Source: Stephanie Rolley, 785-532-5961, srolley@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Diane Potts, 785-532-1090, potts@k-state.edu
Friday, September 7, 2007
ROLLEY NAMED K-STATE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE TEACHER OF THE YEAR
MANHATTAN -- Landscape architecture students at Kansas State University's College of Architecture, Planning and Design have chosen Stephanie A. Rolley as their 2007-2008 teacher of the year.
"Professor Rolley's advice and guidance is invaluable," according to her student nomination. "Her mutual respect for us in our final semester has kept us motivated and pushed us to meet her expectations and expand our expectations of ourselves."
Professors are nominated and selected by landscape architecture students, according to Dan Donelin, head of the department of landscape architecture and regional and community planning.
Rolley's work centers on interdisciplinary teaching through community-based collaborations that advance the public recognition of the profession. She involves students in working with leaders and representatives from communities to help them shape the future of their towns and regions.
Rolley, a K-State faculty member since 1988 and a previous recipient of this teaching award, served as associate head for the department from 1993-98, when she also directed the master of landscape architecture program. More recently she was the department's 2005-2007 Jarvis Chair. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, for which she is chair of its council on education and a trustee for its Prairie Gateway chapter.
Rolley was an urban designer at Carr Lynch Associates from 1986-88, a research staff member and co-author of Professional Publications Inc. from 1985-86, a project manager at Carter and Burgess from 1983-85, and a landscape architect at Rehler, Vaughn, Beaty and Koone from 1982-83. She also has completed the program on negotiation at Harvard Law School.
She received a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture in 1982 from K-State and a master's in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.