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MFA is the new MBA?
Thursday, March 28th, 2013Companies all across America are starting to see a critical talent gap as older employees retire. Arts students may not have all the traditional skills, but they have the most important one: creativity. Steven Tepper writes about this in Fast Company.
Registration now open for 3 Million Stories
Monday, October 22nd, 2012“Three Million Stories: Understanding the Lives and Careers of America’s Arts Graduates,” is a national conference hosted by Vanderbilt University in March, 2013. The conference brings together arts funders, policy-makers, educators, researchers, artists, journalists, graduates of arts programs, active participants in the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), and other individuals with an interest or More…
Steven Tepper and Douglas Dempster, Iron Cage of Accountability
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011Steven Tepper and Douglas Dempster’s essay on the net price versus value of an art school education is featured on Inside Higher Ed. But how much is too much to pay for a college education? Can American higher education be more accountable, transparent, and forthcoming with telling measures of value without withering in Weber’s iron More…
Steven Tepper, New Findings on the Careers of Arts Graduates
Thursday, June 9th, 2011Steven Tepper is collaborating with Indiana University’s Center for Postsecondary Research on the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project. New findings from that survey show that, contrary to widespread belief, most arts graduates are employed and hold jobs consistent with their educational goals. For example, 92% of those who wish to work currently are, with most finding employment soon after graduating. Two-thirds said their first job was a close match for the kind of work they wanted. More…
Elizabeth Long Lingo and Steven Tepper, The Creative Campus: Time for a “C” Change
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010Elizabeth Long Lingo and Steven Tepper’s essay on the promise of the creative campus was recently featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education. “In the past few years, we’ve been hearing a lot of talk about fostering creativity, on campus and in society. Some college leaders claim to have found the secret formula, while others ask how to place creativity at the center of campus and academic life. The creative turn in higher education, however, remains only a series of ad hoc experiments.” More…
Mark Pachucki, Jennifer Lena, and Steven Tepper, Creativity Narratives Among College Students: Sociability and Everyday Creativity, The Sociological Quarterly
Sunday, February 28th, 2010How do students perceive their creative contributions to college life? By analyzing narratives, we find that the majority of creativity is associated with everyday experiences and social interactions, in contrast to a popular and scholarly focus on extraordinary individual achievement in domains like art and science. We also find strong trends in sociability as students negotiate both “where they stand” with regards to those around them as well as “how they stand out” as individuals. More…
Creative Campus, The View
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Creativity clearly abounds at Vanderbilt – but is it possible to harness creative efforts and direct them toward a common goal? Can a select group of students hone their creative and entrepreneurial skills and serve as ambassadors to the rest of campus? Can this change the learning environment at Vanderbilt? A new initiative spearheaded by the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy seeks to find out. More…
2008 Creative Campus Caucus Final Report, The Curb Center
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009The May 2008 Creative Campus Caucus was generously supported by The Mellon Foundation and was organized by the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt. The Caucus was conceived as an opportunity to take stock of the creative campus movement 4 years after the initial American Assembly convening on the relationship between More…
A report from the Creative Campus Research Conference at Vanderbilt University, The Creative Campus: Higher Education and the Arts
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007How can universities and colleges create an environment that fosters innovation, both in the institution and in the students? From history, we learn that creativity across domains (science, engineering, architecture) thrives in the presence of a vital artistic scene — think of Renaissance Italy, Fin de Siecle Vienna, or the PARC Xerox artist residencies in More…
Steven Tepper, Taking the Measure of the Creative Campus, The Peer Review
Saturday, September 30th, 2006Four years ago, while still at Princeton University, I started teaching a course on the social conditions of creativity in art, science, and business. Teaching about creativity is a lot like teaching about health and nutrition— it has certain spillover effects outside the classroom. Nutritionists see “bad health” all around them— in grocery stores, in restaurants, and in their cupboards. Likewise, I More…
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