The Creative Campus: Who’s No. 1?
By STEVEN J. TEPPER
I have not, nor has anyone as far as I know, ever tried to measure the creative environment of American colleges. At least in terms of direct measures, I remain agnostic on the question of how creative we are within the walls of academe. But I do believe that we need some way to compare where creativity is flourishing and where it is languishing. Read More
By happenstance and then by design, the Centre for Creativity and Innovation began working with a group of high-performing (measured objectively), highly creative (and recognized by others), diverse organizations based in Boise. As many of us know from living in Boise, Idaho, it’s one of America’s “best cities” – to start a business, for high quality of life, for cycling, for being an entrepreneur…. And on top of that, we have unique creative organizations in a wide range of what might seem like completely dissimilar fields – from dance to law enforcement, software to football. To find such creative organizations in America’s “most remote city,” (five hours by car from the nearest metropolitan area), in a state with fewer than 2 million people, that is larger than the former West Germany, may surprise some. But not those of us who live there. Read More
Twelve Master of Science in Real Estate Management students from Dresden, Germany, just wrapped up a weeklong residency in Boise to learn about commercial real estate development in the United States. The third annual event was presented by Boise State’s Centre for Creativity & Innovation in the College of Business and Economics, in cooperation with the Europäisches Institut für postgraduate Bildung an der Technischen Universität Dresden e. V. — EIPOS. Read More
