The decisions to amalgamate and/or remove SCA from Callan Park are short-sighted, economic rationalist decisions, without long-term vision. This is yet another example of saving money being emphasised over the provision of varied, quality education options, specifically in the Arts.
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Peter Humble
10 years ago
How about turning Callum Park into an art precinct. Consolidate the existing situation. We need vision not more commercial homogeneity.
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Tracey Carney
10 years ago
A tradgedy to dismantle this wonderful art school and program. Based on your history and alumni this would not represent the manner in which you educate.
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Professor David H McKinnon
10 years ago
This is being done for fincnacial reasons, nothing else.
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Dr Stephen Lake
10 years ago
I am extremely disturbed by the continuing tendency of university administrations nationally, of which Sydney is only one example, to seek to reduce expenditure for the very academic programmes which universities exist to provide, in order to maintain unchanged the level of their non-academic budgetary expenditure, with the consequence that valuable institutes and programmes are effectively eradicated or reduced to a shadow of their former selves - faculties and departments that universities ought to protecting, academic positions that they ought to be maintaining and increasing, and resources essential to the entire national community. What is being proposed for the SCA is in every respect contrary to the reason why universities exist, and Sydney, like all universities, should find other means of balancing its books without cost to its academic programmes, cost to academic positions, or cost to the Australian community. To think that such a college that has made such an inestimable contribution not only to this country but also internationally could disappear in such an ignominious manner is a disgrace. Rather see university administrators' salary packages and budgets cut than this!
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loretta picone
10 years ago
I wish to participate in friends of sca group. As sxa alumni -undergrad and post grad - i have been active and continue to. My facebook -lorettapicone- is becoming a repository on asca/usyd/nas actions and posts.
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George Shaw
10 years ago
Please find a way to allow SCA to thrive in its natural habitat of Callan Park
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Christine Webb
10 years ago
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While travelling overseas I am often asked: where did you study? SCA has such immediate gravitas it needs no further explanation. To squander that resource, that international kudos is foolishness beyond belief.
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loretta picone
10 years ago
visual arts practice at SCA may be able to expand into main campus mainstream programs AND maintain its current 'centre of excellence'
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Isabel R
10 years ago
Step forward not backwards!
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Joseph Wheeler
10 years ago
Sydney University should continue to support Sydney College of the Arts at the Rozelle Campus
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Mireille Astore
10 years ago
It was SCA that not only recognised my late artistic development (when my application to study art was rejected by the other art school) but nurtured my own and thousands of other artists from non-conventional backgrounds. It allowed me to create works of art that have since been screened in 20 countries. This is a great achievement not only for SCA but for Australia's cultural representation in the world. This could not have happened without SCA.
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Michael Corridore
10 years ago
Save NSW from this moronic government.
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Anne Zahalka
10 years ago
SCA has defined who I am as an artist. It provided the most rigorous and valuable arts training in my formative years offering a conceptual and theoretical approach to the study and practice of art. It has nurtured the development of some of our most successful and recognised contemporary artists and continues to. Without an institution like this providing academic leadership in research and art education, Australian art and culture will be greatly diminished.
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Patricia Alvarez
10 years ago
This is atrocioius! We need our art school. I am devasted by this update.
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Tamara Winikoff OAM
10 years ago
NAVA fully endorsed these four recommendations as the sane thing to do where the University of Sydney has failed to honour its obligations, exercise due diligence or recognise the value delivered by SCA to the university itself and the larger community.
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Paul Mylecharane
10 years ago
Education is not a business. You can't squeeze it into a neoliberal model and have it work for anyone except those at the top of the pyramid. Diversity is not just a marketing buzzword...
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Juliet Fowler Smith
10 years ago
We need diversity in Art education. There is no one size fits all
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Keep SCA open, Sydney needs art and culture.
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Peta Clancy
10 years ago
I have spent time and exhibited my art work at the SCA. Working with SCA alumni Helen Pynor on our collaborative project The Body is a Big Place. During the time I spent at SCA in 2011 and 2012 I found the culture to be exciting, supportive, nurturing and completely unique. SCA is a very special art school.
The decisions to amalgamate and/or remove SCA from Callan Park are short-sighted, economic rationalist decisions, without long-term vision. This is yet another example of saving money being emphasised over the provision of varied, quality education options, specifically in the Arts.
How about turning Callum Park into an art precinct. Consolidate the existing situation. We need vision not more commercial homogeneity.
A tradgedy to dismantle this wonderful art school and program. Based on your history and alumni this would not represent the manner in which you educate.
This is being done for fincnacial reasons, nothing else.
I am extremely disturbed by the continuing tendency of university administrations nationally, of which Sydney is only one example, to seek to reduce expenditure for the very academic programmes which universities exist to provide, in order to maintain unchanged the level of their non-academic budgetary expenditure, with the consequence that valuable institutes and programmes are effectively eradicated or reduced to a shadow of their former selves - faculties and departments that universities ought to protecting, academic positions that they ought to be maintaining and increasing, and resources essential to the entire national community. What is being proposed for the SCA is in every respect contrary to the reason why universities exist, and Sydney, like all universities, should find other means of balancing its books without cost to its academic programmes, cost to academic positions, or cost to the Australian community. To think that such a college that has made such an inestimable contribution not only to this country but also internationally could disappear in such an ignominious manner is a disgrace. Rather see university administrators' salary packages and budgets cut than this!
I wish to participate in friends of sca group. As sxa alumni -undergrad and post grad - i have been active and continue to. My facebook -lorettapicone- is becoming a repository on asca/usyd/nas actions and posts.
Please find a way to allow SCA to thrive in its natural habitat of Callan Park
While travelling overseas I am often asked: where did you study? SCA has such immediate gravitas it needs no further explanation. To squander that resource, that international kudos is foolishness beyond belief.
visual arts practice at SCA may be able to expand into main campus mainstream programs AND maintain its current 'centre of excellence'
Step forward not backwards!
Sydney University should continue to support Sydney College of the Arts at the Rozelle Campus
It was SCA that not only recognised my late artistic development (when my application to study art was rejected by the other art school) but nurtured my own and thousands of other artists from non-conventional backgrounds. It allowed me to create works of art that have since been screened in 20 countries. This is a great achievement not only for SCA but for Australia's cultural representation in the world. This could not have happened without SCA.
Save NSW from this moronic government.
SCA has defined who I am as an artist. It provided the most rigorous and valuable arts training in my formative years offering a conceptual and theoretical approach to the study and practice of art. It has nurtured the development of some of our most successful and recognised contemporary artists and continues to. Without an institution like this providing academic leadership in research and art education, Australian art and culture will be greatly diminished.
This is atrocioius! We need our art school. I am devasted by this update.
NAVA fully endorsed these four recommendations as the sane thing to do where the University of Sydney has failed to honour its obligations, exercise due diligence or recognise the value delivered by SCA to the university itself and the larger community.
Education is not a business. You can't squeeze it into a neoliberal model and have it work for anyone except those at the top of the pyramid. Diversity is not just a marketing buzzword...
We need diversity in Art education. There is no one size fits all
Keep SCA open, Sydney needs art and culture.
I have spent time and exhibited my art work at the SCA. Working with SCA alumni Helen Pynor on our collaborative project The Body is a Big Place. During the time I spent at SCA in 2011 and 2012 I found the culture to be exciting, supportive, nurturing and completely unique. SCA is a very special art school.