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  • 1.  Federal Employee layoffs and RIF

    Posted 02-22-2025 11:33 AM

    What is the AIA Public Architects Committee and the AIA writ large doing to counter administration efforts to layoff USG architects summarily without cause through probationary terminations and reduction in force (RIF)?

     

     

    Regards,

     

    JAMES N. VANDENBERG, (AIA member 30082648)

    Project Director – COR

    US Embassy Charcery Densification / Q-Flow

    Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

    US Embassy  Compound Security Upgrade (CSU)

    Havana, Cuba

     

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  • 2.  RE: Federal Employee layoffs and RIF

    Posted 02-24-2025 05:33 PM
    Thanks for this comment.
    I certainly encourage us to write these ill-conceived layoffs that are "penny wise and pound foolish".

    Sally Grans Korsh 
    FAIA  Emeritus 
    LEED AP





  • 3.  RE: Federal Employee layoffs and RIF

    Posted 02-25-2025 12:56 PM

    James, the AIA is currently holding its AIA Leadership Summit 2025 | The American Institute of Architects and I expect that there will be a thoughtful and targeted response that keeps in mind the interests of the broad architectural community, including public architects.  In the meantime, please consider reading this excellent publication from 2019 by Places editor Nancy Levinson, which described the evisceration of the federal civil service during the first administration of the current president:  Open and Shut.  



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    Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham FAIA
    University of Massachusetts
    Amherst MA
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