Review and Assessment Criteria

Assessment of proposals submitted for the 2011 NCARB Grant will be based upon the proposal's effectiveness in integrating practice and education in the academy and meeting the following objectives:

• Integration of non-faculty architect practitioners in the education of students in significant and meaningful ways*
• Creation of innovative concepts and methods to integrate practice and education
• Achievement of immediate and continuing impact on student education and development and the architecture curriculum
• Recognition of and response to specific needs of the students, the school, and the profession and institutional constraints
• Effectiveness in raising awareness of the architect's responsibility for the public health, safety, and welfare
• Effectiveness in raising awareness about issues central to practice
• Effectiveness in responding to relevant issues identified in the 2007 Practice Analysis of Architecture and in Building Community: A New Future for Architecture Education and Practice (The Boyer Report) as they relate to specific needs and criteria
• Likelihood of the project to serve as a model and to be adapted and/or adopted by other faculty and other architecture schools

Project directors and architecture schools interested in submitting proposals for the 2011 NCARB Grant are encouraged to study issues central to the architect's responsibility for the public health, safety, and welfare, issues central to practice, and issues identified in the 2007 Practice Analysis of Architecture, the NCARB Position Paper for the NAAB 2008 Accreditation Review Conference, and Building Community: A New Future for Architecture Education and Practice. These provide examples of specific areas in which the academy can bridge the gulf between education and practice to better prepare students for internship and future careers as architects.

NCARB welcomes the submission of proposals that respond to these challenges to promote the integration of the practice of architecture with the education of future architects.

^* Non-faculty architect practitioners must hold current registration in a U.S. jurisdiction (a list of current registration requirements and links to all 54 U.S. jurisdictions' registration boards is available on the NCARB website at http://ncarb.org/stateboards/index.html). Non-faculty architect practitioners are not required to be registered in the same jurisdiction in which the architecture school is located and non-faculty architect practitioners are not required to be in the same physical location as the architecture school as long as means to ensure the involvement of the non-faculty architect practitioners are evident. Non-faculty architect practitioners may not include any faculty members (adjunct, visiting, part-time, or full-time). Verification of all non-faculty architect practitioners' registration status must be provided (see program requirements, proposal requirements, and format and submission requirements).