Team: Alan Brown, Steven J. Tepper
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation) invested $3.5M across two rounds of Creative Campus Innovations grants. Fourteen campus presenters received $100–$200K to do something deceptively simple and quietly radical: move the arts from the margins to the center of academic life.