Great Faculty Make Great Colleges. How We Keep Ours.

Visitor Correspondence

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There may be an plain correlation between the success of an academic establishment and the excellence of its college. We’re proud that the professors and lecturers at Ringling Faculty of Artwork and Design are among the many best professionals in each the tutorial and creative worlds. And that’s not by happenstance.

To realize the best high quality of schooling on behalf of our college students, we recruit and actively companion with expert, passionate, inspiring educators, most of whom even have had extremely achieved (and, in lots of circumstances, ongoing) careers as skilled artists. We search for candidates who contribute to our ethos, with a robust, inventive mind, a ardour for educating and a novel and interesting manner of seeing the world. Our main recruitment purpose is to display Ringling Faculty’s dedication to its college students, its college and employees, its group, the world as a complete.

We depend on numerous components each to draw these college members and to show the worth of creating long-term careers right here.

Any potential artwork faculty college will little question know of our establishment on the energy of our repute alone. After 94 years in existence, Ringling Faculty yearly receives quite a few accolades and awards, and we seem at or close to the highest of notable lists of the most effective artwork faculties within the nation in addition to the world. Likewise, our applications, together with Laptop Animation, Movement Design, Recreation Artwork, and Movie, shine in nationwide rankings. We’re recognized for positioning our graduates to excel of their chosen fields, a repute that’s strengthened by the various Ringling grads who go on to work for prestigious and extremely seen firms like Sony, Apple, Pixar, Marvel, Nintendo, Mattel and lots of, many extra.

We additionally supply a small-school educating setting. On common our student-to-faculty ratio is 11:1. Thus, our college has ample time to show smaller lessons and have interaction college students individually, whereas nonetheless immersing themselves in a various campus that fuels an exceptional inventive group.

I imagine lecturers with excessive requirements are drawn to establishments with excessive requirements, and that high quality ingredient at Ringling Faculty speaks to these educators who attempt to be the most effective and train the most effective. 

From our persistently distinctive college students to our state-of-the-art services to the insurance policies and tasks we’ve applied to make sure we hold our campus as a welcoming, pleasant, {and professional} setting. In any case, Ringling Faculty is all-in on fostering a superlative instructional setting that interprets to the bigger group and emphasizes inventive thought, worthwhile expertise and proactive group management.

On high of all of our strengths as an academic establishment, Sarasota sells itself as an interesting place to construct a profession. Contemplate our great city the last word tiebreaker for potential college who’re torn between two or extra universities. The sunshine-rich, snow-free local weather, lovely seashores, and different pure attributes outshine situations elsewhere. Extra importantly, Sarasota’s well-established cultural richness and its love for the humanities tradition assist seal the deal. We’re in a position to supply our artwork faculty college an artist-friendly life-style that few different applications can match.

And when these gifted educators come right here to hitch our college and our group, they in flip elevate our faculty, improve our enchantment to different potential college and college students alike and contribute to Sarasota’s general excellence. Everybody wins—particularly our college students.

Dr. Larry Thompson is president of Ringling Faculty of Artwork & Design.

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