Rate My Professor Holly Cline

Cline’s courses include Health Care Design, Restaurant Design, Residential Design, Presentation Graphics, Introduction to Design, Professional Practice and Ethics, Design Fundamentals Sophomore Studio, Drafting, and Portfolio Development. She created and oversees Radford’s online MFA in Design Thinking—the first such graduate program in the United States—which has earned recognition from Design Intelligence in areas such as design technologies, theory and practice, engineering fundamentals, healthy built environments, research, sustainable and adaptive design, and practice management. Her academic contributions include co-authoring “Cancer Treatment Facilities: Using Design Thinking to Improve the Patient and Family Experience” published in the Journal of Interior Design in 2018. Awards she has received encompass Radford University’s Outstanding Advisor Award (2006), the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) Presidential Citation Merit Award (2008) for her work with the Interior Design Continuing Education Council, and the IDEC Service Award (2014). Additionally, she serves as a CIDA accreditation site visitor, contributed to the College Art Association’s (CAA) taskforce and inaugural Committee on Design, and sits on the IDEC Foundation Board. Cline has been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences, luncheons, and workshops, emphasizing creative solutions in Design Thinking and socially responsible design.