CommonGround
2008
Mindful Innovations
Creativity,
Arts Integration and Interdisciplinary
Connectivity: The New High
Ground in Higher Education
John Cimino
President, Creative Leaps International
and The Learning Arts |
The comprehensive application
of arts-integration principals with a
focus on creativity and interdisciplinary
connectivity at the university level;
a report and reflective analysis of a
one-year intervention: lessons learned,
successful practices, core content and
on-campus strategies.
See/download the Powerpoint from
this workshop. (PDF
- large file)
John
Cimino offers reflections on a comprehensive
arts-integration initiative funded by
the Priddy Foundation, designed and implemented
at Oklahoma City University in partnership
with his team from Creative Leaps International.
The initiative seeks nothing less than
system-wide cultural change in the university’s
practices of teaching and learning linked
to in-depth training of Faculty Fellows
and their creation of new, arts-integrated
courses within their specialties. Cimino
reviews the project’s design, core
content, advocacy strategies, organizational
challenges, pockets of resistance, lessons
learned and stories of transformation,
then engages workshop participants in
re-design efforts, creative problem-solving
and new visioning.
Conference Strand:
Education Reform
Educators: insights
into the challenges, virtues and core
content of arts integration in higher
education
Artists: insights
into the challenges, virtues and core
content of arts integration in higher
education and potential inroads into
that arena of practice
Cultural
Organization Administrators: insights
into the challenges, virtues and
core content of arts integration
in higher education and the extraordinary
importance of flexibility and political
awareness in this highly charged
administrative environment
Education Administrators:
insights into the challenges, virtues
and core content of arts integration
in higher education and the crucial
role of truly creative leaders in facilitating
systemic change
Community/Parents:
insights
into the challenges, virtues and core
content of arts integration in higher
education and the particular benefits
of strengthening community both internal
and external to the university
Other:
insights into the challenges, virtues
and core content of arts integration
in higher education, and how university
faculty and administrators can serve
as champions of change in their institutions
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John Cimino is
founding president of Creative Leaps
International and The Learning Arts.
Educated at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, the Manhattan and Juilliard
Schools of Music, Cimino has
created innovative educational initiatives
for projects of the White House, the
Center for Creative Leadership, numerous
Fortune 500 companies and universities,
and international consortia
on the arts, education, business and
sustainable technologies. He is also
an award-winning opera singer.
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