College of Built Environments at the University of Washington.

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BLA Accreditation Visit

Tuesday January 2008

image Gould Hall was overflowing with fine examples of landscape architecture student work for a week as the BLA accreditation team visited. Over the summer Julie Johnson Johnson and Vicky Reyes edited and compiled the reports done by faculty into a self-evaluation book reviewing all aspects of the BLA program. For the actual visit, all four floors were covered in design projects, reports, and graphic presentations completed by students over the course of the last six years. Students and faculty took the opportunity to review the breadth of work produced in our studios, seminars, and courses. It was impressive. While a final decision by the LAAB will be made shortly verbal feedback from the Accreditation Team before their departure indicated that it was quite a successful review. The team was impressed with the department and was even ready to take home a strategy or two for their own department