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The Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University have just announced the approval of a new dual degree program that will grant accepted candidates with a Bachelor of Arts from Brown and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from RISD upon graduation. Prospective students are welcomed to apply for the 5-year program to launch for the 2008-2009 academic year.

This historic moment acknowledges and reinforces the collaborative and multidisciplinary educational efforts of these two world-class institutions, by forming a program to offer students enhanced opportunities for creative work that integrates, relates and develops diverse spheres of academic and artistic work.

'The creation of this dual degree program,' states Roger Mandle, president of RISD, 'allows our institutions to develop a consilient approach, merging the strengths and educational rigor of each institution to form a true model of interdisciplinary education.'