Posted on September 8, 2022 by Rebecca Luther
UTSA today announced a national search for the founding director of a new UTSA school focused on arts education. The new school, which will be named later this summer, is being created as a result of the university’s merger of the Southwest School of Art and in conjunction with an ongoing tactical visioning process to remake the UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts (COLFA).
MAY 31, 2022 — UTSA today announced a national search for the founding director of a new UTSA school focused on arts education. The new school, which will be named later this summer, is being created as a result of the university’s merger of the Southwest School of Art and in conjunction with an ongoing tactical visioning process to remake the UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts (COLFA).
Work to integrate SSA’s bachelor of fine arts offerings with UTSA’s degree program was announced in Augustof 2021, and a definitive agreement was approved by the SSA Board of Trustees and UT System Board of Regents in November 2021. During the winter and spring of 2022, numerous action steps in the merger have been completed to enable the initiation of this national search.
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— Rebecca Luther
