Wow. The SF Chron has a *fascinating* little tale about happenings at the AAC. I don’t think anyone outside the college would have much interest in the going-on internally, but certainly the folks who pay good money to go there ($14k/semester, according to the article) would like to better understand the political machinations and poorly-educated decisions that determine their academic future. Most telling paragraph (buried in the article; emphasis mine):

Alan Kaufman, author of “Jew Boy” and editor of “The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry,” teaches modern art and popular culture at the school and has taught sections of Narrative Storytelling. “The (school’s) system is based on corporate greed,” he said. “It doesn’t even give the bare minimum to students in terms of psychiatric counseling or social services. It just treats kids like credit cards, like clients, basically. There is no artistic vision.“

Wow. Right on target. So very, very, very glad to be out of there. Academy of Art University indeed… what lame accreditation agency would deem an *art* college - that is, a college that teaches nothing but “art” - a university.?

Oh yeah… one whose interests in academia were greatly overshadowed by their inconceivable greed for money. Not unlike the AAC.