2006-01-28

Creative Campus. The Training, Sustaining, and Presenting of the Arts in Higher Education

More than is usually acknowledged, higher education and the arts relate to and profoundly reinforce each other. The two sectors bear responsibility for education, creativity, and knowledge-building; they significantly shape national values; they capture society's movements. Put together, the academy and the arts achieve more than either can alone.

These are among the findings of an American Assembly forum in March 2004 where 64 leaders in higher education and the arts explored the relationships of their sectors to each other, produced a set of recommendations to strengthen training, patronage, and the presentation of the arts by American colleges and universities, and affirmed the missions of colleges and universities through the arts. This session will submit the recommendations of these leaders for peer discussion and review.

Details: http://www.giarts.org

Grantmakers in the Arts