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The College of Design has implemented a number of programs and processes to respond to the needs of its constituents.
Iowa Communities, Governments and Nonprofit Organizations
Community Visioning Program
The Iowa's Living Roadways Community Visioning Program provides professional landscape planning and design services
to help enhance transportation corridors in Iowa communities with populations under 10,000. The visioning
program integrates technical landscape planning and design techniques
with sustainable community action to assist leaders and volunteers in
making sound and meaningful decisions about the local landscape.
Since
1996, 113 Iowa communities have participated in the program, which is
sponsored by the Iowa Department of Transportation in partnership with
ISU Extension Landscape Architecture and Trees Forever, an Iowa-based
nonprofit environmental advocacy organization. In addition,
professional landscape architects offer expertise in creating
conceptual design plans for the communities, and student interns from
Iowa State assist them during the design process.
The ILR Community Visioning Program was named the 2005 Outstanding Program by the Iowa Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA).
PLaCE Program
Initiated in August 2000, the Project for Partnering Landscape and
Community Enhancement (PLaCE) aims to enhance and promote the quality
and character of Iowa's landscapes and communities while at the same
time providing learning experiences for students outside the classroom.
Unique, dramatic enhancements to the landscapes and communities of Iowa
are viewed as ways to attract and retain a new group of talented and
energetic citizens, a resource very much in demand for the state's
future. These enhancements also increase the quality of life for
current residents.
MCRP Degree Program
The department of community and regional planning offers a
graduate degree program, Master of Community and Regional
Planning (MCRP), to
off-campus working professionals via DVD and
Internet videostreaming. This program is designed to allow people
working in the planning field the opportunity to complete a master's
degree without relocating to the Iowa State campus.
Transfer Agreements
The
community and regional planning department has articulation agreements
with all 15 community
colleges and community college districts in Iowa. These agreements are
intended to help community college students transfer more easily into
the Iowa State University undergraduate planning program upon
completion of their associate degree. Students have the option of
taking introductory planning courses via distance education (DVD or
videostreaming) to "jump start" their curriculum before transferring to
Iowa State.
ISU Extension College of Design's GIS Geospatial Technology Program
annually offers several hands-on short courses in geographic
information systems. Standard courses are held in the college's GIS Graduate
Laboratory; groups may also schedule customized, on-site training.
Courses are geared to both new and experienced
users of GIS and cover the most recent versions, features and
extensions of common software, including ArcGIS, CommunityViz and
SketchUp. Participants are eligible to receive continuing education
units (CEUs).
Nonprofit Management Academy (NPMA)
Administered by IDRO, the Nonprofit Management
Academy (NPMA)
offers cost-effective, career-enhancing
workshops to equip nonprofit professionals throughout Iowa and
bordering states with the skills to more
effectively manage their organizations or administer specific programs.
The academy targets all those seeking professional development in the
area of nonprofit management, including staff, management, volunteers,
professional association employees, educators, and private-sector
employees who wish to make a career change to the nonprofit sector.
Workshops cover such topics as financial management, fund-raising,
governance and leadership, diversity issues, effective supervision, and
technology management.
The
academy operates in 11 cities, and that number continues to grow. Since
the program's inception in 1999, over 150 NPMA workshops with more than
3,000 participants have been held across the state. Participants may
enroll in individual courses or complete a combination of classes to
earn a certificate in nonprofit management. Participants also are eligible to receive CEUs. Planning and Zoning Training
The College of Design's community development extension specialist
provides programming and technical assistance to citizens and planning
officials on planning, zoning and economic development issues. He
frequently provides training workshops on planning and zoning topics to county
governments.
Design Professions in Iowa
See MCRP Degree Program and GIS Short Courses descriptions above.
College of Design Alumni
Communications and Feedback
Designews
The College of Design annually publishes a 48-page, full-color issue of Designews,
a newsmagazine mailed without charge to all College of Design alumni, donors and friends. This publication includes
information on individual alumni, current studio and faculty research
and outreach activities, college events such as lectures and
exhibitions, curricular changes and other major initiatives,
fund-raising efforts, new appointments, retirements, etc. Designews
has a feedback form that alumni may clip, fill out and mail back to the
college to update their home and business contact information, share
news about career changes, honors and awards, births and marriages,
and indicate their preferred way to receive information from the College of
Design, as well as provide any other comments, questions or suggestions.
E-mail / Web site
The Alumni & Friends section
of the college's Web site provides a similar feedback form alumni may
fill out and submit online. The college also has a dedicated e-mail
address to which alumni may send inquiries and information, in addition
to the general college e-mail address publicized under Contact Us on the college Web site.
Alumni Survey
In preparation for a collegiate program review in spring 2005 and
to inform its strategic planning process for 2005-2010, the College of
Design administered an alumni survey
in 2004 to gain feedback on its strengths and weaknesses and what the
college can do to enhance its programs to benefit future graduates.
(The college last surveyed all of its alumni in November 1992 with a
report published in March 1994. That survey focused on the college's
career services. A smaller survey regarding the college's strategic
plan for 2000-2005 was administered in spring 2001.)
The 2004 alumni
survey provided important assessment data for the college as it works
toward continual and consistent improvement of its academic programs.
The college carefully considered this information, in conjunction with
other assessment data, as it crafted its 2005-2010 strategic plan, and
will refer to the findings as it continues to work on curricular improvements and budget
reallocation priorities and strategies. The college intends to use the
same survey instrument, with slight modifications, every five years, to
coincide with the strategic planning cycle. Thus, the college will next
survey its alumni in early fall 2009.
Awards
Design Achievement Awards
The College of Design annually presents Design Achievement Awards
to recognize outstanding mid-career creative and professional
achievements of alumni in the fields of architecture, art and design,
community and regional planning, and landscape architecture.
Christian Petersen Design Award
The
college also presents the Christian Petersen Design Award
to alumni, staff and friends of the university for contributions to the
advancement of design through personal aesthetic achievement,
exceptional support or extraordinary encouragement and service.
Activities
Alumni Days
The College of Design participates in the university's annual
Alumni Days with a reception for all alumni who graduated 50 years ago
or earlier. Because the college did not exist as a separate entity 50
years ago, it invites anyone who received degrees in applied art,
architecture or landscape architecture (departments now a part of the
College of Design).
'La Dolce Dozen' Rome Summer Tour
Since 2002 the College of Design, together with the ISU Alumni
Association, has offered a 12-day guided summer tour of Rome for Iowa
State alumni. Participants receive not only a concentrated diet of
museums and ruins, but also have the opportunity to meet College of
Design students and faculty in Rome during summer session, and explore
the college's facilities, now located in the Palazzo Cenci.
AIA National Convention Alumni Receptions
The college annually invites alumni to attend a reception held in
conjunction with the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) national
convention.
Pacific Rim Traveling Studio
The landscape architecture department arranges
for students participating in the Pacific Rim Traveling Studio to visit
professional firms and universities where alumni are employed.
Landscape architecture alumni often give presentations and sometimes
accompany the group on portions of its trip.
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