Winslow Selected as Jarvis Chair of Landscape Architecture

Professor William “Chip” Winslow has been selected as the 2007-2008 Jarvis Chair of Landscape Architecture in the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design.

According to Dan Donelin, professor and head of the Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning, this is the third year the $10,000 annual stipend has been awarded to a faculty member.

Donelin said, “Tenured faculty members applied for the award by submitting a portfolio that included a syllabus for a course taught during the fall or spring semester of the previous year, the instructor’s student evaluation summary for the course being submitted, evidence of scholarship and a statement as to his/her scholarly contributions to landscape architecture during the previous year.”

“The award recipients were selected by a blind jury composed of two faculty members from another nationally accredited landscape architecture program and a faculty member from a non-design background,” Donelin said.

Professor Winslow has been a faculty member at K-State for 25 years. His teaching emphases include landscape construction, planting design, plant materials, site planning and golf course design. During the past three years, Winslow has directed his students in undertaking varied projects such as development of a master plan for K-State’s Ahearn Fieldhouse/Natatorium complex and Memorial Stadium area for KSU Facilities; development of a master plan and design details for the Clearwater, Kansas, City Park; development of a master plan and design details for the K-State Formal Garden; development of a master plan and design details for an abandoned railway corridor through downtown Marysville, Kansas; development of a master plan and design details for the rooftop garden at the Kansas City, Missouri, downtown library; and development of master plans and design details for the I-70 corridor through downtown Topeka, Kansas. The Marysville project received an honor award from Main Street USA.

For the past 13 years, Winslow has been involved with the Kansas State Board of Technical Professions and the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB). He has been both chairman of the Kansas State Board and president of CLARB, serving the public as an advocate of the profession of landscape architecture. He continues to serve CLARB, most recently by membership on the continuing education and nomination committees.

A licensed professional landscape architect and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Winslow received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from K-State in 1980 and a Master of Landscape Architecture in 1982 from the University of Michigan.

The Jarvis Chair of Landscape Architecture is funded through a bequeathed endowment established by Mary K. Jarvis, a 1942 graduate who is thought to be the first female to receive a landscape architecture degree from K-State. Interest from the endowment is matched by the State of Kansas Faculty of Distinction program and is used to recognize faculty who, in the previous year, made significant contributions in their teaching, scholarship and/or service.

For more information, contact:
Dan Donelin, 785.532.5961
Diane Potts, 785.532.1090