SNAAP at IU receives national grants for research

FROM IDS REPORTS

The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded two grants to the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project based at IU for the continuation of its work.
SNAAP is based at the IU Center for Postsecondary Research, a center of the IU School of Education.
According to a press release, SNAAP has surveyed more than 100,000 arts alumni from about 300 American institutions. Surveys include questions on both the educational experiences and career outcomes of each respondent, including relevance of arts training, resource needs, job satisfaction, income and debt.
The first grant, worth $20,000, will support a college senior exit survey of both arts and non-arts majors.
The exit survey will be administered as part of the National Survey of Student Engagement, the country’s largest survey of undergraduate experiences.
The new study aims to looks at the relationship between undergraduates’ arts or non-arts training and the development of workforce skills, such as creative problem–solving or entrepreneurship.
“With this project, we hope to begin to answer the question of how the skills and career aspirations of graduating seniors who major in the arts compare and contrast with their peers in non-arts subjects,” SNAAP director Sally Gaskill said in the release.
The second grant, worth $30,000, goes to support the second “3 Million Stories” conference, which will be directed by SNAAP partner Arizona State University.
“Ultimately, SNAAP is about telling the stories of the 3 million graduates in the U.S. today,” Gaskill said.

Anu Kumar