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.
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…
Covid-19 pandemic communications from the CCA Human Resources Office, January 31 2020-2021
Covid-19 pandemic communications from the CCA President's Office, 2020-2021
On April 2nd of 2020, CCA Libraries & Art Practical hosted California College of the Arts' 6th annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon aimed at addressing the gender imbalance and skewed coverage of Wikipedia. Library staff and visitors spent the day writing articles on female artists and topics relating to women, feminism, and art. Due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic, CCA campuses were closed, but the edit-a-thon was successfully moved online using Zoom videoconferencing software. The results of the edit-a-thon were: 3 articles created, 17 articles edited, 138 total edits, 27 editors, 8.14k words added, 83 references added, and 6.08k article views.