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David Weightman named director of School of Art and Design
Jeff
Unger, News Bureau
217-333-1085
11/13/03
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CHAMPAIGN,
Ill. — David Weightman today was named the director of the School
of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Weightman’s appointment, effective Dec. 16, was approved by the
university’s board of trustees at its meeting in Urbana.
Weightman also will serve as a professor in the school, which is part
of the College of Fine and Applied
Arts. He succeeds interim director Ken Carls, who will return to
teaching. Carls has been interim director for about two years.
Weightman most recently was the dean of the School of Art and Design
at Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom. He began
in that position in 1992.
He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in design at the
Royal College of Art in London, in 1968 and 1970, respectively.
Under
Weightman’s direction, the art and design school at Staffordshire
University integrated all its courses into a unified program at the
bachelor’s and master’s levels. The school has developed
a number of pedagogic measures that have been adopted as good practice
by the university, including outcomes definition, skills definition,
student and staff handbooks, feedback forms, course and workshop advisory
groups and electronic data presentation during exams.
The school also has broadened its international perspective by developing
collaborative links for student and staff exchange with a number of
institutions worldwide.
Weightman has served as a consultant on numerous design projects, including
the exterior styling and construction of body work for buses, the design
and construction of special effects model sets for television productions,
and design studies for baggage trolleys for British Rail International,
London.
