Study Architecture 
ProPEL The Long View
This year’s administrators conference will take place in Denver, Colorado — November 14-16, 2024 — for current and future educational leaders. The conference will be a series of in-person sessions and roundtables to collaborate, share ideas and discuss.
Conference Overview
The Long View
In the context of diminishing enrollments, budget deficits, polarization, censorship, eroding public perception of higher education, and pressures to deliver job-ready graduates, how can architecture education still take the long view? How might we resist pressures to compromise long held strengths in favor of short term goals? How do we acknowledge that change is inevitable and important, while continuously exercising the necessary judgment to do what is best for the discipline and its future practitioners?
This year’s Administrators Conference will take “The Long View,” in an effort to ensure our educational imperative remains aligned with the long-term goals of the discipline and evolving needs of society. We will set the stage through identification of what, precisely, those long view conditions and goals might be. We will discuss the potential barriers we are currently experiencing and may encounter in the future. And, most importantly, we will speculate on strategies for productive resistance and novel cooperation, as Donna Harraway phrases it, “stay with the trouble” of delivering ethical, sustainable, and relevant architectural education.
Conference Partners
As executive editor of Chronicle Intelligence, Liz McMillen brings more than 30 years of experience covering higher education. She is a sought-after speaker who frequently addresses college leaders in the United States and overseas about big-picture trends in higher education.
From 2011 to 2018, she served as the editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, supervising a newsroom of 65 reporters, editors, data journalists, and designers who produce a daily news report, weekly print edition, special supplements, and in-depth reports. Under her leadership, the Chronicle newsroom received awards from the Online News Association, the Society for News Design, and the Education Writers Association.
In her career at The Chronicle she has served as a reporter covering faculty issues, research, and business; a section editor; and editor of The Chronicle Review. In 2013 she was selected to deliver the Graham Hovey Lecture at the University of Michigan. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and was a recipient of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan.
SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCE
Following is the preliminary conference schedule, which is subject to change. Please check back for the most up-to-date information.
Obtain Continuing Education Credits (CES) / Learning Units (LU). Registered conference attendees will be able to submit sessions attended for Continuing Education Credits (CES). Register for the conference today to gain access to all the AIA/CES credit sessions.
Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024
12:00pm | Accreditation Futures |
3:00pm | New Adminstrators Workshop |
5:30pm | KEYNOTE |
6:30pm | Opening Reception |
Friday, Nov. 15, 2024
8:30am | Breakfast & Registration |
9:00am | What is Core |
10:00am | Interregional Perspectives |
11:30am | NCARB Competency Framework |
12:30pm | Business Lunch |
2:00pm | Changing Contexts, Changing Professions |
4:00pm | Room for Debate |
5:30pm | Alternative Forms of Curriculum Delivery |
7:00pm | Dine Around |
Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024
8:30am | Breakfast & Registration |
9:00am | The Load We Bear: Addressing Faculty Mental Health and Well-Being |
11:00am | Capitalism and Education: A Turncoat Debate |
12:30pm | Communicating The Long View: Lunch Talk-Story |
2:00pm | NAAB Workshop |
Michelle Sturges
Conferences Manager
202-785-2324
msturges@acsa-arch.org
Eric W. Ellis
Sr. Director of Operations and Programs
202-785-2324
eellis@acsa-arch.org
