WILL THE DOOR BE OPEN? Skidmore works, creative thought happens, because our community is both close-knit and open-minded. This is a place where students, faculty, and administrators listen to each other, collaborate on research and committees, and make decisions about campus life together. And people keep their doors open, literally and figuratively.

References

Books

• Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon Mackenzie
• The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
• Creating Minds and Changing the World: A Framework for the Study of Creativity by Howard Gardner
• The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius by Nancy Andreasen
• A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age by Daniel Pink
• The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas Friedman
• The Rise of the Creative Class and The Flight of the Creative Class both by Richard Florida
• Juicing the Orange by Pat Fallon and Fred Senn
• Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative by K. Robinson
• Re-imagine by Tom Peters

Articles

• “What Kind of Genius Are You?” By Daniel Pink, Wired, July 2006
•  “Using Art to Train Doctor’s Eyes by Randy Kennedy, New York Times, April 17, 2006
•  “Creating a Culture for Innovation” by Arthur Ellis, professor of chemistry, University of Wisconsin at Madison, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 14, 2006
•  “The Elusive Goal of Corporate Creativity” by Paul Brown, New York Times, July 2, 2006
•  “Where the Jobs Are” by Richard Alm and Nigel Holmes, New York Times, May 13, 2004
•  “Tufts Gets Creative on Admissions: Application Process will go Beyond SAT Scores and Seek Original Thinking” by Marcella Bombardieri, Boston Globe, July 6, 2006
•  “The Creative Campus: Who’s No. 1?” by Steven Tepper, The Chronicle for Higher Education, October 1, 2004
•  “Creativity Research Review: Some Lessons for Higher Education” by Tori Haring-Smith, president, Washington and Jefferson College, Spring 2006 peerReview, Association of American Colleges and Universities

Websites

• Compete.org - CEOs, university presidents, and labor leaders working together to promote creative competitiveness
  

Other

• The Rainbow Project, Robert Sternberg, lead researcher, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University
• MacArthur Foundation “genius grants”
• Task Forces on Creativity: University of Alabama
• Arts Czars: Columbia University, UNC Chapel Hill
• Trans-institutional or cross-domain centers: Vanderbilt University, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• The Virginia Ball Center for Creative Inquiry, Ball State