McGraw-Hill Higher Education Sponsors The Art Institutes Awards

McGraw-Hill Higher Education (MHHE), a leading global provider of educational materials and professional information for the higher education market, will sponsor the McGraw-Hill Art Partnership Program that includes tuition scholarship awards for winners of annual student competitions conducted by The Art Institutes across the country. The awards will be given to competition winners from The Art Institutes in the seven participating cities: Atlanta; Chicago; Los Angeles; San Francisco; New York; Pittsburgh and Seattle.

Overall, the McGraw-Hill Art Partnership Program is structured to support students, schools and faculty. There are three categories of the program: scholarship awards for the top three students from each participating school; (number) McGraw-Hill art education titles for each school library; and, a complimentary in-service training workshop for faculty at each school.

For the art competition portion of the program, each Art Institute will select the top three students across a variety of disciplines as award winners. In rank order, the winners will receive $500, $250 and $100. Zina Craft, senior marketing manager and field publisher for McGraw-Hill's Humanities, Social Science and World Languages division, presented the first awards at The Art Institute of Atlanta on Thursday, April 15, 2004.

"We are delighted to partner with one of the nation's most important educational publishers to recognize excellence. We truly appreciate the support McGraw-Hill is offering to our students in the form of awards. This is a wonderful benefit to the students who have worked very hard to showcase their talent in our annual awards show," said Janet S. Day, president of The Art Institute of Atlanta.

The Art Institutes of Atlanta workshop will be presented by Dr. Robert Bersson, professor emeritus of Art and Art History at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA. Dr. Bersson has received a National Art Education Association "Art Educator of the Year Award" and the James Madison University Distinguished Teaching Award. He is the author of the popular McGraw-Hill title, 'Responding to Art: Form, Content & Context,' and a noted presenter. The workshop is designed to offer instructors ideas for teaching students about art appreciation, art history, art criticism, critical theory, aesthetics, and pedagogy of art concepts.

"We have an ongoing commitment to support arts education and are proud to sponsor these awards for The Art Institutes competitions," said Steve Debow, president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education's Humanities, Social Science and World Languages division. "The awards program is designed to motivate and encourage students, promote teaching excellence and provide resources to schools that are making an impact in creative arts education."

Competitions at other participating Art Institutes will be held throughout 2004 and are tentatively scheduled for: May 24 in Chicago; Aug. 2 in Seattle; Sept. 1 in Pittsburgh; Oct. 22 in Los Angeles; Summer/Fall of 2004 in San Francisco, and Fall 2004 in New York. Students at participating schools should check with their public relations department for additional information.

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The Art Institutes

The Art Institutes (www.artinstitutes.edu) is a system of 30 education institutions located throughout North America, providing an important source of design, media arts, fashion and culinary professionals. The parent company of The Art Institutes, Education Management Corporation (www.edmc.com) is among the largest providers of private post-secondary education in North America, based on student enrollment and revenue. Student enrollment exceeded 58,000 as of fall 2003. EDMC has 66 primary campus locations in 24 states and two Canadian provinces. EDMC's education institutions offer a broad range of academic programs concentrated in the media arts, design, fashion, culinary arts, behavioral sciences, health sciences, education, information technology and business fields, culminating in the award of associate's through doctoral degrees. EDMC has provided career-oriented education for over 40 years, and its education institutions have more than 150,000 alumni.

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