Calls for NSCAD to remain independent
Posted Nov 9, 2011 11:10:36 AM.
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The Friends of NSCAD group is calling on the provincial government to keep the university an independent body after it posted a second significant financial deficit.
There are concerns the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design will be amalgamated with another university in order to make it more financially viable, and that such a merger would compromise the school.
Associate professor Karin Cope spoke to the institution’s merits as the only fine arts degree granting university east of Ontario and that losing NSCAD would affect the entire Atlantic region.
“It’s very hard to imagine what Halifax would be like without NSCAD,” Cope told reporters at a media event Wednesday. “It would be more than a day without art. It would be bleak.”
The ad hoc group said the university needs to remain independent, specifically determining its own programs, hiring its own faculty and making its own admissions.
Former deputy minister Howard Windsor has been appointed to investigate the NSCAD’s operations and prepare a report on the university’s future.
The university is to celebrate its 125 anniversary in 2012.
