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Message from the President It was an interesting year. In some ways it was business as usual: our extraordinary body of students, faculty and technical staff engaged in the educational process and made works of art, craft and design; our Board continued to support the university; and the administration and support staff made the whole machine run smoothly. Alongside this, there was the exciting sense that the train had left the station and was accelerating toward optimum speed. Our Strategic Plan has entered fully into its realization phase. Program planning is underway; negotiations for the second campus have reached a high pitch; we have launched a new website; we are reestablishing our international ties; we have welcomed globally acknowledged practitioners to the university; and we are working with all levels of government and private partners as never before. Perhaps ‘the train leaving the station’ is the wrong image, however, in that it implies definitive arrival at a destination. Schools of art and design, of course, like art and design themselves, never definitively arrive anywhere. Rather they endlessly journey and explore. In this sense, NSCAD University’s journey gets ever more fascinating and fulfilling. Paul Greenhalgh, President N S C A D U N I V E R S I T Y A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 0 3 - 0 4
Message from the Chair, Board of Governors Opening the pages of the NSCAD University Annual Report is a bit like entering the institution through one of its many doors from the streets of Halifax: it gives a glimpse of the creative environment in which our students and faculty build and maintain NSCAD as Canada’s premier academy of the visual arts. Creating these pages gives us an opportunity to account to our many friends and stakeholders on our progress and direction. Accountability is as much about how you are going forward as it is about looking back. In recent years the Board of Governors has approved many plans that will impact NSCAD in the future. Physical facilities, program development and partnerships have been focal points of our strategic vision. Milestones achieved include our first Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Film graduates at spring convocation. Making these ambitious plans operational has been challenging for our staff; they operate in a tight fiscal climate. In the past year our management and unions have worked in unison to establish long-term agreements which will ensure our ability to continue to offer the highest quality education. The realities of this fiscal climate will increasingly call for broad-based participation in education funding. Going forward, NSCAD stakeholders will be given new opportunities to participate in the financial success of our school. The encore to our Strategic Plan launched last year will be a series of budgetary plans, some with significant outreach components involved. These plans will be designed to further secure the university’s future. NSCAD is comprised of many who support the core of our existence, our students. The NSCAD faculty and staff, alumni, parents, government, friends and other stakeholders are part of a team. With appreciation, the Board of Governors can and does reach out to them in the interest of enhancing the learning experience at NSCAD. By educating people to become purveyors of the visual arts, the reach of NSCAD is well beyond the student. We have always taken this responsibility seriously, regardless of the times. It is encouraging that many North American cities are now recognizing the impact that creative institutions and their graduates make to their communities. This renewed focus is a just reward for a job well done. Sincerely, Ralston E MacDonnell, P.Eng Chair, Board of Governors
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