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Feb 13, 2017

AICAD Librarians Win ARLIS/NA Worldwide Books Award for Electronic Resources for Lynda.com Tutorial!

February 13, 2017 Lee Ann Adams, Assistant Director, Programs & Operations, AICAD On Wednesday, February 9th, the co-creators of the Lynda.com tutorial, Information Literacy with Elsa Loftis, were presented the Worldwide Books Award for Electronic Resources by the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) at an event held in conjunction with the 2017 ARLIS/NA annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. The tutorial has had over 121,000 views since its launch in the summer of...


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Feb 01, 2017

AICAD's Response to Executive Order on Refugee and Immigration Policy

February 1, 2017 Deborah Obalil, President & Executive Director, AICAD AICAD has had a multi-decade exchange program in place among its member institutions that in this dark hour will help to mitigate the impacts on affected students planning to study at US institutions. All Canadian member institutions of AICAD will accept any international students who planned to study at a US member institution, and all credits will be fully transferable to any other AICAD member institution. AICAD is...


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Dec 01, 2016

AICAD VIRTUAL Learning Lab - Beyond the Paper Prototype: Teaching Design for Grades 7-12

December 1, 2016 - Lee Ann Adams, Assistant Director / Programs & Operations Join AICAD, NAEA, and faculty at College for Creative Studies on December 13, 2016 (7-8 pm ET) to participate in an ONLINE interactive design lesson with high school art educators and students at the Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative Studies. Ask real-time questions and explore the elements of the design process in action, including inspiration, research, ideation, refinement, prototype, and the final...


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Nov 18, 2016

AICAD Past Chair, Walter Massey, appointed Board Chair of Giant Magellan Telescope Organization

November 16, 2016 Bree Witt, Director of Public Relations, SAIC The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) today announced the appointment of SAIC Chancellor Walter E. Massey to the position of chair of the GMTO Board of Directors. Along with Taft Armandroff, who was announced as vice chair, Massey will guide the GMTO Board of Directors, overseeing the construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in the Chilean Andes and working to complete the partnership of universities,...


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Nov 04, 2016

Ringling College Wins Educause 2016 Pitch IT!

SARASOTA, Fla., Oct. 28, 2016 Posted originally on GLOBE NEWSWIRE Ringling College of Art and Design announced that the College's DRAW Learning Portfolio Platform was chosen as the winner of the Pitch IT! Challenge at the 2016 Educause Conference in Anaheim, California. Educause is the higher education Information Technology association. DRAW is the acronym for Ringling College's Digital Resource Archive Warehouse. Developed over the past three years, DRAW is a learning portfolio...