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ABOUT

Rose Gonnella is the Associate Dean of the Michael Graves College, Kean University, USA, and Wenzhou-Kean University, China. Before taking on the beast of administration in higher education, Rose taught design for over 25 years, including courses in the fundamentals of form and color, design theory, materials and techniques, creative thinking; as well as guiding a web design curriculum at its inception. The latter belongs in Ripley’s Believe It or Not. In her career as Executive Director, and currently Associate Dean, Rose is proud to be the facilitator implementing the faculty’s grand plans to grow and enrich the innovative programs of study within the Robert Busch School of Design in the Michael Graves College – Rose states that there are many fulfilling activities completed, but several are outstanding: including Michael Graves acceptance of an invitation to contribute to the vision and curriculum at Kean, and being involved on the ground floor (literally ground-breaking) of the establishment of the Sino-American partnership of Wenzhou-Kean University.