Personal advising guides adult students to literary lives

Finding a way to stand out in a sea of graduate writing programs, offered both online and in‐person, creates a unique positioning challenge for a small private arts college, particularly on a campus known for visual arts. When Peter Gadol became the department chair of the graduate writing program at the Otis College of Art and Design, a private art school located near the Los Angeles airport, he embraced the small student body on campus, which is home to approximately 1,200 undergraduate students and fewer than 100 graduate students, as one of the strengths of the program.