SCAD President Paula S. Wallace is pictured here with ELLE DECOR Editor-in-Chief Margaret Russell. NEW YORK - Savannah College of Art and Design President Paula S. Wallace was honored with the first ELLE DECOR Vision Award Monday, Nov. 17, at the inaugural Women In Design event, co-sponsored by ELLE DECOR and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Held at the Harold Pratt House in New York City, the event celebrated outstanding female achievement in the fields of architecture, communica- tions, fashion, interior and product design.

"What an honor! This is huge, getting something like this from ELLE DECOR and Cooper-Hewitt, two of the world's great standard-bearers of design," said Wallace. "I'm sure they have the wrong person. They say I have vision. I don't know. If that's true, I suppose it's because I'm entirely unable to think about anything but the future for SCAD. It's my life's work, my magnum opus—and the best job in the world."

An academic visionary, Wallace co-founded the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1978. Thirty years later, SCAD is the nation's most comprehensive art and design university, offering more degree programs and specializations than any other art and design university in the United States. The university's more than 9,000 students study at campuses in Savannah and Atlanta, Ga., Lacoste, France, and online via SCAD-eLearning. Under Wallace's leadership, SCAD was named the "Hottest for Studying Art" among "America's 25 Hottest Colleges" by Kaplan/Newsweek, and was recognized as one of "America's best colleges" and "America's best graduate schools" by U.S. News and World Report.