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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…
The Curb Center, The Music Industry in Flux: Reconsidering the Performance Right
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007For much of the twentieth century, this commercial paradigm was reenacted over and over again, and for the most part the various players in the business were reasonably content with their slice of the pie, as determined through copyright law by Congress and the courts. As a result, the American music industry became a thriving, 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…
Bill Ivey, America Needs a New System, The Chronicle Review
Friday, September 29th, 2006The disconnect between the priorities of the cultural sector and the reality of the arts system made me slightly queasy. Had those of us who cared about the health of America’s system for supporting the arts, by concentrating narrowly on cultural nonprofit groups and the agencies and nongovernmental organizations that help them, overlooked the policy More…
Steven Tepper, Riding the Train: The Creative Campus, Inside Arts
Sunday, July 30th, 2006For university leaders, the creative campus is appealing because it inexpensively boosts the reputation and excellence of their institutions. In the face of astronomical costs associated with big science, the challenge of recruiting and retaining star faculty and the rising price of student services, the arts are a sight for sore and overspent eyes. In this regard, our More…
Billy Ivey and Steven Tepper, Cultural Renaissance or Cultural Divide?, The Chronicle Review
Sunday, January 1st, 2006America is on the threshold of a significant transformation in cultural life. There have been many cultural shifts in recorded history: Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press and the rise of the reading public; the growth of a mercantile class and the birth of private art markets independent of the church and the king; the invention of gas More…
Steven Tepper, Why Public Funding of the Arts Needs to Find a New Frontier, Wealth Management
Friday, September 30th, 2005Public funding has been an important part of the growth of the arts in the US and Europe since World War II. In Europe, this growth has been fueled by a centralized and coordinated policy system based within national ministries of culture. The US system, on the other hand, is decentralized and diverse – more like a field of wildflowers than More…
Steven Tepper, The Creative Campus: Who’s No. 1?, The Chronicle Review
Thursday, December 30th, 2004For better or for worse, we live in a scorecard society. We measure the aptitude, intelligence, creativity, and personality of children, students, and workers. Increasingly, we also give out institutional grades to track the performance of public schools, government services, and corporations (for example, ranking businesses by their record on attracting a diverse work force, protecting the environment, More…
Steven Tepper, Unfamiliar Objects in Familiar Places: The Public Response to Art-in-Architecture, The International Journal of Cultural Policy
Thursday, September 30th, 2004Public art has been an important part of America’s experiment in democracy since its founding. From Horatio Greenough’s half-naked sculpture of George Washington in a toga and sandals, intended for the new Capitol Rotunda, to Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial, public art in America has been celebrated, censored, deplored and debated. In the 18th century, a More…
Steven Tepper, Fiction Reading in America, Poetics
Thursday, September 30th, 2004The gender gap in fiction reading has been largely ignored by sociologists and scholars in the field of reading research. This paper investigates three primary explanations for why more women read fiction than men, including: the influence of childhood socialization and gender role stereotypes, differences in cognition and prose literacy and differences in work status and available free time. More…
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