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About: Program for Creativity and Innovation
Program Overview
The Program for Creativity and Innovation at Wake Forest University is an initiative of the Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts within Wake Forest University’s undergraduate Liberal Arts College. Lynn Book is the Director of the Program and is also Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance. She has developed a program that features a critical creativity that is holistic, interdisciplinary and socially engaged. The Program seeks to foster diverse perspectives and forge innovative forms of creative practice and outcomes that result in constructive change in the world.
Principal components of the Program include
* New course development and curricular innovations to provide academic support for the Minor in Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise (ESE), as well as interdisciplinary courses for the Department of Theatre and Dance and the Honors program; most of which have been cross-listed with the Departments of Art and Music, and also involve the sciences and humanities
* Faculty development through joint teaching, interdisciplinary exchange, and public projects including a faculty Creativity Roundtable and professional collaborations on arts and creativity research and practice
* University-wide, community and national forums, events, and projects focused on fostering creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship and that engage students, faculty, and staff from all Wake Forest campuses with area and national colleagues and other professionals, and the general public
In addition to developing and maintaining this program for the Office of Entrepreneurship (OELA) and the ESE minor, Professor Book serves as a member in programming and policy committees that support both OELA and the Department of Theatre and Dance. In addition to these formal obligations she has been furthering the program regionally and nationally for both OELA and the Department of Theatre and Dance by developing communication and awareness, alliance building, and representing creativity and entrepreneurship issues in advisory council meetings, conferences and guest speaking engagements.
Making the Program for Creativity and Innovation Sustainable
The goal for academic year 2008-2009 is to make the Program for Creativity and Innovation sustainable as a viable research and development hub that furthers University aspirations and ideals into the future. The 2008-2009 initiative for a Sustainable Program for Creativity and Innovation sharpens the focus on creative engagement, research and practice at Wake Forest University:
* to foster university-wide and regional awareness of Wake Forest as a creative campus, distinguished by its lively, interdisciplinary creativity and innovative entrepreneurship studies
* to leverage new, strategic ways to research and develop creativity and innovation resulting in strengthening the University’s mission as it envisions and reshapes its future
The Creativity Commons launches as an interactive online site to showcase the emerging creative landscape of the university. Courses with creativity and innovation number 10 and counting, including the addition of 3 new First Year Seminars for 2008-09. A public film series featuring new media artists and the creative process will be inaugurated along with a regular faculty/student series highlighting creative research and projects.
