Center for Arts and Public Policy

CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND PUBLIC POLICY
Annual Report: 2007-08

Submitted by: Donald McGlothlin, Director

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


The Creative Campus: The Training, Sustaining, and Presenting of the Performing Arts in American Higher Education ( the published report of the American Assembly Conference held at Columbia University in March 2004), concluded that research regarding public policy issues and the arts is underdeveloped, and the need for knowledge is acute.) 
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The specific goals developed in 2005-06 for UF’s Center for the Arts and Public Policy (CAPP) follow:

  •  (Re)establish CAPP as a national leader in this important field. (CAPP, founded in 1988, is the oldest center of this type in the country, but had been dormant for several years)
  • Create a functional office and a research library for CAPP.
  • Develop a significant research agenda…. (e.g. The Creative Campus - student engagement in the arts/creativity); educational agenda (e.g. curricular offerings and plans for possible degree programs/minors/certificate in arts administration; service agenda (e.g. major national/international events: lecture series, symposia, conferences, summer institutes)…. for CAPP.
  • Develop collaborative relationships with relevant programs at UF.
  • Develop collaborative relationships with other leading arts and public policy centers (Vanderbilt, Ohio State, Princeton) and other relevant programs.
  • Generate external funding to help support CAPP. 

Progress has included: 

  • Establishing a link with the Curb Center at Vanderbilt and bringing Steven Tepper to campus as a consultant on April 11, 2007.
  • Working with the University of Texas and Vanderbilt in planning a major conference related to The Creative Campus (held in Nashville in November, 2006 with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation). Being invited to participate in a national meeting (in New York City, May 28-29, 2008) regarding the Creative Campus. This event is being funded by the Mellon Foundation.
  • Forming two arts consortia to participate in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) administered through Indiana University.
  • Securing external funding to help support the NSSE arts study.
  • Equipping a functional CAPP office and establishing a research library.
  • Planning and presenting two major lectures: “Designing a Creative Campus” (related to the creative campus initiative) – Sir Ken Robinson (January 15, 2008), and “Leadership and Foreign Policy” (related to cultural diplomacy) – Joseph Nye (March 3, 2008), which initiated a week-long celebration of the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
  • Developing and offering two new courses in arts administration, which have been well received.