position. After an 18-month search (which included over 500 candidates), Board Chair Tim Disney and the CalArts board of trustees announced on December 13, 2016, that Ravi S. Rajan, then the dean of the School of the Arts at the State University of New York at Purchase, was unanimously selected as president, to begin in June 2017.
Over the years, the institute has developed experimental interdisciplinary laboratories through extramural funding such as the CHANEL Center for Artists and Technology; Center for Integrated Media; and the Cotsen Center for Puppetry.
== Academics ==
CalArts offers various undergraduate and graduate degrees in programs that are related to and combine music, art, dance, film, animation, theater, and writing. Students receive intensive professional training in an area of their creative aspirations without being cast into a rigid pattern. The institute's overall focus is on experimental, multidisciplinary, contemporary arts practices, and its stated mission is to enable the professional …
