USC has established an Arts Institute to encourage collaboration among the arts disciplines and to make the University's cultural arts more visible to students and the community.
English professor Kwame Dawes has been named director of the new initiative, which has received the backing of Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and Tayloe Harding, dean of the School of Music.
USC's Arts Institute is based on a model program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. With a budget of $225,000 per year for four years, the institute will encourage and oversee interdepartmental projects in the arts, create programs to make arts a more vital part of student life, and launch a Web site that will pull together all arts-related activities, events, and outreach for easy access by the community.
As the state's flagship university, USC has played a vital role in the development of arts in South Carolina through its numerous and varied programs, which enrich, inspire, and entertain, and through its graduates who enhance the cultural arts in communities statewide.
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