CAA News Today

CAA continues to stand in support of its members and our larger arts community to create, analyze, teach, and promote art within our higher educational institutions. In its role of responding to members’ concerns, particularly in relation to employment and various professional practices, CAA’s Professional Practices Committee (PPC) has drafted this short guide to existing CAA Standards and Guidelines to provide members with helpful vocabulary or needed disciplinary acknowledgment of standards that they may use as they are faced with institutional and economic challenges in the current environment. The below is not meant as an exhaustive list (and the PPC encourages all members to consult all of the approved Standards and Guidelines as well as the policies of the American Association of University Professors), but rather as a means of highlighting some key areas in which CAA members have come together to promote professional practices of use to us all. All of CAA’s standards are free and accessible to anyone via its website.

Hiring Contracts and Terms of Employment:

• Guidelines for the MFA Degree in Art and Design: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/mfa
• Guidelines for Part-Time Professional Employment: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/part-time
• Guidelines for Retention and Tenure of Art and Design Faculty: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/art-and-design-tenure
• Standards for Retention and Tenure of Art Historians: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/art-history-tenure
• Criteria for the Hiring and Retention of Visual Resources Professionals: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/hiring-visual-resources-professionals
• Guidelines Regarding the Hiring of Guest Curators by Museums: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/guest-curators
• Guidelines Regarding the Hiring of Catalog Essayists: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/guest-essayists

 

Faculty/Staff/Curator Roles:

• Guidelines for Addressing Proposed Substantive Changes to an Art, Art History, or Design Unit or Program at Colleges and Universities: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/changes
• Guidelines for the MFA Degree in Art and Design: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/mfa
• Guidelines for Associate Degrees in Art and Design: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/afa-art-design
• Guidelines for Baccalaureate Degrees in Art and Design: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/bfa
• Guidelines for Faculty Teaching in New-Media Arts: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/new-media
• Guidelines for Part-Time Professional Employment: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/part-time
• Guidelines for Retention and Tenure of Art and Design Faculty: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/art-and-design-tenure
• Professional Practices for Artists: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/practices
• Standards for the Practice of Art History: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/art-history-ethics
• Professional Practices for Art Museum Curators: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/curators

 

Proposed Changes to the Structure/Content of an Academic Unit:

• Guidelines for Addressing Proposed Substantive Changes to an Art, Art History, or Design Unit or Program at Colleges and Universities: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/changes
• General Principles for Academic Arts Administrators: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/art-administrators

 

Teaching Load:

• Guidelines for the MFA Degree in Art and Design: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/mfa
• Guidelines for Associate Degrees in Art and Design: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/afa-art-design
• Guidelines for Baccalaureate Degrees in Art and Design: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/bfa
• Guidelines for Faculty Teaching in New-Media Arts: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/new-media
• Guidelines for Part-Time Professional Employment: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/part-time
• Guidelines for Retention and Tenure of Art and Design Faculty: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/art-and-design-tenure
• Professional Practices for Artists: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/practices
• Standards for the Practice of Art History: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/art-history-ethics

 

Job-Seeking Resources:

• Guidelines for Part-Time Professional Employment: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/part-time
• Standards for Professional Placement: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/placement
• Guidelines for Retention and Tenure of Art and Design Faculty: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/art-and-design-tenure
• Standards for Retention and Tenure of Art Historians: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/art-history-tenure
• Criteria for the Hiring and Retention of Visual Resources Professionals: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/hiring-visual-resources-professionals
• Guidelines for Interviews: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/etiquette
• Artist Résumé: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/resume
• Curriculum Vitae for Visual Artists: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/visual-art-cv
• Guidelines for Presenting Work in Digital Formats: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/digital-format
• Curriculum Vitae for Art Historians: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/art-history-cv
• Curriculum Vitae for Museum Professionals: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/museum-cv

 

Status of Terminal Degrees:

• Guidelines for the MFA Degree in Art and Design: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/mfa
• Statement on Terminal Degree Programs in the Visual Arts and Design: https://www.collegeart.org/standards-and-guidelines/guidelines/terminal-degree-programs