Conference Committee Update: January 2021

Conference Committee Update: January 2021

Planning for the NCASLA 2021 Conference on Landscape Architecture has kicked off! The May 2021 event will be focusing on Resilient Places + Spaces. Be on the lookout for additional details and information in the upcoming weeks as the Conference Committee works to solidify dates and specifics. If you are interested in joining Conference Committee please contact info@NCASLA.org for more details.

Call for Entries: 2021 Professional and Student Awards

Call for Entries: 2021 Professional and Student Awards

Award submissions are open all ASLA Members and nonmembers, Associates, and Fellows in the state of North Carolina or for projects located within the state of North Carolina. This includes Faculty members, and Students currently teaching or enrolled in North Carolina landscape architecture programs. Entries are accepted from private practice, public agencies, non-profit, local, state and federal government entities. Entries from other professions are accepted pending pre-approval by the Awards Chair.

Other than projects submitted for the Landmark Award category, all projects completed after January 1, 2014, are eligible.

You Can Make a Difference- Support NC A&T

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) is a public, historically black (HBCU) research university in Greensboro, North Carolina serving over 12,500 high-performing students and is one of only two HBUCs with a degree program in landscape architecture.

NC A&T has produced more African American landscape architects than any other accredited degree program in the nation and the world and has been instrumental in advancing diversity within the profession.

NC A&T needs your help to sustain their landscape architecture program and has an immediate need of $40,000 to purchase laptops for students. Donate now to help students continue their education during this time of distanced learning.

Earlier this year, NC A&T launched an emergency fund to help the general student body purchase basic necessities. The University’s hardships were then further compounded by COVID-19 and the pivot to distanced learning formats.

These unforeseen circumstances have drastically hit the Department of Landscape Architecture and are threatening the participation of its students. The Department is in desperate need of laptops for its students. Rather than being able to complete assignments in the studio, students must now have personal computers that can support the required software programs to complete their degree.

Donate now to help a student purchase a laptop that will help them graduate as a landscape architect.

NCASLA’s mission is to advance landscape architecture through advocacy, communication, education, and fellowship. We are committed to fostering equity and inclusion within our profession, membership, and leadership.

Providing support to NC A&T is one of the single most important and tangible steps NCASLA can take to grow the profession, increase diversity, and strengthen the pipeline of representation of Black landscape architects.

NC A&T has an immediate need for $40,000 to purchase laptops. How much support can you give? Donate now.

Call for Action From VA ASLA Gov't Affairs Committee - BPOR Study of the Regulatory Status of Landscape Architects

We understand that there are NCASLA members who are also licensed in the state of Virginia. We want to pass along this information from our colleagues at the Virginia and Potomac Chapters.

CALL FOR ACTION!

BPOR PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS OPEN 9/1 - 9/30

BPOR is currently undertaking a study to determine if landscape architects should continue to be licensed. The study will be completed in December 2020. BPOR is inviting public comments regarding the regulatory status of landscape architects.

Please see the BPOR Notice for Public Comments on the need to regulate select professions/occupations including landscape architects.

Public Comment is open through 9/30/20. 

ASLA Virginia and ASLA Potomac are calling on Virginia and Potomac chapter members as well as non-ASLA landscape architects to:

1. Contact your clients, architects and engineers that you work with, developers, government officials, and others who value the work of licensed landscape architects and ask them to submit their comments including stating support for continued licensure of landscape architects. Include this link: Notice for Public Comments to access the General Notice. The General Notice includes a link “Comment Forum” that provides access to the Public Comment portal; and

2. Please enter your personal statement of support for continued licensure of landscape architects via the Public Comment Portal.

Click Here for more information regarding the Impacts of Deregulation of Landscape Architects in Virginia.

Click Here for public hearing talking points to use in your public comments as well as share with your colleagues, clients, architects, engineers, and others who you are requesting to make a public comment.

https://www.vaasla.org/