Kathryn Bedette, AIA to serve as Associate Dean for Student Success and Accreditation

Kathryn Bedette, AIA, is an award-winning architect in the State of Georgia and an Associate Professor of Architecture at Kennesaw State University.  Professor Bedette has extensive experience coordinating across the curriculum of KSU’s Bachelor of Architecture degree program, having coordinated First-, Second- and Fifth-Year Architecture Studios, as well as the program’s Architecture History and Theory course sequence.  She also served as the Architecture Department’s first Academic Engagement Coordinator.  Her professional experience includes a broad range of institutional projects as well as adaptive reuse office, retail and high-rise mixed-use projects and her design studios have prioritized the cultivation a meaningful and responsible built environment by foregrounding interrelationships between architectural technologies and program in design advocacy and posthumanist design. 

Kathryn has an accomplished record of advocating for the profession of architecture and the built environment through her work as Advocacy Chair on the AIA Georgia Board of Directors and served as the 2018 President of AIA Georgia.  As President, she led a successful national campaign to create a new leadership development pipeline that encourages a range of ethnically diverse women to pursue national AIA leadership positions.  She has also made a positive impact on the profession in multiple national professional service leadership roles and currently serves as the NCARB Architect Licensing Advisor for Georgia and as a Subject Matter Expert for ArchiPrep, the AIA’s ARE study platform.

Professor Bedette was awarded the 2003 Emerging Voices Award from the Young Architects Forum of AIA Atlanta for her built design work and the 2016 AIA Atlanta James Gant Fausett, FAIA, Service to the Profession Award for her advocacy accomplishments.  In 2018, Kathryn was named one of Engineering Georgia’s  “100 Influential Women to Know” and her work and scholarship have been exhibited in multiple venues and presented internationally.  Professor Bedette earned her B.S. in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she studied abroad at the Ecole d'Architecture Paris-Tolbiac, and her Master of Architecture from Arizona State University, where she studied abroad at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany.

Bedette will serve the college by focusing administrative efforts on all things related to student success. Her immediate focus will be on establishing the CoACM Center for Student Success which will house all academic advising services and provide workshops and training on student related issues and aid in developing meaningful pathways to graduation. Bedette will also be the point of contact for all accreditation and assessment processes.

Please join me in welcoming Professor Bedette to this role.

Sincerely,

Dean Andrew Phillip Payne, May 2020