PAB Panel Presentations

PAB sponsors a panel each year at the national conferences of both the American Planning Association (APA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).

2024– Session: Defining Impact: The Art of Communicating Planning’s Value

• Defining Impact: The Art of Communicating Planning’s Value (Afzalan, Mogush, Penelton) (PDF)

2023– Session: Skills for Future Planners

• Skills for Future Planners (Thompson, Schively Slotterback, Hollander) (PDF)
• Skills for Future Planners (Sanchez, Plass, Heide) (PDF)

2021– Session: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Your Planning Education – What is the Connection?

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Your Planning Education (Li) (PDF)
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – A Local Government Perspective (Tatum) (PDF)

2020– Session: Planning Education and Digital Evolution

• Planning Education and Digital Evolution (Lieber) (PDF)
• Planning Education and Digital Evolution: Experience at Columbia University (Wu) (PDF)

2019 – Session: PAB Accreditation: Value for the Profession?

• Value Session at APA Conference (PDF)
• Value Session at ACSP Conference (PDF)

2018 – Session: Innovation in Planning Education and Accreditation

• Innovation Session at APA Conference (PDF)
• Innovation Session at ACSP Conference (PDF)

2017 – Session: The Role of Professionals in Student Learning Assessment

• The Role of Professionals in Student Learning Assessment (PDF)

2016 – Session: Reversing the Decline in Planning School Enrollment

• Joint Task Force on Enrollment Report – APA Conference (Mitchell) (PDF)
• Joint Task Force on Enrollment Report – ACSP Conference (Takahashi) (PDF)
• School of Landscape Architecture and Planning, University of Arizona (Johnson) (PDF)
• APA California Chapter (Wong) (PDF)

2015 – Session: Preparing the Next Generation of Planners

• The View from the University (Ozawa) (PDF)
• Planning Tomorrow: Knowledge, Skills and Values for the Future (Dalton) (PDF)
• Preparing the Next Generation of Planners (Costa) (PDF)

2014 – Session: Academic and Community Collaborative Curriculum

• Academic and Community Collaborations: Partnership Opportunities Await! (Chapin) (PDF)
• Silicon Valley as a Laboratory For Community-Engaged Learning: Spartan-Keyes Collaborative Neighborhood Planning (Nixon) (PDF)
• Zuni Pueblo MainStreet Program (Jojola) (PDF)

2012 – Session: Where’s the Diversity?

• Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Faculty of Color in ACSP Member Programs: Status and Recommendations (Umemoto et al) (PDF)
• Where is the diversity? Kansas State University’s Story (Rolley) (PDF)

2011 – Session: Keeping the Curriculum Current

• Crowdsourcing the Curriculum (Evans-Cowley) (PDF)

2010 – Session: Assessing Planning Education
The following panelists presented an analysis of data collected by the APA and AICP through periodic job analysis and salary surveys.

• How Do Planners Specialize? Implications for Planning Schools and Professional Associations (Dalton) (PDF)
• Does Planning School Payoff for Planning Practitioners? (Hoch) (PDF)
• Sector Choices in Planning: A Diagnosis (Maghelal) (PDF)
• On the Job Expectations, Experience, and Planning Education (Ozawa et al) (PDF)