Use this form to express interest in the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Department faculty will nominate candidates to AICAD for an invitation for a full application. Please express interest by November 1, 2024.
WHAT IS AICAD?
AICAD – the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design – is a non-profit consortium of the leading art schools in the US and Canada. It was founded in 1991 by a group of 25 presidents who felt a need for the similarly structured art schools to come together so as to mutually develop their schools and programs. Our mission is to help strengthen the member colleges individually and collectively, and to inform the public about these colleges and the value of studying art and design.
FELLOWSHIP HISTORY
The AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship program placed its first Fellows in fall 2015. The Fellowship was founded by a group of Chief Academic Officers who all wanted to contribute to the goal of increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of AICAD faculty by offering significant professional development to our excellent graduating students.
The concept is simple:
- Any AICAD institution may nominate graduating Master’s level students (and recent alumni) to apply. Applicants must be nominated by their home institution, and must meet all eligibility criteria (see below).
- AICAD institutions self select to place Fellows. Placement involves an agreed-upon set of minimum parameters (see below).
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
- The AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship provides significant professional practice opportunities to high-achieving Graduate alumni. In contributing to the goal of increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of our faculty, we aspire to create a climate that recognizes and values diversity as central to excellence.
- The Fellowship is aimed specifically at recent alumni from participating AICAD schools. Alumni of up to 3 years post-graduation are eligible, if not currently employed in a full-time teaching position in higher education.
- Provide significant professional development to high achieving graduate students within our association as they enter the professoriate, and who will contribute to the diversification of our communities and our curricula.
CRITERIA The Fellowship is aimed specifically at recent alumni from participating AICAD schools. Candidates must meet the following criteria:
- Candidates must be nominated to apply by the institution from which they earn their graduate degree. See information below about the nomination process.
- Nominees are those who have the potential to contribute to arts and design higher education through their understanding of the barriers facing those from racial and ethnic backgrounds underrepresented in our faculty and curricula, as evidenced by life experiences and disciplinary expertise.
- Earning a graduate degree from a current member AICAD institution. Nominees must be graduating in May of the current academic year, or be an alum of the classes 2021, 2022, and 2023.
- Alumni may be adjunct or part-time faculty, but may not be in a current full-time higher education level teaching position.
- Candidates who have not been placed in a given year are eligible to be nominated again in subsequent years, provided they still meet the graduation year eligibility window. They do, however, need to be nominated each year to apply.
- Candidates may not be placed at the institution from which they graduated or intend to graduate (Master's level alma mater)
NOMINATION PROCESS Students are nominated to apply to the Fellowship by faculty or chief academic officers at their graduating institution. Institutions nominate applicants based on the eligibility criteria detailed above, the candidate’s demonstrated excellence in their practice, and their ability to grow as an instructor. Once a student or alum is nominated, it is then up to them to complete an application. More information is found below on the application process.
PLACING INSTITUTIONS AICAD institutions self select to place Fellows. Participating institutions nominate candidates, accept Fellows, or both. A list of placing institutions will be made available to applicants via the Slideroom application portal.
We are reaching out to graphic design alumni to create an archive of student work from the period 1992 through 2022. The goal is to assemble comprehensive documentation to share with current and future students as well as scholars and designers interested in the department’s output and impact.
This is a pilot program to create a more significant archive of student work across the School of Art so we appreciate your willingness to participate. We hope to complete this archive by January 15, 2023; your prompt reply is appreciated.
Using this form, you may submit up to 20 reproductions of key works you produced during your school years. Works may take any form – print, font design, interfaces, animations, installations, exhibitions – but we will request that you please send digital reproductions only. Class work, independent work, collaborative work and Yale University commissions (font design, posters, websites, publications, film/video, installations,Yale commissions such as Prospecta and Paprika, etc.) are all welcome.
Please answer the questions about each work to the best of your ability, and then upload its file. If, for example, you have images from multiple angles of one 3D piece, or if you would like to upload multiple pages from a single publication, you may upload multiple files in this field. If additional elaboration is needed, please utilize the “additional notes” field. You may indicate regarding each work whether you consent for the School of Art to use it for educational purposes.
After you have completed this process, if you would like to submit an additional work, please ensure you select "yes" and the form will replicate accordingly.
Collaborative pieces are welcomed - in the box for the work's description, you may indicate the name(s) of your collaborator(s) and any details you deem relevant.
PDF, JPG, .TIF, .MOV, GIF, and EPS files are all acceptable formats. File naming should ascribe to the following format:
Last NameFirst Name_Date_ProjectName_Media
Example: SmithJohn_2014_Medea_FontDesign
Please direct any questions, clarifications, or requests to kathleen.quaintance@yale.edu. Thank you for your willingness to contribute to this initiative, and we will be in touch with any updates.
Thank you!
Best,
Pamela Hovland, Senior Critic in Graphic Design
Susan Sellers, Senior Critic in Graphic Design