The Art Department values and encourages scholarship that supports and expands discipline-specific knowledge and skills necessary for creative production, critical engagement in the life of the discipline, instruction of the highest quality, and integration of the institutional mission with cultural and social issues. We honor and encourage varied, experimental, and integrative approaches to this work, especially that which:

• arises from and/or feeds back into classroom activities
• encourages collaboration with peers, students and community
• involves faculty and professionals in the art world, which reflects the highest standards of the profession and discipline as recognized by experts and peers In the field
• fosters commitment to diversity