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Imagining America:

Imagining America:. Artists and Scholars in Public Life Syracuse University, New York. About IA. Vision : To realize the democratic, public, and civic purposes of American higher education.

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Imagining America:

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  1. Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life Syracuse University, New York

  2. About IA Vision: To realize the democratic, public, and civic purposes of American higher education. Mission: To animate and strengthen the public and civic purposes of humanities, arts, and design through mutually beneficial campus-community partnerships that advance democratic scholarship and practice.

  3. Historical Context • Campus Compact founded in 1985 • Boyer’s 1990 book, Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, and 1996 article, “The Scholarship of Engagement” • In 1999, Kellogg Commission proposes a reinterpretation of the core missions of higher education • IA founded at 1999White House Millennium Council meeting

  4. What is public scholarship and practice? Publicly engaged academic work is scholarly or creative activity integral to a faculty member’s academic area. It encompasses different forms of making knowledge about, for, and with diverse publics and communities. Through a coherent, purposeful sequence of activities, it contributes to the public good and yields artifacts of public and intellectual value.

  5. At Individual CampusesPublic Humanities Fordham (left), Bates (right)

  6. Arts UCLA

  7. K-12 Arts and Humanities Education SU

  8. Design UC-Santa Barbara

  9. Nationally Conferences 2009 in New Orleans (left), 2010 in Seattle (right)

  10. IA Regional Meetings &Site Visits Odysseus (James Hart) and Athena (Caroline Imhoff) vanquish their enemies in Finding Penelope.

  11. IA’s Publicly Active Graduate Education PAGE Fellows, New Orleans, 2009

  12. IA Research Groups • 2012 Research Groups include: • Tenure Team Initiative Impact Study • Assessing the Practices of Public Scholarship • Engaged Undergraduate Education Collaboratory Info Session, Seattle, 2010

  13. IA Collaboratories, Affinity Groups, and Arts Engagements • 2012 Collaboratoriesinclude: • Culture and Community Revitalization • Community Knowledge • 2012 Affinity Groups include: • Public Humanities Centers & Institutes • 2012 Arts Engagements: • Funding for Engaged Photography & Imaging Students • Town Hall Nation, http://www.townhallnation.org/

  14. Other Action Research Projects • Professional Pathways of a Publicly Engaged Education identifies the aspirations and decisions of graduate students and early career publicly engaged scholars and artists • Linking Full Participation, a research project with Syracuse University and Columbia University’s Center for Institutional and Social Change to: • increase educational access and success for underrepresented groups and communities, • build higher education's capacity to address urgent community challenges, and • prompt the institutional re-imagination needed to facilitate these goals

  15. IA Publications, Website, & Blog ww.imaginingamerica.org

  16. Questions? Contact us. Jan Cohen-Cruz, Director Kevin Bott, Associate Director Robin Higgins, Assistant Director Timothy Eatman, Research Director Jamie Haft, Communications Manager Jeremy Lane, Administrative SpecialistAdam Bush, PAGE Director www.imaginingamerica.org 203 Tolley BuildingSyracuse UniversitySyracuse, NY 13244315-443-8590

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