Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life Syracuse University, New York.
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Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life Syracuse University, New York
Transcript of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life Syracuse University, New York.
Imagining America:Artists and Scholars in Public Life
Syracuse University, New York
Vision: To realize the democratic, public, and civic purposes of American higher education.
Mission: To animate and strengthen the public and civic purposes of humanities, arts, and design through mutually beneficial
campus-community partnerships that advance democratic scholarship and practice.
About IA
• Campus Compact founded in 1985
• Boyer’s 1990 book, Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, and 1996 article, “The Scholarship of Engagement”
• In 1999, Kellogg Commission proposes a reinterpretation of the core missions of higher education
• IA founded at 1999 White House Millennium Council meeting
Historical Context
What is public scholarship and practice?
Publicly engaged academic work is scholarly or creative activity integral to a faculty member’s academic area.
It encompasses different forms of making knowledge about, for, and with diverse publics and communities.
Through a coherent, purposeful sequence of activities, it contributes to the public good and yields artifacts of public and intellectual value.
At Individual CampusesPublic Humanities
Fordham (left), Bates (right)
Arts
UCLA
K-12 Arts and Humanities Education
SU
UC-Santa Barbara
Design
Nationally
2009 in New Orleans (left), 2010 in Seattle (right)
Conferences
IA Regional Meetings &Site Visits
Odysseus (James Hart) and Athena (Caroline Imhoff) vanquish their enemies in Finding Penelope.
IA’s Publicly Active Graduate Education
PAGE Fellows, New Orleans, 2009
IA Research Groups2011 Research Groups include:• Tenure Team Initiative Impact Study• Assessing the Practices of Public Scholarship• Engaged Undergraduate Education
Collaboratory Info Session, Seattle, 2010
IA Collaboratories & Affinity Groups
2011 Collaboratories include:•Culture and Community Revitalization•Community Knowledge
2011 Affinity Groups include:• Public Humanities Centers &
Institutes
Other Action Research ProjectsProfessional Pathways of a Publicly Engaged Education identifies the aspirations and decisions of graduate students and early career publicly engaged scholars and artists
Linking Full Participation, a research project with Syracuse University and Columbia University’s Center for Institutional and Social Change to: • increase educational access and success for underrepresented groups and communities,• build higher education's capacity to address urgent community challenges, and• prompt the institutional re-imagination needed to facilitate these goals
IA Publications
Download at www.imaginingamerica.org
Jan Cohen-Cruz, DirectorKevin Bott, Associate DirectorRobin Higgins, Assistant DirectorTimothy Eatman, Research DirectorJamie Haft, Communications ManagerJeremy Lane, Administrative SpecialistAdam Bush, PAGE Director
Questions? Contact us.
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