Become a Landscape Architect

ASLA 2014 Student Communications Honor Award. SNACKs. Danielle Alexander, Associate ASLA; Nicholas Knodt, graduate. Faculty Advisors: Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh, Inaki Alday, Robin Dripps, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA / Danielle Alexander

LAAB invites comment on its proposed revisions to its Accreditation Standards. LAAB has undertaken the process to review its standards relative to the delivery of online courses in landscape architecture. LAAB last approved revisions in 2016 as part of its periodic review of its standards. This review began in February 2017. A rationale for the proposed revisions as well as a timeline are available in The Field. An LAAB Accreditation Standards Revision Guide was created to quickly identify the proposed revisions.

LAAB Accreditation Standards (Current)

LAAB Accreditation Standards (with highlighted proposed revisions)

LAAB now invites members of the community of interest and the public to review the proposed revisions above and to comment on them. Comments and input on the revised LAAB Accreditation Standards are welcomed until Friday, June 1. Comments may be received by Kristopher Pritchard, Accreditation & Education Programs Manager at kpritchard@asla.org. LAAB anticipates final adoption of the revised Accreditation Standards by winter 2019. Follow-up questions and inquiries may be directed to Manager Pritchard.

Programs accredited by LAAB are required to submit reports each year providing information about the program's students, graduates, budgets, and faculty among other items. This information allows LAAB to monitor significant changes and compliance with accreditation standards. Additionally, aggregate data from the reports is used to track trends in landscape architecture education and to communicate those trends with our communities of interest. Below are the Annual Report Summaries comprised by LAAB from the 2013, 2014, and 2015 Annual Reports. Also, a summary is provided to show the data trends over the three years.

LAAB 2017 Annual Report Summary
LAAB 2016 Annual Report Summary
LAAB 2015 Annual Report Summary
LAAB 2014 Annual Report Summary
LAAB 2013 Annual Report Summary

2013-2017 Summary Sheet
2013-2015 Summary Sheet

LAAB Conducts Annual Report Webinar 
 
LAAB Accreditation Manager, Kristopher Pritchard, conducted a webinar covering topics related to the LAAB Annual Report on Thursday, March 10, 2016. This webinar covered topics such as logging on to CiviCore, the online platform hosting the annual reports; clarification in faculty counts; clarification on updating Recommendations from previous reviews; and other best practices for programs submitting data. For those who were unable to attend the webinar, a recording of the LAAB 2016 Annual Report Webinar is available on LAAB's Website. Additionally, a recording of last year's LAAB 2015 Annual Report Webinar is still available.