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The Academy of Art University, a for-profit institution owned by the Stephens Institute, was founded in San Francisco in 1929 by Richard S. Stephens. Since then, it has expanded to occupy over 30 buildings in the downtown area and with an enrollment of approximately 9,500 students, it is the largest art and design school in the USA. Image File history File links From http://www. ...
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Nickname: The City by the Bay; Fog City Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Area - City 122 km² (47 sq mi) - Land 121. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
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The Academy offers AA, BFA, MFA, M-Arch, or Certificate programs both online and on campus in 13 majors: Advertising, Animation & Visual Effects, Architecture (MFA & M-Arch only), Computer Arts/New Media, Digital Arts & Communications, Fashion, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Architecture & Design, Motion Pictures & Television, and Photography. Because the school is not curently accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, its BFA's are not accepted as evidence of adequate scholarly or artistic preparation by many graduate programs and its units are not generally accepted for transfer to other four-year universities. The Academy is in the process of re-applying for WASC accreditation, which it has failed to earn in the past.
HISTORY
The Academy of Art University was established in San Francisco in 1929 by Richard S. Stephens, a Creative Director for Sunset Magazine. Assisted by his wife, Mrs. Clara Stephens, he opened the new school in a rented loft at 215 Kearny Street to teach advertising art. In 1933 the curriculum was expanded to include Fashion Illustration, and in 1936 a Fine Art Department was added. In 1951, after graduating from Stanford University, Richard A. Stephens took over the Presidency from his parents. His tenure led to the expansion of the Academy from an enrollment of fifty students in two rented loft spaces to a 5,200 student body, with continued expansion of department majors available. In 1966 the school was incorporated and granted authority to offer a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education of the State of California. The graduate program was inaugurated in 1977 and approved by 1983. Around this time, Academy faculty formed a union that was certified by the National Labor Relations Board as the California Federation of Art Teachers. After many attempts by the school to prevent the union from becoming active, and a proctracted legal battle, the National Labor Relations Board prevailed in federal court and secured back pay for many instructors who had been illegally terminated according to the terms of the National Labor Relations Act.
Elisa Stephens, the granddaughter of the school’s founder, succeeded her father as President of the Academy of Art University in 1992. Stephens has been committed to establishing the Academy's brand identity. Like her father, Stephens has been embroiled in controversy. In December 2003, Stephens moved to expel a student for having written a story in a creative writing class that featured a male protagonist who was a serial killer and who mutilated his female victims. Stevens, at the suggestion of the Academy's Vice President of Academic Affairs, Sue Rowley, arranged to have the student criminally profiled and expelled. The student's instructor, Jan Richman, a poet and former recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, was subsequently terminated, as was Alan Kaufman, another instructor, who organized protests of both the student's expulsion and of Richman's termination. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon wrote an editorial for the New York Times critiquing the school's actions and calling for it to re-evaluate its philosophy surrounding issues of censorship and artistic freedom. PEN Faulkner president Salman Rushdie wrote a letter in protest of the school's censorship and of its labor policies. Neither Chabon's editorial nor Rushdie's letter were acknowledged by Stephens, who later arranged to censor and shut down a student newspaper that was covering the events and calling for the formation of a democratically elected student government.
HOUSING The Academy owns many buildings that it has converted into dormitories. Though it guarantees housing to all students, the rates charged for this housing are higher than at most other colleges in the Bay Area.
== GENERAL INFORMATION ==
The university holds classes in a number of buildings, most of which are within a few blocks of each other in downtown San Francisco. There are classes in several of the buildings, which are significant historical structures; in some cases, bought by the university to preserve them from demolition or commercial redevelopment. There are eleven student dormitories. Some dormitories are coed, some are not, and some occupy structures built in the early 20th Century. The university also has a limited number of student apartments. Residence facilities and all academic buildings are linked by an extensive school shuttle bus system, free to students, that runs both daytime and evening routes. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
In the summer of 2005, the university purchased St. Brigid's Church on Van Ness Avenue from the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco. The church was first opened as a parish in 1864 as a small wooden structure set on sand dunes. A large new stone church on the same site was completed in 1904 and survived the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and fires with relatively minor damage when a desperate fight finally stopped the spreading of such fires across the street from the church on Van Ness Avenue. The church had been closed by the Archdiocese in 1994 as a cost-saving measure. After a seismic restoration forecast to cost $7,000,000 USD, the university plans to use the church as a meeting hall, and its basement gymnasium will provide a sports facility for the school. Arrangement for access for former St. Brigid's parishioners (who have fought to re-open the church ever since its closure in 1994) have apparently been discussed, but no conclusions have been reached. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Arnold Genthes famous photograph of San Francisco following the earthquake, looking towards the fire on Sacramento Street The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco and the coast of northern California at 5:12am on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. ...
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The Academy is not currently accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The University is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS). The Foundation of Interior Design Education and Research (FIDER) accredits the Interior Architecture & Design School with a BFA degree as a professional level program. The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) has granted the School of Architecture candidacy status to offer a two year Master of Architecture degree. The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) is one of six official academic bodies responsible for the accreditation of public and private universities, colleges, secondary and elementary schools in the United States and foreign institutions of American origin. ...
The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) is a non-profit education corporation recognized by the United States Secretary of Education as an independent and autonomous national accrediting body that accredits institutions of higher education offering programs of study through the masters degree level. ...
The National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) is the sole authority for accredited US professional degree programs for architecture in the United States, developing standards and procedures to verify that each accredited program meets standards for the appropriate education of architects. ...
External links - A work of art or a harbinger of violence? Grisly short story gets student expelled from S.F. academy -- and costs teacher her job*
- The Creative Landlord The Academy of Art University runs a bustling dormitory business in downtown SF*
- Michael Chabon -- Solitude and the Fortresses of Youth*
- San Francisco Academy of Art University
- More than 200 Art & Design Leaders Attend Academy of Art University 'Spring Show'
- Deanne Fitzmaurice, Academy Alumni, wins 2005 Pulitzer Prize
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