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First Ever CCA Contingent Marches in 2015 Pride Parade
First Ever CCA Contingent Marches in 2015 Pride Parade article, 35 CCA students, faculty, staff, and alumni march in the San Francisco Pride Parade displaying a banner designed by CCA Graphic Design Alumna Bianca Crampton, June 28, 201
How Can Libraries Improve Wikipedia?
While the relationship between Wikipedia and libraries has been strained due to concerns over the quality of the online encyclopedia, libraries would do best to participate in activities like the annual Art+Feminism edit-a-thon which aims to improve articles and address content biases
CCA students at Commencement, 2015
Students throwing their graduation berets up in the air at the CCA Commencement, 2015
Califia Mural on the Martinez Hall mural wall, 2015
The Califia Mural on the Martinez Hall mural wall, was completed over the summer of 2015 created by student muralists Laila Guadalupe Espinoza Faik, Jacqueline Krase, Steven James Mayorga, Martina Miguens Casado, Ángel Jesús Perez working with CCA Faculty Eduardo Pineda. The team of six students combined the Virgin of Guadalupe with the legendary goddess Califia – source for the name “California” – to create a goddess of creativity, justice, and nature
When Language Meets an Ecosystem
Available online at http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2015/november/when-language-meets-ecosystem-denise-newman-hazel-whit
Lisa Jacobs interview
Lisa Jacobs talks about being in the Graphic Design program at CCAC in the early 1990s. She remembers the De Haro Street campus, and the high level of knowledge and expectation of CCAC Graphic Design faculty. She gives current students the advice "If things are tough, don't walk away or abandon it. Keep going.
Ellen Paisley interview
Ellen Paisley talks about CCAC in the 80s. She shares memories about dorm life, her student colleagues, and the work she made during that era
Ken Davids interview
Ken Davids talks about his contributions to the major transition at CCAC in the early and mid 80s. He identifies the problems that CCAC faced in the late 70s: budget and enrollment crises, accreditation issues, and discusses the changes he played a part in that allowed the institution to thrive again. These include: starting the Extension Program, implementing increased marketing, introducing the Core Program, and working on budget and salary cuts in a year long retrenchment that by 1984 had turned the college around. He discusses the end of Harry Ford’s presidency and working with succeeding presidents Toby Schwartzburg and Neil Hoffman and about how he views the college today, in 2014
Sharon Wilcox interview
Sharon Wilcox talks about her experience of CCAC in th 60s. She rembers the loosness of classes, the dedication of the students to their art, and what it was like to be surrounded by faculty like Viola Frey, Peter Volkos, Roy DeForest, Robert Bechtle