Study Architecture
ProPEL
Elgin Cleckley
Assistant Professor
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Education Committee
The Education Committee leads ACSA’s efforts to improve the effectiveness of architectural education through best practices. The committee oversees and recommends, as necessary, actions to cultivate and disseminate these best practices.
Shawhin Roudbari
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO
Malini Srivastava
Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Anna Georas
Associate Professor
Universidad de Puerto Rico
San Juan, PR
Patricia Morgado
Associate Professor
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
Sara Taketatsu
Vice President
American Institute of Architecture Students
Washington, DC
Mark Pearson
Professor
College of Dupage
Glen Ellyn, IL
Jeffrey L. Day
Professor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE
Alexis Gregory
Associate Professor
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS
Education Committee
Areas of focus for the committee include:
- teaching
- access to higher education (including demographic diversity)
- student success
- educational assessment
- relationship of architectural education to higher education
- education-to-practice transition
- curriculum development
- preprofessional or nonaccredited architectural education
2020-2021 Education Committee
Specific Charge
Power Dynamics and Racial Equity. The Education Committee is charged with examining the experiences and reflections of architecture students and faculty with respect to power dynamics and racial equity in program-level governance, curriculum decisions, policies and procedures, and how faculty and students perceive these dynamics influence success in the academic context. This work will involve collecting quantitative and qualitative data from students and faculty and comparatively analyzing these data between and among racial groups, with a particular emphasis on the experiences and reflections of Black and indigenous students and faculty members. This work should identify barriers as well as models that equitably include voices of Black and indigenous students and faculty of color in architecture’s academic contexts.
Deliverables
- Online events in collaboration with AIAS and NOMA that foreground research questions related to the charge;
- Collection of qualitative and quantitative data from students and faculty related to the charge;
- Publish draft report on data collection to support long-term term development of guides for equity in architectural education.
- Create final report that consolidates outcomes of events and research findings.
Summary of Previous Relevant Work
- In 2018-19, the ACSA Education Committee completed a review of how pedagogy has been addressed within the field of architecture over the past twenty years. This work included an assessment of ACSA activities as well as those of other organizations that support architectural education. This work identified a need for more development of the practice of teaching and learning in architecture.
