Location: Savannah College of Art and Design River Club 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Savannah, GA 31401 Lodging Information: Four Points by Sheraton Historic Savannah 520 West Bryan Street Savannah, GA 31401 Reservations: (912) 790-1000 (local), (888) 625-5144 (toll-free) Rate: $140 Single/Double, plus taxes Group Name: IDSA Southern District Conference

A limited number of rooms have been reserved for the evenings of Thursday, March 7, 2008 - Saturday, March 9, 2008, at a rate of $140 per night for a single or double room, plus taxes. You must specify that you are with the "IDSA Southern District Conference" when making your reservations to receive the discounted rate. Room reservations must be made by Thursday, February 14, 2008. Additionally, “IDSA Southern District Conference” rates will be honored 3 days before and 3 days after the conference dates, based on guestroom and rate availability.

Questions? Please e-mail Carrie Rice at carrier@idsa.org.

Student Hosted Lodging:
If you are a student looking for economical lodging, the students of the Savannah College of Art and Design are looking for you! A limited number of host options is available. If interested contact the SCAD Students of Design chair Brandy Bora
brbora20@student.scad.edu ph: 404-3887043.

Note: You must be officially registered for the conference before you will be considered for student hosted housing.

Other lodging options:
Experience Savannah like a local by staying in a historic home! Gather your friends and co-workers and check out the vacation rental listings.
http://www.vrbo.com/vacation-rentals/usa/georgia/coastal/savannah
http://savannah.craigslist.org/vac/

Family Activities
If you are a professional member, consider bringing along you spouse and children for a visit to remember. Savannah has many family friendly activities, and Tybee Beach is only about 20 minutes away!

Family members can partake from a wide variety of activities; including historic carriage tours, walking tours, ghosts tours, and many  historic home tours. The Roundhouse Railroad museum is located in Savannah as well as the Juliette Gordon Low House (founder of the girl scouts), and the stunning Jepson Contemporary Arts museum. Add in shopping, galleries, walking along River Street and an array of dining options, there is plenty to keep loved ones busy during your time away.

For more info visit the following web pages
www.savannahvisit.com
www.savannahoffthebeatenpath.com
www.savcvb.com/visitors_itineraries.asp

About the College
The Savannah College of Art and Design exists to prepare talented students for professional careers and emphasizes learning through individual attention in a positively oriented university environment. Founded in 1978, SCAD is the largest higher education art and design institution in the United States with more than 30 majors and 40 minors. Paula S. Wallace serves as president of SCAD, which Kaplan named one of the “25 cutting-edge schools with an eye toward the future” in 2008. The college employs more than 1,500 full and part-time employees and has nearly 9,000 students from all 50 states and more than 90 countries. Approximately 10 percent of the student body is international.

SCAD is a private, nonprofit institution accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097; telephone number 404.679.4501) to award bachelor’s and master’s degrees. The college offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Architecture, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Fine Arts and Master of Urban Design degrees, as well as undergraduate and graduate certificates. The five-year professional M.Arch. degree is accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

Accolades

• DesignIntelligence ranked SCAD’s interior design graduate program No. 1 in the nation in the 2008 edition of “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools.”
• Also in 2008, DesignIntelligence ranked SCAD’s industrial design graduate and undergraduate programs Nos. 3 and 4 in the nation, respectively. Both programs were ranked No. 1 in the South.
• Fortune Small Business named SCAD one of America’s Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs in 2007 for its Working Class Studio program.
• SCAD became the first art and design college to be awarded the Outstanding Distance Education program by the Instructional Technology Council in 2007.
• In 2007, 3D World magazine named SCAD’s animation program one of the top three in North America.
• Kaplan/Newsweek named SCAD the “Hottest for Studying Art” among “America’s 25 Hottest Colleges” in 2006.
• SCAD’s School of Film and Digital Media earned 41 awards for films and various projects in 2006, including those from the September Shorts Film Festival, the St. Louis Film Festival, the Victory Arts Juried Competition, the Southern Fried Flicks Film Festival, Animex 2007, the 2007 College Television Awards, the Black Maria Film Festival and Dragon*Con Film Festival.  In 2008, three SCAD alumni screened their student film at the Sundance and South by Southwest film festivals.
• In 2006, TIME magazine noted SCAD in its annual education issue in the feature, “Who Needs Harvard?”
• DesignIntelligence ranked SCAD’s Master of Architecture program among the top 10 in the South in 2006.

Degrees Offered
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Architecture, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Urban Design

Locations
SCAD is located in Savannah, Ga., with additional locations in Atlanta, Ga., and Lacoste, France. Online programs are offered through SCAD-eLearning.

For additional information, visit www.scad.edu/pressroom, which offers the latest information and story ideas for writers, reporters and editors. Direct media inquiries for SCAD-Savannah, SCAD-eLearning and SCAD-Lacoste to 912.525.5225, and for SCAD-Atlanta to 404.253.2712.