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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 04/05
The Creative Campus: The Training, Sustaining, and Presenting of the Performing Arts in American Higher Education
March 2004
Abstract
On March 11, 2004, sixty-four men and women including university presidents, professors, and administrators; performing arts presenters, artists, and representatives from government, business, nonprofit organizations, and the media gathered at Arden House in Harriman, N.Y. for the 104th American Assembly entitled “The Creative Campus: The Training, Sustaining, and Presenting of the Performing Arts in American Higher Education.” During the course of the meeting the participants met in intensive, structured discussions. Following their sessions, participants reviewed an outline of this report, which was then expanded into this full report.
Over the past four decades, The American Assembly has sponsored projects on many aspects of the arts, both the plastic and the performing arts. Inspired, in part, by the public positions of Lee C. Bollinger, president of Columbia University and Nancy Cantor, chancellor of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, who both graciously agreed to serve as project co-chairs, The Assembly decided to focus this project exclusively on the performing arts and their role with higher education. The Assembly recognizes that together, higher education and the performing arts share a broad range of mutually supportive activities through which they enrich each other, and that they have specific opportunities and roles to play in nurturing a vital and thriving modern culture. It is this project’s intent to explore this crucial relationship and how at every level and in every location, America’s colleges and universities offer resources for the training, sustaining, and presenting of the performing arts.
