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,