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The Board of Directors and the Strategic Council of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), along with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), announced Sarah M. Whiting, Assoc. AIA, as the 2026 recipient of the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education. The AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion honors an individual who has been intensely involved in architectural education for more than a decade and whose teaching has influenced a broad range of students.

Graduate students in architecture at U.S. universities face limits on the amount of federal student loans they can access as a result of proposed policy changes related to the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is in the process of classifying which degrees are eligible to access a higher level of federal student loans. The ED will draft a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and open it for public comment before issuing final rules in 2026. ACSA will respond and urges all educators to comment on this proposed rule once available. ACSA will announce a member Zoom in early January to discuss a coordinated response to the proposed rule.

Columbia University鈥檚 Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture and ACSA are pleased to share a competitive call for the 2026 Course Development Prize. 鈦燭his call seeks proposals that include methods and themes that innovate within their institutional setting鈥攁sking hard questions of students that are equal in weight to the hard questions being asked of society as it continues to grapple with the intertwined causes and effects of climate change. Participants are invited to submit either a full course syllabus or a particular unit/component within a syllabus for consideration.

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and Think Wood are pleased to announce聽TIMBER IN THE CITY 6: Urban Habitats Competition聽for the 2025-2026 academic year. The program is intended to challenge students, working individually or in teams, to reimagine the boundaries of wood construction in the urban environment, leading to the transformation of our existing cities through constructing sustainable buildings made from renewable resources, offering expedient affordable construction, innovating with new and traditional wood materials, and designing healthy living and working environments. Now in its sixth cycle, the series continues to push the urban potential of wood鈥攖his year by tackling the 鈥渕issing-middle鈥� gap between single-family dwellings and high-rise apartments. Entrants will deploy innovative, highly replicable wood-based systems on a real, under-utilized urban site to deliver attainable, human-scaled housing that strengthens community resilience and climate stewardship.

This issue of聽TAD invites inquiry into soil not as backdrop but as an active thread in shaping form, structure, living habitat, and community. Soil is neither inert nor empty. It is a charged and living substrate that, materially and figuratively, underpins architecture. It is where gravitation meets structure, extraction meets economy, and permanence meets decay. Soil is a medium of transformation: chemical, cultural, and political. Soil supports and resists鈥搒haped by forces of compaction and combustion, microbial life, and industrial processes.聽The editors strongly encourage submissions highlighting contributions from those traditionally excluded or underrepresented in the field. Submissions may choose to address the focus area identified in this call for papers, but are not required to do so.

This double issue of the Journal of Architectural Education聽will celebrate the core mission of the聽JAE: advancing architectural education through thoughtful analysis, critique, and reflection. JAE is calling for papers, projects, and articles that address the future of architectural education. This comes at a critical moment. Higher education faces many challenges, including declining domestic and international student enrollments, eroding public support, rising economic uncertainty, and increasing student debt. The editors welcome contributions that look at how architectural education got to this point and at where it is likely to go in the future. The journal also invites design submissions that address some aspect of the above challenges, narratives that lay out the potential for the future of architectural education, and visual storytelling that makes a critical comment about any one of the many challenges we face.