Tuesday, September 1, 2009

ARTStem featured in September's UNC Tomorrow Newsletter

ARTStem is profiled in this month's newsletter on the theme of "global readiness".

An excerpt:

". . . Exactly fifty years ago, the British writer C.P. Snow famously likened the arts and the sciences to “two cultures” so alienated from one another that it imperiled humanity’s ability to intelligently address the world’s problems. Today, the “two cultures” diagnosis is still valid. In this spirit, a new program called ARTStem, a program of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, confronts UNC Tomorrow’s mandate for “global readiness” by spotlighting the need to innovate teaching and learning practices that harness together the power of the arts and STEM disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. . . "

View the profile in its entirety HERE.

No comments:

Post a Comment