California College of the ArtsCalifornia College of the Arts
The Wattis Institute Hires Ballroom Marfa's Daisy Nam as Director
As CCA Pauses its Curatorial Practice Program, a Look Back at its Influential Scope
For Many Artists, That $10K of Student Debt Relief is a Drop in the Bucket
CCA Staff, Students and Faculty Strike Over Allegations of Unfair Labor Practices
CCA Students Quickly Raise Money for Their BIPOC Peers
CCA Delays COVID-19 Safety, Remote Work Negotiations in Union Dispute
Art Students Demand Tuition Refunds As Classes Go Online
Staff at Mills College, Recovering From Budget Crisis, Follow Faculty in Union Campaign
California College of the Arts Staff Elect Union by Wide Margin
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She replaces the Wattis’ interim director Jeanne Gerrity, who stepped in after last year’s departure of longtime director Anthony Huberman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13953032']As for the leap from a small town in Texas with a population of 1,788 to a large city over 400 times the size, Nam — who previously held arts positions at Harvard, Columbia University and the Guggenheim Museum in New York — isn’t too worried. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that’s really special about being in such a remote place is sharing that landscape with artists and seeing them respond to what they’re maybe not used to,” she says. “So many artists live in big cities, but it reminds me that artists respond to many different contexts. I’m sure that the artists I work with will want to respond to the city of San Francisco as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, recently appointed CCA president David Howse said that Nam’s “impressive track record, deep understanding of contemporary art and commitment to artistic innovation align perfectly with the Institute’s mission. I am confident that under her guidance, the Wattis will continue to be a pivotal space for artistic exploration and discourse. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13877081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance.jpg\" alt=\"As classes move online, college students are questioning the value of their education.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13877081\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California College of the Arts will expand in 2024, leading to a relocation of its Wattis Institute. \u003ccite>(Courtesy CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nam comes to the Wattis during a time of transition. Later this year, the space will open in a new location as part of a CCA expansion project led by the local architecture firm Studio Gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Wattis’ size will be “clearly much smaller, footprint-wise,” than the current Wattis, which is situated blocks away from campus, Nam says. But she expects new energy to the space once it’s “in the center of art-making,” citing its new proximity to students and their studios. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for any changes the general public can expect from Wattis’ programming under her leadership, Nam offers that the Wattis has sometimes been more conceptual than she herself will likely be once she enters the role. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13925875']“I think there’s a time and a place for that type of work. For me, though, I tend to work with artists who are more connected to the world in many ways, responding to what’s happening in the world right now,” she says. As an example, she mentions that at Ballroom Marfa currently is an installation by Guadalupe Maravilla, “and he’s working with ideas around migration in Texas.” Nam plans to continue to engage with immigration in upcoming exhibitions at the Wattis. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the greater Bay Area art scene, Nam is excited to join what she calls “a new chapter” in Bay Area art, with new curators, like her, who’ve moved to San Francisco. Having grown up in Los Angeles, and with a sister who went to UC Berkeley, she names the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford, KADIST in San Francisco, the small Chinatown gallery Micki Meng and others as examples of the vibrant scene here. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCA was founded in the East Bay in 1907; its alumni include Robert Arneson, Robert Bechtle, Susan O’Malley and David Ireland. It enrolls approximately 1,500 students in San Francisco’s Design District, between Potrero Hill and Mission Bay. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nam’s first day at Wattis is April 1. \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The director of the famed art gallery in Texas will join California College of the Arts in April.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1709166385,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":648},"headData":{"title":"Ballroom Marfa Director Daisy Nam Hired to Lead CCA's Wattis Institute | KQED","description":"The director of the famed art gallery in Texas will join California College of the Arts in April.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Ballroom Marfa Director Daisy Nam Hired to Lead CCA's Wattis Institute %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"The Wattis Institute Hires Ballroom Marfa's Daisy Nam as Director","datePublished":"2024-02-29T00:26:25.000Z","dateModified":"2024-02-29T00:26:25.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13953171/daisy-nam-wattis-institute-cca","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Daisy Nam, the current director of Ballroom Marfa in Texas, has been hired as the new director and chief curator of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/california-college-of-the-arts\">California College of the Arts\u003c/a> (CCA) in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2020, Nam has served at the nationally renowned \u003ca href=\"https://www.ballroommarfa.org/\">Ballroom Marfa\u003c/a>, in Marfa, Tex., first as a curator and, in 2022, as its director. She replaces the Wattis’ interim director Jeanne Gerrity, who stepped in after last year’s departure of longtime director Anthony Huberman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13953032","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As for the leap from a small town in Texas with a population of 1,788 to a large city over 400 times the size, Nam — who previously held arts positions at Harvard, Columbia University and the Guggenheim Museum in New York — isn’t too worried. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing that’s really special about being in such a remote place is sharing that landscape with artists and seeing them respond to what they’re maybe not used to,” she says. “So many artists live in big cities, but it reminds me that artists respond to many different contexts. I’m sure that the artists I work with will want to respond to the city of San Francisco as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, recently appointed CCA president David Howse said that Nam’s “impressive track record, deep understanding of contemporary art and commitment to artistic innovation align perfectly with the Institute’s mission. I am confident that under her guidance, the Wattis will continue to be a pivotal space for artistic exploration and discourse. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13877081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance.jpg\" alt=\"As classes move online, college students are questioning the value of their education.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13877081\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance.jpg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California College of the Arts will expand in 2024, leading to a relocation of its Wattis Institute. \u003ccite>(Courtesy CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nam comes to the Wattis during a time of transition. Later this year, the space will open in a new location as part of a CCA expansion project led by the local architecture firm Studio Gang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new Wattis’ size will be “clearly much smaller, footprint-wise,” than the current Wattis, which is situated blocks away from campus, Nam says. But she expects new energy to the space once it’s “in the center of art-making,” citing its new proximity to students and their studios. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for any changes the general public can expect from Wattis’ programming under her leadership, Nam offers that the Wattis has sometimes been more conceptual than she herself will likely be once she enters the role. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13925875","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think there’s a time and a place for that type of work. For me, though, I tend to work with artists who are more connected to the world in many ways, responding to what’s happening in the world right now,” she says. As an example, she mentions that at Ballroom Marfa currently is an installation by Guadalupe Maravilla, “and he’s working with ideas around migration in Texas.” Nam plans to continue to engage with immigration in upcoming exhibitions at the Wattis. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the greater Bay Area art scene, Nam is excited to join what she calls “a new chapter” in Bay Area art, with new curators, like her, who’ve moved to San Francisco. Having grown up in Los Angeles, and with a sister who went to UC Berkeley, she names the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford, KADIST in San Francisco, the small Chinatown gallery Micki Meng and others as examples of the vibrant scene here. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCA was founded in the East Bay in 1907; its alumni include Robert Arneson, Robert Bechtle, Susan O’Malley and David Ireland. It enrolls approximately 1,500 students in San Francisco’s Design District, between Potrero Hill and Mission Bay. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nam’s first day at Wattis is April 1. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13953171/daisy-nam-wattis-institute-cca","authors":["185"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_5936","arts_1146","arts_6487"],"featImg":"arts_13953125","label":"arts"},"arts_13925875":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13925875","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13925875","score":null,"sort":[1678149225000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"cca-pauses-curatorial-practice-program-after-21-years","title":"As CCA Pauses its Curatorial Practice Program, a Look Back at its Influential Scope","publishDate":1678149225,"format":"standard","headTitle":"As CCA Pauses its Curatorial Practice Program, a Look Back at its Influential Scope | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>The news spread quickly through my former classmates. On Feb. 3, California College of the Arts sent out an email to alumni of its curatorial practice master’s program (CURP), announcing the school’s decision to “pause” new student admission starting with the fall 2023 semester. I graduated from the program in 2018; after 21 years, the class of 2024 will be the CURP program’s last for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the email, CCA’s provost \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/learning/academic-programs/curatorial-practice-ma/\">Tammy Rae Carland explained the decision\u003c/a>: “This temporary pause will allow CCA to explore new opportunities related to campus expansion and to explore deeper connections with the internationally-recognized Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.” CCA’s expansion is set to be completed by July 2024, and the Wattis will move back onto campus as part of the school’s new grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much is in flux: The Wattis will soon begin a search for its next director, following \u003ca href=\"https://www.artforum.com/news/anthony-huberman-named-executive-director-of-john-giorno-foundation-90010\">Anthony Huberman’s departure\u003c/a> earlier this year. CURP’s current chair, Glen Helfand, is the third to hold the position in the past five years. In an interview, Carland also confirmed that application rates have dipped, with seven students across both current years compared to cohorts of up to 13 in the mid-2000s. Presumeably economics are also at play in the desire to refresh and restructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/CCA-Aerial_Courtesy-Studio-Gang-and-Kilograph_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Panoramic view of SF design district with downtown in background \" width=\"1200\" height=\"676\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925880\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/CCA-Aerial_Courtesy-Studio-Gang-and-Kilograph_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/CCA-Aerial_Courtesy-Studio-Gang-and-Kilograph_1200-800x451.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/CCA-Aerial_Courtesy-Studio-Gang-and-Kilograph_1200-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/CCA-Aerial_Courtesy-Studio-Gang-and-Kilograph_1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/CCA-Aerial_Courtesy-Studio-Gang-and-Kilograph_1200-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of CCA’s San Francisco campus with the planned expansion, set to finish by July 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Studio Gang and Kilograph)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Born during the biennial boom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The CURP program admitted its first class of students in the fall of 2002. Kate Fowle, CURP’s first chair, and then-Wattis Director Ralph Rugoff recruited the aspiring curators and shaped the curriculum. Curatorial master’s degrees were a new concept at that time; programs at the Royal College in London and Bard College in New York were the only existing models. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the first program on the West Coast and only the second in the country, it was important to focus out into the Pacific Rim and Latin America,” Fowle explains of CCA’s distinction, “because all the masters at the time were focused on a Western European tradition of creating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCA’s program was further distinguished by being in an art school. “It was artist-centered, and thinking around creating was important,” Fowle says. “We looked at a lot of artist initiatives and the rise of land art and alternative practices.” Fowle consulted artists like Fred Wilson and Andrea Fraser, who were at the forefront of institutional critique, to recommend five books each for the inaugural reading list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Wattis_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior view of gray building with gallery name on front\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925881\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Wattis_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Wattis_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Wattis_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Wattis_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Wattis_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCA’s Wattis Institute moved to its current location on Kansas Street in 2013. \u003ccite>(Courtesy CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2002 was the height of the biennale boom, with almost every major city instituting a perennial exhibition of contemporary art, and curators were at the center of this discourse. Fowle capitalized on that excitement to fundraise. Grants from the Warhol Foundation aided with student travel and scholarships, and funding from Getty and the Wattis enabled the program to invite prominent practitioners, including Magalí Arriola, Adriano Pedrosa and Raimundas Malašauskas, to teach and curate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning that curators and artists who received Asian Cultural Council grants stopped over en route to New York, Fowle began hosting them in San Francisco. All of this was to expose the students to people working on the ground in different contexts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program created its own far-reaching network through these initiatives. Kitty Scott first met Fowle at a bus stop during \u003ca href=\"https://www.documenta.de/en/retrospective/documenta11\">\u003ci>documenta11\u003c/i>\u003c/a> in 2002. Scott was the curator of contemporary art at the National Gallery of Canada, and Fowle proposed she teach a two-week course about the process of acquisitions. “I loved teaching in San Francisco,” Scott remembers. “It enriched my life. I’d often run into a great person somewhere else in the world, and we would quickly figure out we first met in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Jetty1200.jpeg\" alt=\"Five figures in a watery plain, sky and ground both gray blue\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Jetty1200.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Jetty1200-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Jetty1200-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Jetty1200-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Jetty1200-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCA curatorial practice students at Robert Smithson’s ‘Spiral Jetty’ in 2010. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Kasprzak)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Culture in many forms’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2006, when Xiaoyu Weng applied to CCA, contemporary art curation was a new concept in China. “There were no programs like that in China or even Asia,” she remembers. Her university professors connected her to Fowle, who was visiting for the Shanghai Biennale. “We hit it off and she encouraged me to apply. Then she gave me a full scholarship,” Weng says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studying in the U.S. would have been impossible without this support, she says. It was also an opportune time. “That was a moment when, politically speaking, China and the U.S. were in a much better relationship,” she explains. “Culture was playing a much bigger role in facilitating mutual understanding.”[aside postID='arts_12870329']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weng moved to San Francisco just as Fowle was stepping down as chair in 2007. Faculty member Leigh Markopoulos took the helm. J. Myers-Szupinska, who was teaching art history courses and advising student theses, says the program shifted at that time. With the onset of the Great Recession, funding decreased and the focus turned towards the immediate region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were trying to work with what we had and what allowed us to do compelling things, without a really strong budget for travel,” Myers-Szupinska says. “I think that Leigh was very resourceful in those years.” Subsequent thesis exhibitions did the important work of historicizing the Bay Area, with students accessing local archives, artists and estates. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_11427070']“We did an exhibition of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907271/etel-adnan-remembrance-poet-painter\">Etel Adnan\u003c/a>, an exhibition of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13810347/why-you-should-join-the-martin-wong-fan-club-i-just-started\">Martin Wong\u003c/a>, an exhibition about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11427070/more-than-mosh-pits-void-california-displays-the-art-of-a-punk-scene\">the punk scene in California\u003c/a> in the 80s,” Myers-Szupinska lists off. The goal of those shows and their publications was not only to fulfill a degree requirement, but to make a contribution to the field. “We treated them as an ambitious form of exhibition making,” Myers-Szupinska adds, “a collective project that could provide something of use to the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As chair, Markopoulos was committed to students with interests and backgrounds beyond conventional understandings of high-art. “Leigh was aware of culture in many forms,” remembers David Kasprzak, a 2011 CURP graduate. “She encouraged me to bring my experiences — things like organizing shows in a DIY punk venue in Ohio and on freight trains — into a world where that hadn’t been accepted.” Markopoulos combined this openness with a knack for networking, matching students with people who would become longtime mentors and friends. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12870329/remembering-leigh-markopolous-teacher-curator-writer-and-heavy-metal-vocalist\">Markopoulos died in a traffic accident\u003c/a> in February 2017. It was an unfathomable tragedy for those of us in the program (I was in my first year), but the loss of Markopoulos was also a huge loss for the broader curatorial community, including CURP alumni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1125px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-48828987681_447abf3440_o.png\" alt=\"A speaker at a desk with a room of seated students and books on walls\" width=\"1125\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-48828987681_447abf3440_o.png 1125w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-48828987681_447abf3440_o-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-48828987681_447abf3440_o-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-48828987681_447abf3440_o-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-48828987681_447abf3440_o-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A curatorial practice class at YBCA, which housed the program 2018–2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A period of instability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Qianjin Montoya was one year ahead of me at CCA; she came to the program specifically because of its local focus. Now a curator at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum, she is unsurprised the CURP program is pausing. She describes the transition in leadership after Markopoulos’s death as “shaky.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been three chairs (James Voorhies, Christina Linden and Glen Helfand) over the last five years. “It’s about arts programs falling to the passion of one person,” Montoya says of the program’s recent instability. “That’s not fair. That’s a failure on the side of a whole system that says it supports it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These leadership shifts have led to sudden changes. Voorhies moved CURP classes away from CCA’s campus and the Wattis Institute to a bookstore he temporarily established at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Yomna Osman, the program’s sole 2019 graduate, was organizing her thesis exhibition at the Wattis when Voorhies pursued this reinvention, and she felt it wasn’t for her. “Anything that was happening with this move seemed like it was for the next class,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that experience in mind, Osman thinks this pause is a good thing. “I feel like this is a delayed response to a force majeure problem that happened a few years ago,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1586px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-CURP_Playspace-install_SP2022-0413.png\" alt=\"Two students wearing masks install artwork against colorful background\" width=\"1586\" height=\"1057\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925887\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-CURP_Playspace-install_SP2022-0413.png 1586w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-CURP_Playspace-install_SP2022-0413-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-CURP_Playspace-install_SP2022-0413-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-CURP_Playspace-install_SP2022-0413-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-CURP_Playspace-install_SP2022-0413-768x512.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-CURP_Playspace-install_SP2022-0413-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1586px) 100vw, 1586px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CURP students installing an exhibition in CCA’s Playspace gallery in 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>CURP reimagined\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Carland, CCA’s provost, describes the pause as a logistical necessity, to avoid what Osman went through, and so the current and incoming classes are not running on two different curricula established by different chairs. The new vision for the program, still very much undecided, could include drastic changes. “We could have a track for architects and designers,” Carland suggests. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked if she had an existing educational model in mind, she didn’t have one to share, but emphasized that any change would entail a closer relationship to the Wattis. CURP students have curated their thesis exhibitions at the Wattis since 2010, but the institute’s directors, including Huberman, have not always incorporated the curatorial program to the level that CCA desires. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huberman even argued against curatorial education, in a public debate organized by Markopoulos in 2015. “I do not see proximity to artists, nor do I hear the voices of artists, in curatorial education,” he said at that event. “That can’t happen in a classroom, just as it doesn’t happen purely by sitting down in a room with someone and talking with them about their work.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside post ID='arts_13841205']Graduates are entering a different art world. In recent months, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/arts/design/kate-fowle-moma-ps1-director-resigns.html\">Fowle\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/national-gallery-of-canada-fires-senior-curators-greg-hill-kitty-scott-1234647287/\">Scott\u003c/a> and Weng have all left prominent institutional positions. “There is nothing like an exhibition in which curators and artists create the conditions to bring out the best in each other,” Scott says. But in recent years, she has noticed “a diffusing of the curatorial voice,” perhaps driven by the influence of the art market and museum marketing departments. Put another way: Curatorial influence is not as welcome as it was 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah.jpg\" alt=\"Tan walls with video and three photographic prints, hanging textile sculpture rests on floor\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1428\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925889\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah-1920x1371.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An installation view of Natani Notah’s work in the 2022 CURP exhibition at the Wattis, ‘Resonance of Place.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Redesigning” and “invigorating,” words both used in Carland’s email, are promising terms. Still, it’s clear from the rapid-fire changes in chairs since 2017 that reinvention can also harm an educational project, especially if new leadership rejects the strengths of its lineage. Carland says this upcoming period of evaluation will involve speaking to alumni and previous faculty about their experiences. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The future for CURP is unclear, and I hope it only reemerges if there is intention behind its curriculum, faculty, funding and context within San Francisco (where the cost of living continues to rise). For now, seven students will complete their degrees before the program takes its hiatus. Current first-year Sam Hiura stressed her disappointment that there won’t be an incoming class in the fall. “Community-building and collaboration is a guiding value of the program for me,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CURP network has been incredibly important to my life, and Hiura is right to desire these relationships. As curatorial trajectories shift, I am evaluating, along with my peers and mentors, my role in serving artists and institutions. I hope we can be a resource for students like Hiura — those graduating into an ever-changing field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After 21 years, the San Francisco art school announced a hiatus to redesign the program.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705005775,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1987},"headData":{"title":"CCA Pausing Its Curatorial Practice Program After 21 Years | KQED","description":"After 21 years, the San Francisco art school announced a hiatus to redesign the program.","ogTitle":"As CCA Pauses its Curatorial Practice Program, a Look Back at its Influential Scope","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"As CCA Pauses its Curatorial Practice Program, a Look Back at its Influential Scope","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"CCA Pausing Its Curatorial Practice Program After 21 Years %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"As CCA Pauses its Curatorial Practice Program, a Look Back at its Influential Scope","datePublished":"2023-03-07T00:33:45.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:42:55.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Maddie Klett","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13925875/cca-pauses-curatorial-practice-program-after-21-years","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The news spread quickly through my former classmates. On Feb. 3, California College of the Arts sent out an email to alumni of its curatorial practice master’s program (CURP), announcing the school’s decision to “pause” new student admission starting with the fall 2023 semester. I graduated from the program in 2018; after 21 years, the class of 2024 will be the CURP program’s last for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the email, CCA’s provost \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/learning/academic-programs/curatorial-practice-ma/\">Tammy Rae Carland explained the decision\u003c/a>: “This temporary pause will allow CCA to explore new opportunities related to campus expansion and to explore deeper connections with the internationally-recognized Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.” CCA’s expansion is set to be completed by July 2024, and the Wattis will move back onto campus as part of the school’s new grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much is in flux: The Wattis will soon begin a search for its next director, following \u003ca href=\"https://www.artforum.com/news/anthony-huberman-named-executive-director-of-john-giorno-foundation-90010\">Anthony Huberman’s departure\u003c/a> earlier this year. CURP’s current chair, Glen Helfand, is the third to hold the position in the past five years. In an interview, Carland also confirmed that application rates have dipped, with seven students across both current years compared to cohorts of up to 13 in the mid-2000s. Presumeably economics are also at play in the desire to refresh and restructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/CCA-Aerial_Courtesy-Studio-Gang-and-Kilograph_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Panoramic view of SF design district with downtown in background \" width=\"1200\" height=\"676\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925880\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/CCA-Aerial_Courtesy-Studio-Gang-and-Kilograph_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/CCA-Aerial_Courtesy-Studio-Gang-and-Kilograph_1200-800x451.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/CCA-Aerial_Courtesy-Studio-Gang-and-Kilograph_1200-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/CCA-Aerial_Courtesy-Studio-Gang-and-Kilograph_1200-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/CCA-Aerial_Courtesy-Studio-Gang-and-Kilograph_1200-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of CCA’s San Francisco campus with the planned expansion, set to finish by July 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Studio Gang and Kilograph)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Born during the biennial boom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The CURP program admitted its first class of students in the fall of 2002. Kate Fowle, CURP’s first chair, and then-Wattis Director Ralph Rugoff recruited the aspiring curators and shaped the curriculum. Curatorial master’s degrees were a new concept at that time; programs at the Royal College in London and Bard College in New York were the only existing models. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the first program on the West Coast and only the second in the country, it was important to focus out into the Pacific Rim and Latin America,” Fowle explains of CCA’s distinction, “because all the masters at the time were focused on a Western European tradition of creating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCA’s program was further distinguished by being in an art school. “It was artist-centered, and thinking around creating was important,” Fowle says. “We looked at a lot of artist initiatives and the rise of land art and alternative practices.” Fowle consulted artists like Fred Wilson and Andrea Fraser, who were at the forefront of institutional critique, to recommend five books each for the inaugural reading list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Wattis_1200.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior view of gray building with gallery name on front\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925881\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Wattis_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Wattis_1200-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Wattis_1200-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Wattis_1200-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Wattis_1200-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCA’s Wattis Institute moved to its current location on Kansas Street in 2013. \u003ccite>(Courtesy CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2002 was the height of the biennale boom, with almost every major city instituting a perennial exhibition of contemporary art, and curators were at the center of this discourse. Fowle capitalized on that excitement to fundraise. Grants from the Warhol Foundation aided with student travel and scholarships, and funding from Getty and the Wattis enabled the program to invite prominent practitioners, including Magalí Arriola, Adriano Pedrosa and Raimundas Malašauskas, to teach and curate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning that curators and artists who received Asian Cultural Council grants stopped over en route to New York, Fowle began hosting them in San Francisco. All of this was to expose the students to people working on the ground in different contexts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program created its own far-reaching network through these initiatives. Kitty Scott first met Fowle at a bus stop during \u003ca href=\"https://www.documenta.de/en/retrospective/documenta11\">\u003ci>documenta11\u003c/i>\u003c/a> in 2002. Scott was the curator of contemporary art at the National Gallery of Canada, and Fowle proposed she teach a two-week course about the process of acquisitions. “I loved teaching in San Francisco,” Scott remembers. “It enriched my life. I’d often run into a great person somewhere else in the world, and we would quickly figure out we first met in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Jetty1200.jpeg\" alt=\"Five figures in a watery plain, sky and ground both gray blue\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Jetty1200.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Jetty1200-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Jetty1200-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Jetty1200-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Jetty1200-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCA curatorial practice students at Robert Smithson’s ‘Spiral Jetty’ in 2010. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Kasprzak)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Culture in many forms’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2006, when Xiaoyu Weng applied to CCA, contemporary art curation was a new concept in China. “There were no programs like that in China or even Asia,” she remembers. Her university professors connected her to Fowle, who was visiting for the Shanghai Biennale. “We hit it off and she encouraged me to apply. Then she gave me a full scholarship,” Weng says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studying in the U.S. would have been impossible without this support, she says. It was also an opportune time. “That was a moment when, politically speaking, China and the U.S. were in a much better relationship,” she explains. “Culture was playing a much bigger role in facilitating mutual understanding.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_12870329","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weng moved to San Francisco just as Fowle was stepping down as chair in 2007. Faculty member Leigh Markopoulos took the helm. J. Myers-Szupinska, who was teaching art history courses and advising student theses, says the program shifted at that time. With the onset of the Great Recession, funding decreased and the focus turned towards the immediate region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were trying to work with what we had and what allowed us to do compelling things, without a really strong budget for travel,” Myers-Szupinska says. “I think that Leigh was very resourceful in those years.” Subsequent thesis exhibitions did the important work of historicizing the Bay Area, with students accessing local archives, artists and estates. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_11427070","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We did an exhibition of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907271/etel-adnan-remembrance-poet-painter\">Etel Adnan\u003c/a>, an exhibition of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13810347/why-you-should-join-the-martin-wong-fan-club-i-just-started\">Martin Wong\u003c/a>, an exhibition about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/11427070/more-than-mosh-pits-void-california-displays-the-art-of-a-punk-scene\">the punk scene in California\u003c/a> in the 80s,” Myers-Szupinska lists off. The goal of those shows and their publications was not only to fulfill a degree requirement, but to make a contribution to the field. “We treated them as an ambitious form of exhibition making,” Myers-Szupinska adds, “a collective project that could provide something of use to the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As chair, Markopoulos was committed to students with interests and backgrounds beyond conventional understandings of high-art. “Leigh was aware of culture in many forms,” remembers David Kasprzak, a 2011 CURP graduate. “She encouraged me to bring my experiences — things like organizing shows in a DIY punk venue in Ohio and on freight trains — into a world where that hadn’t been accepted.” Markopoulos combined this openness with a knack for networking, matching students with people who would become longtime mentors and friends. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12870329/remembering-leigh-markopolous-teacher-curator-writer-and-heavy-metal-vocalist\">Markopoulos died in a traffic accident\u003c/a> in February 2017. It was an unfathomable tragedy for those of us in the program (I was in my first year), but the loss of Markopoulos was also a huge loss for the broader curatorial community, including CURP alumni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1125px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-48828987681_447abf3440_o.png\" alt=\"A speaker at a desk with a room of seated students and books on walls\" width=\"1125\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925886\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-48828987681_447abf3440_o.png 1125w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-48828987681_447abf3440_o-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-48828987681_447abf3440_o-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-48828987681_447abf3440_o-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-48828987681_447abf3440_o-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A curatorial practice class at YBCA, which housed the program 2018–2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A period of instability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Qianjin Montoya was one year ahead of me at CCA; she came to the program specifically because of its local focus. Now a curator at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum, she is unsurprised the CURP program is pausing. She describes the transition in leadership after Markopoulos’s death as “shaky.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been three chairs (James Voorhies, Christina Linden and Glen Helfand) over the last five years. “It’s about arts programs falling to the passion of one person,” Montoya says of the program’s recent instability. “That’s not fair. That’s a failure on the side of a whole system that says it supports it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These leadership shifts have led to sudden changes. Voorhies moved CURP classes away from CCA’s campus and the Wattis Institute to a bookstore he temporarily established at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Yomna Osman, the program’s sole 2019 graduate, was organizing her thesis exhibition at the Wattis when Voorhies pursued this reinvention, and she felt it wasn’t for her. “Anything that was happening with this move seemed like it was for the next class,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that experience in mind, Osman thinks this pause is a good thing. “I feel like this is a delayed response to a force majeure problem that happened a few years ago,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1586px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-CURP_Playspace-install_SP2022-0413.png\" alt=\"Two students wearing masks install artwork against colorful background\" width=\"1586\" height=\"1057\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925887\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-CURP_Playspace-install_SP2022-0413.png 1586w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-CURP_Playspace-install_SP2022-0413-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-CURP_Playspace-install_SP2022-0413-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-CURP_Playspace-install_SP2022-0413-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-CURP_Playspace-install_SP2022-0413-768x512.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/small_digital_png-CURP_Playspace-install_SP2022-0413-1536x1024.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1586px) 100vw, 1586px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CURP students installing an exhibition in CCA’s Playspace gallery in 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>CURP reimagined\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Carland, CCA’s provost, describes the pause as a logistical necessity, to avoid what Osman went through, and so the current and incoming classes are not running on two different curricula established by different chairs. The new vision for the program, still very much undecided, could include drastic changes. “We could have a track for architects and designers,” Carland suggests. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked if she had an existing educational model in mind, she didn’t have one to share, but emphasized that any change would entail a closer relationship to the Wattis. CURP students have curated their thesis exhibitions at the Wattis since 2010, but the institute’s directors, including Huberman, have not always incorporated the curatorial program to the level that CCA desires. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huberman even argued against curatorial education, in a public debate organized by Markopoulos in 2015. “I do not see proximity to artists, nor do I hear the voices of artists, in curatorial education,” he said at that event. “That can’t happen in a classroom, just as it doesn’t happen purely by sitting down in a room with someone and talking with them about their work.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"id":"arts_13841205","label":"post"},"numeric":["post"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Graduates are entering a different art world. In recent months, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/arts/design/kate-fowle-moma-ps1-director-resigns.html\">Fowle\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/national-gallery-of-canada-fires-senior-curators-greg-hill-kitty-scott-1234647287/\">Scott\u003c/a> and Weng have all left prominent institutional positions. “There is nothing like an exhibition in which curators and artists create the conditions to bring out the best in each other,” Scott says. But in recent years, she has noticed “a diffusing of the curatorial voice,” perhaps driven by the influence of the art market and museum marketing departments. Put another way: Curatorial influence is not as welcome as it was 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925889\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah.jpg\" alt=\"Tan walls with video and three photographic prints, hanging textile sculpture rests on floor\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1428\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925889\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah-768x548.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Natani_Notah-1920x1371.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An installation view of Natani Notah’s work in the 2022 CURP exhibition at the Wattis, ‘Resonance of Place.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Redesigning” and “invigorating,” words both used in Carland’s email, are promising terms. Still, it’s clear from the rapid-fire changes in chairs since 2017 that reinvention can also harm an educational project, especially if new leadership rejects the strengths of its lineage. Carland says this upcoming period of evaluation will involve speaking to alumni and previous faculty about their experiences. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The future for CURP is unclear, and I hope it only reemerges if there is intention behind its curriculum, faculty, funding and context within San Francisco (where the cost of living continues to rise). For now, seven students will complete their degrees before the program takes its hiatus. Current first-year Sam Hiura stressed her disappointment that there won’t be an incoming class in the fall. “Community-building and collaboration is a guiding value of the program for me,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CURP network has been incredibly important to my life, and Hiura is right to desire these relationships. As curatorial trajectories shift, I am evaluating, along with my peers and mentors, my role in serving artists and institutions. I hope we can be a resource for students like Hiura — those graduating into an ever-changing field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13925875/cca-pauses-curatorial-practice-program-after-21-years","authors":["byline_arts_13925875"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_5936","arts_5850","arts_10278","arts_6487"],"featImg":"arts_13925878","label":"arts"},"arts_13920126":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13920126","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13920126","score":null,"sort":[1665500402000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"student-debt-relief-biden-artists-grad-school-mfa","title":"For Many Artists, That $10K of Student Debt Relief is a Drop in the Bucket","publishDate":1665500402,"format":"standard","headTitle":"For Many Artists, That $10K of Student Debt Relief is a Drop in the Bucket | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Soon, an estimated 20 million people can begin the process of wiping out their student debt. President Biden’s debt relief plan — its application expected in late October — will provide those earning less than $125,000 with $10,000 of federal student debt relief, or up to $20,000 for those who received a federal Pell Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many artists who pursued master’s degrees to advance their careers, $10,000 won’t even address the interest that’s accrued on their loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t mean anything,” says Oakland writer and musician \u003ca href=\"https://www.madlinesinfo.com/\">Maddy Clifford\u003c/a>. “It’s like crumbs, basically.” Clifford, who received an MFA in poetry from Mills College, currently has over $100,000 in student loan debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clifford, who took out loans in 2006 and 2010 — when she was 19 and 22 — sees the whole student loan system as predatory. “If I was that age and I went to a bank and tried to get a [personal] loan for that much money, they would have said no.” Now, at 35, she carries a debt that seems impossible to pay down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bay Area artists, especially those who entered graduate school around the 2007–2009 Great Recession, pursuing a master’s degree meant the chance to temporarily exit a dismal job market and, ideally, reemerge two years later with more earning power. Many aspired to teaching jobs in higher education, where an MFA is nearly always required: taking out loans was an investment in their futures as working artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But student debt has delayed those futures. The world of private loan servicers and repayment plans is confusing and demoralizing. And those hoping to take advantage of existing federal debt relief through the \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service\">Public Service Loan Forgiveness\u003c/a> (PSLF) program — which promises total cancellation of student debt through the equivalent of 10 years of full-time work in nonprofit or government positions — face notoriously low rates of acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while 45 million Americans (about one in seven) have some amount of student debt, that burden is not shared equally. The student debt crisis disproportionately affects Black women, who graduate with larger amounts of student debt only to encounter a gender and racial wage gap that impacts their earning potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reality of the student debt crisis has more and more people calling for not just $10,000 or $20,000 in student debt relief, but a cancellation of all student debt — and a complete overhaul of an educational system that has become prohibitively expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg\" alt=\"Tall white walls front trees as student walk near green grass\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk onto the Mills’ Oakland campus — now known as Mills College at Northeastern University — through the main gates. \u003ccite>(Steve Babuljak/Mills College)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘If I wanted to teach, I needed an MFA’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a society that treats the arts like a hobby, master’s degrees provide artists with a legitimacy they often crave. “I really felt like it was my only option at the time because I just wanted desperately to be taken seriously as an arts professional,” says Clifford of her decision to enroll at Mills. It worked — to a point. After graduating in 2012, she began teaching, eventually working with WritersCorps to teach poetry to incarcerated youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13826589']But for many other MFA recipients, the promise of teaching jobs hasn’t materialized. The rise of “adjunctification” — hiring part-time and lower-paid faculty in lieu of tenured positions — has turned many artists into adjunct commuters who traverse the Bay Area, knitting together a semblance of full-time work at various colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was told, art world-wise, if I wanted to teach, I needed an MFA,” says \u003ca href=\"https://steuartpittman.com/\">Steuart Pittman\u003c/a>, who graduated from Mills with an MFA in visual art in 2009. But 13 years later, with the future of Mills’ MFA program uncertain after the college was acquired by Northeastern University, Pittman questions the value of that advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many of my friends that were teaching [at Mills] got laid off. It’s like I found out Santa Claus isn’t real,” says Pittman. “Like, my MFA is really just a piece of paper in a lot of ways because Mills is no longer what it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Steuart Pittman, Mills alum']‘I do think that no matter the cost the proverbial life in the arts is really one worth living.’[/pullquote]As arts schools struggle financially nationwide, that sentiment is an increasingly common one. Locally, alums of both Mills and the recently shuttered San Francisco Art Institute are recipients of a perverse honor: their student debt will outlast the programs they took out loans to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13916517,news_11914203']Despite the student debt he carries, Pittman doesn’t regret attending graduate school. “I had an amazing run at Mills, an amazing time with truly special people that I’ll treasure for the rest of my life,” he says. “And I do think that no matter the cost the proverbial life in the arts is really one worth living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clifford is less sure about her degree. While the program increased her earning potential, she says the entire structure of MFA programs is catered to those with racial and financial privilege. “It just started to dawn on me that I wasn’t going to be getting the support that a working-class person needs in order to [succeed],” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Graduate school can be very lonely,” Clifford adds. “It’s not always a safe environment for people of color. … So then on top of that, you have this debt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920132\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance.jpeg\" alt=\"Factory-looking facade lit from middle, spilling onto darkened sidewalk\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance.jpeg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-800x531.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-768x510.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCA offers a number of graduate programs, including an MFA in comics and a master’s in interaction design. \u003ccite>(Courtesy CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘The interest is the biggest scam’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the average amount of federal student debt held by U.S. borrowers is $37,667, four of the six people I interviewed for this story have over $100,000 in debt, a result of expensive private schools, large loan amounts and crushing interest rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Oakland artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.emmeine.com/\">Em Meine\u003c/a>, her original principal upon graduating from California College of the Arts was $99,441.33. Eight years later, she owes $115,766.80 (and counting; her interest rate is 7.125%). She has never missed a payment on her income-driven repayment plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meine estimates she’s paid somewhere around $30,000 since graduating — but she says it doesn’t feel real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like the saddest form of funny money,” Meine says. “It’s like this really sad joke. … I can’t imagine \u003ci>not\u003c/i> charging more to a credit card, making a payment towards it every month, and only having [the balance] get bigger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Sandoval, who graduated from CCA in 2011, agrees: “The interest is the biggest scam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Addressing this directly, one aspect of the \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement\">Biden-Harris administration’s relief plan\u003c/a> proposes to cover unpaid monthly interest for a borrower on an income-driven repayment plan. This way, someone’s debt balance won’t grow as long as they’re making monthly payments.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Dave Sandoval, CCA alum']‘I need to get this off my name, off my credit score, because you just don’t know.’[/pullquote]Since graduating, Sandoval’s student debt has increased from around $150,000 to almost $200,000. Like Meine, he’s working towards his 10 years of public service loan forgiveness, but his progress was hampered, he says, by a misleading loan servicer. For years, his payments through the private company didn’t count towards the PSLF program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t know any better,” he says, pointing out that now, after complaints and lawsuits, there’s much more conversation and visibility around which payments to which loan servicers qualify for PSLF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval says he calls the Department of Education about once a month, waiting on the line for three to five hours to talk about his case. The closer he gets to reaching his 120 payments, the more anxious he is about the entire program, which was created by an act of Congress in 2007 and could cease to exist at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to get this off my name, off my credit score, because you just don’t know,” Sandoval says. “And I don’t trust the program from the kind of issues I’ve had with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-800x641.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-1020x818.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-768x616.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student loan debt holders demonstrate outside the White House staff entrance on July 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for We, The 45 Million)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘This huge weight’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The PSLF program, onerous and complicated for even the most organized individual, can also feel like the great white whale of debt relief. In 2018, data showed the Department of Education had rejected \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/650508381/data-shows-99-of-applicants-for-student-loan-forgiveness-denied\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">99% of PSLF applications\u003c/a>. That number hasn’t improved much since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin Strickland, who received a master’s in exhibition and museum studies from SFAI, has been submitting paperwork to the PSLF program since 2016, but only last year did he receive any sort of confirmation from the Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just like completely sending it off into the void,” he says, imagining a P.O. box “overflowing with the hopes of many, many, many, many, many students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when — \u003ci>if\u003c/i> — he succeeds? “It would feel like this huge weight lifted off me that I’ve been thinking about for over a decade — almost every day,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Maddy Clifford, Mills alum']‘The more I started researching the policy, the more I realized how profoundly unjust the student loans are.’[/pullquote]Pittman expressed a similar sentiment about the mental burden. “It’s so many of us that have it, and then we feel guilty and sad and stressed about it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Clifford, being open about her student debt and connecting with others — especially Black women — on the issue has been an energizing force in recent years. In 2020, she discovered the \u003ca href=\"https://debtcollective.org/\">Debt Collective\u003c/a>, a union of debtors that grew out of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Among other action items, the group calls for a coordinated student debt strike, writing: “The government doesn’t need our money, but they are counting on our cooperation in our own exploitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more I started researching the policy, the more I realized how profoundly unjust the student loans are,” Clifford says. For her, the $10,000 in student debt relief is a sign that even greater reforms are possible. The next step, Clifford says, is “making a conscious, deliberate choice to say we’re not paying this back because it’s illegitimate, because college should be free, it shouldn’t cost as much money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though any relief is welcome, this one-time gesture doesn’t prevent future generations from having to take out the same kind of loans to advance their own lives and careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While trying to track down someone — anyone — who had achieved public service loan forgiveness, I met artist \u003ca href=\"https://laurenbartone.com/home.html\">Lauren Bartone\u003c/a>, who after years of calling and writing the Department of Education had her remaining $14,000 of student debt canceled in August. “I was so shocked when it finally happened,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two weeks later, she took out new loans to send her daughter to college.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Artists took out loans to advance their careers, only to have their futures delayed by massive student debt.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705006281,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1995},"headData":{"title":"Why the $10K of Student Debt Relief Won’t Help Artists | KQED","description":"Artists took out loans to advance their careers, only to have their futures delayed by massive student debt.","ogTitle":"For Many Artists, That $10K of Student Debt Relief is a Drop in the Bucket","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"For Many Artists, That $10K of Student Debt Relief is a Drop in the Bucket","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"Why the $10K of Student Debt Relief Won’t Help Artists %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"For Many Artists, That $10K of Student Debt Relief is a Drop in the Bucket","datePublished":"2022-10-11T15:00:02.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T20:51:21.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/arts/13920126/student-debt-relief-biden-artists-grad-school-mfa","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Soon, an estimated 20 million people can begin the process of wiping out their student debt. President Biden’s debt relief plan — its application expected in late October — will provide those earning less than $125,000 with $10,000 of federal student debt relief, or up to $20,000 for those who received a federal Pell Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many artists who pursued master’s degrees to advance their careers, $10,000 won’t even address the interest that’s accrued on their loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t mean anything,” says Oakland writer and musician \u003ca href=\"https://www.madlinesinfo.com/\">Maddy Clifford\u003c/a>. “It’s like crumbs, basically.” Clifford, who received an MFA in poetry from Mills College, currently has over $100,000 in student loan debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clifford, who took out loans in 2006 and 2010 — when she was 19 and 22 — sees the whole student loan system as predatory. “If I was that age and I went to a bank and tried to get a [personal] loan for that much money, they would have said no.” Now, at 35, she carries a debt that seems impossible to pay down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Bay Area artists, especially those who entered graduate school around the 2007–2009 Great Recession, pursuing a master’s degree meant the chance to temporarily exit a dismal job market and, ideally, reemerge two years later with more earning power. Many aspired to teaching jobs in higher education, where an MFA is nearly always required: taking out loans was an investment in their futures as working artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But student debt has delayed those futures. The world of private loan servicers and repayment plans is confusing and demoralizing. And those hoping to take advantage of existing federal debt relief through the \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service\">Public Service Loan Forgiveness\u003c/a> (PSLF) program — which promises total cancellation of student debt through the equivalent of 10 years of full-time work in nonprofit or government positions — face notoriously low rates of acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while 45 million Americans (about one in seven) have some amount of student debt, that burden is not shared equally. The student debt crisis disproportionately affects Black women, who graduate with larger amounts of student debt only to encounter a gender and racial wage gap that impacts their earning potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reality of the student debt crisis has more and more people calling for not just $10,000 or $20,000 in student debt relief, but a cancellation of all student debt — and a complete overhaul of an educational system that has become prohibitively expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg\" alt=\"Tall white walls front trees as student walk near green grass\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/media_gallery_hi-res_mills_10-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk onto the Mills’ Oakland campus — now known as Mills College at Northeastern University — through the main gates. \u003ccite>(Steve Babuljak/Mills College)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘If I wanted to teach, I needed an MFA’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In a society that treats the arts like a hobby, master’s degrees provide artists with a legitimacy they often crave. “I really felt like it was my only option at the time because I just wanted desperately to be taken seriously as an arts professional,” says Clifford of her decision to enroll at Mills. It worked — to a point. After graduating in 2012, she began teaching, eventually working with WritersCorps to teach poetry to incarcerated youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13826589","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But for many other MFA recipients, the promise of teaching jobs hasn’t materialized. The rise of “adjunctification” — hiring part-time and lower-paid faculty in lieu of tenured positions — has turned many artists into adjunct commuters who traverse the Bay Area, knitting together a semblance of full-time work at various colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was told, art world-wise, if I wanted to teach, I needed an MFA,” says \u003ca href=\"https://steuartpittman.com/\">Steuart Pittman\u003c/a>, who graduated from Mills with an MFA in visual art in 2009. But 13 years later, with the future of Mills’ MFA program uncertain after the college was acquired by Northeastern University, Pittman questions the value of that advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many of my friends that were teaching [at Mills] got laid off. It’s like I found out Santa Claus isn’t real,” says Pittman. “Like, my MFA is really just a piece of paper in a lot of ways because Mills is no longer what it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I do think that no matter the cost the proverbial life in the arts is really one worth living.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","align":"right","citation":"Steuart Pittman, Mills alum","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As arts schools struggle financially nationwide, that sentiment is an increasingly common one. Locally, alums of both Mills and the recently shuttered San Francisco Art Institute are recipients of a perverse honor: their student debt will outlast the programs they took out loans to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13916517,news_11914203","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Despite the student debt he carries, Pittman doesn’t regret attending graduate school. “I had an amazing run at Mills, an amazing time with truly special people that I’ll treasure for the rest of my life,” he says. “And I do think that no matter the cost the proverbial life in the arts is really one worth living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clifford is less sure about her degree. While the program increased her earning potential, she says the entire structure of MFA programs is catered to those with racial and financial privilege. “It just started to dawn on me that I wasn’t going to be getting the support that a working-class person needs in order to [succeed],” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Graduate school can be very lonely,” Clifford adds. “It’s not always a safe environment for people of color. … So then on top of that, you have this debt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920132\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance.jpeg\" alt=\"Factory-looking facade lit from middle, spilling onto darkened sidewalk\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance.jpeg 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-800x531.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-160x106.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/CCA-Montgomery-Campus-Entrance-768x510.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCA offers a number of graduate programs, including an MFA in comics and a master’s in interaction design. \u003ccite>(Courtesy CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘The interest is the biggest scam’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the average amount of federal student debt held by U.S. borrowers is $37,667, four of the six people I interviewed for this story have over $100,000 in debt, a result of expensive private schools, large loan amounts and crushing interest rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Oakland artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.emmeine.com/\">Em Meine\u003c/a>, her original principal upon graduating from California College of the Arts was $99,441.33. Eight years later, she owes $115,766.80 (and counting; her interest rate is 7.125%). She has never missed a payment on her income-driven repayment plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meine estimates she’s paid somewhere around $30,000 since graduating — but she says it doesn’t feel real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like the saddest form of funny money,” Meine says. “It’s like this really sad joke. … I can’t imagine \u003ci>not\u003c/i> charging more to a credit card, making a payment towards it every month, and only having [the balance] get bigger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dave Sandoval, who graduated from CCA in 2011, agrees: “The interest is the biggest scam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Addressing this directly, one aspect of the \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement\">Biden-Harris administration’s relief plan\u003c/a> proposes to cover unpaid monthly interest for a borrower on an income-driven repayment plan. This way, someone’s debt balance won’t grow as long as they’re making monthly payments.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I need to get this off my name, off my credit score, because you just don’t know.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","align":"right","citation":"Dave Sandoval, CCA alum","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Since graduating, Sandoval’s student debt has increased from around $150,000 to almost $200,000. Like Meine, he’s working towards his 10 years of public service loan forgiveness, but his progress was hampered, he says, by a misleading loan servicer. For years, his payments through the private company didn’t count towards the PSLF program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just didn’t know any better,” he says, pointing out that now, after complaints and lawsuits, there’s much more conversation and visibility around which payments to which loan servicers qualify for PSLF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandoval says he calls the Department of Education about once a month, waiting on the line for three to five hours to talk about his case. The closer he gets to reaching his 120 payments, the more anxious he is about the entire program, which was created by an act of Congress in 2007 and could cease to exist at any time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to get this off my name, off my credit score, because you just don’t know,” Sandoval says. “And I don’t trust the program from the kind of issues I’ve had with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13920134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13920134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-800x641.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-1020x818.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/GettyImages-1411278318_1200-768x616.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student loan debt holders demonstrate outside the White House staff entrance on July 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for We, The 45 Million)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘This huge weight’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The PSLF program, onerous and complicated for even the most organized individual, can also feel like the great white whale of debt relief. In 2018, data showed the Department of Education had rejected \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/21/650508381/data-shows-99-of-applicants-for-student-loan-forgiveness-denied\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">99% of PSLF applications\u003c/a>. That number hasn’t improved much since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin Strickland, who received a master’s in exhibition and museum studies from SFAI, has been submitting paperwork to the PSLF program since 2016, but only last year did he receive any sort of confirmation from the Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just like completely sending it off into the void,” he says, imagining a P.O. box “overflowing with the hopes of many, many, many, many, many students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when — \u003ci>if\u003c/i> — he succeeds? “It would feel like this huge weight lifted off me that I’ve been thinking about for over a decade — almost every day,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The more I started researching the policy, the more I realized how profoundly unjust the student loans are.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","align":"right","citation":"Maddy Clifford, Mills alum","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pittman expressed a similar sentiment about the mental burden. “It’s so many of us that have it, and then we feel guilty and sad and stressed about it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Clifford, being open about her student debt and connecting with others — especially Black women — on the issue has been an energizing force in recent years. In 2020, she discovered the \u003ca href=\"https://debtcollective.org/\">Debt Collective\u003c/a>, a union of debtors that grew out of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Among other action items, the group calls for a coordinated student debt strike, writing: “The government doesn’t need our money, but they are counting on our cooperation in our own exploitation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more I started researching the policy, the more I realized how profoundly unjust the student loans are,” Clifford says. For her, the $10,000 in student debt relief is a sign that even greater reforms are possible. The next step, Clifford says, is “making a conscious, deliberate choice to say we’re not paying this back because it’s illegitimate, because college should be free, it shouldn’t cost as much money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though any relief is welcome, this one-time gesture doesn’t prevent future generations from having to take out the same kind of loans to advance their own lives and careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While trying to track down someone — anyone — who had achieved public service loan forgiveness, I met artist \u003ca href=\"https://laurenbartone.com/home.html\">Lauren Bartone\u003c/a>, who after years of calling and writing the Department of Education had her remaining $14,000 of student debt canceled in August. “I was so shocked when it finally happened,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two weeks later, she took out new loans to send her daughter to college.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13920126/student-debt-relief-biden-artists-grad-school-mfa","authors":["61"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_5936","arts_5850","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_18801","arts_2299","arts_746","arts_10431","arts_3992"],"featImg":"arts_13920270","label":"arts"},"arts_13909121":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13909121","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13909121","score":null,"sort":[1644422419000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"cca-staff-union-strike-unfair-labor-practices","title":"CCA Staff, Students and Faculty Strike Over Allegations of Unfair Labor Practices","publishDate":1644422419,"format":"standard","headTitle":"CCA Staff, Students and Faculty Strike Over Allegations of Unfair Labor Practices | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>On Tuesday morning, a call and response of “What do we want?” “Contracts!” “When do we want it?” “Now!” could be heard in front of the California College of the Arts (CCA) San Francisco campus in Potrero Hill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those chants came from hundreds of staff members, adjunct faculty and students at the college who were taking part in the Feb. 8 strike, but the atmosphere was more akin to that of a midday fiesta with maracas shaking and music playing. A banner read: “Labor justice is social justice. CCA staff & adjuncts deserve fair contracts now!” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13855650,arts_13855321' label='More on CCA Staff Union']CCA staff are striking over what they claim to be unfair labor practices at the college amid ongoing collective bargaining agreement negotiations. Participants say this represents the first strike at a private arts college in the U.S. since 2012 and the first strike at a private college in California since a 1976 strike at Pepperdine University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCA’s chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021 alleges that the college breached labor laws when, without first securing the permission of union representatives, it eliminated the positions of multiple employees who were seeking to come back from a pandemic-induced furlough, offering them different roles—and in at least one instance, lower pay. The union also claims that CCA created multiple seasonal job positions without its blessing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in a statement on its website, \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/working/office-human-resources/staff-union-updates/collective-bargaining-fact-check/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the college said\u003c/a> it gave the union proper notice of these changes and that these allegations “are without merit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike is planned to continue on the San Francisco campus through Feb. 11, with the exception of a Feb. 9 demonstration, which will take place on the school’s Oakland campus. Many of the college’s adjunct faculty, tenure or tenure-track faculty, and students are also participating in a sympathy strike. This means a significant amount of the student body will be missing out on classes this week, a scenario CCA administration points to as detrimental for all parties involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when we are making rapid progress in negotiations and have reached agreement on so many items, a strike benefits no one—not our staff, not our faculty, and certainly not our students, who have just returned to fully in-person classes for the first time in nearly two years,” a CCA spokesperson wrote in an email to KQED. “The college has called on the union to show respect for the process and continue our progress by coming back to the negotiating table. Our goal is to work together to reach an agreement as quickly as possible and return everyone’s full energy and focus to our core mission of educating students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/018_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg\" alt=\"Woman pulls squeegee over screen to make print\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909137\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/018_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/018_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/018_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/018_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/018_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/018_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Architecture student Leyla Dualeh works with a member of the San Francisco Poster Syndicate to make a poster for the CCA staff strike at the San Francisco campus on Feb. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Students speak out in support of the strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Piper Alldredge, who has worked for four years as a studio manager at the San Francisco campus, called the assertion that the strike is bad for students “a slap in the face” to employees who stuck with CCA during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What about when you furloughed the people who work directly with students? The people who are supporting them every single day in so many different ways that are directly tied to our job descriptions, but also not,” she said in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoë Segura, a junior sculpture major at CCA, attended the strike and helped fellow students create a cardboard recreation of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatlin%27s_Tower\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tatlin’s Tower\u003c/a>—a symbol of communism and the Bolshevik Revolution—to represent that “institutions will fall without labor.” Segura said that the administration’s claim that the strike is bad for students is not reflective of the views of the majority of the student body. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen a lot of my peers out here, and I’m very proud of that. I think the general consensus is that we’re all fed up and think that everyone deserves more than they’re getting from CCA,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2021, a regional office of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which enforces U.S. labor law, charged that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/NLRB_CPT.32-CA-278831.Complaint-and-Notice-of-Hearing-9-27-2152.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CCA had committed unfair labor practices\u003c/a> and that the college must “bargain in good faith with the Union, on request, within 15 days of a Board Order, not less than twice a week, at least six hour per session, until an agreement or bona fide impasse is reached.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/CCA_Answer.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CCA responded in October\u003c/a> by denying the NLRB regional office’s request for remedy, instead, exercising their right to a hearing before a judge. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/024_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg\" alt=\"The back of a man with megaphone as he faces a large crowd of strikers\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909138\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/024_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/024_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/024_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/024_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/024_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/024_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff, faculty and students at CCA march outside of the San Francisco campus on Feb. 8, 2022, during a staff strike over claims of unfair labor practices. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>CCA employees demand a living wage\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Matt Kennedy, CCA’s Local 1021 union president, was one of the employees who said he was offered a minimized role with less pay as a condition of coming back from furlough. Kennedy, who has worked in CCA’s technology department for 10 years, said the financial strain of his 18-month furlough and subsequent demotion was especially difficult because he had a child during the pandemic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy said he was “one of the very last people to get called back to work,” and added that he feels his demotion and pay cut were “retaliation for my activity with the union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this, Kennedy returned to CCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to see us get our first contract, I want to see it really start to improve the lives of our workers,” Kennedy explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week’s strike comes after years of turmoil between CCA’s Local 1021 union and administrators at the negotiating table. Since the staff \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855650/california-college-of-the-arts-staff-elect-union-by-wide-margin\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">voted to unionize in 2019\u003c/a> after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855321/california-college-of-the-arts-campus-consolidation-spurs-union-effort\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">plans to consolidate CCA’s Oakland campus\u003c/a> to San Francisco were announced, the union has been pushing for higher wages, better benefits, a clearer promotion policy, greater job security and more transparency surrounding the college’s finances. The staff union claims that the compensation CCA currently offers the majority of their members is not enough to afford the cost of living and commuting in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the wage issue, they frame that as just an unreasonable ask on our part,” Alldredge said, pointing to $60,000 as the salary the union thinks should be the lowest pay at CCA. “Right now we have workers at CCA who make less than $40,000 a year. That’s not something that a person, much less a person with a family, can live on in the Bay Area. It’s just shameful. And it’s something that really feeds into that burn-and-churn culture of the workplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/010_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909139\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/010_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/010_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/010_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/010_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/010_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/010_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior Adjunct Professor Melissa Leventon speaks outside of CCA’s San Francisco campus on Feb. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CCA’s adjunct faculty belong to the same Local 1021 chapter as the staff members, and are currently negotiating their second union contract as a separate bargaining unit. They have their own set action items they’d like to see addressed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief among them is the elimination, or at least clarification, of a practice called half-lining, where adjuncts are paid half of their agreed-upon compensation if they don’t reach enrollment thresholds. This process is not new, nor is it unique to CCA, but adjuncts—like MFA design professor Randy Nakamura—said what constitutes a class as under-enrolled is “a moving target” with “no consistent standard.” Nakamura pointed out that fewer students doesn’t necessarily correlate to a significant drop-off in workload for the professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the same number of contact hours,” Nakamura told KQED. “There might be a little less grading, but the actual in-class work is essentially the same. It’s definitely not 50% less work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Union is hopeful demands will be met\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In December 2021, 97% of the union’s voting staff authorized the strike. They cited claims that CCA administrators have intentionally prolonged contract negotiations—and have shown up unprepared to some of these sessions—following a drastic change in working conditions during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, CCA denies allegations that it has dragged its feet during negotiations. According to CCA’s “Collective Bargaining Fact Check” web page, “It has always been the college’s goal to reach an agreement with the union as quickly as possible and return everyone’s energy and focus entirely to our core mission of educating students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/020_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg\" alt='Picket signs read \"not cool\" and \"contracts now\" in front of a CCA logo' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909140\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/020_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/020_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/020_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/020_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/020_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/020_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff, faculty and students at CCA rally outside of the San Francisco campus on Feb. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The same CCA spokesperson also told KQED in an email that “CCA remains ready and willing to negotiate as frequently as needed to achieve a fair and mutually beneficial collective bargaining agreement with our unionized staff. The college has a comprehensive proposal on the table that provides wage increases for our valued staff while also maintaining our ongoing commitment to student financial aid and a financially sustainable future for the college.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some ranked faculty members agree with the staff’s characterization of the process. Ninety-nine tenure and tenure-track faculty \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6180703413682d648c9d96af/t/62017d1cd329f20b3d977a59/1644264732985/2022+02+07+-+Letter+from+CCA+Ranked+Faculty.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote a letter\u003c/a> to CCA President Stephen Beal and Provost Tammy Rae Carland urging them to settle a fair contract with staff on Feb. 7, saying they “believe that two years is long enough to wait for a contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to multiple sources familiar with the bargaining process at CCA, the strike announcement has worked to move negotiations out of gridlock, though a comprehensive resolution has yet to be reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, union members remain hopeful that their demands will be met eventually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a brand-new union and going on strike to get your first contract isn’t something that normally happens. So this is a really powerful and transformative thing that we’re taking part in,” Kennedy, the union president, said. “I think that it’s really not just going to change things at CCA, but I think it’s going to change how a lot of workers think about their jobs and their working conditions in relation to their living conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After two years of negotiations without a contract, the art school’s staff union authorized a strike through Feb. 11.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705007221,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1814},"headData":{"title":"CCA Staff, Faculty and Students Strike, Claim Unfair Labor Practices | KQED","description":"After two years of negotiations without a contract, the art school’s staff union authorized a strike through Feb. 11.","ogTitle":"CCA Staff, Students and Faculty Strike Over Allegations of Unfair Labor Practices","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"CCA Staff, Students and Faculty Strike Over Allegations of Unfair Labor Practices","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialTitle":"CCA Staff, Faculty and Students Strike, Claim Unfair Labor Practices %%page%% %%sep%% KQED","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"CCA Staff, Students and Faculty Strike Over Allegations of Unfair Labor Practices","datePublished":"2022-02-09T16:00:19.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-11T21:07:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/arts/13909121/cca-staff-union-strike-unfair-labor-practices","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Tuesday morning, a call and response of “What do we want?” “Contracts!” “When do we want it?” “Now!” could be heard in front of the California College of the Arts (CCA) San Francisco campus in Potrero Hill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those chants came from hundreds of staff members, adjunct faculty and students at the college who were taking part in the Feb. 8 strike, but the atmosphere was more akin to that of a midday fiesta with maracas shaking and music playing. A banner read: “Labor justice is social justice. CCA staff & adjuncts deserve fair contracts now!” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13855650,arts_13855321","label":"More on CCA Staff Union "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>CCA staff are striking over what they claim to be unfair labor practices at the college amid ongoing collective bargaining agreement negotiations. Participants say this represents the first strike at a private arts college in the U.S. since 2012 and the first strike at a private college in California since a 1976 strike at Pepperdine University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCA’s chapter of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021 alleges that the college breached labor laws when, without first securing the permission of union representatives, it eliminated the positions of multiple employees who were seeking to come back from a pandemic-induced furlough, offering them different roles—and in at least one instance, lower pay. The union also claims that CCA created multiple seasonal job positions without its blessing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in a statement on its website, \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/working/office-human-resources/staff-union-updates/collective-bargaining-fact-check/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the college said\u003c/a> it gave the union proper notice of these changes and that these allegations “are without merit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike is planned to continue on the San Francisco campus through Feb. 11, with the exception of a Feb. 9 demonstration, which will take place on the school’s Oakland campus. Many of the college’s adjunct faculty, tenure or tenure-track faculty, and students are also participating in a sympathy strike. This means a significant amount of the student body will be missing out on classes this week, a scenario CCA administration points to as detrimental for all parties involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when we are making rapid progress in negotiations and have reached agreement on so many items, a strike benefits no one—not our staff, not our faculty, and certainly not our students, who have just returned to fully in-person classes for the first time in nearly two years,” a CCA spokesperson wrote in an email to KQED. “The college has called on the union to show respect for the process and continue our progress by coming back to the negotiating table. Our goal is to work together to reach an agreement as quickly as possible and return everyone’s full energy and focus to our core mission of educating students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/018_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg\" alt=\"Woman pulls squeegee over screen to make print\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909137\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/018_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/018_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/018_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/018_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/018_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/018_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Architecture student Leyla Dualeh works with a member of the San Francisco Poster Syndicate to make a poster for the CCA staff strike at the San Francisco campus on Feb. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Students speak out in support of the strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Piper Alldredge, who has worked for four years as a studio manager at the San Francisco campus, called the assertion that the strike is bad for students “a slap in the face” to employees who stuck with CCA during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What about when you furloughed the people who work directly with students? The people who are supporting them every single day in so many different ways that are directly tied to our job descriptions, but also not,” she said in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoë Segura, a junior sculpture major at CCA, attended the strike and helped fellow students create a cardboard recreation of \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatlin%27s_Tower\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tatlin’s Tower\u003c/a>—a symbol of communism and the Bolshevik Revolution—to represent that “institutions will fall without labor.” Segura said that the administration’s claim that the strike is bad for students is not reflective of the views of the majority of the student body. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen a lot of my peers out here, and I’m very proud of that. I think the general consensus is that we’re all fed up and think that everyone deserves more than they’re getting from CCA,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September 2021, a regional office of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which enforces U.S. labor law, charged that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/NLRB_CPT.32-CA-278831.Complaint-and-Notice-of-Hearing-9-27-2152.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CCA had committed unfair labor practices\u003c/a> and that the college must “bargain in good faith with the Union, on request, within 15 days of a Board Order, not less than twice a week, at least six hour per session, until an agreement or bona fide impasse is reached.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/CCA_Answer.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CCA responded in October\u003c/a> by denying the NLRB regional office’s request for remedy, instead, exercising their right to a hearing before a judge. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909138\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/024_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg\" alt=\"The back of a man with megaphone as he faces a large crowd of strikers\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909138\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/024_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/024_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/024_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/024_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/024_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/024_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff, faculty and students at CCA march outside of the San Francisco campus on Feb. 8, 2022, during a staff strike over claims of unfair labor practices. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>CCA employees demand a living wage\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Matt Kennedy, CCA’s Local 1021 union president, was one of the employees who said he was offered a minimized role with less pay as a condition of coming back from furlough. Kennedy, who has worked in CCA’s technology department for 10 years, said the financial strain of his 18-month furlough and subsequent demotion was especially difficult because he had a child during the pandemic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy said he was “one of the very last people to get called back to work,” and added that he feels his demotion and pay cut were “retaliation for my activity with the union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this, Kennedy returned to CCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to see us get our first contract, I want to see it really start to improve the lives of our workers,” Kennedy explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week’s strike comes after years of turmoil between CCA’s Local 1021 union and administrators at the negotiating table. Since the staff \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855650/california-college-of-the-arts-staff-elect-union-by-wide-margin\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">voted to unionize in 2019\u003c/a> after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855321/california-college-of-the-arts-campus-consolidation-spurs-union-effort\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">plans to consolidate CCA’s Oakland campus\u003c/a> to San Francisco were announced, the union has been pushing for higher wages, better benefits, a clearer promotion policy, greater job security and more transparency surrounding the college’s finances. The staff union claims that the compensation CCA currently offers the majority of their members is not enough to afford the cost of living and commuting in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the wage issue, they frame that as just an unreasonable ask on our part,” Alldredge said, pointing to $60,000 as the salary the union thinks should be the lowest pay at CCA. “Right now we have workers at CCA who make less than $40,000 a year. That’s not something that a person, much less a person with a family, can live on in the Bay Area. It’s just shameful. And it’s something that really feeds into that burn-and-churn culture of the workplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/010_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909139\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/010_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/010_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/010_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/010_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/010_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/010_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior Adjunct Professor Melissa Leventon speaks outside of CCA’s San Francisco campus on Feb. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CCA’s adjunct faculty belong to the same Local 1021 chapter as the staff members, and are currently negotiating their second union contract as a separate bargaining unit. They have their own set action items they’d like to see addressed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief among them is the elimination, or at least clarification, of a practice called half-lining, where adjuncts are paid half of their agreed-upon compensation if they don’t reach enrollment thresholds. This process is not new, nor is it unique to CCA, but adjuncts—like MFA design professor Randy Nakamura—said what constitutes a class as under-enrolled is “a moving target” with “no consistent standard.” Nakamura pointed out that fewer students doesn’t necessarily correlate to a significant drop-off in workload for the professor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the same number of contact hours,” Nakamura told KQED. “There might be a little less grading, but the actual in-class work is essentially the same. It’s definitely not 50% less work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Union is hopeful demands will be met\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In December 2021, 97% of the union’s voting staff authorized the strike. They cited claims that CCA administrators have intentionally prolonged contract negotiations—and have shown up unprepared to some of these sessions—following a drastic change in working conditions during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, CCA denies allegations that it has dragged its feet during negotiations. According to CCA’s “Collective Bargaining Fact Check” web page, “It has always been the college’s goal to reach an agreement with the union as quickly as possible and return everyone’s energy and focus entirely to our core mission of educating students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13909140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/020_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg\" alt='Picket signs read \"not cool\" and \"contracts now\" in front of a CCA logo' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13909140\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/020_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/020_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/020_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/020_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/020_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/020_SanFrancisco_CCAStrike_02082022-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff, faculty and students at CCA rally outside of the San Francisco campus on Feb. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The same CCA spokesperson also told KQED in an email that “CCA remains ready and willing to negotiate as frequently as needed to achieve a fair and mutually beneficial collective bargaining agreement with our unionized staff. The college has a comprehensive proposal on the table that provides wage increases for our valued staff while also maintaining our ongoing commitment to student financial aid and a financially sustainable future for the college.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some ranked faculty members agree with the staff’s characterization of the process. Ninety-nine tenure and tenure-track faculty \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6180703413682d648c9d96af/t/62017d1cd329f20b3d977a59/1644264732985/2022+02+07+-+Letter+from+CCA+Ranked+Faculty.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote a letter\u003c/a> to CCA President Stephen Beal and Provost Tammy Rae Carland urging them to settle a fair contract with staff on Feb. 7, saying they “believe that two years is long enough to wait for a contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to multiple sources familiar with the bargaining process at CCA, the strike announcement has worked to move negotiations out of gridlock, though a comprehensive resolution has yet to be reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, union members remain hopeful that their demands will be met eventually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a brand-new union and going on strike to get your first contract isn’t something that normally happens. So this is a really powerful and transformative thing that we’re taking part in,” Kennedy, the union president, said. “I think that it’s really not just going to change things at CCA, but I think it’s going to change how a lot of workers think about their jobs and their working conditions in relation to their living conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13909121/cca-staff-union-strike-unfair-labor-practices","authors":["11792"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_5936","arts_5850","arts_10342","arts_10278","arts_10422","arts_2639","arts_16649","arts_21264"],"featImg":"arts_13909134","label":"arts"},"arts_13883972":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13883972","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13883972","score":null,"sort":[1595978494000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"cca-students-quickly-raise-money-for-their-bipoc-peers","title":"CCA Students Quickly Raise Money for Their BIPOC Peers","publishDate":1595978494,"format":"standard","headTitle":"CCA Students Quickly Raise Money for Their BIPOC Peers | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>A handful of California College of the Arts students, energized by the movement for Black lives, have started a fundraiser for their classmates, hoping to offset the expense of a private art school education with unrestricted grants of $500–$1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/working-class-bipoc-at-cca-fundraiser\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Working Class & BIPOC Grant Campaign\u003c/a>, launched July 2, seeks to “catalyze the change necessary to make our school viable for all of its students.” The fundraiser’s end goal, beyond raising $35,000, is to push CCA to create a separate scholarship for Black and Indigenous students and students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13883757,arts_13877073']Pointing to the high cost of living in the Bay Area and CCA’s 2020–21 tuition of over $50,000, the organizers, a coalition of leaders from five different student groups, hope to address an “unacceptable disconnect between higher education and the BIPOC artist community in the Bay Area.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCA’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cca.edu/admissions/facts/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">student body\u003c/a> is 14% Asian American, 13% Hispanic/Latinx and 4% African American. (In 2010, the nine-county Bay Area was 23% Asian, 24% Hispanic/Latinx and 7% African American.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while CCA distributes millions in institutional financial aid each year, only one named scholarship is specifically earmarked for African American students, with another four categorized as “diversity” scholarships. CCA says it is unable to use race or ethnicity as a deciding factor in bestowing scholarships because of Proposition 209, which most famously ended affirmative action practices at UC schools in 1996. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a nationwide reckoning for racial justice, the student leaders behind the Working Class & BIPOC Grant Campaign have moved quickly and independently to circumnavigate such restrictions, opting instead for mutual aid. Their fundraiser is both functional and symbolic, modeling a program CCA might one day be able to implement (\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-bill-asking-voters-whether-to-repeal-15331604.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a repeal of Proposition 209\u003c/a> will appear on state ballots this November). \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Student-Led Campaign\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Guinan, a third-year animation student, is one of ten student organizers behind the fundraiser. “I’m so grateful to be living through the literal largest civil rights movement to date,” she says. Participating in recent Black Lives Matter protests prompted her to look critically at the communities in which she was already involved: “And CCA is a community that I think desperately needs help in terms of equity for Black students and Indigenous students and students of color.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fundraiser was originally planned to conclude in October, but Guinan says they may shorten the timeframe to release funds before the fall semester starts on Sept. 3. As of publication, the group, which includes members of the 24 Frames Animation Club, the Black Brilliance Club, the Students of Color Coalition, Student Council and Student Union of California College of the Arts, has raised over $12,000 from 132 donors—a feat achieved in under four weeks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CCt2bnvAJgs/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By establishing itself as completely independent from the school, the campaign has both advantages and disadvantages. Funds can be dispersed immediately, without going through official channels, but the campaign has to gather information about who is eligible to receive those funds on their own. To that end, they’ve created a survey for CCA students to complete; Guinan says they received 200 responses in the first two days. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside demographic questions about ethnicity and gender identity are queries like, “Have you felt unsafe at CCA due to direct or indirect racism, ableism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, classism, national origin?” The survey also wants to know if students notified CCA of such experiences and if the school took action in response to any complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCA, like most institutions of higher education across the country, is currently examining its past and current practices regarding racial justice and equity. The \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/essentials/office-president/presidents-diversity-steering-group/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">President’s Diversity Steering Group\u003c/a>, made up of faculty, staff and students, has organized an \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/essentials/office-president/presidents-diversity-steering-group/cca-community-recommendations-racial-justice-equity-initiatives/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">extensive list of recommendations\u003c/a> submitted by members of the CCA community since the national uprisings following the police killing of George Floyd. Among the suggestions are calls to create a center for Black visual culture and curatorial practice, to establish a land acknowledgment on the school’s website, and to require white faculty members to attend anti-racism training. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘More Funding is Needed’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CCA spokesperson Taryn Lott says the school expects the list of current and ongoing initiatives to grow, especially with regards to programming and curriculum, when members of the faculty return from the summer break. As for CCA’s response to the call for additional funding for working class and BIPOC students, Lott wrote in an email, “While CCA has made progress in raising diversity scholarships, college leadership recognizes that more funding is needed and continues to pursue increased support for our students.” Lott says CCA has raised $635,000 toward diversity scholarship awards since May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school currently distributes $25 million in institutional financial aid, 65% of which Lott says went to BIPOC and working class undergraduate and graduate students last year, which includes U.S. citizens, permanent residents and DACA recipients. Diversity scholarships comprise 10% of the school’s endowment at $3 million. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Guinan says what she’s heard from CCA’s Black students in particular is that the diversity scholarship program doesn’t prioritize them and they often don’t see those funds. The scholarships, according to CCA’s website, are offered to “students from educationally disadvantaged families who have demonstrated academic and artistic achievement, students with demonstrated leadership in service to the community, and students whose work focuses on social or cultural issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Working Class & BIPOC Grant Campaign hopes to disburse $1,000 each to those who need help with rent and larger expenses, and $500 grants for assistance with artist supplies and other “hidden fees that really add up,” Guinan explains. CCA estimates the additional costs of attending the school while living in the Bay Area, factoring in fees, housing, transportation, food and supplies, can amount to around $25,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13883981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"676\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13883981\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1-800x451.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student projects in the Nave at CCA’s San Francisco campus. \u003ccite>(Nicholas Lea Bruno/CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/thriving/health-wellness/novel-coronavirus-covid19/fall-2020-semester-will-be-online/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CCA announced\u003c/a> all of the upcoming fall semester’s courses will be taught completely remotely due to new guidance from the San Francisco Department of Public Health—not, as the school had hoped, in a combination of in-person and remote instruction. Though the school’s Oakland and San Francisco campuses will be completely closed to students until it is deemed safe to reopen—meaning no access to studios, wood shops, computer labs or the library—the school will continue to offer single-occupancy on-campus housing for students who need or want to live at CCA. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike SFAI, which recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883757/sfai-reinstates-degree-programs-faculty-students\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">enticed students to re-enroll\u003c/a> with offers of a 50% tuition cut, CCA’s 2020–21 tuition is frozen at the previous school year’s rate. The only cuts were to a planned 4% increase. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Speedy Delivery of Grants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of the impetus for keeping the Working Class & BIPOC Grant Campaign separate from the school, Guinan says, was a dissatisfaction with the speed at which CCA was able to disperse coronavirus-related relief funds to the student body. CCA received a total of nearly $1.4 million from the CARES Act fund, half of which will be disbursed in emergency financial aid grants of $500–$3,000 to eligible students between the 2019–20 and 2020–21 school years. Lott says their records indicate 745 students may be eligible to apply for these funds; so far 104 requests have been approved. (Dispersal \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/wesleywhistle/2020/06/11/devos-finalizes-rule-blocking-undocumented-students-from-cares-act-grants/#2928675675a0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">was slowed\u003c/a> by a lack of guidance from the Department of Education.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, CCA launched their own emergency fund to assist with students’ basic immediate needs in the face of the pandemic. Of the $30,686 raised, only $4,700 has been distributed to 40 students (decisions are made on a case-by-case basis and factor in the students’ financial aid and financial need) in the form of gift cards to grocery stores, general retailers and an art supplies store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spirit of mutual aid, the student-led fundraiser will issue its grants without any such limitations, trusting recipients to know what they themselves need. Guinan hopes the success of this campaign will push the school to ultimately change the way it supports its working class and BIPOC students, from the bottom up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all are putting our careers at CCA in some sort of jeopardy in some capacity,” she says. “And I just want to acknowledge that our team is working super hard and tackling this in multiple ways. The energy and the momentum is really strong and I just feel grateful to have this opportunity to hopefully effect some structural change at CCA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Inspired by the movement for Black lives, student leaders hope to raise $35,000 in unrestricted grants.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705020358,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1500},"headData":{"title":"CCA Students Quickly Raise Money for Their BIPOC Peers | KQED","description":"Inspired by the movement for Black lives, student leaders hope to raise $35,000 in unrestricted grants.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"CCA Students Quickly Raise Money for Their BIPOC Peers","datePublished":"2020-07-28T23:21:34.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T00:45:58.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13883972/cca-students-quickly-raise-money-for-their-bipoc-peers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A handful of California College of the Arts students, energized by the movement for Black lives, have started a fundraiser for their classmates, hoping to offset the expense of a private art school education with unrestricted grants of $500–$1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/working-class-bipoc-at-cca-fundraiser\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Working Class & BIPOC Grant Campaign\u003c/a>, launched July 2, seeks to “catalyze the change necessary to make our school viable for all of its students.” The fundraiser’s end goal, beyond raising $35,000, is to push CCA to create a separate scholarship for Black and Indigenous students and students of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13883757,arts_13877073","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pointing to the high cost of living in the Bay Area and CCA’s 2020–21 tuition of over $50,000, the organizers, a coalition of leaders from five different student groups, hope to address an “unacceptable disconnect between higher education and the BIPOC artist community in the Bay Area.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCA’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cca.edu/admissions/facts/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">student body\u003c/a> is 14% Asian American, 13% Hispanic/Latinx and 4% African American. (In 2010, the nine-county Bay Area was 23% Asian, 24% Hispanic/Latinx and 7% African American.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while CCA distributes millions in institutional financial aid each year, only one named scholarship is specifically earmarked for African American students, with another four categorized as “diversity” scholarships. CCA says it is unable to use race or ethnicity as a deciding factor in bestowing scholarships because of Proposition 209, which most famously ended affirmative action practices at UC schools in 1996. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a nationwide reckoning for racial justice, the student leaders behind the Working Class & BIPOC Grant Campaign have moved quickly and independently to circumnavigate such restrictions, opting instead for mutual aid. Their fundraiser is both functional and symbolic, modeling a program CCA might one day be able to implement (\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-bill-asking-voters-whether-to-repeal-15331604.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a repeal of Proposition 209\u003c/a> will appear on state ballots this November). \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Student-Led Campaign\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Guinan, a third-year animation student, is one of ten student organizers behind the fundraiser. “I’m so grateful to be living through the literal largest civil rights movement to date,” she says. Participating in recent Black Lives Matter protests prompted her to look critically at the communities in which she was already involved: “And CCA is a community that I think desperately needs help in terms of equity for Black students and Indigenous students and students of color.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fundraiser was originally planned to conclude in October, but Guinan says they may shorten the timeframe to release funds before the fall semester starts on Sept. 3. As of publication, the group, which includes members of the 24 Frames Animation Club, the Black Brilliance Club, the Students of Color Coalition, Student Council and Student Union of California College of the Arts, has raised over $12,000 from 132 donors—a feat achieved in under four weeks. \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"instagramLink","attributes":{"named":{"instagramId":"CCt2bnvAJgs"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>By establishing itself as completely independent from the school, the campaign has both advantages and disadvantages. Funds can be dispersed immediately, without going through official channels, but the campaign has to gather information about who is eligible to receive those funds on their own. To that end, they’ve created a survey for CCA students to complete; Guinan says they received 200 responses in the first two days. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside demographic questions about ethnicity and gender identity are queries like, “Have you felt unsafe at CCA due to direct or indirect racism, ableism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, classism, national origin?” The survey also wants to know if students notified CCA of such experiences and if the school took action in response to any complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCA, like most institutions of higher education across the country, is currently examining its past and current practices regarding racial justice and equity. The \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/essentials/office-president/presidents-diversity-steering-group/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">President’s Diversity Steering Group\u003c/a>, made up of faculty, staff and students, has organized an \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/essentials/office-president/presidents-diversity-steering-group/cca-community-recommendations-racial-justice-equity-initiatives/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">extensive list of recommendations\u003c/a> submitted by members of the CCA community since the national uprisings following the police killing of George Floyd. Among the suggestions are calls to create a center for Black visual culture and curatorial practice, to establish a land acknowledgment on the school’s website, and to require white faculty members to attend anti-racism training. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘More Funding is Needed’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CCA spokesperson Taryn Lott says the school expects the list of current and ongoing initiatives to grow, especially with regards to programming and curriculum, when members of the faculty return from the summer break. As for CCA’s response to the call for additional funding for working class and BIPOC students, Lott wrote in an email, “While CCA has made progress in raising diversity scholarships, college leadership recognizes that more funding is needed and continues to pursue increased support for our students.” Lott says CCA has raised $635,000 toward diversity scholarship awards since May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school currently distributes $25 million in institutional financial aid, 65% of which Lott says went to BIPOC and working class undergraduate and graduate students last year, which includes U.S. citizens, permanent residents and DACA recipients. Diversity scholarships comprise 10% of the school’s endowment at $3 million. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Guinan says what she’s heard from CCA’s Black students in particular is that the diversity scholarship program doesn’t prioritize them and they often don’t see those funds. The scholarships, according to CCA’s website, are offered to “students from educationally disadvantaged families who have demonstrated academic and artistic achievement, students with demonstrated leadership in service to the community, and students whose work focuses on social or cultural issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Working Class & BIPOC Grant Campaign hopes to disburse $1,000 each to those who need help with rent and larger expenses, and $500 grants for assistance with artist supplies and other “hidden fees that really add up,” Guinan explains. CCA estimates the additional costs of attending the school while living in the Bay Area, factoring in fees, housing, transportation, food and supplies, can amount to around $25,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13883981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"676\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13883981\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1-800x451.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Glance_WhyUnification_body_2020_.2e16d0ba.fill-2160x1215-1-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student projects in the Nave at CCA’s San Francisco campus. \u003ccite>(Nicholas Lea Bruno/CCA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/thriving/health-wellness/novel-coronavirus-covid19/fall-2020-semester-will-be-online/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CCA announced\u003c/a> all of the upcoming fall semester’s courses will be taught completely remotely due to new guidance from the San Francisco Department of Public Health—not, as the school had hoped, in a combination of in-person and remote instruction. Though the school’s Oakland and San Francisco campuses will be completely closed to students until it is deemed safe to reopen—meaning no access to studios, wood shops, computer labs or the library—the school will continue to offer single-occupancy on-campus housing for students who need or want to live at CCA. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike SFAI, which recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13883757/sfai-reinstates-degree-programs-faculty-students\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">enticed students to re-enroll\u003c/a> with offers of a 50% tuition cut, CCA’s 2020–21 tuition is frozen at the previous school year’s rate. The only cuts were to a planned 4% increase. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Speedy Delivery of Grants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of the impetus for keeping the Working Class & BIPOC Grant Campaign separate from the school, Guinan says, was a dissatisfaction with the speed at which CCA was able to disperse coronavirus-related relief funds to the student body. CCA received a total of nearly $1.4 million from the CARES Act fund, half of which will be disbursed in emergency financial aid grants of $500–$3,000 to eligible students between the 2019–20 and 2020–21 school years. Lott says their records indicate 745 students may be eligible to apply for these funds; so far 104 requests have been approved. (Dispersal \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/wesleywhistle/2020/06/11/devos-finalizes-rule-blocking-undocumented-students-from-cares-act-grants/#2928675675a0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">was slowed\u003c/a> by a lack of guidance from the Department of Education.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, CCA launched their own emergency fund to assist with students’ basic immediate needs in the face of the pandemic. Of the $30,686 raised, only $4,700 has been distributed to 40 students (decisions are made on a case-by-case basis and factor in the students’ financial aid and financial need) in the form of gift cards to grocery stores, general retailers and an art supplies store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spirit of mutual aid, the student-led fundraiser will issue its grants without any such limitations, trusting recipients to know what they themselves need. Guinan hopes the success of this campaign will push the school to ultimately change the way it supports its working class and BIPOC students, from the bottom up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all are putting our careers at CCA in some sort of jeopardy in some capacity,” she says. “And I just want to acknowledge that our team is working super hard and tackling this in multiple ways. The energy and the momentum is really strong and I just feel grateful to have this opportunity to hopefully effect some structural change at CCA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13883972/cca-students-quickly-raise-money-for-their-bipoc-peers","authors":["61"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_3156","arts_5936","arts_5850","arts_10278","arts_10785","arts_746"],"featImg":"arts_13883976","label":"arts"},"arts_13880829":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13880829","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13880829","score":null,"sort":[1590101012000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"cca-delays-covid-19-safety-remote-work-negotiations-in-union-dispute","title":"CCA Delays COVID-19 Safety, Remote Work Negotiations in Union Dispute","publishDate":1590101012,"format":"standard","headTitle":"CCA Delays COVID-19 Safety, Remote Work Negotiations in Union Dispute | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Six weeks ago, as the novel coronavirus started to wreak havoc on higher education, the labor union representing adjunct professors at California College of the Arts proposed negotiating the terms of online teaching as well as COVID 19-related sick leave and other benefits. [aside postID=arts_13877073,arts_13878509,arts_13855321]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leadership expected to quickly reach an emergency agreement between faculty and the school administration, especially after the private art and design college approved a nearly identical proposal for union staff in a separate negotiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California College of the Arts (CCA) leadership has so far refused to negotiate with the adjunct union, which represents 70 percent of the school’s overall teaching staff, igniting a tense dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School leadership has accused the adjunct union of soliciting a work-stoppage by sharing the student union’s request to have representatives address online classes, diverting resources from the negotiations. The adjuncts in turn say the administration is seizing on a public health crisis to divide the faculty union from its members and students in an attack on academic freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an outrageous refusal to bargain over health and safety issues on the grounds that an email represents an illegal work stoppage,” Noga Wizansky, a CCA adjunct and union steward, said in an interview. School leadership’s real aim, according to adjunct union leaders, is to deter teachers and students from sharing information and mounting joint campaigns together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nato Green, an SEIU Local 1021 negotiator, said in a statement that it’s “shocking and bizarre” for the CCA administration “to accuse our members of a ‘work stoppage’ of 5-10 minutes and to claim that they are incapable of dealing with any other pressing labor relations issue because of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the biggest public health and economic crisis in a century, CCA should focus on addressing the urgent challenges facing all of us instead of wasting energy meddling in the free speech rights of students, teachers and staff who are working together to make things better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Wiens, CCA’s vice president of marketing and communications, said in a statement that she’s unable to comment on topics under discussion with the union. Wiens said the administration hopes the agreement with college staff can serve as a model for a similar agreement with adjunct faculty, and that in the meantime the college is adhering to existing workplace safety guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instructors frequently invite guest lecturers or other visitors to participate in their classes in support of learning outcomes, but it is not appropriate to take class time away from the students enrolled in the course for presentations unrelated to the course content,” Wiens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conflict comes at a vulnerable time for CCA. The school is leaving its historic Oakland campus to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855321/california-college-of-the-arts-campus-consolidation-spurs-union-effort\">consolidate\u003c/a> in San Francisco, stirring anxieties about a shift from studio arts to design and potential workforce reductions. A related plan to begin scheduling classes on Saturdays, first announced last fall, has also proved controversial among faculty and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like colleges everywhere, CCA now faces discontent with the pivot to online instruction and reductions in other services, plus uncertainty about future enrollment. A petition for a partial \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877073/art-students-demand-tuition-refunds-as-classes-go-online\">tuition refund\u003c/a> launched in March and circulated by the student union has garnered more than 1,000 signatures. And on Friday, CCA announced furloughs affecting more than 60 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an April 21 email, adjunct union leadership notified members that the student union, which operates without CCA’s formal recognition, wanted to have representatives briefly visit online classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea, according to recent graduate and student union organizer Yuri Knighten, was to broaden awareness of the student union as an information hub. “It wasn’t a campaign against school leadership at all,” Knighten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet school leadership “responded ferociously,” Wizanksy said. Julianne Kirgis, the associate provost, on April 23 emailed Wizansky and other members of the adjunct union’s Labor Management Committee to demand the letter’s withdrawal. Soliciting teachers to have student union representatives address their classes, Kirgis wrote, violates the adjunct union’s contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Program chairs then sent an email discouraging adjuncts from hosting student union representatives; only a handful hosted the visits. Still, the adjunct union declined to withdraw the letter, and a May 12 meeting between the Labor Management Committee and school leadership that was intended to resolve the conflict only sharpened differences, according to Wizansky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the adjuncts’ COVID-19 safety and remote work proposal—a “side letter,” in union terminology, meant to address conditions not anticipated by a contract—remains unaddressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The April 10 draft, reviewed by KQED, aims to ensure teachers have sufficient training and equipment to provide online instruction, and also to solidify benefits and paid leave eligibility in the event of contracting COVID-19 or caring for a family member sick with the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The adjunct union’s current contract expires June 30.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"School leadership has accused the adjunct union of soliciting an illegal work stoppage. 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The adjuncts in turn say the administration is seizing on a public health crisis to divide the faculty union from its members and students in an attack on academic freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an outrageous refusal to bargain over health and safety issues on the grounds that an email represents an illegal work stoppage,” Noga Wizansky, a CCA adjunct and union steward, said in an interview. School leadership’s real aim, according to adjunct union leaders, is to deter teachers and students from sharing information and mounting joint campaigns together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nato Green, an SEIU Local 1021 negotiator, said in a statement that it’s “shocking and bizarre” for the CCA administration “to accuse our members of a ‘work stoppage’ of 5-10 minutes and to claim that they are incapable of dealing with any other pressing labor relations issue because of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the biggest public health and economic crisis in a century, CCA should focus on addressing the urgent challenges facing all of us instead of wasting energy meddling in the free speech rights of students, teachers and staff who are working together to make things better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Wiens, CCA’s vice president of marketing and communications, said in a statement that she’s unable to comment on topics under discussion with the union. Wiens said the administration hopes the agreement with college staff can serve as a model for a similar agreement with adjunct faculty, and that in the meantime the college is adhering to existing workplace safety guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instructors frequently invite guest lecturers or other visitors to participate in their classes in support of learning outcomes, but it is not appropriate to take class time away from the students enrolled in the course for presentations unrelated to the course content,” Wiens said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conflict comes at a vulnerable time for CCA. The school is leaving its historic Oakland campus to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855321/california-college-of-the-arts-campus-consolidation-spurs-union-effort\">consolidate\u003c/a> in San Francisco, stirring anxieties about a shift from studio arts to design and potential workforce reductions. A related plan to begin scheduling classes on Saturdays, first announced last fall, has also proved controversial among faculty and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like colleges everywhere, CCA now faces discontent with the pivot to online instruction and reductions in other services, plus uncertainty about future enrollment. A petition for a partial \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877073/art-students-demand-tuition-refunds-as-classes-go-online\">tuition refund\u003c/a> launched in March and circulated by the student union has garnered more than 1,000 signatures. And on Friday, CCA announced furloughs affecting more than 60 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an April 21 email, adjunct union leadership notified members that the student union, which operates without CCA’s formal recognition, wanted to have representatives briefly visit online classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea, according to recent graduate and student union organizer Yuri Knighten, was to broaden awareness of the student union as an information hub. “It wasn’t a campaign against school leadership at all,” Knighten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet school leadership “responded ferociously,” Wizanksy said. Julianne Kirgis, the associate provost, on April 23 emailed Wizansky and other members of the adjunct union’s Labor Management Committee to demand the letter’s withdrawal. Soliciting teachers to have student union representatives address their classes, Kirgis wrote, violates the adjunct union’s contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Program chairs then sent an email discouraging adjuncts from hosting student union representatives; only a handful hosted the visits. Still, the adjunct union declined to withdraw the letter, and a May 12 meeting between the Labor Management Committee and school leadership that was intended to resolve the conflict only sharpened differences, according to Wizansky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the adjuncts’ COVID-19 safety and remote work proposal—a “side letter,” in union terminology, meant to address conditions not anticipated by a contract—remains unaddressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The April 10 draft, reviewed by KQED, aims to ensure teachers have sufficient training and equipment to provide online instruction, and also to solidify benefits and paid leave eligibility in the event of contracting COVID-19 or caring for a family member sick with the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The adjunct union’s current contract expires June 30.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13880829/cca-delays-covid-19-safety-remote-work-negotiations-in-union-dispute","authors":["11091"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_5936","arts_549","arts_10126","arts_21264"],"featImg":"arts_13877081","label":"arts"},"arts_13877073":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13877073","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13877073","score":null,"sort":[1584660792000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"art-students-demand-tuition-refunds-as-classes-go-online","title":"Art Students Demand Tuition Refunds As Classes Go Online","publishDate":1584660792,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Art Students Demand Tuition Refunds As Classes Go Online | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Thursday, 4:45 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California College of the Arts, like most Bay Area higher-education institutions, is shifting to online classes amid shelter-in-place orders to stem transmission of the novel coronavirus, and some students want their money back. [aside postID=arts_13855321]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California College of the Arts (CCA), along with Academy of Art University and the San Francisco Art Institute, this past week shuttered most administrative and instructional facilities, including specialized studios related to disciplines such as ceramics, welding and textiles. More than half of its residential students have left campus; largely international students stymied by travel restrictions are staying onsite, according to the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As class moves online for the rest of the semester, with studios and other resources expected to remain closed, students at CCA and other schools are questioning what they get for their tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing a similar call by University of California students, an online \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/cca-administration-give-cca-students-a-tuition-refund\">petition\u003c/a> launched Monday by CCA animation student Kym Gray for a “partial tuition refund” has garnered more than 600 signatures. Gray, 23, a junior, told KQED the campus shutdowns affect, say, printmaking and sculpture students as much as digitally-focused students without access to costly software and compatible computers. Many students, Gray said, are incurring additional expenses to continue schoolwork remotely, and some consider online instruction a diminished form of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray said she’s fortunate to have scholarships and grants, and was more motivated to launch the petition by her concern for peers paying tuition out of pocket. Still, Gray depends on onsite access to digital tools she doesn’t have at home in Oakland, and knows people in fields such as ceramics and glass-blowing who’ve been forced to effectively halt important projects. “I know if I was a 3D animation student my software licenses would cost like $1,000 right now,” Gray said. “That’s part of your tuition.” She added, “I do love CCA—we just want every dollar’s worth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware of the petition, and of similar petitions,” Brian Maxey, a CCA spokesperson, said in a statement Wednesday. “Our primary focus is on the safety and well-being of our community, followed by ensuring our students are able to continue their learning in ways that, while different than what any of us expected, still fulfill the requirements and authentic learning outcomes for them to receive credit for their classes and continue progress toward their degrees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, after this article was published, CCA president Stephen Beal and provost Tammy Rae Carland released a statement saying students who move out of the residence halls for the rest of the semester will receive a credit for their housing costs prorated to Tuesday, March 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCA is also soliciting donations to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/8206/donations/new\">student emergency fund\u003c/a>, saying in an announcement Thursday that many students have lost off-campus part-time jobs. The fund, administered through the CCA Cares Program, is intended to address food insecurity, household needs and health and wellness support, the college announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students are 100-percent justified in demanding to get money back for education they’re not able to receive,” David Skolnick, an assistant professor in the writing and literature department at CCA, said in an interview. “At the same time, if everyone got their tuition back it’d mean the school goes bankrupt and we all lose our jobs. … In this situation, everyone’s losing right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California College of the Arts, founded in the East Bay in 1907, currently enrolls some 1,850 undergraduate and graduate students of art, architecture and design. It also operates the Wattis Institute for the Contemporary Arts. Currently the college spans two campuses in Oakland and San Francisco, but is in the process of consolidating, or “unifying,” in administration parlance, around its housing and instructional facilities at the foot of Potrero Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underlying the petition is long-mounting frustration with the growing cost of higher education, especially at private colleges in expensive regions such as CCA, where first-year undergraduate tuition and fees run $76,671. There’s also the debt burden that students bring to an uncertain job market. “This is an expensive college, and even in a normal year students don’t necessarily feel like they’re getting their money’s worth,” said Yuri Knighten, 25, a recent illustration graduate who’s still active with CCA’s independent student union and has helped circulate Gray’s petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knighten cautioned, however, that CCA students should balance their call for refunds with concern for the financial stability of college faculty and staff, who have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855321/california-college-of-the-arts-campus-consolidation-spurs-union-effort\">unionized\u003c/a> in recent years over concerns with a rising cost of living and the ongoing campus consolidation in San Francisco. For now, according to Maxey and union members, staff who cannot from home and whose presence isn’t necessary on campus will continue to receive compensation. “Having been involved with the staff and adjunction union fights, I’m thinking of how to be in solidarity,” Knighten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/howard-gillman-refund-student-housing-for-spring-quarter-at-uc-irvine\">petition\u003c/a> launched last week by Rosie Oganesian, a freshman at University of California Irvine, similarly calls for housing and meal plan refunds and tuition reductions. It has since been amended to include public colleges statewide, and has more than 7,000 signatures. UC leadership has ruled out tuition refunds, saying grades from online classes count towards the same diploma, while leaving decisions about some fees to individual college administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC faculty are also voicing concern about the digital pivot. “Most of us were not trained or hired to teach online courses, and online courses are not what the students enrolled and paid for,” reads an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16INzCI5ZR3ir0_E_Gby6WU2YYjq1JEtKGwijs5Lb66E/viewform?fbclid=IwAR1O7l09ukqoUlkhmwDp64W6Ru4YrBTNtUtc640JztFztgf61_88M3EtnJs&edit_requested=true\">open letter\u003c/a>, published Monday, with signatures from UC educators and supporters. (The letter firstly criticizes the recent firing of striking graduate students.) “The mandate is clearly to engage in ersatz education for the sake of sustaining a fiction of continuity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Class meetings are paused this week to allow faculty time to develop alternative coursework and learn new tools for remote teaching. “Zoom meetings to learn to use Zoom,” as Skolnick, the writing professor, put it. “No one believes this is a comparable learning experience,” he continued, noting the campus shutdown will most acutely affect students with a studio-based practice. “Still we now have to focus on the most basic learning outcomes, like a coherent four-page academic essay. … Other things, like oral presentation, will fall by the wayside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re an art school, so this isn’t an easy change to make,” said Maxey, the CCA spokesperson. “But that also means our faculty are incredibly creative.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Locked out of studios, “students don’t necessarily feel like they’re getting their money’s worth.”","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705021051,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":1154},"headData":{"title":"Art Students Demand Tuition Refunds As Classes Go Online | KQED","description":"Locked out of studios, “students don’t necessarily feel like they’re getting their money’s worth.”","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Art Students Demand Tuition Refunds As Classes Go Online","datePublished":"2020-03-19T23:33:12.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T00:57:31.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13877073/art-students-demand-tuition-refunds-as-classes-go-online","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Thursday, 4:45 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California College of the Arts, like most Bay Area higher-education institutions, is shifting to online classes amid shelter-in-place orders to stem transmission of the novel coronavirus, and some students want their money back. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13855321","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California College of the Arts (CCA), along with Academy of Art University and the San Francisco Art Institute, this past week shuttered most administrative and instructional facilities, including specialized studios related to disciplines such as ceramics, welding and textiles. More than half of its residential students have left campus; largely international students stymied by travel restrictions are staying onsite, according to the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As class moves online for the rest of the semester, with studios and other resources expected to remain closed, students at CCA and other schools are questioning what they get for their tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing a similar call by University of California students, an online \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/cca-administration-give-cca-students-a-tuition-refund\">petition\u003c/a> launched Monday by CCA animation student Kym Gray for a “partial tuition refund” has garnered more than 600 signatures. Gray, 23, a junior, told KQED the campus shutdowns affect, say, printmaking and sculpture students as much as digitally-focused students without access to costly software and compatible computers. Many students, Gray said, are incurring additional expenses to continue schoolwork remotely, and some consider online instruction a diminished form of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gray said she’s fortunate to have scholarships and grants, and was more motivated to launch the petition by her concern for peers paying tuition out of pocket. Still, Gray depends on onsite access to digital tools she doesn’t have at home in Oakland, and knows people in fields such as ceramics and glass-blowing who’ve been forced to effectively halt important projects. “I know if I was a 3D animation student my software licenses would cost like $1,000 right now,” Gray said. “That’s part of your tuition.” She added, “I do love CCA—we just want every dollar’s worth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re aware of the petition, and of similar petitions,” Brian Maxey, a CCA spokesperson, said in a statement Wednesday. “Our primary focus is on the safety and well-being of our community, followed by ensuring our students are able to continue their learning in ways that, while different than what any of us expected, still fulfill the requirements and authentic learning outcomes for them to receive credit for their classes and continue progress toward their degrees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, after this article was published, CCA president Stephen Beal and provost Tammy Rae Carland released a statement saying students who move out of the residence halls for the rest of the semester will receive a credit for their housing costs prorated to Tuesday, March 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCA is also soliciting donations to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/8206/donations/new\">student emergency fund\u003c/a>, saying in an announcement Thursday that many students have lost off-campus part-time jobs. The fund, administered through the CCA Cares Program, is intended to address food insecurity, household needs and health and wellness support, the college announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students are 100-percent justified in demanding to get money back for education they’re not able to receive,” David Skolnick, an assistant professor in the writing and literature department at CCA, said in an interview. “At the same time, if everyone got their tuition back it’d mean the school goes bankrupt and we all lose our jobs. … In this situation, everyone’s losing right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California College of the Arts, founded in the East Bay in 1907, currently enrolls some 1,850 undergraduate and graduate students of art, architecture and design. It also operates the Wattis Institute for the Contemporary Arts. Currently the college spans two campuses in Oakland and San Francisco, but is in the process of consolidating, or “unifying,” in administration parlance, around its housing and instructional facilities at the foot of Potrero Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underlying the petition is long-mounting frustration with the growing cost of higher education, especially at private colleges in expensive regions such as CCA, where first-year undergraduate tuition and fees run $76,671. There’s also the debt burden that students bring to an uncertain job market. “This is an expensive college, and even in a normal year students don’t necessarily feel like they’re getting their money’s worth,” said Yuri Knighten, 25, a recent illustration graduate who’s still active with CCA’s independent student union and has helped circulate Gray’s petition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knighten cautioned, however, that CCA students should balance their call for refunds with concern for the financial stability of college faculty and staff, who have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855321/california-college-of-the-arts-campus-consolidation-spurs-union-effort\">unionized\u003c/a> in recent years over concerns with a rising cost of living and the ongoing campus consolidation in San Francisco. For now, according to Maxey and union members, staff who cannot from home and whose presence isn’t necessary on campus will continue to receive compensation. “Having been involved with the staff and adjunction union fights, I’m thinking of how to be in solidarity,” Knighten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/howard-gillman-refund-student-housing-for-spring-quarter-at-uc-irvine\">petition\u003c/a> launched last week by Rosie Oganesian, a freshman at University of California Irvine, similarly calls for housing and meal plan refunds and tuition reductions. It has since been amended to include public colleges statewide, and has more than 7,000 signatures. UC leadership has ruled out tuition refunds, saying grades from online classes count towards the same diploma, while leaving decisions about some fees to individual college administrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC faculty are also voicing concern about the digital pivot. “Most of us were not trained or hired to teach online courses, and online courses are not what the students enrolled and paid for,” reads an \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16INzCI5ZR3ir0_E_Gby6WU2YYjq1JEtKGwijs5Lb66E/viewform?fbclid=IwAR1O7l09ukqoUlkhmwDp64W6Ru4YrBTNtUtc640JztFztgf61_88M3EtnJs&edit_requested=true\">open letter\u003c/a>, published Monday, with signatures from UC educators and supporters. (The letter firstly criticizes the recent firing of striking graduate students.) “The mandate is clearly to engage in ersatz education for the sake of sustaining a fiction of continuity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Class meetings are paused this week to allow faculty time to develop alternative coursework and learn new tools for remote teaching. “Zoom meetings to learn to use Zoom,” as Skolnick, the writing professor, put it. “No one believes this is a comparable learning experience,” he continued, noting the campus shutdown will most acutely affect students with a studio-based practice. “Still we now have to focus on the most basic learning outcomes, like a coherent four-page academic essay. … Other things, like oral presentation, will fall by the wayside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re an art school, so this isn’t an easy change to make,” said Maxey, the CCA spokesperson. “But that also means our faculty are incredibly creative.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13877073/art-students-demand-tuition-refunds-as-classes-go-online","authors":["11091"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_835","arts_235","arts_70"],"tags":["arts_5936","arts_10126","arts_10278","arts_746","arts_596","arts_4213"],"featImg":"arts_13877081","label":"arts"},"arts_13870226":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13870226","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13870226","score":null,"sort":[1574452836000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"staff-at-mills-college-recovering-from-budget-crisis-follow-faculty-in-union-campaign","title":"Staff at Mills College, Recovering From Budget Crisis, Follow Faculty in Union Campaign","publishDate":1574452836,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Staff at Mills College, Recovering From Budget Crisis, Follow Faculty in Union Campaign | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Staff at Mills College are following in the footsteps of the Oakland liberal arts institution’s adjunct faculty members by unionizing as part of a broader organized labor trend in Bay Area higher education. [aside postID=arts_13855321,arts_12248119,arts_13389908] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month Mills staff announced the campaign to unionize with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021, which also represents Mills faculty and this year \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855321/california-college-of-the-arts-campus-consolidation-spurs-union-effort\">organized staff\u003c/a> at California College of the Arts. Organizers say the effort has widespread support on campus and estimated more than 200 employees are eligible for the bargaining unit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, members of the staff organizing committee, joined by a student supporter, delivered a letter to Elizabeth Hillman, the school’s president, requesting the administration voluntarily recognize the union in order to avoid a costly, potentially contentious election process through the National Labor Relations Board. “We seek to cultivate a partnership with College administration that honors the overwhelming support for unionization among Mills staff,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to labor unions, Mills embraces the democratic principle of free and fair decision-making by employees,” said Hillman, who’s led Mills since 2016, in a statement to KQED. “We’re now assessing how the possibility of unionization would affect our efforts to work together with our faculty and the entire community to ensure a sustainable future for Mills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in various departments say they’re organizing for higher wages, stronger benefits and greater representation in institutional decision-making as Mills rebounds from a “financial emergency” two years ago. Like faculty and staff at other local colleges to unionize in recent years, they’re motivated to address issues such as wage stagnation, with incoming employees earning more than longtime ones in similar roles, by the rising cost-of-living in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mills has a social-justice and diversity policy that’s public and is supposed to drive institutional decisions around staffing and pedagogy,” said Brendan Glasson, a 2018 Mills graduate and staff organizer who now works as the music center technical director. “This is about helping Mills adhere itself further to its commitments to equity and sustainable working conditions.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Mills staff have gone as many as eight years without raises, and benefits such as retirement contributions have declined as well, according to staff organizers. Employees have also been laid off and then encouraged to reapply for similar positions with added responsibilities. For example, Madison Davis, an alum and staff organizer who’s worked as a Mills fundraiser since 2017, said her job was previously divided between two people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to the working conditions and low morale, Mills struggles with employee retention, and union organizers point out that rapid staff turnover also diminishes the student experience. “As a longtime employee, I’m watching Mills become a place where people work for 2-5 years and then leave, and that’s not particularly sustainable for us or our students,” said Vala Burnett, a Mills alum and staff organizer who’s worked as a health-sciences coordinator since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills, a private college for women and gender non-binary students, with graduate programs for all genders, declared a financial emergency in 2017 to resolve a $9 million deficit, and moved to fire eleven professors, many of them tenured, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13389908/jazz-pioneer-roscoe-mitchell-marked-for-dismissal-at-mills-college\">including\u003c/a> the internationally renowned composer and improviser Roscoe Mitchell. The American Association of University Professors criticized the administration for “declining to consider … alternatives to terminating faculty appointments.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond forcing out Mitchell, an important draw for music students, the crisis dramatically affected the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12248119/fifty-years-of-limitless-possibility-at-the-center-for-contemporary-music-at-mills-college\">storied Center for Contemporary Music\u003c/a>: Co-directors Chris Brown and Maggi Payne, longtime campus and music scene fixtures, retired early in the hopes of pre-empting additional cuts. Several other departments were also marked for downsizing as the school struggled to increase enrollment and, in the view of critics, prioritized sciences over liberal arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many other small colleges, we are continuing to manage a budget deficit created by investment in new programs and lower enrollments,” Hillman said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the restructuring—part of a financial stabilization plan aiming to balance the budget by next year—Mills staff believe unionizing will give them greater representation in cost-cutting decisions in order to avoid or mitigate the effects of similar layoffs. “So it’s also about transparency,” Burnett said. “Through this process we get to the table, we get to open the books, and then staff is positioned to bring our knowledge to help Mills solve its problems.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SEIU Local 1021, which represents staff and faculty at several local private colleges, helped Mills adjuncts ratify their first union contract in 2016. According to the union, the contract provided adjuncts with an average 13-percent raise, protection against reduction of benefits and more say in working conditions. SEIU, known for representing public employees, has been organizing adjunct professors in recent years as part of its “Faculty Forward” campaign.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The campaign continues an organized labor trend in Bay Area higher education.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705021787,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":855},"headData":{"title":"Staff at Mills College, Recovering From Budget Crisis, Follow Faculty in Union Campaign | KQED","description":"The campaign continues an organized labor trend in Bay Area higher education.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Staff at Mills College, Recovering From Budget Crisis, Follow Faculty in Union Campaign","datePublished":"2019-11-22T20:00:36.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-12T01:09:47.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13870226/staff-at-mills-college-recovering-from-budget-crisis-follow-faculty-in-union-campaign","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Staff at Mills College are following in the footsteps of the Oakland liberal arts institution’s adjunct faculty members by unionizing as part of a broader organized labor trend in Bay Area higher education. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13855321,arts_12248119,arts_13389908","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month Mills staff announced the campaign to unionize with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1021, which also represents Mills faculty and this year \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855321/california-college-of-the-arts-campus-consolidation-spurs-union-effort\">organized staff\u003c/a> at California College of the Arts. Organizers say the effort has widespread support on campus and estimated more than 200 employees are eligible for the bargaining unit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, members of the staff organizing committee, joined by a student supporter, delivered a letter to Elizabeth Hillman, the school’s president, requesting the administration voluntarily recognize the union in order to avoid a costly, potentially contentious election process through the National Labor Relations Board. “We seek to cultivate a partnership with College administration that honors the overwhelming support for unionization among Mills staff,” it reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to labor unions, Mills embraces the democratic principle of free and fair decision-making by employees,” said Hillman, who’s led Mills since 2016, in a statement to KQED. “We’re now assessing how the possibility of unionization would affect our efforts to work together with our faculty and the entire community to ensure a sustainable future for Mills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in various departments say they’re organizing for higher wages, stronger benefits and greater representation in institutional decision-making as Mills rebounds from a “financial emergency” two years ago. Like faculty and staff at other local colleges to unionize in recent years, they’re motivated to address issues such as wage stagnation, with incoming employees earning more than longtime ones in similar roles, by the rising cost-of-living in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mills has a social-justice and diversity policy that’s public and is supposed to drive institutional decisions around staffing and pedagogy,” said Brendan Glasson, a 2018 Mills graduate and staff organizer who now works as the music center technical director. “This is about helping Mills adhere itself further to its commitments to equity and sustainable working conditions.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Mills staff have gone as many as eight years without raises, and benefits such as retirement contributions have declined as well, according to staff organizers. Employees have also been laid off and then encouraged to reapply for similar positions with added responsibilities. For example, Madison Davis, an alum and staff organizer who’s worked as a Mills fundraiser since 2017, said her job was previously divided between two people. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to the working conditions and low morale, Mills struggles with employee retention, and union organizers point out that rapid staff turnover also diminishes the student experience. “As a longtime employee, I’m watching Mills become a place where people work for 2-5 years and then leave, and that’s not particularly sustainable for us or our students,” said Vala Burnett, a Mills alum and staff organizer who’s worked as a health-sciences coordinator since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mills, a private college for women and gender non-binary students, with graduate programs for all genders, declared a financial emergency in 2017 to resolve a $9 million deficit, and moved to fire eleven professors, many of them tenured, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13389908/jazz-pioneer-roscoe-mitchell-marked-for-dismissal-at-mills-college\">including\u003c/a> the internationally renowned composer and improviser Roscoe Mitchell. The American Association of University Professors criticized the administration for “declining to consider … alternatives to terminating faculty appointments.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond forcing out Mitchell, an important draw for music students, the crisis dramatically affected the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/12248119/fifty-years-of-limitless-possibility-at-the-center-for-contemporary-music-at-mills-college\">storied Center for Contemporary Music\u003c/a>: Co-directors Chris Brown and Maggi Payne, longtime campus and music scene fixtures, retired early in the hopes of pre-empting additional cuts. Several other departments were also marked for downsizing as the school struggled to increase enrollment and, in the view of critics, prioritized sciences over liberal arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many other small colleges, we are continuing to manage a budget deficit created by investment in new programs and lower enrollments,” Hillman said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the restructuring—part of a financial stabilization plan aiming to balance the budget by next year—Mills staff believe unionizing will give them greater representation in cost-cutting decisions in order to avoid or mitigate the effects of similar layoffs. “So it’s also about transparency,” Burnett said. “Through this process we get to the table, we get to open the books, and then staff is positioned to bring our knowledge to help Mills solve its problems.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SEIU Local 1021, which represents staff and faculty at several local private colleges, helped Mills adjuncts ratify their first union contract in 2016. According to the union, the contract provided adjuncts with an average 13-percent raise, protection against reduction of benefits and more say in working conditions. SEIU, known for representing public employees, has been organizing adjunct professors in recent years as part of its “Faculty Forward” campaign.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13870226/staff-at-mills-college-recovering-from-budget-crisis-follow-faculty-in-union-campaign","authors":["11091"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_69","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_5936","arts_1118","arts_2639","arts_2299","arts_746","arts_596","arts_1143","arts_21264"],"featImg":"arts_13870228","label":"arts"},"arts_13855650":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13855650","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13855650","score":null,"sort":[1556049238000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-college-of-the-arts-staff-elect-union-by-wide-margin","title":"California College of the Arts Staff Elect Union by Wide Margin","publishDate":1556049238,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California College of the Arts Staff Elect Union by Wide Margin | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1272,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Staff at California College of the Arts staff voted Monday to elect Service Employees International Union’s representation in collective bargaining, joining the art school’s adjunct faculty as members of Local 1021. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“YES to end chronic understaffing and high staff turnover,” read an Instagram post from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sfoakunite/\">@sfoakunite\u003c/a>, an account run by the staff’s organizing committee. “YES to supporting students!” [aside postID='arts_13855321' hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/04/CCA-union-3.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months organizing, staff voted 80 in favor and 15 against the union, with 28 contested ballots cast by employees whose eligibility for representation the administration challenged. (Contested ballots are only counted to break ties.) According to the organizing committee, 164 staffers are eligible for representation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CCA will be better when the faces that represent it are valued and embraced,” said Brian Woods, a six-year employee and member of the organizing committee. “All of the long-term workers are why I work at CCA, and they deserve security in their jobs and a fair shake in the midst of these massive changes.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855321/california-college-of-the-arts-campus-consolidation-spurs-union-effort\">reported Thursday\u003c/a>, California College of the Arts’ plan to consolidate campuses in San Francisco largely motivated the union effort, with staff worried about its effect on job security. Organizers believe unionizing will provide leverage with school administration as the workplace transforms. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing broader concerns in the arts and higher-education sectors, staff believe representation will help win raises as cost-of-living, namely housing and commuting costs, outpaces wage growth in the Bay Area. Organizers also stressed that unionizing benefits students through stabilizing the workforce. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are grateful that a large percentage of the voters exercised their democratic rights, which is the outcome that was of primary importance to the college,” CCA said in a statement. “We look forward to continuing to work closely with staff to make CCA an excellent learning environment for our students and the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration has claimed neutrality towards the staff unionizing, but distributed a document casting doubts on its benefits. 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