Tiziana D’Acchille responds to student letter over Accademia di Roma director election dispute

Tiziana D’Acchille, outgoing director of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, responds to an unsigned letter published by Artribune on February 2, 2020, from the student council. She denies having met the letter's authors or being consulted by the new student council. She clarifies that second-tier professors have never been eligible for the director role, and the board requested a clarification from the Ministry (Miur) before issuing the call, which excluded them. The Ministry's response, citing a 2011 Council of State ruling, confirmed the ineligibility. She refutes claims that the academy's autonomous statute allows overriding national law and court rulings. She states the procedure was transparent and lawful, and that the TAR Lazio rejected the appeal against it. The complaint to the prosecutor was merely an attachment to the appeal. She condemns the call for commissariamento as destructive, noting the director has been elected and awaits ministerial ratification, along with other academies (Turin, Carrara, Reggio Calabria, conservatories) due to the ministry's reorganization. She defends her tenure's achievements and warns against efforts to undermine the academy's progress.