Rolley Named Teacher of the Year

Professor Stephanie A. Rolley, FASLA, AICP, has been recognized as the 2007-2008 KSU Landscape Architecture Teacher of the Year.

Award nominations and selection are made by landscape architecture students, according to Professor Dan Donelin, head, Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning.

Rolley’s student nomination stated, “Professor Rolley’s advice and guidance is invaluable. She commands respect from each and every one of her students that makes us want to push ourselves. Professor Rolley’s mutual respect for us in our final semester has kept us motivated and pushed us to meet her expectations and expand our expectations of ourselves.”

Rolley’s body of work centers on interdisciplinary teaching through community-based collaborations that advance the public recognition of the profession. She involves students in working with leaders and representatives from communities to assist them in future visioning of their towns and regions.

A K-State faculty member since 1988 and previous recipient of the Landscape Architecture Teacher of the Year award, Rolley served as associate head and MLA program director for the Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning from 1993-1998. She was the department’s 2005-2007 Jarvis Chair. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and is currently chair of the ASLA Council on Education and a trustee for the Prairie Gateway Chapter ASLA.

Other honors include the KSU Student Activities and Services Advisor of the Year, Collaborative Practice Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture; an Urban Parks National Award from the Landscape Architecture Foundation for the MetroGreen project; a National Award of Distinction from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture; and selection as an Alumni Honoree by the College of Architecture, Planning and Design at K-State.

Rolley’s professional experience includes urban designer at Carr Lynch Associates from 1986-1988; Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, research staff member and coauthor of Professional Publications during 1985-1986; project manager at Carter and Burgess from 1983-1985; and landscape architect at Rehler, Vaughn, Beaty and Koone from 1982-1983.

She received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture in 1982 from K-State and a Master in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.

For more information, contact:
Stephanie Rolley, 785.532.5961
Diane Potts, 785.532.1090