The Evaluation and Review of Landscape Architectural Faculty: the Results of a Survey of Schools of Landscape Architecture

Abstract

The first standards for the evaluation of educational programs developed by the American Society of Landscape Architects contained a call for the evaluation of faculty effectiveness. In the intervening years, there have been efforts by the various educational programs to continue to find the most effective methods for measuring faculty competence. However, to-date there has been no collection or organization of these devices used either by students, by peers or by university administrators in this profession. This, then, is the first attempt to do just that and it has involved four phases, which were: the development of the questionnaire, the distribution of the survey, the response by the schools, and the evaluation and review of the responses. Hopefully, this will be the first of many such studies which will, in time to come, improve the way in which landscape architectural faculty members are evaluated and reviewed.