This Sunday, Oct 21st admissions is hosting National Portfolio Day in Columbus Drive. Rooms listed below will be UNAVAILABLE from 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 20 until 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 21. During this time, students will not have access to these rooms. Students should remove or store their work located in these rooms before 3:00 pm Saturday, October 20. If there is any work left in the rooms, it will be relocated. 

015, 023, 030, 107, 110, 116, 117, 118, 119, Columbus Auditorium, 215, 216, 305, 306, 307, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317

http://www.saic.edu/media/saic/pdfs/admissions/undergraduate/nationalportfolioday/npd_program.pdf

The Liberal Arts department would like to invite you to a meeting for your input about the Liberal Arts department. Please come and bring questions!

The Liberal Arts department is conducting a self-review next week. This means that they take a closer look at their goals, curriculum, courses, faculty, facilities, etc., to determine how adequate all these things are and how well they are meeting their goals. 
When: Tuesday, September 18, at 4:15 p.m.
Where: McLean Center, room 707

SAIC International Affairs

Traveling international students: don’t forget to come in to get your I-20 signed for travel. Please bring a copy of your spring 2012 schedule with your I-20.

Questions? Call us!
I-20 Drop-Ins
Monday, December 12th from 4:00 - 5:30
Thursday, December 15th from 12:00 - 2:00
International Affairs Office, 36 S. Wabash, Suite 1203.

Academic Department Information Sessions
Get all the information you need to plan your spring 2012 courses during drop-in sessions hosted by many SAIC departments. You can learn more about course offerings, faculty, and department resources. See the current schedule below.

Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
November 7, 9, 10, and 11, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Sullivan Center, 36 S. Wabash Ave., room 1227
Thomas Kong, Program Director, Undergraduate Architecture and Interior Architecture
Helen Maria Nugent, Program Director, Designed Objects
Melanie Feerst, Senior Administrative Director, AIADO

Ceramics
October 31, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
November 2, 4:15-5:00 p.m.
Columbus Drive Building, 280 S. Columbus Dr., room 150
Faculty: William O’Brien
Faculty: Xavier Toubes

Performance 
October 31, 4:15-5:15 p.m.
November 1, 12:00-12:50 p.m.
Columbus Drive Building, 280 S. Columbus Dr., lobby
Faculty: Mark Jeffery and Robin Deacon
Faculty: Werner Herterich and Roberto Sifuentes

Sculpture
November 2 and 3, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Columbus Drive Building, 280 S. Columbus Dr., lobby
Faculty: Dan Price and Frances Whitehead
Faculty: Laurie Palmer and Stephanie Brooks

Sound
November 2, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
MacLean Center, 112 S. Michigan Ave., room 522
Faculty: Nic Collins 

ABOUT OUR PRESIDENT WALTER MASSEY, PH.D.

Walter E. Massey, Ph.D., is currently the President of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a post he assumed in the fall of 2010. He is also the President Emeritus of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, having served as President there from 1995 to 2007. Immediately prior to that post, Dr. Massey was Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of the University of California system. In that role he was in charge of academic and research planning and policy, budget planning and allocations, and programmatic oversight of three national Department of Energy laboratories. Additional credentials to Dr. Massey’s distinguished career in academics include serving as Professor of Physics and Dean of the College at Brown University and a Professorship at the University of Chicago.

A prominent physicist, Dr. Massey served as Director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1979 to 1984, and was Professor of Physics and Vice President of Research at the University of Chicago from 1979 to 1991. He also served as Director of the National Science Foundation from 1991 to 1993, appointed by former President George H.W. Bush.

Dr. Massey has notably been the recipient of more than 30 honorary degrees from institutions that include Yale University, Northwestern University, Amherst, and Ohio State University. Much of his research has involved quantum liquids and solids, while his written work discusses university industry partnerships and the issue of technology transfer. More specifically, it addresses the distribution of skills among institutions, and developing greater accessibility to new technology and materials.

Throughout his academic career, Dr. Massey has been an advocate for issues surrounding minority students and education. He developed and directed the Inner City Teachers of Science Program (ICTOS) while at Brown University, where college students studying education became tutors and mentors in urban classrooms. He was also a founding trustee of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy.

In the corporate sector, Dr. Massey has served as director and Chairman of the Board of Bank of America, and is currently serving on the board of McDonald’s and as Chairman of the Board of the Salzburg Global Seminar. He is also a trustee of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Council of Foreign Relations. As an educator, administrator, corporate leader, and scientist, Dr. Massey’s varied experience is a great asset to the SAIC community.