Programs
Program Consultants
The individuals on CIDA’s list of program consultants have demonstrated the appropriate background and experience to provide consulting services to interested programs.
These individuals have demonstrated the following:
a strong understanding of and practical experience in applying current CIDA standards during the accreditation process;
a broad and in-depth knowledge of interior design education either through service as a CIDA site visitor, extensive experience as a faculty member at a CIDA-accredited program, or a combination of the two;
a commitment to quality interior design education through professional and service activities;
professional attributes, including strong communication skills, open-mindedness, ethical behavior, dependability and timeliness.
Program consultants may be called upon to serve in an advisory capacity as set forth in an independent service contract between the individual program and consultant. Programs may contract with a consultant to provide a broad range of services depending on the interests and issues affecting program development. Each consultant’s self-identified area(s) of expertise are identified below.
Individual programs and consultants negotiate service contracts, including compensation for services rendered, independent of CIDA. CIDA does not maintain guidelines or provide advice to programs or consultants related to services and fees. Please click here to download CIDA’s policy and procedure for program consultants (PDF document).
If you have any questions about the list of program consultants, please contact Megan Scanlan, Director of Accreditation.
Scott M. Ageloff, FIDEC, ASID, AIA,
Scott is the founding principal at Ageloff and Associates. Since 1977, he has practiced as an architect and interior designer with firms in Pittsburgh, Seoul, New Haven and New York City. Currently, he is a licensed architect in New York and New Jersey, and is a Certified Interior Designer in New York State. His professional memberships include the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), and the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC). He has also served as a member of the New York State Board for Interior Design within the Office of the Professions, and on the Board of Interior Designers for Legislation in New York (IDLNY).
In addition to being an architect and interior design practitioner, he has been an active design educator. Most recently, he served as the founding director of the MS in Interior Architecture program at Philadelphia University. Prior to that position he was Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the New York School of Interior Design (NYSID), and Associate Professor of Interior Design at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, where he served as Chair of the Arts Division. In 2011, Scott was elected as a Fellow of the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC), where he has served twice as a member of the National Board of Directors. Scott served as a CIDA site visitor for many years before being invited to join CIDA’s Accreditation Commission. He completed two three-year terms on the Accreditation Commission in 2018, and is currently a part-time faculty member in interior design at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Scott received his undergraduate degree in architecture, with honors, from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Masters of Architecture from Yale University. Prior to graduate school, he was a Fellow in the Luce Scholars Program of the Henry Luce Foundation, during which time he was a working member of the Architects Group Forum, an architectural firm in Seoul, Korea.
Scott M. Ageloff’s self-identified areas of expertise are as follows:
curriculum revision
overall program development
review of student work to determine compliance with CIDA Standards
organization of a CIDA site visit
conducting a successful self-study process
providing constructive criticism on a draft Program Analysis Report
Cherif Amor, Ph.D. EDRA, IDEC, IIDA
Cherif Amor joined Virginia Commonwealth University-Qatar in 2013 as the chair of the Department of Interior Design. He formerly served consecutively as the director of the Interior and Environmental Design graduate program and chair of the Department of Design at Texas Tech University. He earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Design with a specialization in the semantics of the built environment from the University of Missouri Columbia (2000).
Cherif has an in-depth understanding of interior design education acquired through experience in academic and professional practice. He currently serves as a CIDA site visitor and has also served as an NCIDQ ambassador; the Director of Education for the Texas/Oklahoma chapter of IIDA; and chair of the interior design network for EDRA. Cherif has extensive experience with CIDA’s accreditation process, both as a site visitor and as a faculty member (Texas Tech University—2002), as chair of the Department of Design (Texas Tech University— 2008), and as chair of the department of interior design (Virginia Commonwealth University—2018).
In addition to being an administrator, professor, and researcher, Cherif’s commissions and consultation experience includes serving as a curriculum consultant for the Applied Science University, Kingdom of Bahrain; curriculum benchmarking for the Department of Interior Design, College of Architecture and Engineering, Kingdom University; and curriculum reviewer/consultant for the Texas International Education Consortium (TIEC). During the last six academic years, Cherif has been the recipient and nominee of fifteen teaching, research, and service awards/recognitions.
Areas of expertise:
Curriculum revision
Overall program development
Review of student work to determine compliance with CIDA Standards
Organization of a CIDA site visit
Conducting a successful self study process
Lynn M. Jones, ASID, IDEC, LEED AP
Lynn understands accreditation and the symbiotic relationship of practice and education. She is principal of Jones Interiors & Consulting, and Faculty Emerita at Brenau University. Lynn has been a CIDA site visitor and team chair since the late 1990s and consultant for over ten years. Of the nearly twenty schools for which Lynn has consulted, those that proceeded with accreditation were successful. Lynn is also the past Co-Chair for Brenau’s SACS reaffirmation.
During her tenure at Brenau, Lynn served in advancing roles starting as Assistant Professor of Interior Design and ultimately serving as Associate Dean of the Undergraduate College and International Design Collaboration Program Director. She secured continuous CIDA accreditation from 1993 until her retirement in 2018. She also designed new and historic campus buildings, many with the engagement of her students.
Lynn completed her undergraduate degree magna cum laude in Environmental Design at Purdue University. She then practiced professionally in commercial office and hospitality design. Her terminal degree in Historic Preservation was completed at the University of Georgia. She launched Jones Interiors to complement her teaching, and also completed an MBA in Leadership.
She is the recipient of the ASID National Educator Medalist Award, the CIDA Keith Hooks Volunteer Excellence Award, Brenau’s Ann Austin Johnston Outstanding Faculty Member Award and the Business Leadership Award. Her design work has received awards from ASID, AIA, and IDEC. Beginnings of Interior Environments - her text selected for use in multiple colleges in North America - is also published in Mandarin and used worldwide.
Lynn has experience collaborating with faculty and staff on curriculum development and working with existing programs to restructure curriculum to meet both institutional and CIDA outcomes.
Lynn’s areas of expertise are as follows:
Overall program development and related curriculum revision
Conducting a successful self-study process and providing constructive criticism on draft Program Analysis Reports
Reviewing student work to determine compliance with CIDA Standards
And organizing a CIDA site visit