This year’s Budget and Enrollment Survey reflects changes in budgets, applications, enrollment, academic staffing, and curricula at 73 member schools. The survey was made available to ACSA Full, Candidate, Canadian, 2-year, and 4-year members. The survey is conducted annually and this year’s report is focused primarily on the 2025-26 academic year. The purpose of this report is (1) to provide a cross-section of information regarding the current status of funding and admissions at architecture schools, (2) identify any ongoing trends survey results may suggest, and (3) gauge the impact of recent legislative changes on international student recruitment.

The ACSA114 will provide multiple opportunities for scholarly exchange in Chicago, IL. Join educators, practitioners, and students from around the world to share research and explore the past and future of architecture, design, and allied disciplines. Register at a discounted rate to access educational sessions, extraordinary keynotes, receptions, and more.

The upcoming issue of TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD) welcomes submissions addressing new and original research on architecture, design, and technology. The focus area for this issue ventures into the territory of biobased, bioorganic, bio-fabricated, and regenerative materials and their applications in the design and construction of environmentally sound, livable, healthy, and socially just built environments. TAD invites contributions that address materials intended for standalone structures, as well as those designed to be interfaced and integrated with existing material, architectural, cultural, and historical contexts, particularly in areas such as preservation, maintenance, renovation, repair, and care of existing building parts, structures, and entire spaces. The journal welcomes research or scholarship on the topic of this call for papers or open topics on a rolling submission basis.

Columbia University’s Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and ACSA are pleased to share a competitive call for the 2026 Course Development Prize. ⁠This call seeks proposals that include methods and themes that innovate within their institutional setting—asking hard questions of students that are equal in weight to the hard questions being asked of society as it continues to grapple with the intertwined causes and effects of climate change. Participants are invited to submit either a full course syllabus or a particular unit/component within a syllabus for consideration.

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and Think Wood are pleased to announce TIMBER IN THE CITY 6: Urban Habitats Competition for the 2025-2026 academic year. The program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to reimagine the boundaries of wood construction in the urban environment, leading to the transformation of our existing cities through constructing sustainable buildings made from renewable resources, offering expedient affordable construction, innovating with new and traditional wood materials, and designing healthy living and working environments. Now in its sixth cycle, the series continues to push the urban potential of wood—this year by tackling the “missing-middle” gap between single-family dwellings and high-rise apartments. Entrants will deploy innovative, highly replicable wood-based systems on a real, under-utilized urban site to deliver attainable, human-scaled housing that strengthens community resilience and climate stewardship.

This double issue of the Journal of Architectural Education will celebrate the core mission of the JAE: advancing architectural education through thoughtful analysis, critique, and reflection. JAE is calling for papers, projects, and articles that address the future of architectural education. This comes at a critical moment. Higher education faces many challenges, including declining domestic and international student enrollments, eroding public support, rising economic uncertainty, and increasing student debt. The editors welcome contributions that look at how architectural education got to this point and at where it is likely to go in the future. The journal also invites design submissions that address some aspect of the above challenges, narratives that lay out the potential for the future of architectural education, and visual storytelling that makes a critical comment about any one of the many challenges we face.