Boyer Elected to National Board of Landscape Architecture Educators’ Group

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Mark Boyer, head of the landscape architecture department in the Fay Jones School of Architecture, was recently elected second vice president of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.

Mark Boyer, head of the landscape architecture department in the Fay Jones School of Architecture, was recently elected second vice president of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, the national organization of landscape architecture educators. He was installed into office for this two-year term at the council’s annual conference in March at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The council is composed of virtually all the programs of higher learning in landscape architecture in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. There also are individual and institutional members from many other parts of the world who belong to the organization. All members of the faculties from these institutions are invited to participate in the council, as are others who possess an interest in the academic practice of landscape architecture.

Since being founded in 1920, the council has been concerned with the content and quality of professional education in landscape architecture. It publishes the highest quality research conducted in the profession through its refereed publication, Landscape Journal. The annual conferences focus on recent research and scholarship in all aspects of landscape architecture.

The organization’s officers serve on a purely voluntary basis with elections for leadership positions held annually.

As second vice present, Boyer is expected to serve in the place of the first vice president when both the president and the first vice president are unable to perform their duties. He also serves as a member of the board and the executive committee. He is responsible for the council’s regional activities. Specific duties include planning and coordinating surveys of members conducted by the regional directors; communicating with the regional directors to encourage and aid in setting up regional meetings; and performing such other activities and tasks as may from time to time be assigned by the board or the executive committee. He is also responsible for the annual faculty and administrator awards program.

“My presence on the executive board will bring prominence to the UA landscape architecture department with my national and international colleagues,” Boyer said. “This gives us a seat at the table and a voice for important decisions and directions of the group of educators from across the country.”

Boyer said, as far as he can tell, he’s the only elected member of this executive board from the UA in the history of the council.

“The fact that I was elected by peers across the nation, and from Canada, Australia and New Zealand, speaks to the regard of my peers and reflects credit on the landscape architecture department and, thus, the school,” he said.

Boyer earned an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from the University of Kentucky, then followed two years of practice with a graduate degree in landscape architecture from Louisiana State University.

He joined the Fay Jones School of Architecture faculty in 1998. He teaches courses on landscape architecture construction materials and technologies, ecological design studios and an interdisciplinary course related to alternative stormwater management techniques.

Boyer’s research focuses on green roofs and other sustainable stormwater management technologies. He was part of an interdisciplinary team that has won several major awards, including an Honor Award in Analysis and Planning from the American Society of Landscape Architects, for a sustainable neighborhood design.

He has presented papers at national and international conferences related to his interdisciplinary course and research in stormwater management. In 2001, Boyer was the recipient the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Award of Recognition, and has also received the Howell Vancuren faculty teaching award in the landscape architecture department.

Boyer is licensed in Louisiana and Arkansas.

For more information about the council, visit http://www.thecela.org/.