Advocacy
Higher Education
CAA monitors and takes action on government regulations affecting higher education, including the promotion and use of technologies such as communications to facilitate distance learning.CAA further encourages and supports those groups and activities, inside and outside of this Association, that set themselves the task of elevating the standards of teaching and curricula, of improving the materials of teaching, and of generally advancing the cause of learning in the arts at the secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels.
New National Project to Examine Impact of Arts Training
May 2008
The Strategic National Arts Alumni Project will examine factors that help or hinder the careers of graduates of arts high schools, arts colleges and conservatories, and arts schools and departments within universities. Click here to read more. Participate in the 2008 Global Candlelight Vigil
March 2008
Saving Antiquities for Everyone (SAFE) and Donny George, former director of the Iraq Museum and former president of the Iraq State Board of Antiquities, invite you to participate in the 2008 Global Candlelight Vigil to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2003 looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. Click here to read more. Fisk Museum Barred from Selling Artworks
February 2008
A Tennessee judge has barred Fisk University from selling works of art from its Stieglitz Collection. For two years, university officials have been trying to sell paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, and more in hopes of raising millions of dollars to help the financially troubled school. Click here to read more. Art Deaccessioning at Randolph College
November 2007
Preserve Educational Choice, a nonprofit organization, has launched an effort to raise funds for the required bond to meet a Virginia Supreme Court injunction against the sale of art by the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College. Click here to read more. Proposed Randolph College Art Collection Sale
October 2007
CAA releases a statement on the sale of the four paintings from the permanent collection of the Maier Museum of Art, at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia. Click here to read more. AAUP Report on Nontenured Faculty
March 2007
In a report issued December 11, 2006, the American Association of University Professors reported that contingent faculty are increasing in number at institutions of higher education. Click here to read more. British School of Archaeology in Iraq Appeal
March 2007
The British School of Archaeology in Iraq has made an appeal to raise funds to expand programs for Iraqi scholars, museums, and universities. Click here to read more. MLA Report on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion
March 2007
On December 7, 2006, the Modern Language Association's (MLA) Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion released its long-awaited report. Click here to read more. Adjunct Professors Union Upheld in Court
March 2007
On November 27, 2006, a federal appeals court upheld a January 2006 ruling from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regarding the unionization of part-time professors at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Click here to read more. South African Researcher Deported
January 2007
Adam Habib, a researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, was deported upon his arrival in the United States in October. Click here to read more. Judge Demands Decision on Visa
July 2006
A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to decide by September whether to approve an entry visa for Tariq Ramadan, a prominent but controversial Muslim scholar in Europe. Click here to read more. Resolution Regarding Collective Bargaining Rights of Graduate Student Teaching and Research Assistants
February 2005
The following resolution was approved by the CAA membership the Annual Business Meeting on February 18, 2005, during the 93rd Annual Conference in Atlanta. Click here to read more. Student Arts-Advocacy Group Launched
September 2003
Within the arts field, new voices need to be heard. The next generation of scholars and artists is eager to contribute to promoting a broader awareness of the role and the importance of the arts in our lives. Founded in 2002, Student Advocates for the Arts (SAA) is a grassroots network of students and alumni working for positive change in the arts sector nationwide. SAA holds the firm conviction that it can make a difference as active participants in this country’s democratic system. Their mission is to empower student voices to influence legislation and policy affecting the arts. We provide educational tools and a platform to engage in critical debate of arts advocacy issues. Click here to read more. Congress Passes TEACH Act
January 2003
A critical distance-education legislation, the Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act, has now passed both houses of Congress as an amendment to the Justice Department reauthorization bill (H.R. 5512). President Bush is expected to sign H.R. 5512 soon, and the TEACH Act will go into effect immediately. Click here to read more. House Judiciary Committee Votes on TEACH Act
July 2002
On July 17, 2002, the House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the Technology Harmonization and Education Act (TEACH Act). If enacted, this legislation will make it easier for accredited nonprofit educational institutions to use copyrighted material for instruction without securing a copyright holder’s specific permission. The TEACH Act will allow distance-education providers to show portions of movies, plays, and dramatic works, and transmit nondramatic literary and musical works digitally. Click here to read more. Arts-Education PSA Campaign Launches
March 2002
CAA is supporting a major national public service advertisement (PSA) campaign entitled “Art. Ask for More,” launched by Americans for the Arts and the Advertising Council to promote arts education. CAA joins more than 290 arts organizations in all fifty states that will help promote this campaign. The campaign, its production, and outreach have been made possible by a $1 million grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, which helped to leverage additional resources.Click here to read more.
Coalition on the Academic Work Force
November 1998
At the November 1998 meeting the Board approved the Academy’s participation in the Coalition on the Academic Work Force (CAW) and endorsed its Statement of Purpose. With this, the AAR joins a growing number of American Council of Learned Society organizations and others concerned with the state of the academic work force, particularly adjunct and temporary faculty, and the quality of higher education. Click here to read more. 