President Emeritus of the Memphis College of Art Returns to New York Institution He Helped Shape
Jeffrey D. Nesin, president emeritus of the Memphis College of Art (MCA), has been named provost of the School of Visual Arts (SVA), one of the nation’s largest colleges of art and design. Having led MCA through two decades of unprecedented growth, Nesin will return to the city where he grew up and the institution where he began his career in higher education, first as a member of the faculty and then as a member of the president’s cabinet.
“I am pleased to be able to work with Jeff again as we plan for the next decade of growth at SVA, strengthen the institutional structure, and continue to advance the faculty and curriculum,” said SVA President David Rhodes.
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LIM College’s Maxwell Hall, which was expanded and renovated by Marner Architecture in 2009, has been recognized with an Outstanding Design award from American School & University (AS&U) magazine.
AS&U is an information source for education facilities and business professionals—serving the nation’s K-12 and higher education administrators responsible for the planning, design, construction, retrofit, operations, maintenance and management of education facilities. Since 1983, AS&U has hosted the premier competitions for education design projects.
Maxwell Hall will be featured in AS&U’s upcoming Educational Interiors Showcase. Published in August each year, this is a special issue entirely devoted to the best in educational interiors and facility planning. Educational administrators and others interested in educational facilities look to the Educational Interiors Showcase issue as a guide to award-winning ideas and innovations for America’s schools and universities. Honored projects also appear on the SchoolDesigns.com website.
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SVA took home the School of the Year award at the ADC 89th Annual Awards Ceremony, hosted by the Art Directors Club (ADC), an international organization for creatives in integrated media. The award was given to the school with the most cumulative ADC Cubes won across all categories, and SVA tied with Miami Ad School for the honor.
A number of SVA students were recognized individually for their projects. Alumnus and current MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department student Jungyeon Roh (BFA 2009 Illustration) won a Gold Cube in the Illustration category for her book Today is Sushi Day. Bronze Cubes were awarded to Alex Sunyoung Koo (BFA 2009 Advertising) and Julissa Ortiz (BFA 2009 Advertising) in Collateral Advertising; and to Wesley Gott, a current student in the MFA Design Department, for Television and Cinema Design. Jang Cho (BFA 2010 Advertising), Marianna D’Annunzio (BFA 2010 Advertising), Sungkwon Ha (BFA 2009 Advertising) and Eunjung Yoo (BFA 2010 Graphic Design) also received Merit awards for their advertising and design submissions.
The awards ceremony took place on Wednesday, May 19, at the SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street. Cubes were presented by top industry professionals including Richard Wilde, chair of the BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department. SVA students, alumni and faculty were also featured in the Art Directors Annual 88.
Berkeley College has partnered with GoArmyEd to provide soldiers the opportunity to pursue Bachelor’s and Associate’s degrees through distance learning no matter where they are stationed.
Berkeley College is proud to announce that it has partnered with GoArmyEd to provide the opportunity for soldiers to pursue degrees through distance learning no matter where they are stationed. This partnership allows soldiers to use their benefits under the Army Tuition Assistance program to pay for courses.
“The goal of the partnership between Berkeley College and GoArmyEd is to promote both the soldier’s mobile lifestyle and educational goals,” says Assistant Vice President of Military and Veterans Affairs Richard Robitaille, EdD. “Berkeley College offers premier programs in Business and Management and is honored to be able to offer these programs to Soldiers through a long-term, mutually beneficial partnership.”
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The LIM College Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team met with success at SIFE’s National Expo in Minneapolis on May 11-13. The SIFE team, for the first time in LIM College history, won their league competition and advanced to the semi-finals. The LIM College team was one of only 20 SIFE teams across the nation, out of the nearly 200 colleges/universities who were eligible to compete at the national level, to attain this honor.
SIFE works with teams of college students on campuses around the world to teach ethical and socially conscious business practices. LIM College SIFE has sought to improve the lives of individuals through service-oriented business projects. This year, SIFE completed seven projects, including providing job search training for women in need, coaching local entrepreneurs in merchandising for a small children’s boutique, and helping a young entrepreneur and LIM College alumna grow her business in manufacturing eco-friendly accessories in Guatemala.
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LIM College recently partnered with Junior Achievement (JA) of New York, Fashion Fantasy Game (FFG), and the High School of Art & Design to pilot a unique business education program that gave high school students a taste of what it would be like to own their own fashion retail business or design company. At the center of the program was Fashion Fantasy Game, an educational social-networking web game platform that allows students to make real-world business decisions in a virtual environment.
The goal was to ignite students’ entrepreneurial spirit in a competitive online environment. At the end of the seven-week program, students’ businesses were judged on profitability, revenues and marketing execution. The winning team won dinner with FFG CEO Nancy Ganz and will receive JA Job Shadow placements with New York City fashion companies.
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The College of Westchester recently held its 36th Annual High School Awards Program. This program recognizes outstanding high school business and computer education students from over 40 area high schools from the counties of Westchester, Putnam, Bronx, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess, Fairfield, and the Borough of Manhattan. The honorees were chosen by their high school education instructors for recognition in the categories of achievement, determination and leadership. As a result, over 450 students were awarded certificates. Addressing the honorees was Edward Cardinal Egan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York. His Eminence provided thought-provoking comments and guidance to the recipients.
The College of Westchester is committed to the community at large and education overall, and this event is proof of its commitment. It is rewarding to recognize such promising students in our community, even if they don’t choose to attend our college. CW exists to develop in students, the skills and abilities needed for the greater marketplace of the future. Over the past 95 years one attribute of CW that ensures students’ success in the marketplace is our continual evolution with employment trends and employers’ needs. We offer high quality, practical, career-focused, collegiate education leading to graduate success and security
The BFA Advertising and Graphic Design and MFA Design Departments at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) have been recognized in student competitions by major industry organizations, with more student projects from SVA selected than from any other college.
Best in Show
SVA has 24 projects recognized in The One Show College Competition, an annual competition organized by The One Club, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in advertising. This year, students were given a choice of two brands to reposition: Nooka, a high-end fashion accessory line, or Million Trees NYC, an organization dedicated to planting trees across New York City. 37 students from SVA created winning campaigns for both brands, including a non-traditional campaign by Merit winners Hez Kim, Jang Cho and Michael Oh featuring a promotional piece for Nooka modeled after a nightclub admission bracelet. There were over 3000 submissions to the competition, whose categories include logo design, print campaign and non-traditional campaign, and 92 have been recognized with Merit or Pencil Awards.
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Monroe College hosted an online demo session from the Yonkers Riverfront Library on April 14. College officials demonstrated the course management system that makes it possible for students to earn a college degree while maintaining family and employment responsibilities. WBLS radio personality “Egypt” discussed the importance of earning a college degree and how it changed her life.
“Monroe Online has enabled hundreds of adults earn their college degree while keeping up with job and family responsibilities,” said Executive Director of Online Programs Craig Patrick. “Most adults do not have the luxury of time or money to take off from work for a few years to attend college. That’s where Monroe Online comes in.”
Within a few short weeks, APC students, faculty and administrators sent more than 100,000 e-mail messages to lawmakers imploring them to reject proposed cuts to the state’s Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) within the proposed executive budget.
“These 100,000 letters are proof that New Yorkers support TAP and believe it is a worthwhile investment in the future of our work force and our state,” said Stephen J. Jerome, APC president and president of Monroe College in the Bronx and New Rochelle. “Any cuts to the TAP program are not in the best interest of New York or its students.”
The executive budget proposes cutting the maximum TAP award from $5,000 to $4,000 for full-time students enrolled in two-year colleges – unfairly targeting the neediest students in New York. “There is no justification to set TAP payments based on the length of the program at the institution a student attends,” Jerome added. “This will establish a two-tier TAP system that is contrary to the New York State Regents’ goal of promoting access to higher education.”
For 35 years TAP has made it possible for thousands of New Yorkers to afford college. It is an investment in New York students. Once the students graduate, they are able to secure good jobs here in New York and become productive, taxpaying members of their communities.
