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The AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship

The Fellowship program seeks to provide professional practice opportunities to high-achieving alumni who have recently graduated from AICAD member schools, while also increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of faculty at these institutions. AICAD institutions aspire to create a climate that recognizes and values diversity as central to excellence in art and design education.

AICAD Fellowships include structured and unstructured mentoring and professional development opportunities along with direct teaching experience, health benefits, and other monetary supports.

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PALS Returns with 2024 Summit, October 17th – 19th

About PALS Founded in 2010 at Pratt Institute, The Partnership on Academic Leadership in Sustainability (PALS) is a national platform for sustainability leaders in art and design higher education to address global climate change, environmental and social justice, and other key sustainability issues through the power of creativity and an art and design education. The […]


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