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Can We Talk?With today's email, blogs, chats, text messages, and forums, communicating with others has been reduced to sound bytes and taglines. At CASE, we prefer students to meet face to face. CASE stands for Campus Activities & Special Events, and we are the Academy's social department.Your career preparation should include extracurricular activities, which are very important for a student's personal development. There are many challenges to overcome before you arrive at the getting paid part of your career. Personal development requires learning social skills. Call them people skills, schmoozing, or diplomacy — work and life are about relationships. You will need to learn how to relay your ideas effectively and interact positively with other people. At the Academy you will be expected to learn more than is asked of you — on your own time. You will build a stellar portfolio, and contribute to your society by participating with others. Your attitude shapes the world around you. Use all of the Academy resources available to you! The Academic Resource Center (ARC) is located in 180 New Montgomery on the second floor. Take the extra steps to learn as much as you can and help create the environment you want to live in. Engage with other people; take a break from the computer and the television. Listen to someone else's ideas and be sure and share your own thoughts and dreams. Never, ever give up on a bad day. The #1 tip for academic success is time management. Schedule time for class and homework, and plan time to relax and have some FUN. Set your goals and priorities from the very beginning; then, take action. Achieving your life goals requires total commitment and hard work while making daily progress toward a particular task, and forming the right habits of preparation that lead to success. Campus events and parties, special exhibitions, field trips, and all other extracurricular activities start here. Or rather, they start with you; fun is what you make it out to be. Your success as a student at the Academy will be determined by the people you meet, and the number of opportunities you take in order to achieve your goals. Talent is ordinary: it's the individual who creates the exception. CASE is all of this and more... CASE is all of this and more...
Our Athletics department offers a gym and swimming pool at our 620 Sutter Street building for a small Semester "use fee." We will also be offering satellite gyms in various Academy buildings. Athletics is in the process of redeveloping its Recreation and Club Sports to be in line with other northern California universities, which include male and female badminton, basketball, indoor soccer, volleyball, fencing and rowing among other sports. The establishment of its first intercollegiate athletic program is well under way with an unofficial launch date of Fall 2008. For more information on the Athletics department, please visit http://athletics.academyart.edu/ or contact Colin Preston: cpreston@academyart.edu. CASE is the birthplace of Perspective, our online Academy newspaper. We continue to produce the printed Black & White newsletter as another information source for our students. The Club House at 1071 Pine St. (next to 1055 Pine Street dorm) is available for any student's extracurricular use. Dates can be reserved by contacting the CASE office. The Egg at 655 1/2 Sutter Street is the hub of campus activities, offering students a chance for more student-planned parties and events. We are planning independent art shows and more opportunities for students to relax with peers in a group environment. The Academy Student Guide and Planner ("The Red Book") is free for new students and quickly becoming the Academy's go-to source for school information. It answers frequently asked questions and provides a handy campus map, a phone book for department contacts, and a list of things to do in San Francisco — what more could you ask for? The Office of Campus Affairs strives to ensure the social success of our students from orientation to graduation. Building quality interpersonal relationships should be the focus of every Academy student. J Aleczander Exec. Director of Campus Affairs Academy of Art University |
