An integrative initiative in creative work & learning.

Projects: Undergraduate Creativity Research Project (UCRP)

Arts on Earth is committed to enhancing creativity through the arts across the U-M campus. Aware that "creativity" is a holy grail in many disciplines, Arts on Earth has convened a group of faculty from 14 different units who are interested in studying classroom practices that enhance and inhibit undergraduate creativity. While a great deal of research has been done on creativity in different populations, very little has been done on university undergraduates; furthermore, "creativity" is defined in very different ways across disciplines. The UCRP group is meeting monthly, with faculty from different units presenting relevant definitions, research findings, and best practices in order to establish a common knowledge base. The UCRP's ultimate aim is to develop classroom tools that can help enhance creativity in across campus. Since its inception, the School of Education and the Center for Creative Research on Learning and Teaching have partnered with Arts on Earth in this undertaking.

Units and faculty involved are as follow:

School of Education - Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar, Brian McCall (Professor of Economics, & Public Policy), Cathy Reischl
Center for Entrepreneurship - Doug Neal, Managing Director
Center for Research on Learning and Teaching - Crisca Bierwert
Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning - Sophia Psarra
College of Engineering - Tony England, Thomas Zurbuchen, Aileen Huang-Saad (also Asst. Director, Center for Entrepreneurship), Scott Fogler
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Department of Psychology - Jacque Eccles, John Hagen, Fiona Lee (also Assoc. Professor of Business), Colleen Seifert, Priti Shah
Institute for Social Research - Richard Gonzalez (also Professor of Marketing, Psychology, & Statistics)
School of Art & Design - Shaun Jackson (also Professor of Architecture, & Business)
Ross School of Business - Wallace Hopp, William Lovejoy, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks (also Institute for Social Research)
Medical School, Biological Chemistry Department - Stephen Ragsdale
Medical School, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Jeffrey Evans
School of Music, Theatre & Dance - Mark Clague, Walter Everett, Betty Anne Younker
Program in Society and Medicine - Joel Howell, Director (also Professor of History, Health Services Management and Policy, & Internal Medicine)
Office of the Vice President for Research - Marvin Parnes