BLA Program - Candidacy
Candidacy Granted: Spring 2024

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2028
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2000

Emily Knox, Associate Professor and MLA Program Chair 
Rob Holmes, ASLA, Associate Professor and BLA Program Chair
School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture  
361 Graves Drive
104 Dudley Hall
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849 
tel: 334-844-5434
email: elk0023@auburn.edu; rbh0012@auburn.edu

Official Candidacy Letter - BLA (2024)
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2023)

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This state does not have a landscape architecture program that has achieved accreditation or candidacy status from the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board. 

BSLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2026
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1997

MLA Program 
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2026
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2011

Paul Coseo, ASLA, Associate Professor and Program Head
Allyce Hargrove, ASLA, Clinical Assistant Professor and Program Head
Landscape Architecture Program
The Design School
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 871605
Tempe, AZ 85287-1605
tel: 480-965-3536
email: paul.coseo@asu.edu 
email: allyce.hargrove@asu.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2020) 
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2020)   

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2026
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1998

Lauri Macmillan Johnson, FCELA, ASLA, APA
Professor and Director
School of Landscape Architecture and Planning
College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture
University of Arizona
1040 N. Olive Road, A303A 
Tucson, AZ 85721-0075 
tel: 520-621-8790
email: ljohnson@u.arizona.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2019)

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2028
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1983

Ken McCown, ASLA
Department Head and Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture 
Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design 
University of Arkansas 
120 Vol Walker Hall 
Fayetteville, AR 72701 
tel: 479-575-4907 
email: kennethm@uark.edu  

 Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2022)

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2027
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1975

Beverly Bass, ASLA
Department Head and Professor
Landscape Architecture Department
College of Architecture and Environmental Design
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
tel: 805-756-1319 
email: bjbass@calpoly.edu
 
Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2021)  

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BSLA Program 
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2029
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1963

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2029
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1980

Claire Latane, FASLA
Assistant Professor and Interim Department Chair
Department of Landscape Architecture
College of Environmental Design
California State Polytechnic University
3801 West Temple Avenue
Pomona, CA 91768
tel: 909-869-2673 
email: calatane@cpp.edu
  
Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2023)
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2023)

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2025 
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1968 

Walter Hood
Professor and Chair
Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
College of Environmental Design
University of California at Berkeley
202 Wurster Hall #2000
Berkeley, CA  94720-1820
tel: 510-642-2962
email: wjean@berkeley.edu; laepgrad@berkeley.edu
 
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2018)

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BSLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2024
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1978

David de la Peña  
Associate Professor and Program Director
Department of Human Ecology
Landscape Architecture + Environmental Design Program 
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
University of California at Davis
One Shields Ave, 131 Hunt Hall
Davis, CA 95616-8585
tel: 530-752-1011
email: dsdelapena@ucdavis.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2018)   

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MLA Program 
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2028
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2010

Esther Margulies, ASLA
Professor of Practice and Director
Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture + Urbanism
School of Architecture 
University of Southern California
Watt Hall 204  
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0291
tel: 213-740-2723
email: emarguli@usc.edu  

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2024)

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BSLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2025
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1982

Brad Goetz, Professor and Program Director
Jane Choi, Associate Professor and BSLA Accreditation Manager  
Program in Landscape Architecture
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
College of Agricultural Sciences
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1173 
tel: 970-491-7018
email: Bradley.Goetz@colostate.edu 
email: jane.choi@colostate.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2019)   

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2028
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1981

Jody Beck, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Landscape Architecture
College of Architecture and Planning
University of Colorado Denver
1250 14th Street, Suite 2000
Denver, CO 80217-3364
tel: 303-315-2409 
email: jody.beck@ucdenver.edu 
 
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2023)  

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BSLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2028
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1998

Jill Desimini
Director and Associate Professor
Sydney Everhart, PhD
Associate Professor and Department Head 
Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
University of Connecticut
1376 Storrs Road, U-4067
Storrs, CT 06269-4067
tel: 860-486-1940 
email: jill.desimini@uconn.edu
email: everhart@uconn.edu 
 
Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2024)

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BLA Program - Initial
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2025
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2019

Eric Bardenhagen, ASLA, RLA
Associate Professor and Director
Landscape Architecture Program
College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
University of Delaware 
152 Townsend Hall
Newark, DE 19716
tel: 302-831-1388
email: ebard@udel.edu 

 Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2020) 

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The district does not have a landscape architecture program that has achieved  accreditation or candidacy status from the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board. 

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2024
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1993

Ebru Ozer, FASLA, CELA
Professor and Department Chair
Department of Landscape Architecture + Environmental and Urban Design  
College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts
Modesto A. Maidique Campus
Florida International University
11200 SW 8th Street, PCA 374A
Miami, FL 33199
tel: 305-348-7560
email: eozer@fiu.edu  

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2020)

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2024
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1972

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2024
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1993

Jules Bruck, Ph.D., ASLA, RLA
Professor and Department Chair
Department of Landscape Architecture
College of Design, Construction and Planning
University of Florida
1480 Inner Rd, Suite 431A
Gainesville, FL 32611-5704 
tel: 352-294-3859
email: jbruck@ufl.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2023)   
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2023)  

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2028
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1951

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2028
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1983

Sonia Hirt, PhD, FAICP, Dean and Hughes Professor in Landscape Architecture and Planning
Ashley N. Steffens, ASLA, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Crowley Professor of Urban Planning and Design
Donnie Longenecker, ASLA, Senior Lecturer and BLA Coordinator
Brad Davis, ASLA, RLA, Associate Professor and MLA Coordinator
Program in Landscape Architecture
College of Environment and Design
University of Georgia
Jackson Street Building
285 South Jackson  
Athens, GA 30602-1845
tel: 706-542-5194 (BLA),
706-542-4720 or 706-542-4704 (MLA)
email: sonia.hirt@uga.edu, steffens@uga.edu, longneck@uga.edu, bdavis@uga.edu  

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2022) 
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2022)

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MLA Program - Initial
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2028
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2022

Judith Stilgenbauer, ASLA
Professor and MLA Program Director
School of Architecture 
University of Hawai'i at Manao
2410 Campus Road, Room 202-B 
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822 
tel: 808-956-7227
email: jstilg@hawaii.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2023)  

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2030
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2012 

Raffaella Sini
Associate Professor and Landscape Architecture Program Director
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
College of Art and Architecture 
875 Perimeter Drive MS #2481 
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844
tel: 208-596-3883
email: rsini@uidaho.edu  

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2024)  

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MLA Program 
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2025
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2010 

María A. Villalobos H., Ph.D. 
Associate Professor, Program Director
Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism Program 
College of Architecture
Illinois Institute of Technology
3360 South State Street
Chicago, IL 60616
tel: 312-567-3230 
email: mvillaloboshernandez@iit.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2019)  

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2026
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1929 

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2026
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1981 

David L. Hays 
Professor and Department Head
Department of Landscape Architecture
College of Fine and Applied Arts
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
101 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall 
611 E. Lorado Taft Drive 
Champaign, IL 61820
tel: 217-244-8235 
email: dlhays@illinois.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2020)  

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2020)

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2029
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1973

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2029
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1986

Joe Blalock, ASLA
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Department of Landscape Architecture
College of Architecture and Planning
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306
tel: 765-285-1971 
email: jblalock@bsu.edu
 
Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2024) 
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2024)   

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BSLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2028
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1971

Sean Rotar, PLA, FASLA
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture 
Landscape Architecture Program Chair
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Purdue University
625 Agriculture Mall Drive, 315 Horticulture Building
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010
tel: 765-494-1300 
email: srotar@purdue.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2023)

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2026
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1929

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2026
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2014

Carl Rogers
Department Chair 
Department of Landscape Architecture
Iowa State University
College of Design, Room 156 
Ames, IA 50011
tel: 515-294-5334 
email: rogersc@iastate.edu
 
Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2020) 
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2020)  

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2028
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1980

Huston Gibson, Ph.D., Affiliate ASLA
Professor and Department Head
Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional &
Community Planning
College of Architecture, Planning and Design
Kansas State University
1086 Seaton Hall
920 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Manhattan, KS 66506-2909
tel: 785-532-5961
email: hgibson@ksu.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2023)  

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BSLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2027
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1978

Christopher K. Sass, Ph.D., ASLA
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Landscape Architecture
S305 Agriculture Science North
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40546-0091
tel: 859-257-3485
email: chris.sass@uky.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2022)

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2029
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1960

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2029
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1983

Haley Blakeman, FASLA, PLA; Associate Director & Assistant Professor
Brent Fortenberry; Interim Director & Professor
Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture
Louisiana State University
302 Design Building
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-7020
tel: 225-578-1434
email: blakeman1@lsu.edu 
email: brfort@lsu.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2023)
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2023) 

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This state does not have a landscape architecture program that has achieved accreditation or candidacy status from the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board. 

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2028
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1993

Laurel McSherry, ASLA 
Department Chair + Program Director
Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture
Department of Graduate Built Environment Studies  
CBEIS 104 
1700 E. Cold Spring Lane
Baltimore, MD 21251
tel: 443-885-3225  
email: laurel.mcsherry@morgan.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2022)

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2029
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1998

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2029
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2011

David Myers, Ph.D., ASLA, PLA
Associate Professor and Director of Landscape Architecture, MLA Chair
Deni Ruggeri, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and BLA Chair 
Landscape Architecture Program
Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
2146 Plant Sciences Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
tel: 301-405-7782 
email: dnmyers@umd.edu 
email: druggeri@umd.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2024)  
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2024)

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2024
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2010

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2024
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2013  

Margarita Iglesia, Affiliate ASLA
Director and Faculty
School of Landscape Architecture
Boston Architectural College
320 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02115
tel: 617-585-0153
email: margarita.iglesia@the-bac.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2022) 
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2022)  

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2022
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1929

Gary R. Hilderbrand, FASLA, Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice and Department Chair
Karen Janosky, ASLA, Lecturer and MLA Program Director
Sarah Hutchinson, Program Manager
Department of Landscape Architecture
Graduate School of Design
Harvard University
48 Quincy Street, Suite 312 
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel: 617-495-0782 
email: ghilderbrand@gsd.harvard.edu 
email: kjanosky@gsd.harvard.edu
email: shutchinson@gsd.harvard.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2022)  

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BSLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2029
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1990

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2029
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1971

Henry Renski, Department Chair
Patricia McGirr, Associate Professor, Assistant Department Chair, BLA Program Director
Frank Sleegers, ASLA, Associate Professor and MLA Program Director  
Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
210 John W. Olver Design Building
551 North Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA 01003
tel: 413-545-2255
email: hrenski@larp.umass.edu  
email:  mcgirr@larp.umass.edu 
email: sleegers@larp.umass.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2023)
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2023)

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2030
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1952

Jun-Hyun Kim, Ph.D., ASLA, APA
Program Director and Professor
School of Planning, Design, and Construction
Michigan State University
552 W Circle Drive 
East Lansing, MI 48824-1221
tel: 517- 353-8554
email: junhkim@msu.edu 
 
Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2024)

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2027
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1929

Stanton Jones, ASLA
Associate Professor
Program Coordinator of Landscape Architecture
School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Michigan
3546 Dana Hall
440 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
tel: 734-764-6529
email: stanj@umich.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2022)

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BLA Program - Candidacy
Candidacy Granted: Spring 2024

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2025
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1993

Joseph Favour, ASLA
Associate Department Head and Associate Professor in Practice
Department of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design
University of Minnesota
89 Church Street, S.E., 145 Rapson Hall
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
tel: 612-626-7716
email: favou1@umn.edu

Official Candidacy Letter - BLA (2024)
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2018)   

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2025
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1973

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2025
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2008

Anne Spafford, ASLA
Professor and Department Head
Department of Landscape Architecture
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Mississippi State University
P.O. Box 9725
Landscape Architecture Facility, Suite C103
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9725
tel: 662-325-7896
email: anne.spafford@msstate.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2019)
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2019)  

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2025
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2013

Derek Hoeferlin, AIA
Associate Professor and Chair
Master of Landscape Architecture Program
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Washington University in St Louis
Weil Hall 306
University Campus Box 1079
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
tel: 314-749-3342
email:hoeferlin@wustl.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2019)

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This state does not have a landscape architecture program that has achieved accreditation or candidacy status from the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board. 

BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2025
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2018

Sarah Thomas Karle
Interim Program Director and Associate Professor
Landscape Architecture Program
College of Architecture
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0107
tel: 402-472-9230
email: skarle@unl.edu
 
Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2018)

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2028
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1998

Phillip Zawarus
Associate Professor and Program Coordinator
Landscape Architecture Program
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 4018
Las Vegas, NV 89154
tel: 702-895-4244
email: phillip.zawarus@unlv.edu 
 
Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2024) 

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This state does not have a landscape architecture program that has achieved accreditation or candidacy status from the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board. 

BSLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2024
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2018

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2024
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2018

Richard Alomar, ASLA, FASLA
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Blake Hall, Cook College
93 Lipman Drive
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8524
tel: 848-932-9317
email: ra462@sebs.rutgers.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter, BSLA 2018   
Official Accreditation Letter, MLA, 2018  

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2028
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2003

Katya Crawford, Affiliate ASLA
Professor and Department Chair
Department of Landscape Architecture 
School of Architecture and Planning
George Pearl Hall
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
tel: 505-277-4120 
email: katyac@unm.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2022)  

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BSLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2027
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1971

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2027
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1984

Joshua Cerra, ASLA
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Landscape Architecture Department
Cornell University
440 Kennedy Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
tel: 607-255-9552 
email: jfc299@cornell.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2022) 
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2022)

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MLA Program - Candidacy 
Candidacy Granted: Spring 2024

Rosetta Elkin, Ph.D., ASLA, FAAR
Academic Director, Master in Landscape Architecture
Associate Professor, Graduate Architecture and Urban Design
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Avenue
Higgins Hall North 1
Brooklyn, NY 11205
tel: 718-687-5484
email: relkin@pratt.edu

Official Candidacy Letter - MLA (2024)  

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2030
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1957

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2030
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1981

M. Margaret Bryant, Ph.D., ASLA
Associate Professor and Interim Chair 
Department of Landscape Architecture
State University of New York
College of Environmental Science and Forestry
1 Forestry Drive
Syracuse, NY 13210-2787
tel: 315-470-6544
email:  mbryant@esf.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2024)
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2024)  

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2028
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2009

Zihao Zhang, ASLA
Interim Program Director and Assistant Professor
Master of Landscape Architecture Program
Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture
The City College of New York
141 Convent Avenue, Room 3M24A
New York, NY 10031
tel: 212-650-5937
email: zzhang@ccny.cuny.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2022)

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BLA Program
Next Review: Spring 2027
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2021

Yaser Abunnasr, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning
Department Chairperson & BLA Program Coordinator
Department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management
American University of Beirut
Bliss Street, Ras Beirut
P.O. Box 11-0236
Riad El Solh, Beirut 1102 2020 Lebanon
tel: +9611350000 ext. 4548
email: ya20@aub.edu.lb
 
Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2021)  

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BSLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2029
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1992 

William C. Harrison, ASLA
Lecturer and Program Coordinator
Landscape Architecture Program
231 Carver Hall
North Carolina A&T State University
Greensboro, NC 27411
tel: 336-285-4849
email: wcharris@ncat.edu     

Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2024)    

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2028
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1972

Maria Bellalta, FASLA
Professor and Department Head
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
College of Design
North Carolina State University
Campus Box 7701
Raleigh, NC 27695-7701
tel: 919-515-8342
email: maria_bellalta@ncsu.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2022)

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MLA Program 
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2028
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2020

Dominic L. Fischer, ASLA, PLA
Chair and Assistant Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture
North Dakota State University
Klai Hall
711 2nd Avenue N
Fargo, ND 58108-6050
tel: 701-999-3732
email: dominic.fischer@ndsu.edu
  
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2022)   

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2030
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2018

BSLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2029
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1924

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2029
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1985 

Kristi Cheramie
Professor and Head of Landscape Architecture Section
Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture
Ohio State University
275 West Woodruff Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1138
tel: 614-292-1012
email: cheramie.1@osu.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2024)
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2024)
  

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MLA Program - Initial
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2027
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2023

Barry W. Kew, ASLA, PLA
Professor of Landscape Architecture
Director, Landscape Architecture Program
School of Planning / DAAP
University of Cincinnati
342 Clifton Court
Cincinnati, OH 45221
tel: 513-556-2981
email: kewby@ucmail.uc.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2023)
  

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2028
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1983

Michael Holmes
Landscape Architecture Program Director
358 Agricultural Hall
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078-6027
tel: 405-744-7333
dept office: 405-744-5414 
email: michael.holmes@okstate.edu

 
Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2022)   

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2023
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1995

Sarah Little, Ph.D., PLA
Graduate Liaison and Associate Professor
Division of Landscape Architecture
College of Architecture 
University of Oklahoma
830 Van Vleet Oval, Room 180
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019-0265
tel: 405-325-1519
email: sarah.little@ou.edu  

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2017)

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2029 
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1949

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2029
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2005

Ben Shirtcliff
Department Head and Visiting Associate Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture
School of Architecture & Environment
College of Design 
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
tel: 541-346-3634 
email: bshirtcl@uoregon.edu
 
Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2024)
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2024)  

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BLA Program (Provisional Accreditation)
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2025
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2017

Michael Fleischacker, RLA, LEED AP
Department Chair and Associate Professor
Department Landscape Architecture & Environmental Sciences
Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
700 East Butler Avenue 
Delaware Valley University
Doylestown, PA 18901
tel: 215-489-2330
email: michael.fleischacker@delval.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2023)

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2030
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1957

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2030
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2013

Roxi Thoren, ASLA
Professor and Department Head
Department of Landscape Architecture
Stuckeman Chair of Integrative Design
121 Stuckeman Family Building
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
tel: 814-865-2900
email: rthoren@psu.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2024) 
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2024)

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BSLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2028
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1991

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2024
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2012

Kate Benisek, ASLA
Assistant Professor and LA-Hort Programs Head
Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Temple University
580 Meetinghouse Road
Ambler, PA 19002
tel: 267-468-8179
email: kate.benisek@temple.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2022)
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2018)

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2027
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2008

Kimberlee Douglas, ASLA, RLA
Director of Landscape Architecture Program and Assistant Professor
Landscape Architecture & Geodesign
College of Architecture & the Built Environment
Thomas Jefferson University
4201 Henry Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19144
tel: 215-951-0115
email: Kimberlee.Douglas@jefferson.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2022)

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2028
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1957

Catherine Seavitt, FASLA
Professor and Chair
Department of Landscape Architecture
Weitzman School of Design
University of Pennsylvania 
119 Meyerson Hall, 210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
tel: 215-898-6591
email: cseavitt@design.upenn.edu
Eric Baratta, Coordinator
email: eab@design.upenn.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2023)

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2025
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2011

Cecile Molina Machargo, Director
Diana Rivera Rivera, Dean
Master in Landscape Architecture
School of Architecture
Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
P.O. Box 192017
San Juan, PR  00919-2017
tel: 787-622-8000, ext. 637 and 489
email: cmolina@pupr.edu
email: drivera@pupr.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2023)

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BSLA Program - Initial
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2025
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2019

Lorena Gonzalez Robles, Director
Rolando Garcia Gonzalez, Dean
Architecture Department 
International School of Design and Architecture
Universidad Ana G. Mendez (UAGM Gurabo Campus)
Gurabo, PR  00778
tel: 787-743-7979 
email: lgonzalez355@uagm.edu
email: rogarcia@uagm.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2019)

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2028
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1995

Johanna Barthmaier-Payne, ASLA 
Department Head 
Department of Landscape Architecture
Rhode Island School of Design
20 Washington Place
Providence, RI 02903
tel: 401-454-6282
email: jbarthma@risd.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2023)  

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2026
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1990

Jane A. Buxton, Ph.D., ASLA
Faculty of Practice
Department of Landscape Architecture 
University of Rhode Island
210 Rodman Hall
Kingston, RI 02881
tel: 401-874-4549
email: jabuxton@uri.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2024)  

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2024
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2018

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2024
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2018

Hala Nassar, Ph.D., Affiliate ASLA, Professor 
Director of Landscape Architecture and Graduate Programs
Lara Browning, ASLA
Director of Landscape Architecture Undergraduate Programs  
Landscape Architecture Program
School of Architecture
Clemson University
3-112 Lee Hall
Clemson, SC 29634-0512
tel: 864-656-4408 
email: hnassar@clemson.edu 
email: lara2@clemson.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2018)
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2018) 

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BLA Program - Initial
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2025
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2019

Elizabeth Tofte
Associate Professor and Coordinator
Landscape Architecture Program
School of Design
South Dakota State University
The BARN 116C
Brookings, SD 57006
tel: 605-688-4103
email: elizabeth.tofte@sdstate.edu 

 Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2019)  

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2024
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2018 

Gale Fulton, ASLA, Director
School of Landscape Architecture
College of Architecture + Design
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1715 Volunteer Blvd.
Knoxville, TN 37996
tel: 865-974-5253
email: gfulton@utk.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter 2018

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2028
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1970

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2028
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1988

Galen D. Newman, Ph.D., ASLA, Professor and Department Head 
Bruce D. Dvorak, ASLA, Associate Professor and MLA Program Coordinator
Sungmin Lee, Ph.D., Associate Professor and BLA Program Coordinator
Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
College of Architecture
3112 Langford Architecture Center
Texas A & M University
College Station, TX 77843-3137
tel: 979-845-1019
email: gnewman@tamu.edu
email: bdvorak@tamu.edu 
email: sungminlee@tamu.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2022) 
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2022)  

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2029
Initial Accreditation: Spring1972

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2029
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2003

Leehu Loon, ASLA, PLA
Chair and Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture
Davis College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
Texas Tech University
Box 42121
Lubbock, TX 79409-2121
tel: 806-834-5215
email: leehu.loon@ttu.edu   

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2024)   
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2024)

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MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2029
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1994

Diane Jones Allen, D.Eng., PLA, ASLA, FASLA, Director/Professor
Austin Allen, Ph.D., ASLA, Interim Associate Dean
College of Architecture Planning and Public Affairs
Program in Landscape Architecture
P.O. Box 19108
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019-0108
tel: 817-272-2801
email: diane.allen@uta.edu 
email: austin.allen2@uta.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2024)  

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MLA Program 
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2024
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2006

Hope H. Hasbrouck, ASLA, MArch, MLA, FAAR
Director
Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture
The University of Texas at Austin
School of Architecture 
310 Inner Campus Drive B7500 
Austin, TX 78712-0222
tel: 512-475-7994 
email: hhasbrouck@austin.utexas.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2019) 

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2029
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2017

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2029
Initial Accreditation: Spring 2017

Keith Christensen, ASLA, Professor and Department Head
Mary Ann Anderson, Program Assistant 
Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences
Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-4005
tel: 435-797-0500
email: keith.christensen@usu.edu 
email: maryann.anderson@usu.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2023)
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2023)   

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This state does not have a landscape architecture program that has achieved accreditation or candidacy status from the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board. 

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2029
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1973

Brad Cantrell, ASLA, Professor & Department Chair
Leena Cho, Program Director
Dana Perlson, Assistant to the Department
Eric Callaway, Director of Admission
Department of Landscape Architecture
School of Architecture
University of Virginia
Campbell Hall
P.O. Box 400122
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4122
tel: 434-924-1428
email: bcantrell@virginia.edu
email: lcho@virginia.edu
email: dlp5h@virginia.edu
email: hjb7nu@virginia.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2024)  

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2027
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1975
 
MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2027
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1988

Terry Clements, FASLA, FCELA
Chair and Professor
Landscape Architecture Program
School of Architecture + Design
121 Burruss Hall - 0190
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA 24061
tel: 540-231-5583
email: tclement@vt.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2021)
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2021)

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2027
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1969

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2027
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1986

Julie Parrett, ASLA
Associate Teaching Professor and Interim Chair
Department of Landscape Architecture
College of Built Environments 
University of Washington
348 Gould Hall, Box 355734
Seattle, WA 98195-5734
tel: 206-543-9240
email: parrettj@uw.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2022) 
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2022) 

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2025
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1973

Jolie B. Kaytes
Professor and Landscape Architecture Program Head
Landscape Architecture Program
School of Design and Construction
Washington State University
P.O. Box 642220
Pullman, WA 99164-2220
tel: 509-335-7331
email: jolie@wsu.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2019)

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BSLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2025
Initial Accreditation: Spring 1974

MLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Spring 2025
Initial Accreditation: Fall 2013

Elisabeth "Lisa" Orr, MLA, ASLA, RLA
Associate Professor and Program Coordinator 
Landscape Architecture Program
School of Design and Community Development 
Davis College of Agriculture Natural Resources and Design 
West Virginia University
Agricultural Sciences Building Room 4321, PO Box 6108
Morgantown, WV 26506-6108
tel: 304-293-5439 
email: elisabeth.orr@mail.wvu.edu

Official Accreditation Letter - BSLA (2023) 
Official Accreditation Letter - MLA (2023)   

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BLA Program
Next Accreditation Review: Fall 2025
Initial Accreditation: Fall 1966

Eric Schuchardt, ASLA
Teaching Faculty and Program Chair
Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture
College of Letters and Science 
University of Wisconsin - Madison
RM 221, Environmental Health and Safety Building
30 East Campus Mall
Madison, WI 53715
tel: 608-263-7300
email: ejschuchardt@wisc.edu 

Official Accreditation Letter - BLA (2019) 

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This state does not have a landscape architecture program that has achieved accreditation or candidacy status from the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board.