year. A concerted effort is made to maintain a balanced representation of different practice types and the diversity in membership on the jury. The jury chair for the following year is selected at the conclusion of each year’s deliberations.

The 2008 jury members are:

Peter Pollack, FASLA, Michigan- 2006-2008 , Jury Chair
Christopher Dimond, FASLA, Prairie Gateway-2008-2010
Barbara Faga, FASLA, Georgia - 2006-2008
Katherine Emery, FASLA, Arizona– 2007-2009
Len Hopper, FASLA, New York- 2007-2009

All nomination packets are sent to each juror at least 30 days prior to the scheduled jury session for review. The intent of this first stage is to provide each juror with ample opportunity to review all the written data for each nominee and review the images for the nominees in the category of Works of Landscape Architecture before convening as a jury. During this initial review period, the jury may not discuss the contents of the nomination packets with anyone, including other jury members.

The jury will meet in person for a final jury review to select the 2008 Class of Fellows-elects in early spring. Election is based solely on professional excellence and outstanding accomplishments as presented in the nomination packets for each nominee. There are no numerical goals or limitations to the size of each year’s Class of Fellows-elect; nor are numbers of nominees submitted from a chapter, two-category nominees, or number of nominees elected by chapter factors in the election process.

7. Nomination Notification Process

The jury peer review drives the core of the Fellowship program. After the decision is finalized, a list of the new Fellows-elect is presented in confidence to the ASLA president and the chair of the Council of Fellows. This timing allows the Fellows-elect to be notified in time to prepare for the investiture ceremony held during the annual meeting.

The ASLA president will personally notify each Fellow-elect. No public announcement will be made regarding the members of the class until all elected nominees are notified. These calls will be followed by written notification to all nominees. The secretary of the Council of Fellows will immediately notify nominees not elected in the form of a letter. The appropriate chapter presidents will also be notified in writing of the status of the chapter's nominees. A letter with general suggestions for resubmission will be mailed to nominees not elected shortly thereafter.

When a nominee is elected, ASLA retains possession of all nomination materials and rights to their usage.