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A Mississippi State administrator is the new president-elect of a national organization representing academic programs in landscape architecture.
Cameron R.J. Man, head of the university's landscape architecture department, will again lead the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, an international organization whose 84 member institutions in the United States and Canada also include schools in Australia, Denmark, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. He earlier was CELA president in 1975.
The organization, whose leadership serves on a volunteer basis, includes an annual scholarly conference and the presentation of current research via the Internet-based Landscape Journal and DesignNet among its major activities.
Prior to becoming department head in 1989, Man taught at California State Polytechnic University and the universities of Guelph and Manitoba in Canada. He was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1985 and served as ASLA president in 1992.
Man holds a bachelor's degree in architecture from Manitoba and a master of landscape architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His 29-year professional career has included projects in Jamaica, Canada and California.