FACULTY INFORMATION GUIDE 2020–2021 i © 2020–2021, School of the Art Institute of Chicago It is the policy of SAIC not to discriminate on the basis of age, handicap, color, creed, national origin, religion, race, sex, or sexual preference in student recruitment and admissions, in financial aid programs, in student and employee services, in educational programs and activities, or in employment practices. TABLE OF CONTENTS

GENERAL INFORMATION POLICIES AND PROCEDURES Welcome to SAIC...... 4 Faculty Handbook ...... 37 Core Values...... 5 Consensual Romantic or Degrees and Programs...... 6 Sexual Relationship Policy...... 37 Elected Faculty Representatives ...... 38 Syllabi...... 40 MAKING YOUR WAY Campus Map...... 8 Plagiarism ...... 41 Faculty Evaluation Academic Buildings ...... 9 of Students...... 42 Building Hours and Holidays...... 10 Digital Course Evaluations ...... 45 School Cafeterias...... 10 Critique Week ...... 46 Academic Calendar...... 11 Art School Considerations ...... 47 Textbooks ...... 48 GETTING STARTED Faculty Dashboard...... 16 SAIC Email...... 16 LIBRARIES Self-Service...... 17 John M. Flaxman Library...... 50 Canvas...... 17 Flaxman Library Faculty ARTICard ID...... 17 Special Collections ...... 51 Mailboxes...... 18 Library Digital Services & Lockers...... 19 Visual Resources ...... 51 Office and Classroom Supplies...... 19 Digital Collections...... 51 2 Telephones ...... 20 Ryerson & Burnham Libraries ...... 52 Roger Brown Study Collection...... 52 FACULTY EMPLOYMENT RESOURCES Fashion Resource Center ...... 52 Letter of Appointment...... 22 Video Data Bank...... 53 Background Checks...... 22 Transcripts...... 22 VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM ...... 55 Tuition Remission...... 22

RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS COMPUTER RESOURCES AND Disability and Learning INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CRIT) Resource Center ...... 57 Services...... 25 Counseling Services ...... 59 CRIT Help Desk...... 25 Photocopy Services...... 25 Writing Center ...... 60 Service Bureau and Publications ...... 26 Faculty Profiles...... 27 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES Contact Information ...... 62 INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT (IRFM) Services...... 30 Classroom & Facility Services...... 30 Instructional Fabrication...... 30 Lab Locations...... 31 Media Centers...... 33 Resale Centers...... 35 Classroom Reservations...... 35 GENERAL INFORMATION

3 WELCOME TO SAIC

WELCOME TO THE SAIC is distinct in the way that it provides graduate, post-baccalaureate, and SCHOOL OF THE ART undergraduate students an interdisciplinary curriculum and the necessary freedom to INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO develop as artists, designers, and scholars. At the same time, we strive for a level of (SAIC), one of the most rigor, investigation, and cultural relevance historically significant that makes SAIC truly special. Our students translate the most complex ideas into accredited independent tangible forms—paintings, sculptures, schools of art and design films, performances, books, installations, inventions, buildings, community projects, in the nation located in one and, more often than not, a combination of of the greatest American the above. Few schools in the United States provide such a broad range of possibilities. cities. Our accolades are Our engaged student body and award- many, including recognition winning faculty of leading artists, designers, 4 by Columbia University’s and scholars work in close proximity, sharing exceptional resources and establishing a National Arts Journalism forum for a vigorous exchange of ideas. The heralded new Modern Wing of the Art survey as “the most Institute provides an incredible resource influential art college in for inspiration and study. Other unique SAIC resources include our cutting-edge the United States” and facilities, Gene Siskel Film Center, Visiting our consistent ranking Artists Program, and Sullivan Galleries that exhibit work to a wide audience. among the top graduate Of course, downtown Chicago gives our fine arts programs in the students access to one of the world’s most nation by U.S. News creatively vibrant and architecturally rich cities, and we encourage engagement in its and World Report. full spectrum of cultural amenities. However, we fully recognize that we live in a globalized society—reflected also in the demographic makeup of our student body—and thus provide a wealth of invaluable international study opportunities across the globe.

Welcome to our community of dedicated, multifaceted faculty. We are eager for you to add your voice to SAIC ‘s dialogue at this critical moment in the history of Chicago, the nation, and the world. CORE VALUES

Our core values were argument, rigor, experimentation, playfulness, invention, subversion, and mutual respect. developed by passionate WE ARE ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS faculty, students, alumni, The students, faculty, and staff f SAIC are and staff as part of SAIC's engaged and innovative creators of art, design, scholarship, and writing. The faculty 2009 strategic planning drives our curriculum, and each member brings the diverse experiences of his or her process. Taken together, they practice directly into the classroom and convey the fl vor of SAIC— studio. Our students are viewed as emerging peers and full participants in the learning a school of art and design that occurs in collaboration with faculty and so distinct from any other. each other. Through their diverse practices, the staff articipate to support the learning process; promote the overall well-being, WE ARE EXPLORERS growth, and development of students; and At SAIC, we exceed boundaries. Our enhance student success and the realization commitment to an open structure is embodied of students' full artistic potential. 5 in a curriculum of self-directed study within and across a multiplicity of disciplines and CHICAGO approaches that promote critical thinking, Our symbiotic relationship with the city rigorous investigation, and playful creativity. radiates outward as students, faculty, and Through interdisciplinary practices and in staff onnect themselves to the diverse deeply focused media, faculty and students communities of Chicago and the entire conceive and accomplish exchanges in world. Forming a city within a city, a campus, cultural study, production, and research with close and yet not contiguous, we are artists and scholars around the world. We urban. The city's richness, complexity, and are a community that challenges the notion contradictions are the perfect environment that any field is ever beyond rediscovery. for our own diverse community.

MEANING AND MAKING ARE INSEPARABLE. WE MAKE HISTORY At SAIC, we believe that meaning and making Our major encyclopedic art museum, are inseparable, existing as a perpetual libraries, special collections, and public and productive cycle driven by experience, programs create an unparalleled environment research, and critique. Our commitment to a for maintaining a thoughtful and tangible wide range of media and processes supports relationship to history and the ways in which our assertion that the artist, designer, scholar, it is continually revisited and represented, and writer are uniquely qualified as makers fueling our innovation and experimentation to provide leadership, creative perspective, and keeping our historical and critical and hands-on skill for shaping today's world, discourse completely active. Students, faculty, as well as contributing to its opportunities. and alumni of SAIC have made significant Critique, as a fundamental component of the and groundbreaking contributions to the creative process, provides assessment as art, design, and scholarship of the 20th well as new ideas, possibilities, and directions century, and continue to do so in the 21st. that enable our community to sustain DEGREES & PROGRAMS

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES POST-BACCALAUREATE PROGRAMS Bachelor Of Fine Arts In Studio & CERTIFICATES Bachelor Of Fine Arts with an Emphasis Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fashion, in Art Education Body and Garment Bachelor of Fine Arts with an Emphasis Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Studio in Writing Certificate in Historic Preservation Bachelor of Arts in Art History Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies

GRADUATE DEGREES Master of Architecture Master of Architecture with an Emphasis in Interior Architecture Master of Arts in Arts Administration and Policy Master of Arts in Art Education Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling 6 Master of Arts in Modern and Contemporary Art History Master of Arts in New Arts Journalism Master of Arts in Teaching Master of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies Master of Design in Designed Objects Master of Design in Fashion, Body and Garment Master of Fine Arts in Studio Master of Fine Arts in Writing Master of Science in Historic Preservation Dual Degree: Master of Arts in Arts Administration & Policy & Master of Arts in Modern and Contemporary Art History MAKING YOUR WAY

7 CAMPUS MAP

8 ACADEMIC BUILDINGS

ACADEMIC BUILDINGS 1 COLUMBUS BUILDING  SULLIVAN GALLERIES 280 South Columbus Drive 33 South State Street, 7th floor Departments: Ceramics, Painting and Drawing, Performance, Photography,  GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER Printmedia, and Sculpture 1 64 North State Street 31 2.846.2600 4 LAKEVIEW BUILDING 116 South Michigan Avenue Departments:  SPERTUS INSTITUTE Historic Preservation, Writing, Writing 610 South Michigan Avenue Center, Office of Institutional Departments: Liberal Arts; Art Advancement, IRFM main office, History, Theory, and Criticism Wellness Center, graduate studios, general use classrooms, science labs, and * R OGER BROWN HOUSE Art Institute of Chicago corporate offices AND STUDY COLLECTION 1926 North Halsted Street * Not on campus map 5 MACLEAN CENTER 112 South Michigan Avenue 33 EAST WASHINGTON Departments: Art History, Theory, and * GALLERIES AND GRAD STUDIOS Criticism; Visual and Critical Studies; 33 East Washington Street Liberal Arts; New Arts Journalism; Art * Not on campus map and currently and Technology Studies; Film, Video, under construction New Media, and Animation; graduate studios; undergraduate studios 9 RESIDENCE HALLS 6 SHARP BUILDING  162 NORTH STATE STREET 37 South Wabash Avenue RESIDENCES Departments: Contemporary Practices, 162 North State Street Art Therapy, Art Education, Fiber and 10 JONES HALL Material Studies, Visual Communication 7 West Madison Street Design, Low Res offices, Deans and Division Chairs, President’s Office, 13 THE BUCKINGHAM Provost's Office, Flaxman Library, 59 East Van Buren Avenue Campus Life-LNSC office * T HE INFINITE CHICAGO 7 LEROY NEIMAN CENTER 28 East Jackson Boulevard 37 South Wabash Avenue * Not on campus map Sharp Building, Second Floor

MUSEUM BUILDINGS 8 SULLIVAN CENTER 36 South Wabash Avenue 2 ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Departments: Architecture, Interior 1 1 1 S outh Michigan Avenue Architecture, and Designed Objects; 312.443.3600 Fashion Design; Office of Exhibitions 3 MODERN WING and Exhibition Studies; Student Affairs; 1 59 East Monroe Street Admissions; Financial Aid; Registrar; 312.443.3600 Continuing Studies; and graduate studios All buildings are smoke free. No smoking is allowed within 15 feet of a building entrance as per Chicago law. BUILDING HOURS & HOLIDAYS

Due to COVID-19, many buildings'/ cafes' hours are subject to change

BUILDING HOURS & HOLIDAYS A full-service café and food service, Academic Buildings—fall and spring the LeRoy Neiman Center café offers semesters—All SAIC buildings are open hot breakfast items, coffee drinks, grab- 24 hours per day, with some restrictions. and-go options, smoothies, hot entrées, Students, faculty, and staff an scan into sandwiches, burgers, and much more. any academic building using their ID from The café is also open until 10:00 p.m. 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. After 12:00 a.m., during the week to accommodate anyone who wants to enter the building students who have evening classes. will need to scan their ID and have room- Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free specific access for overnight entry. If an options are available each day. individual is already in a building and plans to stay past 12:00 a.m., that person must 2 COLUMBUS DRIVE CAFÉ go down to the security desk and sign Columbus Drive Building in for overnight access by 12:00 a.m. 280 S. Columbus Dr., 2nd floor Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Academic Buildings—summer and winter— Saturday, 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m., All SAIC buildings are open from 7:00 a.m. to Grab-and-go options only 11:00 p.m. Anyone in the building at 11:00 p.m. Sunday, Closed 10 will be asked to leave. No overnight access is given during the summer or winter terms. This full-service café offers hot breakfast items, coffee drinks, Residence Halls—year-round—Residence burgers and sandwiches, a salad and halls are only accessible to current soup bar, and well as rotating entrée residents. Both the 162 North State Street items available on a seasonal basis. Residences and Jones Hall are 24-hour Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free facilities. Residents can scan into either options are available each day. residence hall; however, nonresidents must be signed in by a current resident and be 3 MACLEAN CENTER CAFÉ escorted by their host during their visit. MacLean Center 1 1 2 S. Michigan Ave., 1 2th floor All SAIC facilities, with the exception of the Monday–Thursday, 8:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. 162 North State Street Residences and Jones Friday, 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Hall, are closed on Thanksgiving Day, and Saturday–Sunday, Closed from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day. The MacLean Café and lounge, located SCHOOL CAFETERIAS on the 12th floor of the MacLean Center 1 LEROY NEIMAN CENTER CAFÉ at 112 South Michigan Avenue, has a The LeRoy Neiman Center wonderful view of the lake and Millennium 37 S. Wabash Ave., 2nd floor Park. Offerings at this café include coffee Monday–Thursday, 8:00 a.m.–1 0:00 p.m. drinks, smoothies, juices, muffins and Friday, 8:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. assorted pastries, soups, grab-and-go Saturday, 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. items, as well as sandwiches and paninis; Sunday, 1 2:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options are available each day. ACADEMIC CALENDAR

SEPTEMBER 2020

2 Fall semester classes begin

7 Labor Day (no classes)

15 Fall add/drop ends

OCTOBER

14 Winter Interim 2021 study trip registration

NOVEMBER

3 Last day to withdraw from a fall course with a grade of “W"

16 Winter Interim 2021 open registration begins 11 16–20 Spring 2020 advance registration for students with disabilities

Spring 2020 advance registration for MA/MS students

Spring 2020 advance registration for MFA/MFAW/PBACC students

Spring 2020 advance registration for undergraduates

23 Spring 2020 advance registration for currently enrolled SAL students

25–29 Thanksgiving break (no classes)

30 Spring 2021 open registration for new students begins

DECEMBER

15–21 Critique Week

21 Fall 2020 classes end ACADEMIC CALENDAR

JANUARY 2021

4 Winter Interim 2021 begins

5 Winter Interim add/drop ends

14 Last day to withdraw from a Winter Interim course with a grade of “W”

18 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (no classes)

25 Winter Interim 2021 classes end

28 Spring 2021 classes begin

FEBRUARY

10 Spring 2021 add/drop ends 12

MARCH

4 Summer 2021 study trip registration begins

15 Summer 2021 advance registration

18–21 Spring Break (no classes)

22 Open summer 2021 registration begins

31 Last day to withdraw from a spring course with a grade of “W" ACADEMIC CALENDAR

APRIL

5–9 Fall 2021 advance registration for students with disabilities

Fall 2021 advance registration for MA/MS students

Fall 2021 advance registration for MFA/MFAW/PBACC students

Fall 2021 advance registration for new students begins

Fall 2021 advance registration for undergraduates

Fall 2021 advance registration for currently enrolled SAL students 12 Fall 2021 open registration begins

MAY

16 Spring 2021 semester ends 13 17 Graduation

JUNE

1 Summer 2021 Session 3W1 begins Summer 2021 Session 6W1 begins

2 Summer 2021 Session 3W1 add/drop ends

4 Summer 2021 Session 6W1 add/drop ends

11 Summer 2021 Session 3W1 last day to withdraw from a class 18 Summer 2021 Session 3W1 ends 21 Summer 2021 Session 3W2 begins 22 Summer 2021 Session 3W2 add/drop ends

23 Summer 2021 Session 6W1 last day to withdraw from a class ACADEMIC CALENDAR

JULY

1 Summer 2021 Session 3W2 last day to withdraw from a class

5 Independence Day observed (no classes) 9 Summer 2021 Session 3W2 ends Summer 2021 Session 6W1 begins 12 Summer 2021 Session 3W3 begins Summer 2021 Session 6W2 begins

13 Summer 2021 Session 3W3 add/drop ends

15 Summer 2021 Session 6W2 add/drop ends

22 Summer 2021 Session 3W3 last day to withdraw from a class

30 Summer 2021 Session 3W3 ends

14 AUGUST

2 Summer 2021 Session 3W4 begins

3 Summer 2021 Session 3W4 add/drop ends

5 Summer 2021 Session 6W2 last day to withdraw from a class

12 Summer 2021 Session 3W4 last day to withdraw from a class

20 Summer 2021 Session 3W4 ends Summer 2021 Session 6W2 ends GETTING STARTED

15 FACULTY DASHBOARD

FACULTY DASHBOARD • Campus Security. Quickly access information you need to keep yourself and saic.edu/faculty your students safe.

The Faculty Dashboard is a page on the • Stay Connected. Follow SAIC on Facebook, SAIC website designed to be your entry Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Vimeo. point to all of the important information and resources you need as an SAIC SAIC EMAIL faculty member. To get there, type Visit password.artic.edu to activate saic.edu/faculty into your browser or your SAIC email account. visit SAIC’s home page and click the Faculty link on the lower right side of All students, faculty and staff affiliated with the page. the Art Institute and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago receive an email account. We recommend that you bookmark the Faculty All official SAIC communications will be Dashboard, or set it as your browser’s home delivered to your SAIC email, and faculty are page so you can easily find your way back. required to use it for this purpose.

WHAT YOU WILL FIND: This email account is just one of the services • Qu icklinks. Access Self-Service, you get when you activate your ARTIC Google Apps, Canvas, the SAIC Events Account. Activate your account to learn 16 Calendar, and resources specifically for about additional resources, including: Part-Time Faculty. • Webspaces. The ARTIC Personal Web • Faculty Handbook, Guides, and Resources. Space provides 15 megabytes of web space Refer to the Handbook, its Supplements, on the ARTIC web server to all students, and New Hire Paperwork. faculty and staff at the AIC/SAIC.

• Policies. Review SAIC’s policies on • Wireless network (wireless.artic.edu). employment, preparedness, student wireless.artic.edu (ARTIC Wireless) is a interactions, and off-campus activities. wireless network provided by AIC/SAIC as a convenient way for faculty, students, and • Online Tools. Connect to the Libraries and staff to connect to the AIC/SAIC network Special Collections, search for faculty and without plugging into a wall jack. staff in the Online Directory, search for courses, request service from the Media • Library Webproxy. A proxy server Productions Bureau, make a space is available so that members of the reservation, enter a 360 work order AIC/SAIC community with an ARTIC request, locate the Intranet, and connect Account can access the library licensed with Computer Resources and Information databases from off-campus locations. Technologies (CRIT), SAIC’s expert IT team, • SAIC Software. SAIC faculty get using Square. access to Adobe Creative Cloud and • Resources. Find the information you Microsoft Office. Please visit the CRIT Help need to support your students. Desk for installation instructions.

• Opportunities. Learn about faculty grants, residency opportunities, and promotions.

• Faculty and Staff Accomplishments.

• Faculty Profiles. SAIC SELF-SERVICE

Termination of SAIC Accounts CANVAS Accounts are made available for currently canvas.saic.edu enrolled/employed students, faculty, and staff. Faculty and staff accounts Canvas is a cloud-based learning are deactivated upon termination of management system that you and your employment, while student accounts students access from any computer with remain active for two academic semesters an Internet connection. It provides tools after their last date of enrollment. to help manage your curricular resources and communication with students. You Anyone wishing to retain their work should can store and deliver files including syllabi, copy it elsewhere prior to the deactivation assignments, readings, quizzes, surveys, of the account. Regularly backup your files videos, and other media to your students. You to an external hard drive or local drive. It is can also collect student work online. the responsibility of the account holder to keep a backup of their email and web space Once you publish your course in Canvas, the files. system automates communications. If you change a due date or create a ______new assignment, Canvas notifies all students enrolled in the class. SAIC SELF-SERVICE Self-Service is where you can go to see all Getting Started in Canvas 17 of the information about the course(s) you Before you use Canvas, you will need to are teaching. You can see who and how complete a required orientation, which many students are enrolled in your is available as either a self-paced online class(es), plus the course title, time, and course within Canvas or an instructor- location. You can also use Self-Service to led workshop. To schedule a workshop update your personal contact information or if you need help accessing the online and view and print your paychecks. course, contact Canvas Support at [email protected], or 312.345.9140. Accessing Self-Service 1. Visit saic.edu/faculty FACULTY ARTICARD ID ARTICARD OFFICE 2. Click the Self-Service link under Quicklinks Sharp Building 3. Enter your ARTIC username and password 37 S. Wabash Ave., Room 254 Your name, address, social security number, 312.629.9362 phone number(s), and email address(es) are [email protected] held in strict confidence, but they should be Office Hours: Mon.–Tues. 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. updated whenever a change is made. Please Wed.–Fri. 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. access the Self-Service system to review your contact information and revise as appropriate. Every faculty member is required to have an SAIC ARTICard photo ID. Your ARTICard is required for access to all campus buildings, and you should keep it with you at all times while at SAIC. MAILBOXES

Use your ARTICard ID to: MAILBOXES • Access all buildings at the School Your faculty mailbox is typically located of the Art Institute of Chicago in the same building you are teaching in or centralized in the administrative • Access restricted departmental spaces office for your department. such as classrooms, workshops, studios, and faculty lounges COLUMBUS DRIVE BUILDING • Access the Museum 280 S. Columbus Dr. Department boxes are located in the first • Check out items at Flaxman Library floor mailroom and individual faculty boxes • Check out equipment from Media Centers are located in the administrative office for • Pay for printing and photocopies your department.

• Purchase items from Resale locations SHARP BUILDING • Pay for Service Bureau orders 37 S. Wabash Ave. Departmental boxes are located in the • Access the Museum of Contemporary Art, 8th floor mailroom and individual faculty the Field Museum, the Adler Planetarium, boxes are located in the administrative office and the Shedd Aquarium at no cost for your department. • Receive discounts from area retailers and partners SULLIVAN CENTER 18 36 S. Wabash Ave. All new faculty, and faculty who have not Faculty mailboxes are located in the taught at SAIC for over one year, must first administrative office for your department. submit their completed background check form to Human Resources. Please allow 1–3 MACLEAN CENTER business days for the background check to be 112 S. Michigan Ave. completed. Once the background check has Departmental boxes are located in the first been completed, new faculty may visit the hallway by the mailroom and individual ARTICard office to receive their ID. You must faculty boxes are located in the also bring a government issued ID (driver’s administrative office for your department. license, state ID, or passport) and a copy LAKEVIEW BUILDING of your contract as proof of employment. 116 S. Michigan Ave. Returning faculty must turn in their expired There are no faculty mailboxes located in this ID in order to receive a new ID. building. Departmental boxes are located in the first hallway by the mailroom. Individual There is a $15 replacement fee for lost IDs faculty boxes are located in the (even if expired). administrative office for your department.

______If you are a faculty member who teaches in more than one department or more than one building, please contact the mailroom in the Sullivan Center at 36 South Wabash Avenue and let them know where you prefer to receive your mail. Check your mailboxes weekly for US Mail, SAIC Interdepartmental Mail, and various announcements. LOCKERS

LOCKERS page in Self-Service. Your registered locker Lockers are available to faculty on a number, building, and floor will be listed. You may change your locker location or delete limited basis. If faculty would like to use your locker registration at any time. a locker, it must be registered by logging on to SAIC Self-Service. Do not put a lock on prior to registering online. You are Locker Checks responsible for supplying your own lock. Lockers are checked for valid registration Faculty may register one locker only. two times per year. During this time, online locker registration is suspended. All lockers Registering for a locker online are automatically unregistered twice during 1. Use Firefox, not Safari when the year: once after the end of the Spring reserving a locker online. term, and again at the end of the summer term. When this occurs, all remaining locks 2. Log in to Self-Service are cut. Contents of the lockers are disposed (Visit saic.edu/faculty and click the of at that time. The Locker Clean Out dates Self-Service link under Quicklinks). will be sent through SAIC email and posted 3. Go to Student Center page. throughout campus. 4. Under the Personal Information section, A registered locker found without a lock will click on Locker Registration. be released for someone else to use. All 5. Click Add Locker. locker registrations will automatically expire 19 6. Select the building, floor, and locker at the end of the summer sessions in August number (use the magnifying glass and all remaining locks will be cut and the icon to see the available options). contents will be disposed/recycled. Security will not honor “Faculty Locker” or “Do Not 7. Read and agree to the Locker Cut” signs placed on lockers at any time. Registration Policy and click save.

8. Put a lock on your registered locker. Available lockers may be registered at any point during the school year; however, you Registered lockers must have a lock placed must keep a lock on your locker for the on them by the end of Add/Drop for the fall duration of your registration or your locker and spring semesters. Lockers are checked may be released. for valid registration after those dates.

If an unregistered locker is found locked, the lock will be cut and the contents disposed OFFICE AND CLASSROOM SUPPLIES of. If a registered locker does not have a Your department can help you purchase the lock it will be released and made available office and classroom supplies you need. to others. Contact your Administrative Director or Department Chair for specific account Forgot your locker number? Need to switch numbers, budget restrictions, and ordering to a different locker? Not using your locker procedures. and want to release it for someone else to use? Return to the Locker Registration SAIC TELEPHONES

SAIC TELEPHONES From an off-site telephone: This information is also available on the SAIC/ 1. Dial the off-site direct access number. AIC Intranet. 2. When prompted, dial your extension.

For questions, contact Information Services: 3. Press pound. [email protected] 4. When prompted, dial your password.

Internal Dialing (between SAIC buildings) 5. Press pound. Dial the last five digits of the phone number

PHONEMAIL DIRECT Local, Long Distance, and Toll-Free Calls ON-SITE OFF-SITE ACCESS NUMBERS Dial 8 + 1 + (area code) + xxx–xxxx Museum and Columbus 3–3775 312.443.3775 (280 S. Columbus Dr.) International Calls Dial 8 + 011 + country & city code Sullivan (36 S. Wabash Ave.) + telephone number Sharp Look up country codes at 9–651 6 312.629.6516 (37 S. Wabash Ave.) countrycallingcodes.com Lakeview Toll free calls (800, 888, 877, 866) (116 S. Michigan Ave.) Dial 8 + 1 + (toll free code–above) + xxx–xxxx MacLean 5–3698 312.345.3698 (112 S. Michigan Ave.)

Special Functions Forward calls to voice mail system: Press Hold a call FORWARD (FWD); dial extension for voicemail you are forwarding to. 20 Put caller on hold by pressing HOLD. Take caller off hold by picking up receiver and press Feature Access Codes the red flashing line button. If you do not have a key on your phone for a Transfer a call feature, you can use that feature by dialing its Press TRANSFER (XFER), dial extension or 8 + feature access code. outside number, and hang up; line connects To access a feature using the key pad: with caller. You cannot transfer an already 1. I f you have a dial tone, dial the feature transferred call. access code.

Cancel call transfer 2. I f you are already connected to another Press CONNECT (CNCT) line, press the TRANSFER key followed by the feature access code. Forward calls Press FORWARD (FWD). Dial extension to Commonly Used Feature Codes: receive forwarded calls. Line flashes when • Bad Line Reporting: *563 forwarding is on. • Changing Ring Tone: *572

Undo-forward • Forwarding, Variable—All: #91 Press flashing line; press FORWARD (FWD) or • Forwarding, Variable—External: #92 press * * 91; forward flashing light turns off. • Forwarding, Variable—Internal: #93 ACCESSING YOUR VOICEMAIL • Forwarding, Variable—Cancel: ##91 From your office telephone: 1. Dial the on-site direct access number. • Last Number Redial: ##4

2. When prompted, press pound.

3. When prompted, dial your password.

4. Press pound. FACULTY EMPLOYMENT RESOURCES (FER)

21 FACULTY EMPLOYMENT RESOURCES OFFICE

FACULTY EMPLOYMENT be unable to teach if your background RESOURCES OFFICE check has not been processed. Any OFFICE OF THE irregularities with your background check, DEAN OF FACULTY i.e. an indication of a police record, are Sharp Building forwarded to the Dean’s Office for review 37 S. Wabash Ave., Room 819 and evaluation of employment impact. [email protected] The School, in its sole discretion, shall LETTER OF APPOINTMENT determine whether you have satisfactorily Requests are submitted to the Deans’ completed these items. In the event that the Office by the department(s) in which School determines that you have not, your you are scheduled to teach. Letters of First Contract and Letter of Appointment Appointment are typically issued as will be null and void and neither party hereto either: term-only appointments, which shall have any claim against the other. last for one semester (fall, winter, spring, or summer), or 12-month appointments for TRANSCRIPTS full-time faculty, visiting artists, and adjunct In accordance with Higher Learning faculty with benefits. Commission accreditation procedures, all faculty are required to have official transcripts 22 You will receive a notification and instructions of all earned degrees on file with the Office of via your SAIC email address when your digital Faculty Employment Resources. If a faculty Letter of Appointment is ready to be signed member does not have the appropriate via DocuSign. New faculty will receive and academic credentials to teach courses at sign their Letter of Appointment after they a particular level in a particular discipline, come to the Faculty Employment Resources a rubric for Equivalent/Tested Experience office for their on-boarding appointment. You for faculty may satisfy this requirement. must sign your Letter of Appointment prior to the beginning of the semester. TUITION REMISSION The tuition remission benefits outlined below BACKGROUND CHECKS & EMPLOYMENT can be applied only to courses offered by SAIC. ELIGIBILITY Ox-Bow courses are not covered by the Tuition An offer of employment from SAIC is Remission program. Active full-time, part-time, contingent upon your legal eligibility to work special projects staff, and retirees (as defined in the United States, either as a US citizen or in section 15.1 of the Tuition Remission Policy in as a foreign citizen with the necessary the Employee Guidelines) are eligible to authorization, as well as successful receive tuition remission beginning the completion of a background check. Upon semester after they have successfully an offer of employment, you will be instructed completed their orientation period (90 days on the steps needed to complete your after hire). In addition, background check via the email you supplied full-time and part-time faculty are eligible on your Personal Information for tuition remission for any semester for which form. Submitting all required information they have an active faculty contract. as instructed completes your participation in View the Tuition Remission Policy and access the background check process. the Tuition Remission Request form on the You must complete a background Human Resources Benefits page on the SAIC/ check no less than 72 hours before your AIC Intranet. teaching assignment begins. You will TUITION REMISSION

EMPLOYMENT CATEGORY SAIC TUITION BENEFITS/SEMESTER

Full-time & Adjunct Faculty/ 100% for no more than 6 credit/ Regular Full-time Staff noncredit hours per semester

100% for no more than 3 credit/ Special Projects Staff noncredit hours per semester

100% for no more than 3 credit/ noncredit hours per semester Spouse/domestic partner of Full-time & Adjunct Faculty/Regular Full-time Staff* If enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program at SAIC, the greater of 3 credit/noncredit hours or 50% of tuition.

100% for no more than 3 credit/noncredit hours per semester, per child.

If enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree program at SAIC, the greater of 3 23 Child(ren) of Full-time & credit/noncredit hours or 50% of tuition. Adjunct Faculty/Regular Full-time Staff* If enrolled in an undergraduate degree program at SAIC and the Faculty or Staff ember has two years of continuous employment as a Full-time or Adjunct Faculty member or as Regular Full-Time Staff, 100% tuition.

Lecturer and Continuing Studies 100% for no more than 3 credit/ Instructor/ Regular Part-time Staff noncredit hours per semester

Spouse/domestic partner/child(ren) 100% for no more than 3 credit/ of Lecturer/Continuing Studies noncredit hours per academic year* Instructor/Regular Part-time Staff

100% for no more than 3 credit/ Retired Faculty/Retired Staff noncredit hours per semester

*Employment service is as of the first day of the semester for which the benefit is sought. *Tuition Remission Benefit applies only to the semester(s) that Lecturer or Continuing Studies Instructor is contracted. *The academic year is defined as summer, fall, winter and spring, beginning with the first day of the summer semester and ending with the last day of the spring semester. COMPUTER RESOURCES AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CRIT)

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Due to COVID-19, many departments'/ offices' hours are subject to change

SERVICES PHOTOCOPY SERVICES Computer Resources and Information Photocopy service is available for school- Technologies (CRIT) acts to coordinate related purposes. Departments administer computer resources and information for this service and provide a maximum number administrative, academic, and student of copies to you for each course taught. users within the SAIC community. CRIT Consult your Administrative Director for addresses academic support needs access and budgetary restrictions. for the institution, and ensures access to a wide range of technical support, Copier Emergency? documentation, equipment, and services. Dial 5–3535 from any campus phone.

CRIT provides the SAIC community with Self-Service support services: on-site computing For smaller jobs, self-service machines technicians, purchasing coordination and are available at the following locations: project support, training, instructional COLUMBUS DRIVE BUILDING information and documentation, 280 S. Columbus Dr. departmental-use copy machines, faculty Rooms 114 and 204 laptops and software access, departmental and general access computer labs and MACLEAN CENTER support, black and white and color printers, 112 S. Michigan Ave. a full-service color printing Service Rooms 516, 607, 7th & 9th floor hallways 25 Bureau, and many other services. LAKEVIEW BUILDING In addition to purchasing, coordinating 116 S. Michigan Ave. and distributing software for school- 2nd floor hallway, 14th floor near CAPX wide use, CRIT also develops in- house applications, point-of-sales SHARP BUILDING systems, and communication tools. 37 S. Wabash Ave. 2nd floor lounge (247), 703A, 805, Flaxman CRIT HELP DESK Library (6th floor), and 11th floor hallway The CRIT Help Desk is your central source for computing support. Call, email, or visit. SULLIVAN CENTER 36 S. Wabash Ave. 312.345.3535 7th floor lounge, 12th floor lounge, [email protected] 12-C33, and 14th floor hallway www.saic.edu/t4/crit/ SPERTUS Locations 610 S. Michigan Ave. MACLEAN HELP DESK 7th floor lounge 112 S. Michigan Ave., Room 905 312.345.3535 Use your ID card to make copies (this 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Monday–Friday allows your department to track budget expenditures). For more information on SHARP HELP DESK available public printers and to download print 37 S. Wabash Ave., Room 401 drivers please visit: sites.saic.edu/printing. 312.899.5090 8:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m. Monday–Friday Scan-to-PDF 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Saturday Use Scan-to-PDF to distribute class materials to students electronically. Instructions are posted above all self-service copiers. SERVICE BUREAU & SAIC PUBLICATIONS

Due to COVID-19, many departments'/ offices' hours are subject to change

SERVICE BUREAU SAIC PUBLICATIONS SHARP BUILDING Bulletin 37 S. Wabash Ave. Suite 1111 The Bulletin is the primary source for 312.629.9155 SAIC’s curriculum. Updated annually, fax: 312.899.5191 the Bulletin outlines the requirements, [email protected] policies, and procedures for every degree offered at the School. Monday–Thursday: 8:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m. Friday: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Undergraduate Catalog Closed Saturday and Sunday This annual publication gives prospective undergraduates a sense of what it means to be For large jobs (more than 50 total a student at SAIC. The catalog details degree pages), please use the Service Bureau. requirements, highlights student work, and The Service Bureau is the School’s describes the resources and experiences on-campus professional digital-output available to undergraduate students. center, specializing in laser printing and archival, wide-format inkjet printing. Graduate Catalog Like the Undergraduate Catalog, The Service Bureau provides printing the Graduate Catalog provides a 26 and finishing services to students, comprehensive perspective on life faculty, and staff as well as informs and as a graduate student at SAIC. The catalog instructs on proper file setup, color describes each degree in management, resolution, file management, great detail, features student work, and print longevity, and paper types. outlines the admissions process.

The Service Bureau accepts most printing School of the Art Institute of jobs via email, and some through an Chicago Magazine online order form. For more information, visit Each semester, the School of the Art sites.saic.edu/servicebureau/. Institute of Chicago magazine shares stories from campus with the community, When picking up orders from the highlighting School news, profiling faculty Service Bureau please make sure to and students, and featuring alumni stories. provide your ID card that is connected See recent issues at issuu.com/saic1866. to your department account. F Newsmagazine Limit Paper Copies F Newsmagazine is a journal of arts, culture, Generally, do not plan more than 35 pages and politics edited and designed by students per student, per semester. This is the at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. maximum number of photocopies most The print edition is published eight times departmental budgets can afford, and should a year and the web edition is published amply cover a syllabus, course description, year-round. Visit fnewsmagazine.com. tests, and a short reading assignment. Anything beyond 35 pages should either be included in a course packet that students purchase or put on reserve in the library. FACULTY PROFILES

This Week at SAIC Example Profile This Week at SAIC is an internal weekly JANE DOE Assistant Professor, Photography email newsletter detailing activity around (2005). BFA, 1985, Tyler School of Fine Arts, campus. Follow This Week at SAIC to remain Philadelphia; Post-Bac, 1992, School of the Art informed of exhibition openings, lectures, Institute of Chicago; MFA, 1995, Cranbrook workshops, symposia, and screenings. Learn Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. about opportunities available to the campus Exhibitions: Chicago Cultural Center; Rhona community and keep up with important Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Renaissance deadlines. Keep an eye on stories about SAIC Society, University of Chicago; Museum of in the press, including faculty, student, and Modern Art, New York. Publications: Artforum; alumni achievements. New Ideas in American Art; P-form Magazine. Bibliography: Modern American Painting; Share Your Accomplishments Encyclopedia of the Midwest; Who’s Who Do you have an exhibition coming up? A new in American Art. Collections: Philadelphia book out? Share your accomplishments with Museum of Art; Microsoft Collection, Seattle; the campus community. Faculty and staff New Enterprises Corporation, London. exhibitions, performances, and publications Awards: Community Arts Assistance Program are highlighted on the Faculty Dashboard Grant, City of Chicago; John D. and Catherine T. and in This Week at SAIC. To submit your MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Website: achievement, complete the online janedoe.com accomplishment submission form at the 27 bottom of the Faculty Dashboard at Writing Your Faculty Profile saic.edu/faculty. Keep your profile to a maximum of one hundred words. Be selective, listing three to Share Your On-Campus Events five entries in as many of these categories— and Opportunities exhibitions, publications, bibliography, Hosting an open workshop? Coordinating collections, and awards—as they apply. a public presentation of your students’ work? Connect first with your department’s Do include: administrative staff to coordinate efforts to • Name, rank, departmental affiliation, spread the word. and year of original hire. Names are not included in word limit.

FACULTY PROFILES • A profile picture so students may put a name to a face before entering the SAIC publishes profiles online for all classroom. This should be submitted faculty. As soon as possible in your first as .jpg and be 450 x 450 pixels, 72 semester, submit your bio through the dpi, and can be adjusted by CRIT, if form located in the Faculty Dashboard needed. (saic.edu/faculty). Please review the • Educational background, beginning Guidelines document. Your submission with bachelor’s and ascending will be reviewed, formatted, and listed to highest attained degree. on the School’s website. View existing faculty profiles at saic.edu/profiles. FACULTY PROFILES

• Exhibitions (and/or screenings, Update an Existing Profile performances, broadcasts, etc). Send an email to our Marketing & Emphasize recent activities. List the Communications Departments at gallery, museum, or site rather than the [email protected] with your work or the title of the show. updated biography. The text will be reviewed for accuracy, spelling, and format • Books and/or publications. Your own before being submitted to the website for writing, images, and artwork in print. posting. • Bibliography. Reviews and commentary written by others about your work.

• Collections. Public collections in which your work is represented.

• Awards. Includes residencies, fellowships, and grants. Do not include SAIC faculty enrichment grants or fellowships received while a student.

• Website or online access. Include your URL or link. Websites are not included in word limit.

• There is an option to include your 28 preferred pronouns, though this is not required.

Do not include: • Previous employment

• Previous teaching appointments

Tips Having trouble keeping your bio under 100 words? Please try:

• Removing redundancies and commonly assumed information in locations (e.g “Chicago Cultural Center” instead of “Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL” and “Museum of Modern Art, New York” instead of “The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY”).

• Omitting article titles in publications and specifi prize names in awards (e.g. Artforum instead of “’Title of Article,’ Artforum and “Toronto Film Festival” instead of “Breakout Achievement from Emerging Talent, second place, Toronto Film Festival”). INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT (IRFM)

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SERVICES have the resources you and your students Main office phone number: 312.499.4920 need to help realize projects. The labs are The department of Instructional Resources and equipped with a wide range of hand, power, Facilities Management provides the SAIC and stationary tools. Staff are available to community with integrated administration of guide you forward, whether you need project SAIC’s facility operations, academic resource consultation, assistance developing your management and education, campus project, or to simply checkout tools. For more planning and design and constructions information, visit: saic.edu/t4/academics/ services. IRFM advances the School’s academic instructional-fabrication/ mission through the operation of Media Centers, Instructional Shops and Fabrication Authorizations and Workshops Facilities, Resale, Technology Training and Before you begin working in any space, Academic Classrooms and Facilities. IRFM you may be required to attend a lab provides the community with support for Authorization to familiarize yourself its basic instruction and exhibition and is the largest operating procedures and safety protocols. employer of students on campus. Additionally, Area technicians can provide insight into IRFM manages SAIC’s campus services Authorization schedules and procedures. including housekeeping, mailroom, planning, Additionally, we offer workshops and design and construction of campus renovation specialized equipment clinics throughout the projects, maintenance and upkeep of SAIC’s academic year to develop your familiarity with instructional, residential, and public property. 30 machines, materials, and processes. Workshops can be tailored to fit curricular inquiries or a CLASSROOM AND FACILITY SERVICES class project. They encompass process and A video walk-through of common material investigations with emphasis on step installed classroom AV technology by step demonstrations. may be found at www.saic.edu/academics/ media-resources/classroom-technology. Past workshops have included bent-ply laminations, pattern making, inflatables, LED For services or to report a problem related to wiring, thermoforming plastic, lathe, classrooms or other facilities including stretcher/panel, and more. We welcome your AV System assistance, climate control, utilities, suggestions and requests for future workshops. resources, supplies, housekeeping or any other operational need please dial extension 9– Getting Ready IRFM (9–4736) from any house phone. Staff Once you have completed any requisite will be on hand to assist you. Alternately, you authorizations, you are ready to work. Users may enter a work ticket in the online building will be required to have an SAIC ID, and come work order system, Facility 360. To access dressed appropriately for the lab Facility 360, visit the Faculty Dashboard at environment. saic.edu/faculty and click on the link “360 Building Work Request System” under the Tool Checkout Online Tools section. Hand tools are available for daytime and overnight checkout. Please support your INSTRUCTIONAL FABRICATION community of makers and return tools on time From bedazzlers to sewing machines, —fines accrue if tools are returned late to traditional wood/metalworking to CNC milling, incentivize good shop citizenship. the SAIC Instructional Fabrication Making Labs LAB LOCATIONS

Due to COVID-19, many labs'/shops' hours are subject to change

LAB LOCATIONS Access COLUMBUS WOODSHOP The Columbus Metalshop is open to any and 280 S. Columbus Dr., Room B1–24 all undergraduate and graduate students, 312.443.3773 faculty, and staff.

Tool Highlights Access Forges The Columbus Woodshop is open to any and •  all undergraduate and graduate students, • Torches faculty, and staff. • Band saws

Tool Highlights • Plasma cutters • Belt and disc Sanders • Belt and disc sanders • Jointer • Various hand tools • Miter saws • Hoss field bender • Sewing machine • MIG & TIG Welders • Table saw • Oxygen fuel welding and cutting • Double miter saw for framing • Sheet metal power hammer • Mortise machine Authorization, Workshops and Demos • Routers 31 • Intro to Metal—1 1/2 hours • Various hand tools • Mig Welding—1 hour • Drill presses • Oxy Welding—1 hour • Lathes • Tig Welding—1 hour • Planer • Plasma Cutting—30 minutes • Scroll saws • Grinding Room—1 hour • Band saw • Forge—45 minutes

Authorizations, Workshops, and Demos COLUMBUS DIGITAL • Wood Shop Authorization—2 hours FABRICATION STUDIO • Stretcher Building—available 280 S. Columbus Dr., Room 126 online or in person 312.443.4764

• Panel Building—1 hour Access • Pedestal & Display Fabrication—1½ hours The Columbus Digital Fabrication is open to yan and all undergraduate and • Wall Construction—1½ hours graduate students, faculty, and staff. • Fasteners and Anchors for Displaying Work—1 hour Tool Highlights • Laser Cutters COLUMBUS METAL SHOP • 3D Printers 280 S. Columbus Dr., Room B1– 27 312.443.7243 • CNC Routers

Authorization Workshops • Laser Cutter— hour (delivered online) LAB LOCATIONS

Due to COVID-19, many labs'/shops' hours are subject to change

LAB LOCATIONS SULLIVAN FABRICATION STUDIO SHARP INSTRUCTIONAL SHOPS 36 S. Wabash Ave., Room 1243 37 S. Wabash Ave., Room 312 312.629.6699 312.899.5235 Access Access Open only to students currently enrolled The Sharp Instructional Shop is open in Architecture, Interior Architecture, only to students currently enrolled in the and Designed Objects courses. Contemporary Practices department. Tooling Highlights Tooling Highlights Woodshop • Belt and disc sanders • Table saw • Jointer • Miter saw • Miter saw • Band saws • Sewing machine (commercial and • Drill presses industrial)

• Belt and disc sanders • Table saw

• Spindle sanders • Mortise machine

• Jointer • Routers

• Planer • Various hand tools 32 • Routers • Drill presses • Lathe • Lathe • Mortise machine • Planer • Scroll saws • Scroll Saw • Various hand tools • Band Saw • Sewing machines • Vacuum former

• CNC Routers Moldmaking • Slop Sink • Cold metal fabrication equipment

• Portable Dust Filtration Units • Downdraft Table

• Plaster Working Area + Tools Authorizations, Workshops & Demos • Wood Shop Authorization—2 hours Digital Fabrication Lab • CNC Machine practices are taught • 3D printers exclusively through AIADO curriculum • Digital embroidery —authorizations are not available.

• Plotter cutter • Vacuum Former—1 hour

• X-carve for CNC drawing For more information on SAIC Fabrication • Arduino resources, please visit saic.edu/ academics/instructionalfabrication/. • Makey Makey

• Little Bits MEDIA CENTERS

Due to COVID-19, many media centers' hours are subject to change

MEDIA CENTERS SAIC Basic equipment such as point-and- The Media Centers, located in three of our main shoot digital and consumer video cameras academic buildings, are your resource for the are general access, as well as self-serve tools you’ll need to display, teach and create media dubbing stations. electronic media, as well as to provide digital documentation of your class projects, • Authorized Access (see Media Equipment assignments and activities. Our mission is to Workshops & Authorizations section below): enhance the overall educational experience Resources that require a short training across all disciplines at SAIC. Each Media workshop with one of our instructional Center provides access to media production trainers. Workshops are required for all users equipment, such as cameras and microphones; in this category, including faculty. After and presentation equipment to supplement attending the workshop once, your the AV systems installed in most classrooms. authorization will not expire until you leave Faculty and staff may also borrow laptop SAIC. Prosumer and professional quality computers for same-day use for teaching, and DSLR and motion picture cameras, portable longer-term loans as available. projectors and light kits are in this category, along with access to video editing facilities. LOCATIONS • Departmental Access: Resources circulated MACLEAN MEDIA CENTER by the Media Center which are purchased for (AND RESALE CENTER) use by staff nd faculty of a particular 112 S. Michigan Ave., Room 801 department and the students currently 33 312.345.3512 taking classes in that program. Departments SHARP MEDIA CENTER such as Film, Video, New Media, and 37 S. Wabash Ave., Room 307 Animation; Contemporary Practices; Sound; 312.899.5081 Performance; Art and Technology Studies, COLUMBUS MEDIA CENTER etc., provide the Media Center with a list 280 S. Columbus Dr., Room 233 312.443.3759 of faculty and staff llowed to access their departmental resources. The departments Hours of Operation then empower the faculty to train students Mon.–Thurs., 8:30 a.m.–9:30 p.m. Fri.–Sat., on the departmental resources and provide 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. the Media Center with access lists. Sun., 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. at Columbus Drive Media Equipment Workshops & only Authorizations (Training) While many easy to use pieces of consumer All locations closed on holidays and school quality technology are available to borrow breaks between semesters. Winter and without any prequalification, the Media summer hours vary. Center Workshops and Authorizations Access offer knowledgeable training on advanced, Portable media production equipment is professional quality audio and visual available to all students, faculty, and staff capture technologies. Whether it be for in three access categories: you, your teaching assistant, or a student, we welcome your participation in any • General Access: Resources that are simple to of our weekly offered workshops. use, inexpensive to operate. These items are available to borrow from your first day at MEDIA CENTERS

Once a student, faculty, or staff completes Figure Models one of our trainings, they are granted access In addition to equipment resources, the to non-departmental advanced equipment for Media Center also hires and schedules Figure as long as they remain at SAIC. This is Models for work in life drawing and sculpture certainly helpful for students who want to classes. A request system for models experience courses in different departments and instructional equipment reservations that don't currently offer these technologies, is available at greenlight.artic.edu. or when equipment access relies on enrollment in a specific class. Go to saic.edu/academics/mediaresources/ mediacenterandequipmentloans/ The training workshop schedule starts after for more information. the add/drop period, and runs throughout the fall and spring semesters. Summer and We hope you and your students take winter workshops are per request to our advantage of the amazing resources we email ([email protected].) Workshops offer here at SAIC. Whether it be learning have limited spots and are updated on a how to use light kits and photo cameras biweekly basis. To sign up for a workshop to document art work, or HD cameras you can visit or call the Media Center. We to create a short video experiment; we don't offer in-class training or authorizations, have our team of expert student trainers but faculty and TAs are encouraged to ready to help guide you to a solution. contact us for private training or refresher. 34 Please avoid sending students during class time since these workshops exist independently from the curriculum.

If you are familiar with the equipment and wish to be deputized to authorize your class, please email us at [email protected] and our Training Manager will connect with you.

Current Equipment Workshops Include: • Advanced HD Camcorders

• Microphones

• Advanced Light Kits

• Sound Recorders

• Photo DSLRs

• Photo Shooting Spaces

• Advanced 4K Cinema Cameras

• Video editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro

Workshops may change depending on current academic needs. RESALE CENTERS & CLASSROOM RESERVATIONS

Due to COVID-19, many resale centers' hours are subject to change

RESALE CENTERS The SAIC Resale Centers are a resource ______to purchase specialty supplies not sold through campus art supply stores or easily available downtown. Resale Centers are CLASSROOM RESERVATIONS also a convenient source for heavy or bulky Instructional Resources and Facilities materials such as lumber and plaster or Management (IRFM) offers spaces that materials hard to find downtown such as film, any staff member or current student safety equipment, and offset printing papers. can check out. To make space Many of the products carried in Resale are reservations please review the Space directly related to SAIC coursework. Resale Reservation System (SRS) Guide. operates four stores and one vending machine. Each Resale location can be found For further questions please email adjacent to SAIC’s shops and maker spaces, [email protected]. to make attaining and utilizing the materials with SAIC tools as easy as possible. Additionally please follow the guidelines outlined below when Download our latest catalog and read requesting a space reservation: all our information at: saic.edu/t4/ • Regularly scheduled classes always 35 academics/mediaresources/resale have priority over reservations.

Contact us at [email protected] to discuss • IRFM only offers certain classrooms supplies and instructional kits that you for reservation. Not every space may want us to put together and make on campus is reservable. available for your students to purchase. • There must be at least a 15-minute gap between a class and a reservation. LOCATIONS COLUMBUS RESALE CENTER • All classroom reservations must be 280 S. Columbus Dr., Room B–031 made at least three days in advance. 312.857.7173 • Rooms are booked back to back, so MACLEAN RESALE CENTER please only use the room for the time in the MacLean Media Center that is allotted to you in the reservation. Room 801 • When reserving a room, you are 312.345.9127 responsible for cleaning up any SHARP RESALE CENTER mess made and returning it to the with Sharp Instructional Shops Tool Checkout condition you received the room in Room 302 (including moving back furniture). 312.899.5235 • Some spaces on campus cannot be SULLIVAN RESALE CENTER requested further than 6 months out. with Sullivan Fabrication Studio Tool Checkout Room 1243 312.629.6699

Hours of Operation All Resale Center hours match those of the shops they are adjacent to/within. POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

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FACULTY HANDBOOK the consensual romantic or sexual relationships The Faculty Handbook is a document designed that faculty, teaching assistants, graduate to state the principles of governance and the assistants, and administrators may have with exercise of responsibilities pertaining to faculty students. members of the School of the Art Institute of The policy prohibits romantic or sexual Chicago. The Handbook, with the Handbook relationships between faculty of any status, Supplement, is therefore intended to provide including but not limited to full-time, adjunct, information to faculty members concerning lecturer, and visiting, with undergraduate the organization and governance of the students. The only exception to this prohibition School; the responsibilities, both individual is for relationships that predate either the and collective, of faculty members; faculty student’s enrollment or the faculty member's recruitment, appointment, retention, and hiring at SAIC. advancement as professionals; and the rights, benefits, and privileges of faculty members Faculty members of any status are also and members of the SAIC community. prohibited from having supervisory or evaluative authority over graduate students Links to the current Faculty Handbook, with whom they have, or have had, a romantic Handbook Supplement, and Legal Supplement or sexual relationship. can be found in the left-side menu below the 37 Quicklins section on the Faculty Dashboard at While faculty are not expressly prohibited from saic.edu/faculty. having romantic or sexual relationships with graduate students other than as set forth INSTITUTIONAL POLICIES above, they are strongly cautioned against Beyond the Faculty Handbook and its doing so. supplements, there are a number of additional policies created to guide and protect the SAIC For further background and to view this policy community-at-large. An index of the current in full, see the Policies and Procedures page on policies can be found under the School the SAIC/AIC Intranet. Specific banner on the Policies and Procedures page on the SAIC/AIC Intranet.

CONSENSUAL ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP POLICY When individuals involved in consensual romantic or sexual relationships are in positions of unequal power, there is the potential for conflict of interest, favoritism, exploitation, and bias. In order to protect the integrity of SAIC's learning and work environment, this policy outlines limitations on ELECTED FACULTY

REPRESENTATIVES

ELECTED FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES Chair of Faculty Both full-time and part-time faculty may be Jon Cates be elected by their peers to serve SAIC in a Associate Professor, Film, Video, variety of important ways. Through institution- New Media, and Animation wide elections, they serve as representatives [email protected] of their constituencies within the Sharp Building, Room 816A administration, and contribute to the shaping 312.759.1448 of institutional policies, procedures, and programs. Elected faculty serve, for example, Faculty Liaison as Chair of Faculty with a five-year term within Raja El Halwani the central administration, and participate in Professor, Liberal Arts searches, contract reviews and tenure [email protected] appointments. Elected representatives serve Sharp Building, Room 816 on the Faculty Senate, the Academic Steering 312.759.1441 Committee, Part-Time Concerns Committee, Full-Time Faculty Representative-at-Large Faculty Contract & Tenure Review Board, and Jim TerMeer on the Dean’s selection committees for Associate Professor, AIADO enrichment grants, team-teaching awards, [email protected] Professor Research Days, Adjunct Paid-Leaves, merit raise review, and residency opportunities. Faculty Business Senate Chair 38 In addition to the regular meetings of standing Robin Deacon committees throughout the year, each Professor, Performance semester the school-wide all faculty and staff [email protected] meetings provide an opportunity to receive Full-Time Faculty Senators updates and provide feedback. Tom Burtonwood ([email protected]) Full-time Faculty Elected Positions Kamau Patton ([email protected]) There are five areas of governance in which Roberto Sifuentes ([email protected]) elected Full-time Faculty Representatives Jan Tichy ([email protected]) participate in SAIC’s administration—the Oli Watt ([email protected]) elected positions within the Dean's Office, Andrew Yang ([email protected]) Faculty Business Senate, various Senate Committees, Faculty Contract and Tenure Faculty Contract & Tenure Review Board Chair Review Board, and the Full-time Faculty Daniel Quiles Representative-at-Large who participates in Associate Professor, Art History, Department Heads, Faculty Business Senate, Theory, and Criticism Academic Steering, and the Faculty Senate [email protected] Committees. Elected Faculty Chairs and the Rep-at-Large are compensated for their time, Faculty Contract and Tenure Review Board while committee members serve as part of Pablo Garcia ([email protected]) their ongoing institutional service. Christina Gómez ([email protected]) Mark Jeffery ([email protected]) Bruce Jenkins ([email protected]) Nick Lowe ([email protected]) Nicole Marroquin ([email protected]) Peter Power ([email protected]) Dan Price ([email protected]) Alison Ruttan ([email protected]) Savneet Talwar ([email protected]) ELECTED FACULTY

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Part-Time Faculty Elected Positions There are three areas of governance in which elected Part-time Faculty Representatives participate in SAIC’s administration—as the Part-time Faculty Representative-at-Large, as members of the Faculty Business Senate, and as members of the Part-time Faculty Concerns Committee.

Part-Time Faculty Representative-at-Large Hope Esser Adjunct Assistant Professor, Contemporary Practices [email protected]

Part-Time Liaison Representative Lorraine Peltz Adjunct Associate Professor, Arts Administration, Contemporary Practices 39 [email protected]

Lecturer Rank Representative to the Part-Time Concerns Committee Danny Floyd Lecturer, Visual and Critical Studies [email protected]

Part-Time Faculty Representatives for Faculty Business Senate Joseph Belknap Lecturer, Contemporary Practices [email protected] Allie 'n' Steve Mullen Adjunct Associate Professor, Art and Technology Studies [email protected] Rebecca Keller Adjunct Professor, Art History, Art Education; Theory, and Criticism SYLLABI

SYLLABI • DLRC statement to be used on syllabi: Departments are expected to establish Accommodations for Students with and maintain a file of all syllabi for their Disabilities: SAIC is committed to full current courses, and a history of syllabi compliance with all laws regarding equal is recommended for reference. opportunities for students with disabilities. Students with known or suspected Syllabi typically include: disabilities, such as a Reading/Writing • A summary description and Disorder, ADD/ADHD, and/or a mental goals of the course health condition who think they would • Criteria for successful completion of the benefit from assistance or accommodations course, outlining assignments and other should first contact the Disability and measures as appropriate such as class Learning Resource Center participation, progress, and punctuality (DLRC) to schedule an appointment. DLRC staff will review your disability • Faculty member’s policy on attendance documentation and work with you to • May include criteria for unsuccessful determine reasonable accommodations. completion of course They will then provide you with a letter • Planned absences where faculty outlining the approved accommodations for member will not be present in class you to deliver to all of your instructors. This letter must be presented before any • Planned field trips that are a accommodations will be implemented. You required part of the course 40 should contact the DLRC as early in the • Plagiarism statement to be used on syllabi: semester as possible. The DLRC is located on The School of the Art Institute of Chicago the 13th floor of the MacLean Center, 112 S. prohibits “dishonesty such as cheating, Michigan Ave., and can be reached via plagiarism, or knowingly furnishing false phone at 312.499.4278 or email at information to the School” (Students’ Rights [email protected]. and Responsibilities, Student Handbook). Plagiarism is a form of intellectual theft. One For additional guidelines and plagiarizes when one presents another’s requirements, see: saic.edu/sites/default/ work as one’s own, even if one does not files/Recommended%20Syllabi% intend to. The penalty for plagiarizing may 20Inclusions.pdf also result in some loss of some types of financial aid (for example, a No Credit in a course can lead to a loss of the Presidential Scholarship), and repeat offenses can lead to expulsion from the school. To find out more about plagiarism and how to avoid it, use SAIC’s “Avoid Plagiarism - Quick Guide” found under “Guides and Forms” on SAIC’s Academic Advising Page at: saic.edu/ lifeatsaic/academicadvising/. PLAGIARISM

PLAGIARISM Please follow the procedures for academic misconduct/plagiarism described in the Student Handbook. In summary, if a student is suspected of academic misconduct/ plagiarism the faculty member should:

• Review the allegation, sanction, and communicate this to the student.

• O ffer to meet with the student if they wish to discuss the finding. (Note: this meeting is not expected to impact the outcome, and faculty are only asked to offer to meet—if the student declines to meet or respond, the process moves forward as below.)

• Assign a grade for the project/paper/ class as appropriate and inform the student of this in writing.

• Refer the student to the Student Handbook for detailed information about 41 student rights and responsibilities in an academic misconduct process.

• Inform the Department Chair and the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs for Academic Advising.

• If a student wishes to dispute the finding, he or she should contact the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs for Academic Advising.

Faculty teaching any first-year courses including: Art History Survey, Essay Writing, Writing Workshop, or First Year Seminar, must include a statement on their syllabi stating SAIC’s policy on plagiarism.

For a guide on how to recognize and avoid plagiarism, please go to saic.edu/library and click on "Academic Integrity" or visit: saic.edu/sites/default/files/ saic_plagiarism_packet%20%283%29.pdf

For when to give credit, please consult: saic.edu/sites/default/files/When%20to% 20Give%20Credit.pdf FACULTY EVALUTATION OF STUDENTS

FACULTY EVALUATION OF STUDENTS Reasonable cause to miss a class Add/Drop Period might include: Add/drop period is the first two weeks of each • I llness or hospitalization (the student semester. Anticipate students contacting you should contact Health Services, who for permission to add your class, and refer will relay information to the faculty in them to sign up for the PeopleSoft waitlist. Do whose class the student is enrolled) not feel obligated to go beyond the class limit • Observation of a religious holiday to accommodate waitlisted students who don’t (students should be asked to end up in an open seat. Book orders and room communicate with instructors about sizes are anticipated on the designated class these absences in advance) capacity. If you decide to add students, simply • Family illness or death sign an add/drop form, or obtain a permissions number for them to use Self-Service. To access Ultimately, it is at the faculty member’s Self-Service, go to the Faculty Dashboard at discretion whether to adhere to or modify saic.edu/faculty and click on the link to Self- these recommendations. However, in all cases, Service in the Quicklinks section. your attendance policy should be clearly stated on the syllabus for each course. Student Attendance Your requirements for student attendance Course Progress Reports (CPRs) (including timeliess) should be clearly stated on Course Progress Reports (CPRs) allow your syllabus and presented at the beginning of instructors to alert both a student and the each semester. SAIC policy states that students Office of Student Affairs/Academic Advising 42 are expected to attend all classes regularly and that the student’s progress in the course may on time. be compromised due to attendance, performance, or other reasons. Access CPRs The Undergraduate Division strongly via Self-Service under Quicklinks on the recommends that faculty members keep Faculty Dashboard at saic.edu/faculty accurate attendance records and call for attendance at all classes in order to comply with For instructions on how to use CPRs, federal student aid regulations. please go to the faculty dashboard, scroll down to Policies: Student Interactions, and Students should miss class only with reasonable select Course Progress Report How-to. cause. If a student needs to miss class with reasonable cause, it is the student’s Faculty may submit a CPR at any time in a responsibility to contact the instructor to receive semester and as often as necessary. CPRs are instruction for how to make up for the missed an important tool for academic advisors, who class. It is the instructor’s responsibility to give review them weekly, to identify and provide this information to the student. Missing class for outreach and advising to students who are any reason other than a reasonable cause may demonstrating unsatisfactory academic jeopardize the student’s academic standing in progress or other concerning behavior. the class.

Our recommended institutional policy is as If you have any questions about CPRs please follows: If a student misses MORE than three contact Student Affairs Coordinator Alexa Kus classes, whether or not for a reasonable cause, at [email protected]. the student will fail the class. If the student does not withdraw from the class prior to If there is any student about whom you are the deadline for withdrawal with a grade particularly concerned, and especially in the of “W,” the student will receive a grade of case of an emergency, please contact the “No Credit.” Deadlines for withdrawal: Office of Student Affairs/Academic Advising directly at 312.629.6800 or Campus Security at November 2, 2020 (fall semester) and 312.899.5093. March 31, 2021 (spring semester). FACULTY EVALUTATION OF STUDENTS

Grades If a student requests a grade equivalent, REGISTRATION AND RECORDS (for example, if he or she intends to transfer or Sullivan Center apply to graduate school and requires a grade 36 S. Wabash Ave., 14th floor point average) the student should give you a 312.629.6700 Student Evaluation/Letter Grade Form with a Undergraduate and non-degree-seeking SASE. Complete the form at the end of the students must achieve at least the traditional semester and mail it to the student. This is an grade equivalent of a C (at least 70% unofficial grade, so the record is kept by the successful course requirement completion) in student but not by the registrar. order to earn CR (credit). Graduate and post- baccalaureate certificate students must Incompletes achieve the at least the traditional grade Incompletes are granted by the instructor only equivalent of a B (at least 80% successful upon request by the student, and only if the course requirement completion) in order to instructor believes that the student’s reason for earn CR (credit). the request is justified. The issuance of an INC grade in PeopleSoft implies that the student The instructor is ultimately responsible for and the instructor have discussed the reasons both setting and communicating the specific for unfinished work and have agreed upon what requirements which must be met in order for a the student needs to finish as well as a 43 student to earn CR (credit) in any individual completion deadline. Furthermore, students course. requesting an INC should have attended the majority of classes and turned in assignments The following grade symbols are used prior to the last day. Thus, it is inappropriate to to denote credit status: issue an INC to a student who had excessive CREDIT STATUS absences or did not perform academically. Such students ideally will have received Course CR Credit Progress Reports indicating their danger of failing the course, and can also be referred to Academic Advising to discuss the options No Credit NCR available to them.

Once the required work and deadlines have INC Incomplete been set, it is the student’s responsibility to uphold these and to submit their work in a W Withdrawal* timely manner. However, it is the instructor’s responsibility to report the student’s grade as CR or NCR to the Registrar’s office within the IP Thesis in Progress first two weeks of the following regular semester, i.e. if the course was in spring, the * Withdrawals can only be entered on grade needs to be changed within the first two the roster by the Registrar, next to a weeks of the following fall semester. Any INCs student’s name on your final grade not changed by the end of the add/drop period roster, if the student voluntarily and will automatically be posted as NCR. This grade officially withdrew from the course. is still redeemable at any time after its Faculty do not submit a grade of “W” conversion to a NCR, if the faculty member if a student failed to show up to class, evaluates the work submitted by the student as but rather “NCR.” reasonable for completing the course. FACULTY EVALUTATION OF STUDENTS

Grade Appeals (Disputed Grade) office, or department involved, they may If a student disputes a final grade received appeal certain administrative and academic in a class, the student should first attempt to decisions affecting them by going to the resolve the issue with the individual faculty Academic Review Board or the Refund Review member. If the student is unable to resolve the Board as a final step in requesting an exception. issue with the faculty member, the student A student may not pursue an appeal through should submit a digital appeal via Google form, more than one internal procedure, with the accessible at saic.edu/nocreditappeal. This exception of appeals to the Academic Review appeal will be routed to the correct Board and the Refund Review Board. All Department Chair for review. The student must appeals should be filed with SAIC within one request this appeal no later than the end of the year from the date of the concern for review by add/drop period of the next semester (e.g., if a the Board. The appropriate appeal board/ final grade was received in the fall semester, committee may, at its discretion, permit the the student has until the end of the add/drop consideration of an appeal after this time period of the spring semester to file an period. appeal). On receiving an appeal, the Chair may request further information or an in-person Academic Review Board meeting with the student prior to making a The Academic Review Board is authorized to determination. In the event the student is consider student appeals for exceptions to 44 unable to resolve the issue after SAIC’s academic and administrative policies communicating with the Department Chair, (e.g., late withdrawal with a “W” grade; they may request their appeal be reviewed the academic suspension or dismissal; and appropriate academic dean (or designee). The exceptions to degree and certificate appropriate academic dean (or designee) will requirements). Exceptions will only be not review an appeal if the student has not granted if the student can demonstrate first attempted to resolve the issue with the extenuating and/or compelling appropriate academic department chair. In circumstances. The Academic Review Board rare and extraordinary circumstances, the is comprised of representatives from the appropriate academic dean (or designee), at Dean’s Office, the Office of Student Affairs, their discretion, may permit the consideration and Enrollment Services. The student must of an appeal after this time period. The submit a written appeal to the Registrar’s appropriate academic dean will notify the office for consideration by the Board. The student and the faculty member of their form can be obtained at the Registrar’s office. decision in writing. This response will state the The student should also submit written copies final determination of the appeal. The full No of any relevant supporting documentation. Credit Grade Appeal policy, including oft-cited After reviewing a student’s written appeal, grounds for making an appeal, is published in the Board may put it to a vote or, at its the SAIC Student Handbook and SAIC Bulletin. discretion, may designate a Board member to follow up with relevant individuals, offices, or departments to gather additional information Additional Appeal Processes In situations where a student is requesting an for consideration. On the basis of the exception to SAIC’s academic or student’s written and any other relevant administrative policies or procedures (other information, the Board will vote on whether or than NCR grade appeals addressed not to approve the request for exception (in immediately above), the student should first whole or in part) and/or whether to grant the seek a remedy directly with the individual, student an alternative remedy that the Board office, or department that is involved. may find more appropriate. The outcome of If the student cannot achieve a mutually- the appeal request will be emailed to the acceptable resolution with the individual, student. DIGITAL COURSE EVALUATIONS

Request for Reconsideration Additional information about this process of Academic Review Board Decision can be found in the Faculty Handbook, or by The student may submit a Request for visiting: saic.edu/t4/crit/eval Reconsideration of the Academic Review Board’s decision only if the request indicates Faculty are asked to administer the course that there is new information that was not evaluations during class time in the following available at the time the student submitted manner: their original appeal. A Request for • Designate a 15-minute time block for Reconsideration should be in writing, state the students to fill out the evaluation for your basis for the request, and be submitted to the course. This time block should be scheduled Registrar’s office within 10 business days after during one of the last two class meetings. receiving written notice of the initial decision. The Academic Review Board will consider any • Contact students via email or Canvas a day new information that was not available at the or two prior to the designated evaluation time of the original appeal and give notice of day to bring their laptops to class. Remind their decision to the student in writing. them that they will be filling out course evaluations on their laptops. If necessary, Refund Review Board students can share laptops or borrow from The Refund Review Board considers student the Media Center. Please note that the 45 appeals for exceptions to SAIC’s refund and students can also fill out the evaluations administrative policies. Exceptions will only be online via smartphones with web software. granted if the student can demonstrate • I n class, explain to the students that the extenuating circumstances. The Refund course evaluations help improve the quality Review Board is composed of representatives of instruction throughout the school. Please from the Dean’s Office, the Office of try to be positive and detail why students Student Affairs, and Enrollment Services. should take these evaluations seriously. A student must submit a written appeal to the Registrar’s Office for consideration by the • I f a student cannot find the course Board. The form can be obtained at the evaluations email, follow these instructions: Registrar’s Office, in Academic Advising, or on First, the student should search their the Faculty Dashboard. The student should also inbox for [email protected]. submit written copies of any supporting documentation (e.g., a doctor’s note). Students can also access their course evaluations by logging in to evaluations.saic.edu. They will ______use their SAIC username/password. Please note that the evaluation content is entirely anonymous though DIGITAL COURSE EVALUATIONS the software can track who has and Evaluations are an essential part of SAIC, and who has not submitted course are used for various procedures, including evaluations. contract and tenure reviews. If students have additional SAIC uses an online evaluation tool to invite questions, please have them students to submit feedback about our email [email protected]. curricular offerings. Each semester they will receive an email requesting their participation in a digital course evaluation for each class in which they are enrolled. CRITIQUE WEEK

CRITIQUE WEEK CRITIQUE WEEK Each semester, panels of four to five faculty meet with nearly 400 graduate students for Fall 2020 Critique Week 45-minute critiques. In the fall, you will be December 7–11 assigned to a panel within your department. In the spring, you will be assigned with Spring 2021 Critique Week faculty outside of your area/department, as TBD well as critiquing students working in a variety of disciplines.

All Master of Fine Arts, Master of Design, and • I f you teach both in an exempt and a non- Master of Architecture students are required exempt department, you will be scheduled to have four critiques during their program. on the day(s) that you regularly teach for Post-Baccalaureate students are required to the non-exempt department or course. have two critiques. • You are exempt from serving on a During Critique Week, all classes are canceled critique panel if you are Part-Time VCS EXCEPT 1000 level Art History classes, and or NAJ faculty (your participation will be classes in the following departments and in your department’s grad event). areas: • Full-Time Liberal Arts faculty who teach FYS will only be obligated to serve on • Academic Access Program one graduate critique panel each 46 • Art Education semester that they teach FYS. Part-Time Liberal Arts faculty who teach FYS will • Art Therapy be exempt from grad critiques entirely. • Arts Administration and Policy • Full-Time AIADO, Art History, NAJ, and • Contemporary Practices Research VCS faculty will serve on one Spring Seminars Interdisciplinary panel and one MA Symposium or departmental critique • Contemporary Practices Core Studio (scheduled within your department). • English for International Students If you would like to participate in a • First Year Seminar I and II critique despite your exempt status please • Historic Preservation notify Sarah M. Hicks. • Low-Res MFA Contact Sarah M. Hicks within the first six Faculty are required to participate in Critique weeks of each semester if you anticipate any Week, unless your department or your course type of scheduling conflict that will is listed above and therefore exempt, or if necessitate you being put on a day other than you are part-time and only teaching evening your teaching day for that end of semester (after 4:00 p.m.) or weekend course(s). critique.

• Non-exempt part-time faculty members *Until a staff member is hired to full this are required to participate on one position, Sarah M. Hicks will be the contact for critique panel. Non-exempt full-time critique-related questions and concerns. faculty are required to participate on two critique panels. Sarah M. Hicks • You will be scheduled for your critique Executive Director of Facilities Services, IRFM panel on your normal teaching day(s). [email protected] 312.499.4928 ART SCHOOL CONSIDERATIONS

ART SCHOOL CONSIDERATIONS • Performative: audience interaction/ Art School Considerations (ASC) is a audience participation, actions that may committee that reviews student projects that place duress on the body may present potential health, • Weapons safety, legal or other concerns to the student • Potentially-Sensitive Content: work which or the SAIC community. may reasonably be foreseen to result in a strong level of emotional distress or The goal of ASC is to: perception of threat in the viewing audience • Provide timely guidance regarding the generally or in individual member(s) of an realization of proposed student art in a audience variety of settings, including the classroom, SAIC gallery spaces, and other • Structures & Kinetics: unprotected sharp SAIC public spaces, as well as off-campus edges, points, moving components, pedestals, heavy or unstable objects, • Engage students in a professional installations outside the gallery or dialogue about aspects of a particular classroom, objects hanging from above, project and how the work can be realized building a wall or altering a wall, overhead for student success enclosures (tents, roofs, etc.), window • Enable Student Project Coordinators coverings to work with students, faculty and • Electrical & Sound Levels 47 staff to identify alternatives that will allow the student to proceed with • Alternative Spaces: SAIC public spaces, projects in a way that is acceptable to the stairways, hallways, elevators, sidewalks, student and also addresses any health, exterior facing windows, ceilings, pipes, safety and legal concerns. drop-down, sprinkler systems, any area of the Museum

ASC Considerations List • Fire & Safety The ASC Considerations List should be • Community & Courtesy: confidentiality, consulted during the conceptualization privacy & anonymity, permissions, phase of a project, and at any point copyrights, public interaction thereafter when details are adjusted. • Anything You Are Unsure About: ASC is Faculty and staff members may make first and foremost a consultation resource recommendations to the student or refer of professionals with decades of combined the proposed project to ASC. Students, experience in helping students realize faculty, and staff may contact ASC by ambitious and complex creative projects in emailing [email protected]. a safe and educational manner. Even if a project does not neatly meet any of the For more information please contact the criteria mentioned below, consultation designated Student Project Coordinator in requests from students, faculty, and staff your department. To find out who your on any work which may have safety or Student Project Coordinator is, see your other community-related implications are department’s Administrative Director or welcome. A representative from ASC will contact IRFM. Posters can be found around review all inquiries and ensure the right campus regarding Art School support staff are engaged in responding. Considerations. The committee typically • Food, Liquids & Controlled Substances meets every two weeks throughout the fall and spring semesters. • Chemicals & Hazardous Materials • Biomatter, Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP), & Organic Materials TEXTBOOKS

TEXTBOOKS DUE DATES FOR BOOK ORDERS DEPAUL BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSTORE Winter/Spring: November 1, 2020 Manager contact: 312.362.8792. Main Store, 312.362.8795 Summer/Fall: April 1, 2021 1 E. Jackson St. Hours: Mon.–Fri., 7:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m. Fri: 7:00 a.m.–9 p.m. Sat. 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Sun. 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. • You should receive a response immediately Textbooks are ordered and sold through after you have submitted your order. If you Barnes & Noble at their DePaul University wish to check that your books are listed Campus bookstore. To adopt books through correctly, you can visit the Enlight website. If the Barnes & Noble at the DePaul University used copies are unavailable, Barnes & Noble Bookstore, please utilize facultyenlight.com. will submit orders to publishers eight weeks before classes begin. Faculty will • When setting up your account, be notified if any books are out of print or you must choose the DePaul University- back ordered. When placing your order, Loop bookstore as your campus choice. Your please note in the second section if you plan books will be delivered to this location, to use the textbooks again and in which term. DePaul University Barnes This is important so that students can sell 48 & Noble, 1 East Jackson Boulevard, back their books, making used copies for your students to pick up. available in future semesters. • The DePaul Bookstore website, depaul-loop.bncollege.com, has a direct link All textbooks for each course, required to SAIC as one of its selected campuses, or only recommended, must be added to along with all of our courses, course your textbook list in PeopleSoft with your numbers, and titles taken directly from Course Listing (this can only be done by the Self-Service database. Students will ordering your book through Barnes & Noble). be able to see all of the books needed Since the DePaul University Loop Campus for their classes just by entering their Bookstore is college-based and staffed schedules. They will also be able to use their by employees who deal with numerous ARTICard to make purchases at the DePaul varied publishers and a large consortium University Loop Campus Bookstore. of faculty; you can be assured of their • I f you have questions or concerns regarding understanding, responsiveness, and support book orders, please contact Carl Grath in dealing with you and your materials. at [email protected], or call 312.362.8795.

• DePaul Bookstore has a buy-back program for students and sells USED copies of the books you require semester after semester. Students will not only be able to save money at the time of purchase, they will also be able to get some of it back at the end of the semester. LIBRARIES

49 JOHN M. FLAXMAN LIBRARY

Due to COVID-19, many libraries' hours are subject to change

JOHN M. FLAXMAN LIBRARY Library Liaisons SHARP BUILDING A library staff member is assigned as liaison to 37 S Wabash Ave., 6th floor each curricular department and will be Circulation Supervisor, 312.899.5097 contacting you early in the fall semester. This is Reference Desk, 312.899.5096 a great opportunity to get acquainted and saic.edu/library identify the resources needed for your teaching and research. Liaisons can also tell The John M. Flaxman Library is available for you about library instructional offerings, faculty, students, and staff seven days a week exhibition opportunities, and other services during the fall and spring semesters. The offered to support faculty. library collects material to support the curriculum, with a strong emphasis on Reserves contemporary art, architecture, and design. You are encouraged to use the Canvas learning Currently the library holds more than 130,000 management system in lieu of course packets items—most of which can be checked out. or e-reserves (not provided by the library). Several thousand new items are added Flaxman Library staff ill take care of annually to the library’s physical collections copyright permissions and fees for your along with a similar number of new digital Canvas readings, as long as you provide resources. Digital collections are growing complete bibliographic information for each rapidly, including ebooks, ejournals and article (email the citations to reserves@saic. licensed databases. The Flaxman offers edu). If rights holders require excessively high 50 extensive audio-visual collections (with fees, library staff ill discuss costs playback equipment for use on the premises), and alternatives with you. Many articles can be one small room and one large room available found in digital format in the Flaxman’s by reservation for library instruction, and a licensed databases, and their URLs can often rich collection of web-accessible digital be posted on your Canvas course page. These resources that are available at any time digital options are covered in faculty training online. Streaming video services can be used for Canvas. You also have the option of putting for teaching and individual study via Kanopy, paper/print copies of materials on reserve at Docuseek2, Alexander Street Press, and the the service desk, for your students to check National Film Board of Canada. Interlibrary out or use in the library. Contact loan partners include I-Share, OCLC, and the us at [email protected] or 312.629.6597 if you Center for Research Libraries. have questions about library reserves.

Please let the librarians know if there are Film and Video Requests additional materials needed to support To reserve or rent film and video materials for your teaching and research at SAIC. Faculty classroom use, contact Carolyn Faber, requests for new materials are prioritized. You [email protected] or 312.629.1341. Contact us at can also contact the library for research least one week in advance for materials owned assistance, or to schedule instruction by the library to ensure that they’re available sessions tailored to your students’ needs—to when you need them. For rentals or new take place in the library or in your classroom. purchases, place your order at least 4–6 weeks For more information on all available services in advance. Waits can be even longer for some and collections, please visit the library website rentals or purchases, so plan ahead. You are or talk to a librarian. responsible for picking up and returning materials to the Flaxman Library on time. Information and forms are available on the library’s website (see the “Forms” quicklink on the right menu). FLAXMAN LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Due to COVID-19, many special collections' hours are subject to change

FLAXMAN LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY DIGITAL SERVICES & SHARP BUILDING VISUAL RESOURCES 37 S. Wabash Ave., Room 508 SHARP BUILDING 312.899.7486 (reading room) 37 S. Wabash Ave., Room 507 [email protected] 312.899.1224 digitalcollections.saic.edu [email protected]

Our Special Collections department The library’s Digital Services staff manage the offers a variety of experimental art forms SAIC Art & Art History Visual Resources spanning the 1960’s to the present. All Collection, a constantly growing digital image are intended to actively support your teaching, collection containing hundreds of thousands research, and studio work. of high-quality images created specifically for use by faculty in classroom instruction and The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection lecturing. Thousands of new images are draws from many types of media, examining added annually and faculty may request new how visual conventions and dominant artistic images at any time. This image collection, practices may be questioned and modified. It along with the related Roger Brown Study includes Fluxus objects from the 1960s, Collection and SAIC History Collection, resides contemporary multiples, sound works, and in our “Shared Shelf” within the ARTstor 51 examples of mail art, zines, and exhibition database, making them available to you and catalogs as works of art. More than 10,000 your students along with ARTstor’s own highly diverse examples from all fields collection of millions of images. ARTstor can of contemporary artists’ publishing are be used to create groups of images for use in available to you for hands-on exploration, with classroom lectures, or to be shared with many new works added each month. students outside of the classroom for study. Contact Digital Services staff o arrange for The Randolph Street Gallery Archives contain training or to request new images. original artwork, publications, papers, and video documentation of an internationally DIGITAL COLLECTIONS renowned artists’ collaborative that existed in digitalcollections.saic.edu Chicago from 1978 to 1998. It includes invaluable audio/video documentation The SAIC Digital Collections allows us of performance activities and innovative to share with the world of some of our programming. These are only two highlights most unique resources from the libraries’ from our Special Collections department, special collections and archives. New which houses many smaller collections as well. digital collections are always under To schedule class visits or to discuss teaching development. Current highlights include: opportunities based in the collections, please correspondence art, student and school make an appointment as early in the semester produced newspapers over the past century, as possible. Individual walk-ins the catalog of the Joan Flasch Artists' Book are welcome throughout the semester. Collection, selections from the Randolph Street Gallery Archives, Roger Brown Master Artworks, and much more. SAIC Digital Collections is also the platform for the School's Digital Thesis Repository. RYERSON & BURNHAM LIBRARIES AND OTHER SAIC COLLECTIONS

Due to COVID-19, many special collections' hours are subject to change

RYERSON AND BURNHAM LIBRARIES ROGER BROWN STUDY COLLECTION THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 1926 N. Halsted St. 111 S. Michigan Ave., 1st floor 773.929.2452 312.443.3671 saic.edu/t4/academics/libraries-special- artic.edu/research/visiting-libraries collections/roger-brown/

The Ryerson and Burnham Libraries together The Roger Brown Study Collection is a house form the second largest art museum museum and archive, located in renowned library in the country, with encyclopedic artist and SAIC alumnus Roger Brown's collections totaling over half a million former home and studio in Chicago’s Lincoln items. Approximately 10,000 volumes are Park/DePaul neighborhood. A short El ride added annually. All periods and media are from the Loop campus, this Artists' Museum covered, but special emphasis is placed features works by Chicago Imagists, self- on architecture of the 18th through 20th taught artists, folk and tribal art, objects from centuries and 19th century painting, prints, popular culture, costumes, textiles, furniture, drawings, and decorative arts. Special travel souvenirs, and a Ford Mustang in the collections include the Percier and Fontaine garage. The building and collection function Collection of 17th–19th century architectural as an objects lab and place of wonder, where books, the Mary Reynolds Collection on the SAIC community may engage with an 52 Dada and Surrealism, the George R. Collins extensive collection of art and artifacts in a Archive of Catalan Art and Architecture, 19th-century storefront building. the Mrs. James Ward Thorne Collection of illustrated books, and the Archives of the Art Institute of Chicago. Materials do not FASHION RESOURCE CENTER circulate, but free photocopies are available SULLIVAN BUILDING for all faculty. The library will also provide 36 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 735 instruction for your classes and will put 312.629.6730 course materials on reserve for you. After saic.edu/frc the completion of an orientation, SAIC Monday–Thursday: 9:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. faculty have access to the library stacks Friday/Saturday: 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. and reading room MTWF, 10:30a.m.–5:00 p.m. and Th, 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. For The Fashion Resource Center is a hybrid more details please contact the libraries. research hub for faculty and students within SAIC’s Fashion Department as well as the school’s larger community. Its unique collection of late twentieth and twenty-first- century designer garments and accessories represent innovations in construction, materials, and embellishments. As a study collection, visitors are able to handle garments and objects, while referencing the FRC’s extensive visual, print and fabric libraries that support and illuminate the physical garments and accessories. These combined resources provide students and researchers with a creative and educational environment to explore the most progressive achievements in the world of fashion. VIDEO DATA BANK

Due to COVID-19, the VDB's hours are subject to change

VIDEO DATA BANK VIDEO DATA BANK IS A GREAT RESOURCE MACLEAN CENTER 112 S. Michigan Ave., 3rd floor Through an international distribution 312.345.3550 service, the VDB makes video art, [email protected] documentaries made by artists, and vdb.org artist interviews available to a wide Open: Mon.–Fri., 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. range of audiences. The organization provides video art to venues worldwide, The Video Data Bank (VDB) is a leading including galleries, major museums, resource in the United States for videos by micro-cinemas, festivals, educational and about contemporary artists. Established institutions, libraries, and media centers. at SAIC in 1976 by graduate students Lyn In addition to the archive, VDB operates Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield, VDB has a preservation program, a research become world renowned as a major resource center and screening facility, regularly for video art and artist interviews. The VDB curates programs, and publishes artists’ collection contains more than 6,000 video art monographs. The website—vdb.org—can titles, spanning from the late 1960s to the be used to search the collection, read title present. The collection includes seminal early descriptions and artist biographies, view works by artists such as Vito Acconci, Joan clips, create wish lists, and scan resources Jonas, Bruce Nauman and Martha Rosler, as on the history and practice of video art. well as contemporary moving image artists 53 like Sadie Benning, Paul Chan, Miranda July, George Kuchar, and Walid Raad.

As one of the only video art distributors in the United States, VDB is an unparalleled resource for faculty and students. Nearly all titles in the archive are available for viewing in the VDB Screening Room, which is free and accessible to the SAIC community and the general public, by appointment. Current faculty of SAIC can check out DVD's for classroom use on campus, and are welcome to place videos on hold for their students to visit the Screening Room independently. To place classroom DVD orders online, contact us in person, by phone, or via email ([email protected])

Set up a faculty user account at vdb.org. Please note, VDB requires at least one week’s notice for requests, to enable staff ufficient time to make copies of titles if necessary. The maximum number of items faculty can reserve at one time is six. DVDs are due back the same day as check out. We look forward to meeting you at Video Data Bank! VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM

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VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM VAP guests are determined by a faculty Sharp Building, 37 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 1220 advisory committee, and recommendations Phone: 312.899.5185 from the SAIC community are welcomed on a [email protected] rolling basis. Faculty are invited to provide saic.edu/visiting-artists-program introductions for guest speakers, moderate Office Hours: Mon.–Fri., 9:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. student discussions, assist with hospitality, and attend cultivation dinners. Faculty are highly encouraged to build VAP events into The Visiting Artists Program (VAP) at SAIC is their syllabi. Events are always free and open one of the city’s leading public forums to the general public unless otherwise noted. for the presentation and contemplation of contemporary art, design, and scholarship. It LECTURE LOCATION * was founded in 1868 and formalized in 1951 Art Institute of Chicago with the establishment of an endowed fund by Rubloff Auditorium Flora Mayer Witkowsky. Each academic year, 230 S. Columbus Dr. VAP hosts a variety of internationally recognized artists, designers, and scholars * Due to COVID-19, the fall lectures will be through public lectures, screenings, hosted virtually via Zoom. Visit saic.edu/ conversations, and readings. Its primary visiting-artists-program for more information. mission is to foster a greater understanding and appreciation of contemporary art All lectures are FREE, non-ticketed, and open and culture through discourse. 55 to the general public unless otherwise noted. Lectures begin promptly at 6:00 p.m., and all More than 1,000 presenters representing 70 seating is first come, first served. countries have contributed to VAP’s rich history of distinguished guests who have inspired and influenced generations. Recent VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM guests include Sophie Calle, Emory Douglas, Cassils, Cao Fei, Ann Hamilton, Juliana The Visiting Artists Program’s website Huxtable, Toyo Ito, Jeff Koons (SAIC 1975-76, offers over 100 audio podcasts from the HON 2008), Maggie Nelson, Laura Owens, archive for streaming, as well as links to Gareth Pugh, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, articles on upcoming speakers. For SAIC Claudia Rankine, Stefan Sagmeister, Sarah students, faculty, and staff, over 900 video Schulman, Do Ho Suh, Dahn Vo, Nari Ward, and audio recordings of lectures from the Apichatpong Weerasethakul (MFA 1998, archive are available to view online at HON 2011), and Eyal Weizman. Visit our saic.edu/video or by visiting the John M. website for a list of participants since 2000. Flaxman Library. These recordings may be used in the classroom. An invaluable resource for SAIC students, the Visiting Artists Program is central to SAIC's Please note, not all lectures are interdisciplinary curriculum. In addition available for release in compliance to public presentations, visitors directly with the speakers' wishes. engage with SAIC students through studio visits and roundtable discussions, providing them with direct access to world-renowned speakers working across disciplines. RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS

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DISABILITY AND LEARNING Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Deaf and RESOURCE CENTER (DLRC) Hard of Hearing (D/HH), Blind or Visually LAKEVIEW BUILDING Impaired. Mental health disorders and 116 S. Michigan Ave., 13th floor physical impairments can also be considered Chicago, IL 60603 a disability. Phone: 312.499.4278 Fax: 312.499.4290 What is an Accommodation? [email protected] An accommodation is an adjustment or Hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. modification in the academic environment that enables an individual to have the benefit Valerie St. Germain of equal access to all programs, services or Director activities. Examples of academic 312.499.4286 accommodations include, but are not limited [email protected] to: extended time on exams, distraction saic.edu/dlrc reduced testing area, recording lectures, digital format texts and course materials, Mission Statement note-taking assistance, ASL interpreting, The mission of the Disability and Learning and attendance and deadline modifi ations. Resource Center (DLRC) is to support a 57 universally accessible educational community The provision of auxiliary aids may be that fosters full participation and an accommodation as well. Auxiliary contribution of every member. The DLRC aids are effective methods of making carries out its mission by delivering innovative academic materials available to students with and high quality services to SAIC students disabilities. Examples of auxiliary with disabilities and by facilitating and aids include, but are not limited to, advocating for reasonable accommodations note takers, talking calculators, Braille so that students have equal access to all keyboards, readers, assistive listening programs, activities, and services of the devices, raised line drawings, adaptive institution. The DLRC cultivates opportunities software, such as screen readers, text-to- for students to articulate their strengths, speech, and speech-to-text programs. empowers them to advocate for their own learning needs, and identifies and responds to Faculty Role the dynamic nature of student needs and In order to best support students with learning environments. disabilities, we encourage faculty to: • Notify all students that accommodations What is a Disability? may be available to them and offer students The Americans with Disabilities and DLRC contact information. Amendments Act (2008) considers a person • Include Accommodation Statement with a disability to be someone who has (or in all course syllabi. has a record of having, or is perceived to have) a physical or mental impairment that • Provide and/or allow approved substantially limits one or more major life accommodations outlined in the letter from activities such as walking, speaking, seeing, DLRC; if accommodations conflict with hearing, learning, concentrating, and working. essential course requirements, or if there Names of disabilities include: Learning are questions or concerns about approved Disabilities (LD), Attention Deficit accommodations, faculty should notify the DISABILITY AND LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER (DLRC)

DLRC immediately to discuss reasonable alternatives. Further, if the student fails to give their instructor a copy of the accommodation letter, he or she is not obligated to provide accommodations and should refer the student to the DLRC. Accommodations are never retroactive. • Remember that it is the student’s choice whether to disclose his or her specific disability/diagnosis to instructors.

• Refer to DLRC any student who reports a disability or requests an accommodation or modification—include this information on your syllabus (see pp. 12 for more information)

DLRC Role 58 The DLRC accomplishes its mission by: • Providing services, accommodations, and support to individual students with disabilities in keeping with all course requirements and program standards.

• Determining eligibility for reasonable accommodations by conducting a thorough review of the information provided by students and the documentation received from treatment providers.

• Providing students with a letter that lists and describes the approved accommodations in a timely manner.

• Collaborating with faculty and staff on disability concerns, especially as they relate to academic performance and fulfilling requirements.

• Offering educational programming for the SAIC community on learning and disability topics, especially as it relates to creative thinking.

• Offering guidance and recommendations on use of adaptive technology. COUNSELING SERVICES

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COUNSELING SERVICES someone else. Counseling Services are free LAKEVIEW BUILDING to all currently enrolled degree-seeking 116 S. Michigan Ave., 13th floor students. Students may receive up to 16 312.499.4271 sessions per degree program. Joe Behen, Ph.D. Executive Director Resources for SAIC Faculty 312.499.4272 Counseling Services psychologists are available to faculty administration, academic Why do students come to Counseling department heads, full and part-time faculty Services? and departmental staff for consultations regarding distressed students. • To get support as they make a transition (e.g. starting grad school, moving to a new city or country). Each year Counseling Services maintains an active consultative role to the SAIC • To discuss family difficulties. community, and is available for both • To talk about feelings after the individual consultations and ongoing break-up of a relationship. consultative relationships.

• To get help managing depression, As faculty members are in an excellent loneliness, anxiety, trouble position to identify and respond to troubled sleeping, or eating problems. students, consultation topics often include: • To talk about a friend, family member, or 59 • Emotional/psychological/mental health & roommate about whom they are worried. illness issues affecting academic • To deal with the aftermath of performance. trauma, abuse, discrimination, gay • Coping with various disorders (e.g., bashing, or sexual assault. bipolar disorder, substance abuse & • To learn how to better manage stress dependence). and create more balance in their life. • Response to personal crises. • To talk openly about drug use and learn • Adjustment to transitions, such as the first ways to reduce excessive use. semester in Chicago or graduation. To break out of a creative block. • • Responding to others’ distressing • To discuss core aspects of identity, such behavior (e.g., public intoxication, as sexuality, in a safe environment. students involved in self-destructive behavior). • To help manage feelings of anger. • Topics affecting specific populations Counseling Services is a CONFIDENTIAL within the SAIC community, such as the service: information communicated to SAIC unique challenges and stresses faced by counselors will not be disclosed to anyone international students and lesbian, gay, outside the Counseling Service without bisexual, and transgender students. written consent from the client. There are • Counseling Services members are also rare exceptions to this policy, such as when available to provide information about a therapist has a concern an individual is at mental health resources throughout the risk of seriously hurting him/herself or Chicago area to interested faculty. WRITING CENTER

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WRITING CENTER Writing Center tutors work with students LAKEVIEW BUILDING to help them find their own solutions to 116 S. Michigan Ave., 10th floor questions. Rather than correcting papers 312.499.4138 for students, tutors help students edit their [email protected] writing and identify issues that need further saic.edu/academics/writingcenter attention. Tutors may ask students to discuss supersaas.com/schedule/saic/writingcenter their ideas as a way to specify, clarify, or deepen them. Tutors may also offer feedback Leila Wilson on drafts, suggest writing approaches, review Coordinator information, and help students analyze 312.499.4137 their own writing. Ultimately, the goal in the [email protected] Writing Center is to help students become more proficient, independent writers. Fall and Spring Semester Hours Mon.–Thurs., 9:00 a.m.–7:15 p.m. Appointments Fri., 9:00 a.m.–5:15 p.m. To schedule an appointment with a Writing Designated walk-in hours: Center tutor, students first need to create Mon.–Thurs., 4:15–7:15 p.m. an account on our online sign-up system:

Winter and Summer Hours supersaas.com/schedule/saic/writingcenter The Writing Center is open during the winter 60 interim and summer sessions with limited Once students have set up their own account, hours. Please check the online schedule. they may sign up for appointments. Though appointments are encouraged, walk-in Services appointments are welcome. Weekly standing SAIC offers free, hour-long writing tutorials appointments are available upon request. at the Writing Center, which is located on the 10th floor of the Lakeview Buildiing. Tutors When students come to their tutoring are available to assist all currently enrolled appointments, they should make sure to bring students with any stage of the writing their assignments with them printed out. process, including the following: If faculty or students have any questions • Beginning the writing process about scheduling appointments, they're • Making claims and arguments encouraged to email or call the Writing • Developing ideas Center. The front-desk staff and coordinator are available to help. • Strengthening organization

• Improving writing style

• Clarifying language

• Addressing MLA, CMS, and APA style questions

• Citing references

• Correcting basic grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES CONTACT INFORMATION

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SAIC ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES SHARP BUILDING 37 S. Wabash Ave. 7th and 8th floors

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Elissa Tenny President 312.899.1452 821F

Allison Green Chief of Staff 312.899.5136 821G

Anastacia Bersch Assistant to the President 312.899.1452 821E

Special Assistant for Jeff Ward 312.629.6557 821H Executive Communications

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST 62 Martin Berger Provost 312.899.1236 821D

Dean of Administration, Gretchen Talbot 312.759.1693 821K Budget, and Planning

Director of Academic Paul Jeanes Program Review 312.759.1497 811 and Assessment Executive Assistant Emilie Yardley-Hodges to the Provost 312.899.1236 821A

OFFICE OF THE VICE PROVOST

Vice Provost & Dean of Paul Coffey 312.899.5176 711A Community Engagement

Assistant to the Andrea Frank Vice Provost & Director 312.759.1573 711 of Shapiro Center SAIC ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES

OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF FACULTY

Shawn Michelle Smith Interim Dean of Faculty 312.899.5133 821C

Interim Dean Delinda Collier 312.899.1294 818C of Graduate Studies

Dean of Dawn Gavin 312.759.1671 818D Undergraduate Studies

Associate Dean of Dwayne Moser 312.759.1645 818E Graduate Studies

Associate Dean of Paul Jackson 312.759.1671 818D Undergraduate Studies

Assistant to the Misty DeMars 312.899.5133 821B Dean of Faculty

Interim Nia Easley 312.759.1494 818 Administrative Director

Director of Diversity, Jefferson Pinder 312.899.1223 809 63 Equity, and Inclusion Special Assistant Aldridge, Dio to the Dean for Diversity, 312.759.1647 808 Equity, and Inclusion

FACULTY SUPPORT

Jon Cates Chair of Faculty 312.759.1448 816A

Raja El Halwani Faculty Liaison 312.759.1441 816

Associate Director Molly Scranton 312.899.7472 810 of Faculty Affairs

Associate Director of Isabel Garcia-Gonzales 312.629.1879 819B Faculty Data and Review

Assistant Director of Faculty Geof Teague [email protected] N/A Employment Resources

Assistant Director of Maya Gopalan 312.629.9789 819C Academic Administration

Faculty Employment Duangdow Arjsiri 312.759.1575 819A Resources Assistant SAIC ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES

FINANCE OFFICE

Vice President of Finance Brian Esker 312.899.5177 820C and Administration

Miriam Braganza Director of Finance 312.629.6536 820E

Manager of Budget Alex Ewert 312.759.1641 820F and Financial Planning

Miriam Martinez Senior Accountant 312.629.6557 820A

Manager of Student Hua Xu Financial Services 312.899.7410 820D Accounting

Yadira Villa Staff Accountant 312.899.5215 820B

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