The Contest for American Culture: A Leadership Case Study on the NEA and NEH Funding Crisis

The Contest for American Culture: A Leadership Case Study on the NEA and NEH Funding Crisis

Cynthia M. Koch
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 31
ISBN13: 9781522525813|ISBN10: 1522525815|EISBN13: 9781522525820
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2581-3.ch001
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Koch, Cynthia M. "The Contest for American Culture: A Leadership Case Study on the NEA and NEH Funding Crisis." Funding Challenges and Successes in Arts Education, edited by Siu Challons-Lipton and Richard Emanuel, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 1-31. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2581-3.ch001

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Koch, C. M. (2018). The Contest for American Culture: A Leadership Case Study on the NEA and NEH Funding Crisis. In S. Challons-Lipton & R. Emanuel (Eds.), Funding Challenges and Successes in Arts Education (pp. 1-31). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2581-3.ch001

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Koch, Cynthia M. "The Contest for American Culture: A Leadership Case Study on the NEA and NEH Funding Crisis." In Funding Challenges and Successes in Arts Education, edited by Siu Challons-Lipton and Richard Emanuel, 1-31. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2581-3.ch001

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Abstract

This chapter is an account of the 1995 funding crisis that was written in 1998 when Koch was working at the University of Pennsylvania for the Penn National Commission on Culture and Community (PNC). The PNC was a “think tank” organized by then-university President Judith Rodin to find solutions to problems of failures of leadership, fragmentation of communities, and a culture of intolerance that plagued our public discussions and behavior. The article is, therefore, an analysis of the political and journalistic trajectory that led to the crisis of 1995 and its immediate aftermath.

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