Award for Excellence in Online/Blended Course Development, Design, and Delivery

Congratulations to the 2023 recipient!

Dr. Lisa Berglund, School of Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, is being recognized for her exemplary skills, including considerations for Universal Design for Learning and accessibility, with the Award for Excellence in Online/Blended Course Development, Design, and Delivery. She showed a purposeful effort in thinking through what teaching and learning activities can be moved to online, considering learning needs and content, and which learning activities are best facilitated in person. Dr. Berglund also developed curricula to support equity and cross-cultural competencies and enhanced the understanding of groups who have experienced historic and ongoing disadvantage and harm. 

Biography

Dr. Lisa Berglund earned a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Michigan, a Master of Urban Design from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a doctorate in Urban Planning from UCLA. Dr. Berglund's teaching focuses on urban design skills and history and theory of urban planning and urban design. In her studio and theory courses, students are asked to solve planning problems from the perspective of underrepresented and historically marginalized groups, conducting research and reaching out to local communities to do so. This past year, she led field study courses in both Charlottetown, PEI, and New York City where students were able to gain applied knowledge from urban planning practitioners carrying out their work on site, with a particular focus on social justice in planning practice. Her research focuses on gentrification and the role of local communities fighting for accountable development practices. She is currently exploring the role of policing and surveillance technologies as economic development strategies in gentrifying neighborhoods and their implications for racial and economic justice.