Jarvis Faculty Chair in Landscape Architecture

Mary Jarvis was a 1941 graduate of the Landscape Design program at Kansas State University. She bequeathed to the landscape architecture program a significant endowment which is to be used to recognize a faculty member in that program with a $10,000 award for their excellence in teaching and scholarship.

To apply for this award a landscape architecture faculty member must submit documentation for a course they taught during the previous year and include a listing of the student learning outcomes; demonstrate that the students were successful in meeting those outcomes; provide student evaluations for the course that indicate the value of the faculty’s excellence in teaching; and a description by the faculty member of their scholarship successes during the same time period. A blind jury of three faculty at another nationally recognized university, who are unfamiliar with the applicants, review the submittals and make their recommendation known to the Provost, Dean of the College of Architecture, Planning & Design and the Landscape Architecture Program’s Department Head.