Office of Academic Research

Center for Arts Policy. The Center advances policy ideas designed to democratize the arts, understand how they contribute to community vitality and the practice of democracy, use the arts to build community and develop the voices of all citizens, and provide full and inclusive opportunities for participation and expression.
Center for Asian Arts and Media. The Center is a multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to supporting, promoting, and presenting arts and media programs by and about Asians and Asian Americans.
Center for Black Music Research. The Center documents, preserves, and disseminates information on the world-wide black musical experience and fulfills the need for a consolidated approach to black music research that incorporates the arts and humanities.
Center for Community Arts Partnerships. The Center links the academic departments of the College with diverse communities throughout the city. It brings the concepts of community-based learning, arts-integrated curricula, and reciprocal partnerships into the spotlight.
Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media. The Institute works to deepen understanding and appreciation of how issues relating to women, gender, creativity, and community shape social policy, culture, and history. Within this framework, the Institute addresses ideas of access, representation, equity, and participation, as well as race and class, using the arts and media as a central means of research, engagement, public education, and advocacy. The Institute offers a wide range of public programs, including exhibitions, performances, and discussions, as well as fellowships, research residencies, and student-based curriculum intersections within the College.
Library. The Library supports the College and its academic programs by providing access to information resources and teaching students to evaluate and use them. It has a teaching mission, and is committed to preparing our users to be lifelong learners in an information rich society.
Museum of Contemporary Photography. The Museum presents and interprets photography in all its forms from art to journalism, nationally and internationally, from 1936 to the present. It holds 8,000 prints in its permanent collection.