Increasing diversity in faculty and student populations continues to be an important goal of the Department. The Department has eight female faculty members (out of 15 total FTE) and includes African-American and Asian-American faculty. Student gender balance overall and international diversity at the graduate level are good.
The Department actively contributed to the College diversity committee to develop strategies that will attract more minority students to our degree programs. We have not been satisfied with the slight increases in minority student enrollment that we have experienced over the past five years. Components of our diversity plan include promoting the Department and the profession with counselors at target high schools and community colleges, and establishing scholarship opportunities to enhance our ability to attract underrepresented populations to careers in landscape architecture.
International activities in South Asia continue to offer opportunities to expose students and faculty to non-western cultural issues and design challenges. This year a faculty-student team completed a Landscape Management Plan for Champaner-Pavagadh, an endangered world monument site in Gujarat, India. This project was submitted for a national American Society of Landscape Architects award.
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