College Programs
The college works to support and provide guidance to emerging faculty and to support the development of community within the members of the College. Below are a list of college programs. Check back regularly for updates.
AWARDS
Travel Grants for Emerging Faculty
ACSA College of Distinguished Professors Travel Grants for Emerging Faculty
Since 2023 ACSA has worked with the College of Distinguished Professors to offer travel grants for its member school faculty. These grants, valued at $2,000 USD each, are aimed at supporting emerging faculty with limited or no access to travel funds. The funds are intended to cover expenses such as conference registration, transportation, lodging, and meals for either the ACSA Administrators Conference or the ACSA Annual Meeting.
Applicants for these grants are not required to be part of the conference program or have accepted papers or projects for the Annual Meeting. Decisions regarding grant awards will be kept confidential. The funds for these grants are sourced from contributions by ACSA’s College of Distinguished Professors and allocations from the ACSA Board of Directors.
Each year’s travel grant opportunities are published in August.
Best Paper & Project Awards
The ACSA College of Distinguished Professors, Best Paper and Best Project Award recognizing contributions of research, scholarship and creative excellence will be instituted in 2020. The Best Paper and Best Project Awards recognizes outstanding peer reviewed research presented at the ACSA Annual Meeting. One award will be given for papers and one for projects from the ACSA Annual Meeting. All peer reviewed content published in ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings will be eligible. Award selections will be based: new and original contributions, thesis clarity, methodology, overall content, and quality of development. Finalists must present nominated papers or projects at the annual meeting to be eligible.
Mentoring
ACSA/DPACSA Faculty Mentoring Program
In October ´óÏóÊÓƵ launched the ACSA/DPACSA Faculty Mentoring Program with 33 mentors and 63 faculty participants. Although most emerging faculty members have mentors in their departments to guide them through their institution’s tenure and promotion process, rarely do new faculty have access to senior colleagues from other institutions to advise them on their careers paths and on the content of their work.
The goal of the program is to empower faculty to identify and initiate mentoring relationships based on their needs and to set the terms of those relationships, in contrast to the way in which many departments to assign senior faculty as mentors of new faculty, with promotion and tenure primarily in mind.
Applications for the 202-27 cohort were recently published and close in late October.
Presentations
Topaz Medallion Presentations
2026 Topaz Presentation
Keynote: Sarah M. Whiting
2025 Topaz Presentation
Keynote: Thomas Fisher
2023 Topaz Presentation
Keynote: Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA
2022 Topaz Presentation
Keynote: Deborah L. Berke
2021 Topaz Presentation
Keynote: Kathryn H. Anthony, 2021 Topaz Laureate
2020 Topaz Presentation
Keynote: David Leatherbarrow, 2020 Topaz Laureate
2018 Topaz Presentation
Keynote: Jorge Silvetti, 2018 Topaz Laureate
2017 Topaz Presentation
Keynote: Â Robert A.M. Stern, 2017 Topaz Laureate
2015 Topaz Presentation
Keynote:Â Peter Eisenman, 2015 Topaz Laureate
2012 Topaz Presentation
Keynote: George Baird, 2012 Topaz Laureate
2008 Topaz Presentation
Keynote: Stanley Tigerman, 2008 Topaz Laureate
Distinguished Professor Presentations
Survival Guide for New Academic Administrators
Bob Greenstreet provides new administrators with tips for being an effective academic leader.
Why Lead?
Watch ACSA Distinguished Professors, Kim Tanzer and Tom Fisher, discuss academic leadership.
DPACSA Chancellor’s Dialogue: Fit
Special Focus Session From The 100th ACSA Annual Meeting.
Danielle Dent
Senior Director of Membership, Marketing, and Publications
tel: 202.785.2324
email: ddent@acsa-arch.org
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