Steven Tepper

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About Steven Tepper

Steven J. Tepper is the dean, director and Foundation Professor at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University, the nation’s largest, comprehensive design and arts school at a research university. Tepper, a sociologist, is a leading writer and speaker on higher education and U.S. cultural policy and his work has fostered national discussions around topics of cultural engagement, creative work and careers, art and democracy, and the transformative possibilities of a 21st century creative campus. He is the author of "Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest Over Art and Culture in America"(University of Chicago, 2011) and co-editor and contributing author of the book "Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life"(Routledge 2007)."The Creative Campus: Who's Number 1", a cover story for the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2004, helped launch the creative campus movement across the US. He has published widely on the topic of education and careers, and his work has appeared in the Chronicle of HIgher Education, Inside HIgher Education, the Huffington Post, FastCompany, the Wall Street Journal, and more. Prior to ASU, Tepper was on the faculty at Vanderbilt University where he was a chief architect of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy, a national think tank for cultural policy and creativity. Tepper holds a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; a master's in public policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; and a doctorate in sociology from Princeton University.