Welcome To Vanderbilt's Creative Campus Community

Creative Campus Community – A Living Learning Program in Vanderbilt/Barnard Hall

Creative Campus Community, will integrate art, media, design and creative expression into life at Vanderbilt and contribute to a culture where students, faculty and staff interact to build synergy in the arts across disciplines. This living learning program will encourage students to reach their creative potential by fostering discussion and involvement in artistic expression designed to create more innovative, enterprising, curious, and creative thinkers.

Creative Campus Community participants will meet bi-monthly to build relationships with key community and campus leaders in the visual, literary, media, design, music, film and performing art organizations through projects, artist-in-residence programs, field trips, and guest speakers. Students will also interact with other Curb Creative Campus affiliates including the Curb Center interns and scholars, as well as interact with their student peers participating in the Leadership Hall living learning program.

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Length: Fall and Spring semesters
Eligibility: Rising Sophomores through Seniors

Deadline: Please submit completed applications no later than 4:30 p.m. on February 24, 2010 to the Office of Housing and Residential Education, 4113 Branscomb Quadrangle.

Selection: On March 2-3, the Selections Committee, consisting of Vanderbilt faculty members and staff from the Office of Arts & Creative Engagement, will interview all candidates and review the applications. The Selections Committee will recommend applicants for admission to the Creative Campus Community program.

Notification: By March 10, letters of notification will be sent to all applicants indicating whether or not they have been accepted into the program. Students who are admitted will not be eligible for participation in the regular housing lottery, but will be required to execute the standard Vanderbilt Housing contract for their space in Vanderbilt/Barnard Hall. Students are housed in single rooms. Students would be required to accept/decline their place in the program by, 4:30 p.m. on March 17, 2010.

Students who are not admitted into the Creative Campus Community may participate in any of the lottery events: Towers suites, Morgan/Lewis apartments, Chaffin apartments, Branscomb suite doubles, traditional doubles and singles. Students do not risk anything by applying for Creative Campus Community living learning program.

ALL students must submit the online housing application during the period February 8-14. Applications to living learning centers, Greek houses, or for off-campus authorization are in addition to the housing application. The online housing application is mandatory for all students who will study at Vanderbilt in fall 2010.

The Office of Arts & Creative Engagement
Office of Housing and Residential Education
The Office of the Dean of Students
Vanderbilt University