Morung Express News
Dimapur | December 3
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), the University for Creative Careers will sponsor a Naga student to study at the prestigious and highly rated American University next fall. This was announced by Executive Director of International Recruitment and Relations, SCAD, Maken Imcha Payne at an exclusive event held at Maple Tree School, Dimapur on Saturday evening.
“SCAD, as an institution has decided to create one full tuition scholarship for one student from Nagaland,” Payne stated. She said it was an exciting, important and a historic day as the first SCAD event is being hosted in Nagaland and espoused hope that the platform they are establishing will actually lead to welcoming the first batch of Naga students at SCAD for the next fall of 2017.
Referring to its Hongkong campus, she said that Nagas will feel very much at home because it is in Asia and moreover pointed out that SCAD is the only American art and design university in Hongkong with 100% job placement.
She also impressed upon that SCAD is a student centric university and believes in supporting their students all throughout their career. Asserting that they don’t want starving artists, she said, ‘one of the first things we teach our students is business and the marketability aspect of their work”.
She further showed glimpses of the various locations of SCAD, which has its presence in Hongkong, Savannah, Lacoste, Atlanta through a video presentation while emphasizing that such facilities and thriving learning environment is where Naga students or individuals will also step into.
Associate Director of International Admission, SCAD, Pelesino Ane Kevichusa noted in her opening remark that SCAD is the most comprehensive art and design university. She said that it has over 100 degree programs in art and design with 13000 students from over 100 countries.
Emphasizing that there is a program for every interest, Sashila Ozukum, Administrator of Hope Academy, Dimapur said that attending the Educators’ Retreat at Atlanta in October was an eye-opener that reaffirmed her belief that ‘if you have the passion for anything, you can be successful and also make a living out of it.”
She asserted that Nagas with their inherent creative abilities will strive in a place like SCAD and urged upon parents to allow their children to bloom and grow. “When our children do what they want and what they love, everyone will be so engrossed that our land will become a peaceful place”, she added.
