Hi Everyone!

SVA Academic Affairs meeting tomorrow Thursday April 19 in Main 160 from 12-1. This is our last meeting of the semester, please bring any new reps from your department.

See you then!

Hi all! A kind reminder of today’s SVA Academic Affairs meeting in Main 160 from noon to 1 pm!!!

Hi all!

Here’s the list of the reps of each department:

ANIMATION
Andrew Lucas
Mike Sergonis
Sarah Kujubu

ART HISTORY
Amy Beverungen
Karen Shea 
Niamh Doherty

CERAMICS
Anna Queen 
Antoinette Nero 
Caitlin Kennedy

ENVIROMENTAL DESIGN
Allie Melissa Fauer
Cindy Jian 
Katrina Keane
Rachel Kang 
Tessa Jade Tripodi
Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou

FIBER
Allison Samuels
Evyn Fong 
Veronica Casado

GFA
Keloni Parks
Kelsey Schneider
Ridhi Singla
Shirley Chan

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Erica Bech
Gabe Kelley
Katy Mitchell
Lisa Deng

ILLUSTRATION
Aimee Fleck 
Jordan Sandler

IS
Harrison Tyler
Joanna Mitchell
Rebecca Powell

PAINTING
Aurelia Josefina Javier
Colleen Tierney Helie
David Eassa 
Emma Hart Fineman
Louis Abbene-Meagley
Lydia Beaumont Pettit
Scott Everett Shelden

PHOTOGRAPHY
Erin Maywhoor
Micah Wood 
Nina Perlman
Sabrina Chin
Val Karuskevich

PRINTMAKING
Chloe Maratta
Mario Urpi 
Shelby Rosoff

Hi all!

SVA Academic Affairs is meeting tomorrow Thursday October 20th from 12 to 1 pm. We will be meeting in Main 160 (President’s Board Room).

Vero.

Hi all!

Just a kind reminder about tomorrow’s Town Hall Meeting with SVA leaders, President Fred Lazarus and provost Ray Allan. 

Please join us tomorrow Wednesday October 5th at Main 110 from 2:30 to 4pm!

Vero.

Hello all!

The new academic year has begun and both MICA SVA councils are holding their first meetings of the semester this week:

• Student Life Council meeting:

           Wednesday,  September 21,  2.30-3.30 pm. Main 110.

• Academic Affairs Council meeting:

          Thursday, September 22, 12-1pm. Main 160.

Hope to see you there!

Veronica.

Hello all, and Happy Spring!

Here are the Academic Affairs meeting notes from our March get-together. We covered our semesterly departmental reports for the bulk of the meeting (at which there were make-your-own sandwiches and cookies… yummm), and then Tom Hyatt of Technology services came to give us an update on MICA’s switch to Gmail.

Our next meeting will be April 21st from 12-1pm at Main 160 again, and we’ll be holding elections for our next round of officers.  We’re going to need an entirely new board, so start thinking about running (either yourself or nominating someone else).  Also, please bring a friend or two from your department who you think would be a good addition to SVA!

See you on the 21st,

Allison

Departmental reports  —>

CERAMICS (Anna Queen)
-Have a new kiln
-Dept is growing in people (concentrators specifically), but not enough studio space to accomodate
-Students’ work is limited by physical space available and kilns; waiting for something to open up

GRAPHIC DESIGN (Katy Mitchell)
-Just got laser printer
-AIGA having senior-underclassmen talks, which is a great way of communicating
-Concerns= connecting all computers to printers in Brown, and making sure printers are working, because notably they do not

PHOTOGRAPHY (Sabrina Chin, Erin Maywhoor)
-Creating a new room for scanners in the dept
-News: motion detector lights were installed by BGE without Photo’s permission in all rooms in dept, black & white and color darkrooms included. This was obviously a problem because darkrooms need to be switch-activated.  Light switches have been reinstalled.
-Space always a problem (especially digital lab, which is shared with other majors)
-Dept has expanded in people, but classes offerings do no reflect this
-History of Photography is only photo history course, and only offered in the Fall

INTERDISCIPLINARY SCULPTURE (Joanna Mitchell & Becky Powell)
-Ken Martin will be temporary Chair next year
-New course- Concrete Culture- will be offered in fall
-Eve Laramie back from sabbatical next semester!
-Sometimes wood & metal shop techs are helpful, but sometimes not; better trained students (juniors/seniors) need to be hired
-Next year there will be student techs in woodshed to assist (separate from work-study)

ILLUSTRATION (Mollie Little)
-No large format scanners, and the only good scanner in the dept is in the illustration office; a bad one is in the senior studios
-Jose Villarrubia is new Chair, and a lot of changes have been made: got rid of 200/300/400 level courses, and can now take anything you want
-Cut senior budget

VIEDO (Paul Slupski, Eric Varela)
-Video 1 class no longer offered
-Chair says, “Video is dead;” dept will be renamed ‘Moving Image,’ which covers broader ground, and is less technical
-It is a male-dominated dept, trying to make less so with less technical classes
-Talking about giving workshops (coding, setting up files, budgeting, etc)
-Building hours are big problem; don’t kick us out when working!  Can we have restricted-access rooms within Brown, where only trusted students may use? And you can apply within the dept?

FIBER (Allison Samuels)
-Making changes to required Junior Seminar course (required for all 3-D majors: Fiber/ IS/ Ceramics), and creating an open dialogue with Chairs & students
-Had a Fiber open forum earlier in semester, went well!
-Susie Brandt (Chair) taking a sabbatical next year; Piper Shephard most likely new Chair
-A few new courses offered this year (i.e. Millinary workshop), and hiring new full-time faculty for next year

Last notes  —>

-If you are interested in working to improve building hours, contact the building hours committee (lead by Steven Davis & Mike Molla).  A letter written to these people and signed by SVA would also help

Tom hyatt (technology):
-Currently moving MICA email over to Gmail
(so far 240 students since monday making the transition)- after September 1 will move people over automatically
-If we have any problems, call Help Desk at 410-225-2201 or email help@mica.edu
-Going to do some hand-holding with faculty & staff, they will be moved over to Gmail later
-As of Friday, the t-shirt printer is open at Print Center; prices start at $10, and up from there (based on comparably sized piece of paper)

-Take the Collegetown shuttle survey!

SVA Academic Affairs Council

Thursday October 14th, 2010

Noon-1pm

Main 225

Allison Samuels, Welcome @ 12:12

There’s a sign-up sheet going around, please write your name, e-mail, and department. Today we’re going to be giving descriptions of what’s going on in your department, what’s going on this year, and any main concerns that you have. Keep it concise so that we can get you out of here and back to class.

We will start with Kat, who is the Exhibitions Committee rep.

Kat- There have been no meetings yet, nothing to report.

Megan asks for rep for Faculty Student Affairs Committee. Announces that she will stay with us for the Fall even though she is now the Director of Career Development.

Kate Doody, new faculty this year in the ceramics department. Susie Brandt, chair of the fiber department. They report to the faculty at the faculty assembly. We need help with putting course evaluations online. Would love some student expertise. They meet once a month, Wednesdays at 4. Ben and Andrew announce themselves as possible candidates for spring. Meghann Harris volunteers for the fall only.

12:16 Allison- We move now into departmental reports.

Fiber- What we would like to be working on this semester is getting professional development in earlier for fiber majors so that we’re not just working on that senior year. Would like to open up the resource of sewing machines with the entire school, in order to do this we need more funding and resources. We are developing an art history class that is based off of fiber and textile history. There have been a few problems with the supply fee at the school store, working towards improving this system. We would also like to have the fabric printer available for the whole school. We need someone else who is fully trained on it besides Piper Sheppard. In station, the swipe reader stops working at 7pm. It’s an issue if there is not a guard at the door. (This happens also at the basement of Main). On the weekend, the building is supposed to close at 3am but people have been kicked out at 2.

Humanistic Studies – Working on having a major 60% HS & 40% Studio. Student & faculty are meeting to gather information on what students want.

Animation- This year we’ve gotten new spaces and new equipment. The concern is that the department is growing every year but the funding has stayed the same, haven’t been able to hire the right faculty. There are a lot of budgetary concerns. No personal space for seniors.

MAT- Looking for another rep. to take Meghann’s place. There is no undergraduate chair. Each of the faculty members are trying to work together instead of having a chair. Progress has been really slow because there are people who have made great strides and then left. The big concern is the scheduling because it caters to the grad students and not undergrad. They are changing the schedule for next semester working to improve it for juniors. The advising process needs to be updated in the MAT office.

Graphic Design- Will be going around to different graphic design classes and introducing themselves, giving out the website and their email addresses. Last semester they did surveys. One of the things they found school-wide was that the projectors are a problem. If there is a problem teachers should report problems right away to the help desk. - Megan says that the problem is log-in, teachers should know the right login for using the projectors. Working on a screen-printing for design class. There will be a demo by AIGA to learn how to use a specific tool available to GD majors.

Printmaking- the department is facing a lot of trouble with the ventilation system, this is a problem because of all of the chemicals and toxic substances and they are not meeting health & safety regulations. Faculty are taking steps- change to water soluble inks, but the print quality is not as good and people notice that. Late October they will be with the health and safety coordinator to propose the ventilation system plan. The Tyler Moore College of Art is a good reference for a good ventilation system. Repairs are taking place during classes which is really inconvenient. Are grateful that the department is growing and they have great new faculty.

Foundation- more freshman awareness about the resources around campus. Not many freshman know about the MRC, for example. Thinking about what more could be carried at the school store? More variation of art supplies, including sculpture and fiber materials. Letting freshman in on community arts, how to get art out there. Concern about the 1515 building? The use of space, the fact that when you’re in an Emac class you can hear the sculpture class going on next door. Technology and ventilation problems. Not the same kind of equipment as in the station building- missed opportunities. In the commons, the wireless in is still a problem at certain hours, around 4-7 pm and 10-2 am.

Interjection- A lot of students are looking for After Effects to be on more computers around campus (specifically the 24 hour computer labs)

Ceramics- Added a ceramics minor this year, so the department is growing, outgrowing its one classroom. As a major it’s really difficult to have access to all the tools that you need access to while another class is going on.

Art History- Problem with Art History majors getting into required art history classes. Perhaps Art History Majors could have priority for higher level classes.

IXDA- Transitional space because we just got a new chair, a teacher promoted from within the department, James Rouvelle. The biggest concern is that classes are named strangely and people don’t know what to take. It’s pretty vague as to what these classes entail and who should be taking them. Developing a track (IXDA 1, IXDA 2, etc.) so that people know exactly what to take and when (sophomore year, junior year, etc). Will make it easier for advising. James wants to send memos to advisors so that this is easier. A desire to expand the sound portion of the major. Will this be Video or IXDA? Also want more development of the gaming portion of the major. This will also benefit Animation majors who are interested in gaming.

Illustration- Nothing to complain about. Also have a new chair, Jose Villarubia, who has made a lot of changes, got rid of the 200, 300 level system (sophomore, juniors) so there has been a lot more mixing of levels. We’re really happy about all of the new computers in room 315 in Fox.

Video/ Film Arts- New equipment acquired over the summer. Will be showing documentaries in Falvey this semester. We need to show more of our work, there are a few screenings, but there should be more opportunities to show student work in a venue like Falvey. Training new students for video jobs is a thought, now training freshman to do this. 35mm film projection- the projectionist from the Charles is willing to teach students how project 35mm. After Effects, there is a need to learn this program, for After Effects to be taught. Keep it up Jon Bevers!

Photography- Would like to add card swipe machines to the vending machines in the basement of Main. In the past 2 years they opened up a digital print lab, want to get this awareness out more. Want more computers for this, currently only have 3. Have been expanding hours. Trying to balance analog and digital, thinking about converting the S dark room into a digital lab.

Interjection- sometimes doors in Brown are closed, and the door codes are not known so then students can’t get into a room they might need. The codes should be more widely known – put on portal?

IS- Open forum meeting last week. The department chair was there, but there wasn’t a huge student turn-out. There needs to be more of an awareness of open forum meetings. Foundry club show. New Facebook page for the department for posting news. Generally we want freshman and sophomores to feel acclimated into the department, we’re lacking in this. Trying to set up movie nights, kick-ball tournaments, to make people feel like they are part of a group. 2011-2012 the chair will be on sabbatical and Ken Martin will be taking over during that time. For the spring of 2011 we are getting some new courses in expanded format and urban farming.

GFA- Everything is pretty good. The Studio Center is kind of crowded with Juniors and Seniors. A lot of juniors have to share 3-4 people per studio, so this is not effective. This is a problem for all the fine arts majors. Want underclassmen to be more connected with upperclassmen.

Environmental Design- There will be a lot of change, mainly getting MICA to be aware of the department, what it is exactly that we do. Last year there were a lot of speakers and events, so the challenge this year is to continue this and promote events and exchanges and programs within the department. With every new class there is expansion so there are growing problems with desk space and the quality of the space and the student lounge.

Allison- If anyone has friends in a department that wasn’t represented (drawing and painting specifically), please let them know that they would be a good rep. and give them the sva e-mail address. We always need new people. If you are a senior and are going to be leaving, think about people that you can bring along to take your place as a representative when you graduate.

Megan- Next meeting we will start focusing on what we want to be working on. The spring is our action time. At the Townhall meeting one of the big issues was professional development plan. Next month we will have guests to talk about this issue. Then we will discuss what key issues we want to move forward with. If you hear any additional comments from your department, feel free to email us. We appreciate your time.

Next meeting is Novemeber 11th in our usual location.

End 12:57 pm