ASLA Call for Education Sessions for 2007 Annual Meeting
Call for proposals is now open and will run through January 16, 2007.

The 2007 ASLA Annual Meeting call for education session, field session, and workshop proposals is now open. The call for proposals will close on January 16, 2007, at midnight eastern standard time. Education program session speakers will receive a complimentary registration to the 2007 ASLA Annual Meeting (over $500 value) and a one-night equivalent discount ($250) on hotel expense at checkout (Hilton headquarters hotel stay required).

Please click here to submit education program proposals.

Over the past two years, ASLA has focused on the number one reason that attracts participants to the ASLA annual meetings—education topics. In just two years since the 2004 meeting in Salt Lake City, ASLA has increased the professional development hours afforded to registrants by 125 percent, while keying in on the topics that ASLA members value and require in their day-to-day practices. The attendee survey from the 2006 Minneapolis meeting reinforces this once again—the education session topics were the top reason ASLA members registered for and traveled to Minneapolis (46 percent). And, the education session topics attracted new attendees to the meeting—35 percent of attendees experienced an ASLA Annual Meeting for the first time.

Sustainability is the number one concern of the landscape architecture profession, the greater design and construction industry, and the owner/manager/client base, as well as a significantly growing concern of the general public at large, according to a recent national ABC News/Stanford University Poll. It is the highest-rated topic by both annual meeting attendees and nonattendees in the past two years. This year's attendee survey reinforces this trend, showing sustainability across all practice areas at the top of our surveys. California leads the country in awareness of this issue and has instituted model public policies that other jurisdictions are emulating. Sustainability is the foundation and mission of the landscape architecture profession and will be at the forefront of ASLA's most visible annual event—the 2007 Annual Meeting in San Francisco.