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 Department of Landscape Architecture, will again lead the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, an international organization. Its 84 member institutions in the United States and Canada also include schools in Australia, Denmark, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Man 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.

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.