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FW: [aenj] Arts GPA Requirement at Buffalo

From: Sharon Heneborn (heneborn)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 07:12:56 PST

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    From: TAH1916
    Subject: [aenj] Arts GPA Requirement at Buffalo
    Date: Thu, Jan 13, 2000, 2:02 AM

    HIGH SCHOOL ART GRADES INCLUDED IN GPA FOR ADMISSIONS CONSIDERATION
    AT
    BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE

    ď NAEA Members Michael Parks and John Siskar Lead Admissions Policy
    Change
    for Art Education

    BUFFALO, NY. ó High school arts grades are now calculated into a
    candidate's
    overall high school grade point averages (GPA) for admissions
    consideration
    at Buffalo State College (BSC) in Buffalo, New York. The college arts
    faculty
    had long-assumed that arts grades were included for several reasons:
    1) one
    unit of credit in the arts has been required for high school
    graduation in
    New York state since 1985; 2) art education has played an important
    role in
    the history of the college; 3) visual arts programs at BSC are the
    largest
    and most comprehensive in the State University system; and 4) Buffalo
    State
    College is the only institution in the SUNY system that requires all
    students
    on campus to complete a minimum of three courses in the arts for
    graduation.

    Faculty assumptions, however, were questioned on May 12, 1998, when
    NAEA
    sent
    the Art Education Department an informal admissions survey, inquiring
    if
    general admissions requirements for the college included applicants'
    high
    school art grades in the calculation of their overall grade point
    average.
    John Siskar, a member of the art education faculty, contacted the
    college
    admissions office to inquire about the GPA policy. To their dismay,
    the
    faculty learned that studentsí arts grades were not included in the
    overall
    GPA. Art Education Department Chair, Michael Parks, raised the issue
    with
    the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Dennis McCarthy, and
    with
    the
    chairs of the faculty departments. With a unified voice they met with
    the
    retiring Director of Admissions, Paul Collyer to solicit his
    advisement and
    support. Support continued for the changes and on October 20th, 1999,
    the
    new Director of Admissions informed the Dean and chairs of the faculty
    that
    high school arts grades are now included in the overall GPA's of all
    applicants under consideration for admission to Buffalo State College.

    For more information contact Michael Parks at parksme
    and
    John Siskar at siskarjf

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