Higher Education Division

NAEA News - August/September 2018

A series of events in recent years indicates that higher education in art is in the throes of a serious crisis. The Emory University Visual Arts Program was closed in 2012, a year before the Cooper Union—a former bastion of free education in New York—announced it would begin charging tuition. St. Paul’s College of Visual Arts closed in 2013, and in 2015 the entire first-year Master of Fine Arts class at the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Art and Design walked out

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Createquity releases the Higher Education Resource Guide, a primer for incorporating Createquity resources into the college classroom. In the guide, we’ve compiled a number of our online articles that are relevant to undergraduate and graduate curricula covering the arts, arts administration, arts research, cultural policy, economics, and related topics.

ENDA is a graduate school for research and experimentation in art based in Paris and New York. It is the educational branch of the Biennale de Paris. It offers its researchers a course of study that aims to liberate them from the inherited ideas of 20th century art history, and proposes an inquiry into the crucial issues of 21st century art, whose history is now unfolding and in which they might eventually participate. The program dates are November 28, 2017 to July 7, 2018. The application fee is $50; tuition is $3,000. Deadline to apply: May 25, 2017.

Six art museums across the country have been selected to participate in a much-needed study of how a single visit to an art museum might impact K-12 students.

Two Special Issues of Studies in Art Education on Histories and Historical Research in Visual Arts Education

The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) is accepting proposals for the 2017 a2ru National Conference: Arts in the Public Sphere: Civility, Advocacy, and Engagement at Northwestern University in Boston on Nov. 1-4. Core areas of interest for proposals include how the arts and design fields can contribute to issues of civil discourse, equity and access in a collective impact model and what models of integration of arts and design within higher education best serve the needs of a diverse constituency and public.