We, the students, staff, and faculty of this historic academy, which has trained the next generation of American artists for over 200 years, deserve better than bulk emails and rushed Zoom meetings with administration. At the very LEAST, we, as proud members of the PAFA community and the very people that keep this Institution alive, deserve an IN-PERSON meeting within the next two weeks, in which both President Eric Pryor and representatives from the Board of Directors are present, with a minimum of 24 hours notice.

As students, many of whom have gone into large sums of debt to attend the Academy, we deserve FAR better than the Board forcing their actions upon us without so little as a personal explanation as to why these actions are happening. We deserve full transparency, we deserve explanations, we deserve the ability to ask questions to the very people who chose our collective fate, the only people who can directly explain their reasoning. It is unacceptable for the primary meeting regarding this situation to be in separated groups, without any Board representatives present, in a less than one-hour long session conducted on Zoom four hours after the announcement was made. We have collectively sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars into this Institution, and we demand to be treated with the respect that we deserve.