SCAD
is the WAL-MART of art schools. Plain and simple,
that is the best that I can describe a school
that operates as a business with unscrupulous practices at the
expense of its patrons with disregard to all moral obligation
to grab more profits. SCAD has had a shady
history with a student revolution in 1991, pipe bombs and
all, to the SCAD.info controversy a couple of years ago.
Here is a good history on the early years of
the school and the student revolution: http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/Savannah.html
The SCAD.info controversy
included a resigned Professor that refused to accept a fraudulent
degree from the institution while teaching, in order to just
have a masters. He setup a website for teachers,
faculty, parents, and students to p ost their stories of
their experiences at the school. For a while, (while
I attended in 2003), SCAD had the website SCAD.info blocked
on all computers connected to their network due to the
dissenting information about the school. Crazy, eh? I
wish I could find a cached page of the website,
but since then the school has obviously stretched its financial
muscle and had the site taken down all together.
SCAD
has now exercised WAL-MART like practices by setting up a
campus in Atlanta and putting the Atlanta College of Art
“out of business” through a merger that didn't include the
opinions of students there. Here is an interesting point
of view here: http://www.wiredatom.com/blog/2005/07/26/scad-says-resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated/
If you are considering attending this
school. Don't. Go to a state university, get
a well rounded education and go to one of the
NASAD accredited Art Institutes schools for your art vocation.
Because essentially that is all SCAD really is, a vocational
school.
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