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Faculty Bios

About

A faculty bio is a valuable opportunity to promote oneself. Your accomplishments, awards, and experience add value not only to your reputation as an instructor but also to the college at large.

We encourage all faculty members to share their information with others via their online faculty bio. Doing so allows students, administration, fellow faculty, staff, and most important of all—prospective new students—to appreciate the wealth of experience the collective faculty brings to CCA.

Faculty bios are requested twice during the academic year (typically November and May). Faculty members submit one bio only, even if teaching in several programs.

Components

• a short biography (300 words or fewer recommended)
• headshot (encouraged, not required)
• up to eight images of work (images may include book and CD/DVD covers, including other covers of publications that contain your work)
• website URL(s), if applicable
• an image index
• your CCA academic title(s) and educational background*

* The Office of Academic Affairs supplies academic credentials for all faculty. Contact Michael Haeberle for all questions regarding academic faculty titles and requests to list completed formal-degree credits (e.g., MA, PhD., MBA).

What to highlight

• accomplishments
• awards & honors
• business affiliations
• community involvement
• exhibitions
• publications
• research & teaching interests

See adjunct professor Leslie Carol Roberts' faculty bio for an example of a well-crafted, inviting, and informative bio.

Writing & Style Guidelines

Remember, artwork, exhibitions, periodicals, book titles, and almost all complete, standalone works (i.e., short films, plays, journals) are italicized. This style guideline and many others are listed in the CCA style guide, which ensures all college-representative content is consistent, standardize, and upholds a meticulous level of professionalism.

If you cannot locate the answer to a particular editorial question, CCA policy is to use the following publications for editorial guidance:

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition
• The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition

See also: Editorial Support

Submitting Faculty Bios

First review what exists on the website. If, after reading your bio, you'd like to make corrections, follow the steps outlined in Website Corrections.

Program managers are also responsible for sending all new and revised faculty bios, including representative artwork that the program manager curates. Faculty bios are gathered and submitted only two times per year.

Please use the secure CCA Dropbox option (address all submissions to jnorrena@cca.edu) or burn to CD/DVD if the file size exceeds 100MB. Then send through interoffice mail to the Communications office (attn: Web Editor).

Submit up to eight images per student or faculty member. Always check to see if the images you’re sending are already posted on the website.

Note: the web team shares resources with the Publications Department, namely the college's image archives. We therefore require both high- and low-resolution images submitted in separate, clearly labeled folders. This is particularly relevant for images of student and/or faculty work that might be used in future college-representative publications

(Read more about basic digital image guidelines).

Late bio submissions are held until the next round of updates are published, so be sure to submit your content to your program manager in a timely manner. Similarly, program managers who are late to submit their department's compiled bios cause the postponement of not one, but all the faculty bios.

Also, when selecting images of your work to post, those images that focus on a single work are more effective than those that depict a work among others in an exhibition space.

An accompanying image and/or caption index (artist, title, year of work, medium) is required with each submission. CCA is firmly committed to crediting all artwork promoted on the website, yet the Communications staff cannot research this vital information for the thousands of images we handle in any given academic term. Please include this information when sending images.

No artwork will post to the website without proper sourcing, crediting, and identification.

Note: not every image or video/audio clip submitted will be posted; some simply display better online than others. All images are archived, regardless, for possible future repurposing.

(See also Digital Image Guidelines for specific image file specifications and how-to guidelines for transmitting digital files.)

Student Gallery Images

Student artwork is represented in the Online Gallery, but all work should be submitted by a faculty member or program manager (who has curated the selection) to the web editor using the option (address all submissions to jnorrena@cca.edu) or if the file size exceeds 100MB, via CD/DVD.

(Student-submitted work will be rerouted through the corresponding academic program.)

Remember that student work represents the artist and the college program alike, so it’s essential that submitted work be approved.

Submit no more than 8 images per student. Always check to see if the images you’re sending are already posted on the website.

An accompanying image/caption index (artist, title and year of work, medium) is required with each submission. CCA is firmly committed to crediting all artwork promoted on the website, yet the Communications staff cannot research this vital information for the thousands of images we handle in any given academic term. Please submit this information with the images.

No artwork will post to the website without proper sourcing, crediting, and identification.

Note: not every image or video/audio clip submitted will be posted; some simply display better online than others. All images are archived, regardless, for possible future repurposing.

(See also Images, Audio & Video for specific image file specifications and how-to guidelines for transmitting digital files.)