Finding Beginnings in Endings at the GWU Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Finding Beginnings in Endings at the GWU Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

In North American higher education, May is a month of culminations — of the academic term and of graduating students’ degree studies. At the GWU Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, it is also the culmination of a degree program, as the Master of Arts in Exhibition Design (MA–EX) graduates its final cohort.Program graduates from the past decade have weathered unusual challenges — from the global pandemic to fallout from the national embattlemen…

Graduation is both new beginning, end of chapter

Graduation signifies a person has successfully completed a course of study or training. It represents achievement and an end to a difficult time of anxiety or uncertainty, socially and academically. The student has proved themselves in some way and has…