Regional CELA Meeting- Region 7 (Northeast)

Surviving and Thriving as a Landscape Architect in Academia

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

April 11-12, 2003

(in conjunction with the

New England Greenway Symposium

New England Greenways: Making Connections across the Northeast)

All CELA members and other interested landscape architects and students are invited to attend a dinner meeting to discuss issues related to flourishing as a landscape architect academic. We have invited speakers from landscape architecture programs in the region to discuss strategizing for promotion and tenure, as well as seeking research funding. For junior faculty, this is an important program to learn how one achieves tenure. For senior faculty, the program will try to inform strategies for promotion to full professor, as well as sustaining a research and creative agenda in the face of teaching and administrative demands. The economic challenges facing many landscape architecture programs call for a need to address these timely issues. This meeting is organized by the Region 7 Representative, Assist. Professor Robert L. Ryan, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst in conjunction with Assist. Professor Mark Westa, Univ. of Connecticut.

Time: 5-9pm, April 11, 2003

Nathan Hale Inn & Conference Center

855 Bolton Road

University of Connecticut

Storrs, CT 06268

Tel. (860) 427-7888

http://www.nathanhaleinn.com

Additional Breakfast Meeting: For those CELA members who will be spending the evening in Storrs, there is a breakfast meeting from 8:00-9:30, the following morning, April 12 at the Nathan Hale Inn to continue the discussion from the previous evening and to plan for future regional events.

Please RSVP to

CELA Region 7 Representative

Robert L. Ryan

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning

109 Hills North

University of Massachusetts

Amherst, MA 01003-9328

Tel. (413) 545-6633

e-mail: rlryan@larp.umass.edu

Meal costs for this meeting will be paid directly by attendees at the event and are estimated at appx. $20-30. For those who wish to spend the evening, hotel reservations should be made directly to the Nathan Hale Inn & Conference Center, or other nearby hotels.

CELA members are also encouraged to register and attend the New England Greenway Symposium: Making Connections Across the Northeast, which will begin immediately following the CELA breakfast meeting from 9:00-4:30, April 12, 2003. This symposium is organized by Professor Emeritus Julius Gy. Fabos, Professor Mark S. Lindhult, and Assistant Professor Robert L. Ryan of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Assistant Professor Mark Westa, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Connecticut.

The goal of the symposium is to discuss greenway and open space planning research and practice within the Northeast with a focus on collaborative planning. This annual symposium includes speakers from CELA member schools in the region describing their planning and landscape architecture work related to greenways and related open space planning. In addition, this annual symposium includes representatives from state agencies, and non-profit groups, as well as the National Park Service. This year's keynote speaker is Keith Laughlin, President, Rails to Trails Conservancy.

An earlier request for CELA speakers for the symposium was e-mailed to schools in the Northeast earlier this year and the deadline for submittal is past. However, there is still room for CELA members and their students to display there greenway or other related open space planning work at the conference. Please contact the conference organizers at e-mail: greenway@larp.umass.edu.

New England Greenway Symposium registration information is available at the New England Greenway Consortium web-site- http://www.umass.edu/greenway.