Dear Friends and Colleagues:
I hope your summer has been a pleasant one and that this message finds you well. As the newly appointed Chair of the Senate Academic Initiatives Committee, I am pleased to present this year’s program of events, which are designed to fulfill the committee’s charge of identifying academic, intellectual, and pedagogical issues of central concern to the Pratt community.
Two initiatives are scheduled to take place over the 2006-2007 academic year:
Perspicuous Representations: Basic Questions in the Life of the Institute, a series of monthly, lunchtime discussions, all directed at exploring fundamental concepts animating the disciplines at Pratt, and;
Art, Design, Architecture, Liberal Arts and the Future of Formalism in 2006-2007, a research group founded and coordinated by Professor Jeffrey Hogrefe and inspired in part by faculty interest in exploring issues of interdisciplinary methodology among the areas of art, design, architecture and liberal arts.
In support of the above initiatives, the AIC is pleased to announce also the launch of the blog Perspicuous Representations (perspicuous.wordpress.com), which will serve as the primary site communicating and documenting the AIC’s activities.
Finally, with the generous support of the Academic Senate and the efforts of Senate President Jenny Lee, the AIC has been able to create a student assistantship position, whose title will be Research Assistant in Academic Initiatives. The Research Assistant will aid in the execution and documentation of AIC events.
Detailed descriptions of the above items, including procedures for applications and/or nominations to the position of Research Associate in Academic Initiatives, follow below.
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