Is MICA all right? Maryland art college struggles with low enrollment, downsizing.

At the Maryland Institute College of Art’s graduation on Monday, interim President Cecilia McCormick asked the undergraduate class of 2024 to look into a mirror. “To be an artist, you have to be true to who you are,” McCormick said. The 200-year-old art and design school, which promotes itself online as “an institution that continually re-invented itself to meet the challenges of changing times,” has had its own self-reflecting to do in recent years.