1999 Imagining America ANN ARBOR—On Thursday (This consortium of colleges, universities and other educational and cultural organizations, based at the University of Michigan, creates a significant new alliance of higher education institutions for the purpose of making the arts and humanities central to the public life of American communities. Imagining America is a national initiative dedicated to supporting the civic work of university artists, humanists and designers.

Many participating colleges and universities will fund the first round of project grants for campus/community collaborative work in their institutions beginning in the fall of 1999. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is also preparing a grant program to supplement those of the colleges and universities. These projects will form the core of a new national initiative.

Imagining America plans three initial programs linked by annual conferences, workshops, newsletters, and the Internet:

? campus and community collaborations in design and planning; and

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Imagining America

Thursday, Room 450 – Old Executive Office Building

8:00 a.m. Coffee and continental breakfast

8:30-9:45 Opening Session

Welcoming remarks

President Lee C. Bollinger, University of Michigan

Ellen McCulloch Lovell, White House Millennium Council Director

President Robert Weisbuch, Woodrow Wilson National

Fellowship Foundation

Chairman William Ferris, National Endowment for the Humanities

Chairman William Ivey, National Endowment for the Arts

Secretary Richard Riley, Department of Education

9:45-10:15 Break

A display of materials about community/campus partnerships in arts,

humanities, and design will be on view.

10:15-11:45 College and University Presidents’ Panel and Discussion

Moderator: Lee C. Bollinger, University of Michigan

11:45-12:15 Public Benefits of the Arts and Humanities: Expanding the Vision

Gail Leftwich, Federation of State Humanities Councils

Jonathan Katz, National Association of State Arts Agencies

12:15-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Best Practices Panel and Discussion

Moderator: David Scobey, University of Michigan

Liz Lerman, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange

Baraka Sele, New Jersey Performing Arts Center

Dolores Hayden, Yale University

Robert Hass, University of California – Berkeley

3:00-3:30 What’s Next? Closing Remarks

3:30-4:30 Associations Huddle: Strategies for Program-Building

Moderator: Julie Ellison, University of Michigan

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