Paula Wallace

Paula Wallace is president and co-founder of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).

A native of Atlanta, Wallace earned a B.A. degree from Furman University, and M.Ed. and Ed.S. degrees from Georgia State University. She began her career as an elementary school teacher in Atlanta Public Schools. In 1978, she co-founded the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Ga. Between the university's founding and 2000, she served in various roles as vice president, academic dean, and provost of SCAD. In 2000, she was appointed to the office of president of the university by the SCAD Board of Trustees, and continues to serve in that role. She also directs the university's permanent art collection at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah and SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film in Atlanta.

Since Wallace became president of SCAD, the university has added campus locations in Atlanta, Ga. (in 2005), Lacoste, France (in 2002) and Hong Kong (in 2010), and an eLearning program online (in 2003). Enrollment at SCAD has more than doubled during her tenure, with more than 12,000 students from more than 100 countries attending the university's campuses.

The university hosts a number of annual events created by Wallace, including the Sidewalk Arts Festival, the Savannah Film Festival, SCAD deFINE ART, SCADstyle, and SCAD aTV Fest. During her presidency, the university has received recognition for its work in historic preservation, including awards from the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation,UNESCO, the International Interior Design Association and the American Library Association, and the American Institute of Architects, among others. SCAD has placed highly in various rankings under Wallace's leadership, including a place in the top four universities in the Americas and Europe in 2015 by Red Dot, as well as first place rankings for the graduate and undergraduate interior design programs in DesignIntelligence's "America's Best Architecture and Design Schools" list.

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