Memberships
American Academy in Rome
The Savannah College of Art and Design is an associate institutional member of the American Academy in Rome. Founded in 1894, the Academy exists to foster the pursuit of advanced research and independent study in the fine arts and humanities. The Academy awards the prestigious Rome Prize to a select group of artists and scholars invited to Rome to pursue their creative goals in an atmosphere conducive to artistic innovation and progressive scholarship. More information about the Academy is available at aarome.org.
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture is a nonprofit membership organization established in 1912 to advance the quality of architectural education. Membership in ACSA has grown from 10 charter members to over 250 institutions representing over 5,000 architecture faculty, as well as over 500 architecture firms, product associations, and individuals working in support of ACSA's goals. ACSA provides a forum for the exchange of ideas through facilitating scholarly meetings, workshops, publications, awards programs, support for architectural research, policy development, and partnerships with like-minded organizations. More information about ACSA is available at acsa-arch.org.
Council for Higher Education Accreditation
The Council for Higher Education Accreditation is a national advocate and institutional voice for promoting academic quality through accreditation. CHEA is an association of 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities and recognizes 60 institutional and programmatic accrediting organizations. More information about CHEA is available at chea.org.
Cumulus, the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media
The Savannah College of Art and Design is a member of Cumulus, the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media. Cumulus is the only global association specifically focused on art and design education and research. Cumulus aims to build and maintain a dynamic and flexible academic forum to bring together top-level educational institutions from around the world. More information about Cumulus is available at cumulusassociation.org.
Learning Guild
The eLearning Guild is a community of practice for eLearning design, development, and management professionals. The Guild offers members high-quality learning opportunities, networking services, resources, and publications. Members represent a diverse group of managers, directors, and executives focused on training and learning services, as well as eLearning instructional designers, content developers, Web developers, project managers, contractors, and consultants. Guild members work in a variety of settings including corporate, government, and academic organizations. All members share a common interest in eLearning design, development, and management. More information about the Guild is available at learningguild.com.
European League of Institutes of the Arts
The Savannah College of Art and Design is a member of the European League of Institutes of the Arts. ELIA is an independent membership organization representing approximately 300 higher arts educational institutions from more than 45 countries. Founded in 1990, ELIA represents all arts disciplines, including architecture, dance, design, fine art, media arts, music, and theater. Through its members, ELIA represents unique bodies of knowledge and facilitates dialogues, mobility, and activities between artists, teachers, administrators, senior managers, key decision-makers, and more than 300,000 students. More information about ELIA is available at elia-artschools.org.
Online Learning Consortium
The purpose of the Online Learning Consortium is to help learning organizations continually improve quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs according to their own distinctive missions, so that education will become a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines. Created with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, OLC encourages the collaborative sharing of knowledge and effective practices to improve online education in learning effectiveness, access, affordability for learners and providers, and student and faculty satisfaction. OLC generates ideas to improve products, services, and standards for the online learning industry, and assists members in collaborative initiatives. Members include (1) private and public universities and colleges, community colleges, and other accredited course and degree providers, and (2) organizations and suppliers of services, equipment, and tools that practice the OLC quality principles. More information about OLC is available at onlinelearningconsortium.org.
SECAC
SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference) is a nonprofit organization devoted to the promotion of art in higher education through facilitating cooperation among teachers and administrators in universities and colleges, professional institutions and the community served by their institutions. More information about SECAC is available at secacart.org.
U.S. Distance Learning Association
In 1987, the U.S. Distance Learning Association was founded on the premise of creating a powerful alliance to meet the burgeoning education and training needs of learning communities globally. USDLA supports the development and application of distance learning education and training by uniting learners around the world and serves the needs of the distance learning community by providing advocacy, information, and opportunity for networking. USDLA is committed to being the leading distance learning association in the United States. More information about USDLA is available at usdla.org.