The proposed standards reduce the number of standards from nine to seven. LAAB has added an intent statement for each standard.

Each standard includes one or more criterion that define the components that need to be satisfied to achieve the related standard. Criteria are listed by letter and are followed by assessments, which are numbered. Each criterion includes one or more questions (identified as assessments), which seek qualitative and quantitative evidence used to assess the level of compliance with or achievement of the related criteria.

For the Minimum Requirements for Achieving and Maintaining Accredited Status, LAAB proposes one change concerning the minimum requirements of Faculty instructional full-time equivalence. Faculty instructional full-time equivalence (FTE) must be as follows: An academic unit that offers a single first-professional program has at least three FTE instructional faculty who hold professional degrees in landscape architecture, at least one of whom is full-time. An academic unit that offers first-professional programs at both bachelor’s and master’s levels, has at least six instructional FTE, at least five of whom hold professional degrees in landscape architecture and at least two of whom are full-time. All comments on the proposed changes to the accreditation standards are due to LAAB by July 3, 2008.