Foundations
● Blog: https://alfredfoundations.com
● Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Alfred_foundations/
● Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user4756697
Sculpture/Dimensional Studies
● Blog: www.alfredsculpture.com
● Catalog - Grad (2015): see: IV-I-I: SDS - MFA Graduates - 2015.pdf
● Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alfredusculpture?fref=ts
● Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/alfredsculpture/
● Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlfredSculpture
● Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HemakFZWxJ4
College of Professional Studies – Division of Education – Art Education Minor
● Website: http://ps.alfred.edu/education/art-ed.cfm
3. Documentation of connections with registration, certification, and/or licensure
BFA and BS students may complete an education minor that will prepare them for New York State Certification to teach art in grades K through 12. Alfred University requirements leading up to certification are enumerated in the Education Division section of the AU Undergraduate Catalog (see: IV-I-A: AU Undergraduate Catalog 2016-17.pdf). Included here is detailed
information regarding state examinations (Educating All Students, Academic Literacy Skill Test, Content Specialty Test), New York State mandated workshops, and required
fingerprinting/background check.
4. Any published claims regarding achievements.
Each year, the Career Development Center conducts a survey of the graduating class by mail, phone, and through the web to determine what AU students choose to do following graduation.
These outcomes reports (see: https://www.alfred.edu/cdc/destinations/)provide data on
employment and graduate school attendance. Specific information about student who graduated from different degree programs can also be viewed:
● Art and Design (Bachelor of Fine Arts):
https://www.alfred.edu/cdc/destinations/docs/Art-DesignBFA.pdf
● Art History and Theory (Bachelor of Science):
https://www.alfred.edu/cdc/destinations/docs/ArtHistoryandTheory.pdf
● Ceramic Art (Master of Fine Arts):
https://www.alfred.edu/cdc/destinations/docs/CeramicsMFA_000.pdf
● Electronic Integrated Arts (Master of Fine Arts):
https://www.alfred.edu/cdc/destinations/docs/ElectronicIntegratedArtsMFA_000.pdf
● Interdisciplinary Art (Bachelor of Arts):
https://www.alfred.edu/cdc/destinations/docs/InterdisciplinaryArt_003.pdf
● Sculpture/Dimensional Studies (Master of Fine Arts):
https://www.alfred.edu/cdc/destinations/docs/SculptureandDimenStudiesMFA.pdf Alfred University publishes Fast Facts about AU (see: https://www.alfred.edu/glance/) that includes statistics on class size, student-faculty ratios, faculty terminal degrees, in addition to reporting the status of accreditations and rankings. Various external national rankings are also reported on What the experts say about Alfred University (see:
https://www.alfred.edu/experts_say/). The AU Athletics site (see:
http://gosaxons.com/index.aspx) also publishes various accomplishments and rankings. All of these pages are accessible to external and internal audiences.
J. Community Involvement
Alfred University, the School of Art and Design and its six divisions, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Scholes Library, the Center for Student Involvement, Student Affairs and individual classes all participate in community involvement in various ways. The events and activities offered include the following:
● Exhibitions, exhibition openings, gallery talks (Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Cohen Gallery, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, CLAS IART Senior Shows, SoAD MFA Shows, SoAD Senior Shows and student curated exhibitions at the Robert C. Turner Gallery)
● Public lecture series, visiting artist lectures, gallery talks and critiques (Bergren Forum presentations, Visiting Artists and Scholars Committee programming, International Randall Chair public lectures, the Dorothy Wilson Perkins Ceramic History Lecture Series)
● The six divisions of the SoAD offer visiting artist lectures; additionally the Institute for Electronic Arts hosts artists for residencies
● The Drawn to Diversity Program of The Center for Student Involvement and Student Affairs focuses on social justice and innovative approaches for societal art therapy through participatory and interventionist engagements. The program’s outreach team is known as Art Force Five.
● Classes such as ART 375: Space and Place is class offered by the Sculpture/
Dimensional Studies Division (see: IV-I-J: ART 375 - Syllabus.pdf). Through a
partnership with the city of Hornell, the class brings AU students for a residency in The Hornell Community Arts Center for a semester in order to conduct research and create exhibitions and events held at the Arts Center, and in turn, culminate in The Hornell Art Walk with site-specific projects throughout town. This experience helps build a
connection between the often-isolated populations of local residents and AU students by creating shared experiences and providing a forum for discussion and connection. The students learn to question the role that their work plays in a given social context and how it engages with the people who constitute a place. The outcomes of the class include programing at the Hornell Community Arts Center and the citywide “Art Walk”.
● Summer Ceramic Workshops (not-for-credit); discussed below in section I.L
The mission statements, lists of events and activities, posters and brochures are located in the Management Documents Portfolio (see: IV-I-J).
K. Articulation with Other Schools
Alfred University publishes a list of the articulation agreements with other institutions for transfer students (see: https://banweb.alfred.edu:11101/pls/prod/bwckztran.PZ_OpenPage).
There, students are able to choose from a drop-down menu the state and institution from which they would like to transfer. In addition, from that same page, students are able to link to a PDF document that provides a detailed list of the Articulation and Cooperative Agreements (see: IV-I- K: AU Articulation and Cooperative Agreements.pdf) that AU has with other institutions and their programs. Also listed in this document are the exchange agreements with institutions located outside of the United States. While the SoAD does not yet have formal articulation agreements, two agreements are under negotiation with the Borough of Manhattan Community College and Broome County Community College respectively. Moreover, exchange agreements have been made with the following international institutions and the designated language of instruction:
● Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, City Design School, Beijing China (Chinese)
○ See: IV-I-K: AU and CAFA Agreement.pdf
○ See : IV-I-K: AU and CAFA International Transfer Agreement.pdf
● Danmarks Designskole, Copenhagen, Denmark (English)
● University for the Creative Arts at Farnham, England (English)
● Fachhochschule Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, Koblenz, Germany (German)
● University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (English)
● Sydney College of the Arts (English)
L. Non-Degree-Granting Programs for the Community
School of Art and Design
Summer Ceramic Workshops
Website: http://art.alfred.edu/summer-school/
The SoAD’s Summer Ceramic Workshops provide not-for-credit educational opportunities taught concurrently with for-credit courses offered as part of the Summer School program.
Enrollees in the AU Summer Ceramic Workshops are referred to as “participants” whereas persons enrolled in the Summer School, and earn credits, are referred to as “students.” For more, see the strategic plan: IV-I-L: Strategic Plan - Summer Programs in Ceramic Art.pdf.
Summer Ceramic Workshops and Summer School courses share faculty, facility and curricular material. Additionally, students enrolled in the Summer School courses have a separate faculty advisor who guides them and evaluates their work by submitting a grade for credits earned. The two programs share most budgetary, administrative and governance support. This system works well in the day-to-day operations of the curricular program but budgetary understanding between the SoAD and AU are not always transparent relative to program building and advertisement.
The non-curricular aspects of the programs managed by AU (e.g., housing, dining hall and so on) need more support and better coordination.
This program is an essential tool for building community support, recruitment of potential undergraduate and graduate students, and for increasing national and international visibility (see:
IV-I-L: SCW NCECA Ad.pdf and Summer Ceramics Poster 2017.pdf). The curricular relationship between the Summer Ceramic Workshops and Summer School makes the above positive outcomes possible. For the 2017 Summer School courses and Summer Ceramic Workshops offered by the SoAD, see: IV-I-L: SoAD Summer School and Workshops List 2017.pdf.
The Division of Ceramic Art developed a workshop model that has been adopted by the Divisions of Expanded Media and Sculpture/Dimensional Studies; these divisions will offer concurrent workshops in Summer 2017.