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Initial Recommendations
Thanks to the whole committee
1) Comprehensive approach
2) Values
3) Conclusions

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CURRICULUM & PEDAGOGY
1) Comprehensive Approach
Ideas from last meeting
A) Establish Formal Learning Outcomes
Institutional: Imagination, Professionalism, Preparedness
Program Specific: Set by program with outside advising
B) Improve Support Structures
Assessment, planning, multiple student models, new learning
models, permanent curriculum committee, increase
interdisciplinarity, improve faculty conditions, define long-
term eLearning strategy
C) Update Program Curriculums/Consider New Programs
Consistent/robust course descriptions, assess currency, better
integrate liberal arts, industry advisory boards, evaluate
program mix

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2) Values
Values that need priority attention
A set of high priority issues
Distilling our approaches for improving curriculum
Supplementing many embedded ACCD values
Initiating a discussion

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2) Values
We advocate these new or renewed values:
The Essential Character of Making Things
Craft, concept and thinking are synthesized in the act of making
Thoughtfully working with our hands is a creative act
The shops must be integrated into curriculum
Shops should evolve to incorporate mechanical engineering,
electronics, software, media, and DIY culture
Deep Quality
Move from surface quality to highly refined realizations of
powerful ideas
Focus on criticality, research, strategy, systems design, invention,
risk taking, and strong conceptual development
Graduate programs should influence undergrad

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2) Values
We advocate these new or renewed values:
Integrated Work
Powerful work integrates cultural, technological, theoretical and
social contexts
Integrate the Humanities and Sciences into studio culture
Make Interdisciplinary and collaborative work a core
competency
Looking outward
Embrace diversity in all its dimensions as a means towards
excellence in art and design and a socially responsible mission
Explore local and global communities
Engage in lively discourse with art and design communities

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2) Values
We advocate these new or renewed values:
Making for Emerging Mediums
Technology and cultural changes catalyze new mediums that
must be incorporated into curriculums
Research and invention of new approaches should be integral
to the academic life of ACCD
Teach adaptability to new constraints, opportunities, skills and
concepts
Embrace risk taking
Constant Innovation in Programs
Culture must support constant change in curriculum
Potential new degrees: Interactive Design, Design Research,
Sustainable Design, Pro-Social Design, Theory & Criticism

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2) Values
We advocate these new or renewed values:
Fluid Curriculum
Increase opportunities for students and faculty to cross disciplines
Open up interdisciplinary degree opportunities
Decrease required credits, offer more electives
Offer a range of curriculum models for students
High School Grad - Additional terms for liberal arts, dorms,
develop maturity & work habits, traditional academic calendar
Professional - Faster track, good credit transfer policy
Foreign - Full ESL support, dorms, intensive acclimation term
Graduate - Early transfer from undergrad, low-residency option

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2) Values
We advocate these new or renewed values:
Align admissions with curriculum & values
Revise admissions criteria and methods
Increase quality, preparedness, diversity, and fit to curriculum
Increase dialog between admissions and programs
Raise scholarship levels (duh!)
Get branding, marketing, catalog and website right
Life-Long Learning
Educate our students to have life-long learning skills
Integrate self-study “labs” into curriculum as requirement
Create eLearning Center with physical and online presence

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2) Values
We advocate these new or renewed values:
Outcomes Based Education
Accreditation, field complexity, and educational excellence
Clear, frequently updated, and published learning outcomes
Curriculum and pedagogy must be aligned with outcomes
Assessment must be formal and regular
Teaching Excellence
Improve faculty respect, security & community
Establish faculty development initiatives - teaching & learning
models, new pedagogical methods, collaborative teaching,
advanced skills & technologies, etc.
Formal faculty involvement with decision making - governance

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3) Conclusions
Art Center Has a Tremendous Opportunity
Be ambitious and establish a leadership position in
advanced art/design education for the next 25 years
An imperative to engage in R&D to create curriculums
for the future
May require rethinking entire curriculums
Integrate faculty fully into curriculum development
Will take time, experimentation, collaboration and
perseverance
Keep the dialog going

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Thank you,
---The entire curriculum & pedagogy group
Wendy Adest, Marianna Amatullo, Jackie Apple, Laura
Cooper, Ron Dickson, Sean Donahue, Clement Durand,
Kohie Eguchi, Tom Mancuso, Chris Matia, Kurt Stern,
Philip van Allen, Brenda Varda, Dana Walker, Will Weston,
Deni Wohlgemuth and many others...