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Bruce Jenkins, the film scholar who served as the curator of the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) until it became part of the Harvard College Library system in February, will join the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) as its dean of undergraduate studies in the fall...
...Jenkins will oversee 23 departments, about 2,500 students and more than 600 faculty, about 150 of whom are full-time, according to Carol Becker, the SAIC’s dean of faculty and senior executive vice president for academic affairs. In addition to its degree-granting programs, the SAIC runs the Gene Siskel Film Center and a “databank” of independent video...
...SAIC is] deeply committed to the practice and education of artists,” Cuno said when reached at his London home. “It’s not questioned...whereas in a big university, the visual arts always have to compete with other modes of inquiry...
...SAIC and the Art Institute of Chicago are “in a corporate relationship” but have separate administrations, according to Becker. As such, Cuno was not directly involved in Jenkins’ hiring, but said he was consulted and recommended his former and future colleague...
...other companies are suspected of trying to cut costs through a time-tested Asian shortcut: copying Western designs. Analysts once considered cars too sophisticated to knock off. They were underestimating Chinese ingenuity. In 2002 a Volkswagen-like subcompact made by a small company in Anhui province now called SAIC-Chery Automobile began appearing: it was made with components provided by suppliers that were believed to have signed exclusive deals with Volkswagen's joint venture. More recently, Chery has run afoul of GM by releasing a car, called the QQ, that looks almost exactly like a GM model--the Spark--that...