Intractable Issues: The Impact of the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship on Art and Design Education

with Juan Carlos Rodriguez Rivera, in Studies in Art Education
2025

An interview-based article about the AICAD post-graduate teaching fellowship. The fellowship has successfully created an onramp into art and design academia for candidates from underrepresented groups, but interviews with fellows reveal the gaps that remain. Art and design colleges must build new structures and support systems to bring about sustained cultural change and become spaces where all faculty can thrive.
identity, reading and writing

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“Do you expect me to affect change because I look different, I’m present, and I represent an idea of change? Or is there actual change that’s being enacted on multiple levels structurally?”

—former AICAD fellow

Thumbnail image: AICAD fellowship gathering, Cranbrook Academy of Art

Rachel Berger is a designer in California. Lately, she’s been into current events, reading and writing, architecture, technology, cities, politics, identity, and fiber.

Intractable Issues: The Impact of the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship on Art and Design Education

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“Do you expect me to affect change because I look different, I’m present, and I represent an idea of change? Or is there actual change that’s being enacted on multiple levels structurally?”

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