CAA News
Board Approves New Professional Guidelines
CAA’s Board of Directors approved two new Standards and Guidelines at its fall meeting, held October 28, 2007. The first is a revision of a previous CAA guideline, and the other was written by an outside organization and adopted by the Board for the CAA membership. Here are the newly approved documents:
- Guidelines for Faculty Teaching in New-Media Arts, originally written in 1995, revised in 2007, and approved by the CAA Board
- Professional Practices for Art Museum Curators, drafted by the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) in 2007 and adopted by the CAA Board
In addition, addressing the continuing difficulties attached to scholarly publishing in the humanities, the Board endorsed a set of twenty recommendations proposed by the Modern Language Association in its recent Report of the Modern Language Association Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, prepared in 2007. The twenty recommendations are presented in the Executive Summary. These recommendations supplement CAA’s own statement on tenure publishing in the arts: College Art Association Standards for Retention and Tenure of Art Historians, in the section labeled “Addendum: Publishing Requirements for Tenure and Promotion in Art History (2005).”
Since its founding in 1911, CAA has regularly issued Standards and Guidelines—professional practices for the fields of art and art history—which are developed by CAA’s committees and special task forces and presented to the Board of Directors for approval. CAA encourages all members, institutional and individual, to read, understand, and use these documents, published formally since 1973.