Students and Faculty Members at Art Institute Criticize Administrators’ Actions as Censorship

by E Wayne Ross on January 3, 2007

Chronicle of Higher Education: Students and Faculty Members at Art Institute Criticize Administrators’ Actions as Censorship

Students and faculty members are criticizing what they call a pattern of censorship of student projects at the Art Institute of California at San Francisco, including the confiscation last month of several hundred copies of a student magazine with racially themed content.

ABC 7: Student Kicked Out Of School Over Art Project

A San Francisco student is accusing the Art Institute of California of censoring his work. Simone Mitchell wrote a piece criticizing the treatment of African-Americans in the media. It was too much for the institute. The story was removed from an internal magazine.