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90-Minute Education Session

FRI-C06: From Practice to Professor: Navigating a Career Switch

Friday, October 27, 2023
1:30pm – 3:00pm CT
Location: Minneapolis Convention Center, Room 211CD
1.50 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AICP, FL

    Lead Speaker(s)

  • Jessica Canfield, ASLA

    Associate Professor
    Kansas State University
    Manhattan, Kansas

    • Speaker(s)

  • Diane J. Allen, FASLA

    Principle Landscape Architect
    DesignJones LLC
    Arlington, Texas

  • C.L. Bohannon, ASLA

    Associate Dean Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Assoc. Prof. Landscape Architecture
    University of Virginia
    Charlottesville, Virginia

Teaching is tremendously rewarding, but an academic career is a rigorous endeavor that extends well beyond the classroom. In this session, we talk about various pathways into teaching, describe the different types of academic appointments and their requirements, and discuss how to prepare for a career switch.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Gain awareness about the benefits, opportunities, and challenges for landscape architecture practitioners to switch to a career in academia.
  • Understand the different types of academic institutions, teaching appointments, and their requirements.
  • Understand how to find, prepare for, and apply to an academic position in landscape architecture.
  • Gain awareness about different possibilities for continuing to engage in professional practice while teaching.