Problem Statement
Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 April 2010 21:20 Written by Administrator Wednesday, 21 April 2010 20:41
The 21st century U.S. economy is shifting from the Information Age, which utilizes knowledge workers, to the Conceptual Age, which utilizes creators. To be competitive in this new economy our education system must address this shift, and students across disciplines must be prepared with new skills. However, University campuses are struggling to to prepare students for this shift. Arts campuses largely lack the resources and entrepreneurial curricula required. Business and other professional schools typically lack arts-based learning and creativity as curricular areas. To the degree that both right- and left-brain skills are required, students are not being prepared for real world careers.
The Arts Enterprise model empowers student leaders across University campuses to bring a range of skills from artistic creativity to management and leadership to bear in enterprise creation, social ventures and educational programs for students and communities. AE empowers students to work beyond the boundaries of school or departmental confines. The typical makeup of our membership is Business students (who work with their artistically-minded counterparts), and Arts students (who work with business students). Working across these and other school boundaries creates more well-rounded student leaders and professionals. Similar in structure to other student organizations (e.g. Net Impact, AIESEC-International) we focus our efforts on creating a scalable network that connects a variety of professional programs, rather than serving a single campus or constituency. We envision a future national campus network where arts and business leaders work together to address the economic, social and cultural challenges that characterize the 21st-century.
