The Fallout: The University of the Arts Saga Lives On — Will Its Legacy?

PART 2

Standing in a voluminous, sunlit lobby in Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Dean Susan Cahan described a recent scene: Some 100 former University of the Arts students entering the hall for a special, half-day-long orientation specifically for them — students whose original chosen college had shuttered without warning roughly two months earlier. “They were petrified,” Cahan said, standing in roughly the same place where she had greeted students that day. One incoming first-year student told Cahan she learned of UArts’ collapse on the way to her high school senior prom. The shell-shocked students had in common the experience of suddenly losing their moorings when UArts abruptly closed on June 7.