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2025 ASLA Professional Awards General Design Award of Excellence. A Floating Forest: Fish Tail Park in Nanchang City. Turenscape. (Image Credit: Turenscape)

LAAB Hosting Standards Revision Town Halls

The Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board (LAAB) is currently in the process of revising its Accreditation Standards as outlined in the November 4th issue of LAND. In addition to the LAAB 2025 Standards Revision Survey that is open until December 15, 2025, LAAB is hosting four virtual town halls to solicit direct input into its Standards revision process. Through these town halls, LAAB will gather insights from the landscape architecture academic and professional communities, including current and former Board members, Roster of Visiting Evaluators (ROVE) members, educators, administrators, students, practitioners, and other constituents in the field regarding emerging legal, social, and technological trends that impact landscape architectural accreditation in the United States and its territories.

 
You are highly encouraged to download and review the latest  LAAB Accreditation Standards (September 2024), before attending a virtual town hall.
 
LAAB board members and staff will be leading the discussions during these town halls. While the entire Standards document is open for revision, the Board will be focusing the town hall discussions on the following areas:  
  • Standard criteria on faculty sufficiency
  • Standard criteria addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
  • The influence of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) on landscape architecture education.   
 
To support meaningful dialogue, LAAB will host four sessions across two days tailored to different groups of constituencies. If you identify with more than one group, simply choose the session that best fits your role and schedule.

LAAB Standards Revision Town Halls Schedule/Registration:

ASLA Affiliate Groups (BLAN, NAMLA, WxLA, PridexASLA, etc.)
Wednesday, December 10 from 12 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. ET
REGISTER HERE 

Students and Emerging Professionals
Wednesday, December 10 from 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. ET
 
Practitioners
Thursday, December 11 from 12 p.m. –  1:15 p.m. ET
 
Faculty (Non-Program Administrators)
Thursday, December 11 from 2:00 p.m. –  3:15 p.m. ET

In addition to the town halls, LAAB is conducting the LAAB 2025 Standards Revision Survey that is open until December 15, 2025, accepting written feedback, and has already held a program administrators forum at the ASLA Conference in New Orleans around the above-referenced areas of focus. We look forward to your participation in the upcoming LAAB outreach activities. If you would like to submit written feedback in addition to or in lieu of the survey, please email Kris Pritchard for consideration. Please complete the survey or submit written feedback on or before Monday, December 15, 2025.

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