Sydney College of the Arts (SCA)
On 25 July 1975 the Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) was established by the Minister for Education as a College of Advanced Education (CAE) under the NSW Ministry of Education. On 1 January 1976 the College was given the responsibility for running design courses previously conducted by the Technical and Further Education Commission of New South Wales.
The College was dissolved on 25 January 1988 and its two schools were divided - the School of Design was transferred to the newly created University of Technology, Sydney and on the 27 January, the School of Visual Arts became a semi-autonomous component of the NSW Institute of the Arts, retaining the name and aims of SCA.
As part of the reorganisation of higher education in the late 1980s, SCA became an academic college of the University on 1 January 1990. It became a part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in 2017.