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j.Charles Walker and John Brett Buchanan inaugurated the foundation's creation in 2008 by offering an undergraduate and/or graduate student Educational Scholarship to the annual UCDA Design Conference.

They are again offering an undergraduate and/or graduate student Educational Scholarship to the annual UCDA Design Conference in 2012 to be held in Montreal, Quebec, October 13-16, 2012.

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Long-time University & College Designers Association (UCDA) members, and Kent State University Emeritus Professors of Visual Communication Design, j.Charles Walker (right) and John Brett Buchanan (left) announced the creation of the j.Charles Walker & John Brett Buchanan Foundation in 2008. Walker and Buchanan have long been involved in and committed to UCDA and visual communication/design education. Their new foundation, when fully funded by their estates in partnership with the UCDA Foundation, will provide scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students majoring in, and Kent State University alumni teaching in visual communication design at higher education institutions. In addition it will also provide funds for the promotion of visual communication design education through the underwriting of programs and seminars developed, organized, directed and offered by UCDA and the UCDA Foundation.

From the very beginning, UCDA has been guided and directed through the volunteer efforts of members who have participated in the leadership of the association. These individuals have acted with concern and interest for their profession and for their fellow designers to establish new programs and benefits and to expand the professional scope and statutes of the association.

j.Charles Walker, professor and the creator and first director of Kent State University's School of Visual Communication Design, began his teaching career at Kent in 1964. Joining UCDA in 1975, he served UCDA as vice-president, president, chair and member of its board of directors, and was the creator and director of Kent State University and UCDA's jointly offered and long running KSUCDA program. John Brett Buchanan, a professor at Kent State's VCD School began teaching at Kent in 1975, joined UCDA in 1976, and has served as treasurer, vice-president, president and member of its board of directors. He also served as coordinator of the KSUCDA summer design workshops. Both were awarded the UCDA Gold Award in 2004 and were granted UCDA emeritus status. They are both currently serving on the UCDA Foundation board.

As the foundation's donors believe that their alma maters were important in their development as designers and design educators, scholarships will be available to students majoring in, and faculty teaching, visual communication design at The University of Cincinnati, The University of Kansas, The University of Southern California, and Kent State University.

As j.Charles Walker spent 40 years and John Brett Buchanan spent 32 years as design faculty members at Kent State University, additionally eligible are students at colleges and universities at which Kent State University School of Visual Communication Design alumni are educators in visual communication design as full-time, adjunct faculty, or emeriti.

The Trustees of the j.Charles Walker & John Brett Buchanan Foundation, recognize Kent State University School of Visual Communication Design graduates holding 'official' Emeritus Faculty status conferred by any institution of higher education as an official faculty member, and as such, MAY, submit qualifying student(s) of that institution for scholarships, by working directly in the selection of, or indirectly, by acting as surrogate sponsoring faculty. The faculty sponsor's scholarship may be accepted by the Emeritus faculty member or, at their request, be awarded to a 'resident' faculty member of the institution.

Listed here are eligible graduates at institutions of which the donors are currently aware. If you have information of Kent State University School of Visual Communication Design's alumni teaching at any institution not listed below, please email names and addresses to ksucda@aol.com and/or jbuchana24@aol.com.