Thursday, August 6, 2015
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Initiative to Increase Arts Integration in Research Cirricula
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) and the University of Michigan's ArtsEngine program have received an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The grant will fund the SPARC Project: Supporting Practice in Arts, Research and Curricula, a three-year initiative that will allow a2ru to disseminate best practices in the integration of arts practice at research universities.
This second round of funding represents a total of $1.3 million from the Mellon Foundation toward the efforts of U-M's ArtsEngine and a2ru to expand research in support of the arts in higher education. Initial funding was awarded in 2012, supporting the creation of the first comprehensive guide to best practices in the integration of arts practice in U.S. research universities....