12/10/18: Class 72: Presentations, Faculty Searches & Individual Check-Ins

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12/10/18: Class 72: Presentations, Faculty Searches & Individual Check-Ins

Hi Projects!

Just a reminder that we'll be meeting again this afternoon in room 901 of the NAB for our second to last class of the Fall semester. 🌬⏳⏭💀

We'll spend the first part of class on presentations, some new and some following up on previously shared ideas and work. Since we last met, the language for the SoA faculty job descriptions have since been released, you can find them listed here, here, and here-- or more generally with the other new and open listings under the Employment Opportunities page on cooper.edu.

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You may have just received a Campus Notice linking to the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force report, here's a direct link to the report.

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We'll use the last part of class to meet individually with any one not returning for the Spring semester just to touch base!

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Recap of last weeks class 🕛🕧🕐🕜🕑🕝🕒🕞

  • Students from the HSS movement and student council had 2 meetings with HSS faculty that resulted in 2 teams that will try to set in motional actionable changes before the Fall 2019 semester
  • We looked at the present day "Seven Areas" in the School of Art, each with roughly 7-8 classes in contrast to the Course Catalogs from 1970/71 and 1980/81 as well as the yearbook from '71. We looked at the language around the degree requirements in the SoA and its move from a 'generalist' curriculum to that of an 'integrated' one- you'll see this language reflected in the the new faculty job descriptions
  • Casey share a bit about how our legacy of consultants has morphed over the years and the emphasis/dependency on predictive-modeling, the"real time" and contextual data points as drivers for change/constant management and new initiatives
  • We wrapped up Chapter 3 of the Singerman text which covered changing attitudes about the place of the nude in the training of the artist. In talking about the turn to line as medium of measurement we looked briefly at the work of Cubists which was further accelerated by futurists/vorticists and their relation to developments in film/photography and the 'the decisive moment'
  • See also “Why haven’t we seen a photograph of the whole Earth yet?” (1976) and relatedly The first photo of earth from space (1946)... all the talk of points in space deeply reminded me of... 🐷
  • In relation to the rise of admin/managerial positions Casey recommended The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)