Chapter 4 - Academic Goals and Strategies to Build Distinction
Outside the classroom, we will increase support for student-directed and student-initiated arts activities. Such investment not only shows the university's support for students giving expression to their cultural experience, but also helps create future traditions that will contribute to making for a more richly varied student scene. To facilitate these sorts of activities, we will build new arts spaces in or near residential units, as older living and social spaces are renovated on East and West Campus, and as new spaces are constructed on Central Campus.
Increase faculty strength in the arts
A flourishing campus arts scene needs both resident and visiting artists who are well connected to the practice of their disciplines and who complement faculty development in artistic fields. Resident faculty artists provide ongoing mentoring, instruction, and inspiration for students. Visiting artists provide students (and resident faculty) with the stimulation of fresh ideas and the daily connection with professional worlds beyond the Durham campus. To transform Duke into an attractive place for outstanding artists, we will undertake a series of initiatives.
Resident faculty artists need to perform or exhibit their work in locations away from campus; both the artist and the university benefit when faculty work is shown in New York, London, or other centers of the arts. To encourage resident faculty artists to lead active professional lives with national and international dimensions, we will develop a leave program that takes into account the realities of the artist's schedule and ensures the integrity of instruction in the classroom while the artist is away from campus. This program will be competitive and include short as well as long term leaves. In addition to performing or exhibiting work off campus, faculty may use their leaves to develop new work on campus, when possible, in collaboration with other resident or visiting artists, and new facilities will be designed for this purpose.
We will develop a new and substantial visiting artist program to support the work of resident artists and bring innovative and distinguished artists to campus for short or long term residencies. Support will include the necessary infrastructure, such as administrative support, stipends, commissions, housing, faculty oversight (to ensure collaboration across disciplines and schools), and new facilities on Central Campus.
Build national and international arts programming
Duke has traditional and emerging areas of strength in university-level arts programming that serves the wider community. Over the next planning period, we seek to be recognized for national and international excellence in our arts programming. Stronger investment toward this goal will heighten our standing and visibility and attract more students and other members of our community to cultural events on campus.
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