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Collective for Art & Design Education
The Chalk and Compass Collective for Art & Design Education is a learning and resource community for people working to build stronger, more sustainable creative institutions.
Here, you’ll find practical tools, original research, courses, recordings, templates, and opportunities to connect with colleagues who understand the wonderfully specific challenges of art and design higher education. It is a space to ask difficult questions, exchange ideas, and find thoughtful ways forward without having to translate the value or culture of creative education first.
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A Compass for Creative Value:
How Art and Design Colleges Can Use Data to Understand Institutional Health, Demonstrate Impact, and Make Better Decisions
If art and design colleges don’t measure their own value, others will measure it for us (and probably with the wrong ruler).
Chalk and Compass’s new report, A Compass for Creative Value, offers a practical framework for showing the value of creative education without flattening it into a single earnings number.
The report explores what conventional data sees, what it misses, and how art and design colleges can build a fuller picture across three essential layers.
Inside, you’ll find a six-step process, a twelve-measure program health dashboard, illustrative examples, and a readiness checklist for institutions preparing for a more data-demanding era as well as accompanying worksheets.
This is independent nonprofit research created specifically for art and design higher education because our institutions deserve tools built around the careers our graduates actually lead and the value creative education truly creates.
Download A Compass for Creative Value and accompanying worksheets and help support the next Chalk and Compass research project.
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