Submitted for reaffirmation of accreditation to: Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior College and University Commission. Accreditation off-site visit to occur April 2016. On-site visit October 2016.
11 email threads from the CCA President's Office sent between June, 2016 and the end of 2015. Topics include Black Lives Matter protests, student housing, the passing of Barclay Simpson and Yee Jan Bao, the departure of a couple of CCA staff, and SEIU's election to represent adjunct faculty and lecturers.
25 emails from the CCA President's Office from 2016 to 2017. Topics include administrative staffing changes, the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, extrajudicial murders of people of color by police officers, the passing of CCA faculty members, a WASC accreditation visit, the Ghost Ship Fire in Oakland, and the first election of Donald Trump.
19 emails from the CCA President's Office from 2018 to 2019. Topics include administrative staffing changes, the National School Walkout on the anniversary of the Parkland mass shooting, the passing of CCA community members, and campus unification updates.
55 emails from the President's Office. Some emails have identical titles but were sent separately to the All Staff and All Faculty lists. During these two years, the President's Office sent over twice as many emails as the prior two years. CCA moving to online classes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated an increase in email communications. Other major topics include the passing of CCA community members, the search for a Vice President of DEIB, and responses to major national events.
Current Critical Ethnic Studies Chair, Shylah Pacheco Hamilton (BFA Individualized Studies 2009), joins former chairs Melinda de Jesús, Sonia BasSheva Manjon, and Opal Palmer Adisa in conversation to share their experiences as head of the program during their time at CCA; to speak to the impact of the program on the college and its students; and to discuss the critical work, structural change,and prioritization that still needs to occur at CCA and institutions of higher education to truly dismantle white supremacy and systemic racism.
At the Interior Design Program’s 50th Anniversary, alumni Gary Hutton and Larry Peifer, current chair Amy Campos, and former chair Katherine Lambert, reflect forward with Faculty Emeritus Hank Dunlop. Hank taught at the college for many years, after working at Gensler as the firm’s first interiors hire. He had an immense impact on the interior design field at large and on design education at CCA. The group share stories about their time learning and teaching at the college, discuss the rapidly changing field of interior design, and posit possibilities for the future of the field, particularly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the ways that we work and live now. Hank also shares his thoughts on supporting the next generation of designers. To this end, and to mark this milestone anniversary, the college has established the Hank Dunlop Endowed Scholarship for Interior Design in his honor. Hank Dunlop, former chair of the Interior Design Program, taught at CCA from 1978 to 2009, when he was awarde…
Pulled from the college’s archive of collected oral histories, alumni share their stories about their time at the college, memories about the spaces, people, work, and activity that happened here. The interviews in this collection were conducted with alumni who attended the college between the 50’s to the 70’s. They were recorded at various events, reunions, and campus visits over the last few years. Oral History interviews are conducted by the Alumni Engagement team, Library and Archive staff, members of the Oakland Campus Legacy Committee, and generous volunteers from the community. Story tellers: Jon Dodge (BFA Painting 1969), Nelson Hee (BFA Drawing, Printmaking 1973), Frank Poulsen (BAEd Art Education 1956), Douglas Sandberg (BFA Film 1978), M. Louise Stanley (MFA Painting 1969, BFA Painting 1967), Mary B. White (BFA Ceramics, Glass 1970; TCred Art Education; MFA Glass 1980); interviewers: Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo (BFA Printmaking 2015), Emily Major.
A conversation between former Dean of Architecture David Meckel and two graduates from the first years of the CCAC Architecture program in the 1980s, Peggy Chiang and Tim Perks. Topics include accreditation, the early days of the school, architecture collections in the library, other programs like Interior Design and Furniture, inspiring professors, and the Oakland and San Francisco campuses.