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Tepper, Pitt release leading report on double majors
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013Sociologists Richard Pitt and Steven J. Tepper have just released the results of a national study that examines the rise of double majoring on university and college campuses. With some institutions seeing rates of double majors at or above 50 percent, this timely report explores why students double major, what types of double majors are More…
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…
Second Annual Creative Practice Bootcamp Aug. 31
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012The Curb Creative Practice Boot Camp offers a unique opportunity for faculty, staff, students, and Nashville community members to experiment alongside each other as they strengthen their creative capacities. The Curb Bootcamp focuses on creative practice—hands-on workshops that enable participants to experience the joy, the messiness, the range of decisions and trade-offs involved in creative More…
Come out swingin’: Tepper says art most relevant when people care enough to fight over it
Friday, July 13th, 2012Nothing stirs the ol’ juices like a good fight. Whether it’s the Thrilla in Manila, the ’Dores vs. Kentucky or a heated election, people come together over fights and contests. And that’s good. According to Steven Tepper, so it is with the arts. Read more in the spring 2012 edition of Arts and Science Magazine.
Vanderbilt Curb Center teams up with Indiana University to release the first annual report of the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project
Friday, June 22nd, 2012Arts Graduates Find Their Way to Jobs and Satisfying Lives Findings from a national study released this week show that Americans with arts degrees are generally satisfied with their educational and career experiences. For example, nine of ten (87%) arts graduates responding to the survey who are currently employed are satisfied with the job in More…
Protests and Social Change: The Sociology of Protests and the Tea Party, Steven Tepper speaking at the Osher Lifelong Learning class, April 19, 2012
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012Steven Tepper, assistant professor of sociology and associate director of the Curb Center, speaks at the Osher Lifelong Learning class, about “Protests and Social Change: The Sociology of Protests and the Tea Party”. Watch the talk here, and read more on Vanderbilt News.
VORTEX Program
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012PROGRAM Speech Suite for Toy Piano Fads & Fancies in the Academy (A Gentle Satire on Progressive Education) (Choreography by Marsha Barsky and Erin Law, informed by original 1940 choreography and notes of Marian Van Tuyl) Inlets Water Walk MinEvent VORTEX And former dancers of the MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY Amores Child of Tree layered More…
“Conversation: Why Do Americans Protest Art?” Interview with Steven Tepper about Not Here, Not Now, Not That!, Art Beat, PBS Newshour
Monday, December 12th, 2011Jeffrey Brown interviews Steven Tepper about his new book on Art Beat, PBS Newshour. Art can soothe, it can inspire, but it also stirs heated passions and outright protest. Why does that happen, and why in some cases but not others? That’s the subject of the new book, “Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest More…
Podcast: Robert Levine, The Price of Free, Curb Leadership Lecture, Nov. 4, 2011
Thursday, November 10th, 2011Robert Levine, the Price of Free by curbcreativecampus
Steven Tepper quoted on SNAAP findings, Huffington Post Arts
Thursday, September 29th, 2011John M. Eger discusses the findings of the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), arguing that arts training needs to incorporate more entrepreneurial and business skills. Art leaders, educators and policymakers need to better understand that the status quo for arts education is missing a few things; specifically, the importance of business savvy and the increasing More…
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