@coloradostateuniversity’s Landscape Design and Contracting concentration is one of just seven fully accredited 4-year programs in the U.S. Housed in the Environmental Horticulture major, students learn to deliver landscape projects through Design–Build–Manage practices that address real-world design, construction, and sustainability challenges 🌿 “Hands-on experience is so crucial for our program because we’re dealing with real-time people with real-time objects,” says 2025 graduate Ciera Clawson. “The professors have made themselves clear – feel free to reach out. They want to continue that relationship post-graduation, which shows the amount of care these folks have.”  Assistant Professor and CSU alum Scott Curry, who teaches everything from Landscape Graphics to Water Conservation, received the Charles N. Shepardson Faculty Teaching Award this spring. “One thing to remember as a professor is that I work for those students. It’s not just about academics all the time. Bringing some...