California Institute of the Arts

and Nam June Paik, most of whom came from a counterculture and avant garde perspective.
Corrigan held his position until 1972, when he was fired and replaced by then board member William S. Lund, Walt Disney's son-in-law, as the Institute approached insolvency. The period between 1972 and 1975 was extremely unstable financially, and Lund had to make significant operational reductions, including layoffs, reducing all faculty contracts to one-year, the pausing of degree programs, and the elimination of the structure of a School of Design, folding degree programs into other Schools, in order to keep the Institute alive.
In 1975, Robert J. Fitzpatrick was appointed president of CalArts. During his presidency, the Institute grew its enrollment and stabilized, renewed its accreditation, and added new programs for which it is known globally today including the programs of Character Animation and Jazz. While President, Fitzpatrick also served as the director of the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival. He then founded the Los …