Rolley Named Jarvis Chair

Professor Stephanie A. Rolley, FASLA, AICP, has been selected as the 2008-2009 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 fourth year the $10,000 annual stipend has been awarded to a KSU faculty member.

Donelin said, “Faculty 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 contributions to landscape architecture during the previous year.”

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

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

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.

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

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.

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
Stephanie Rolley, 785.532.5961
Diane Potts, 785.532.1090