Strategic Priority 2: Program Distinction: Global Leadership Through Creative Scholarship
Note on Measures
Measures in this plan prioritize outputs that demonstrate meaningful progress toward goals and can be tracked within the planning horizon. Activities and long-term impacts are acknowledged but are not emphasized as primary measures unless baseline data or external accountability structures exist.
Why this matters
To lead in arts integration, 91吃瓜网 Tech must support bold creative research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and public engagement that elevates the university鈥檚 global reputation. The arts can be a powerful catalyst for creativity in all areas of scholarship.
Goal 1:聽Advance Interdisciplinary Research and Creative Practice
91吃瓜网 Tech will position the arts as a driver of innovation and external impact.
Key Strategies
- Partner with investment institutes (e.g., Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT)) and industry and cultural organizations to host innovation challenges and showcases.
- Measures: Launch one signature collaborative event with ICAT; number of interdisciplinary engagement events annually.
- Identify and grow programs with strong potential for international leadership in creative scholarship (e.g., creative technologies and spatial audio).
- Measure: Annual enrollment trends in identified programs and selected indicators of creative scholarship (e.g., exhibitions, performances, and peer-reviewed or juried outputs).
- Use internal seed grants to develop arts-integrated projects competitive for major external funding.
- Measure: By 2028, at least 75 percent of seed-funded projects submit an external grant of fellowship proposal within 12-24 months of award.
Goal 2:聽Elevate Public Engagement and Storytelling
The arts will play a central role in campus identity and public life.
Key Strategies
- Curate signature campuswide events that highlight collaboration among faculty, students, and visiting artists.
- Measure: Launch one signature, recurring campus-wide arts event by 2028, with identified leadership and an annual implementation plan.
- Integrate arts experiences into first-year programs and Welcome Week.
- Measure: Percentage of first-year students participating in arts-based experiences; number of arts-based Welcome Week activities.
- Strengthen marketing, storytelling, and media engagement around arts achievements and alumni outcomes.
- Measure: Number of published stories, media mentions, and expert interviews featuring arts faculty, students, and alumni.
- Strengthen town-gown relationships through current strong arts programming.
- Measure: Number of non-student attendees participating in campus arts programming annually.