Rate My Professor Kristi Julian

Julian is a prominent leader in interior design education accreditation, contributing to the Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) as a site visitor since 2013, site visit team chair, and current chair of the Program Consultants Committee, where she has conducted 21 site visits and presented at workshops. In recognition of her exceptional volunteer service, she received the 2022 Keith Hooks Volunteer Excellence Award from CIDA. She co-founded the ProGlobe project in 2014, initially as the German-American Sustainability Project, expanding it to include collaborators from Germany, China, Portugal, Canada, and the United States to foster global awareness of environmental and social sustainability through digital project-based learning in interior architecture. The project earned the 2022 European Language Label for Innovative Initiatives in Language Teaching and Learning and a $450,000 grant from the German Academic Exchange Service. Her research interests center on virtual exchanges and interdisciplinary collaboration in design education, reflected in publications such as 'The multi-disciplinary approach to an interdisciplinary virtual exchange' (2021) and contributions to international conferences on virtual collaboration. Additional roles include MTSU Faculty Senator, board member of the Consortium of Virtual Exchange, advisory board member for the American University of Kurdistan design program, and advisory council member for Rutherford County Schools' Architecture and Construction Career and Technology Education.