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About lindaessig

Linda Essig is Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Baruch College and principal/owner of Creative Infrastructure. The opinions expressed on Creative Infrastructure are her own and not those of Baruch College

On “Antiques Roadshow”

Posted on January 5, 2011 by lindaessig

I caught a few minutes of “Antiques Roadshow” the other night. Whenever I land on “Antiques Roadshow,” I’m reminded of an old episode of Frasier in which Frasier and his dad are arguing over what to watch on TV, not … Continue reading →

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What Paul Krugman and Arlene Goldbard have in Common

Posted on January 4, 2011 by lindaessig

In his Op-Ed piece Monday in the New York Times, Paul Krugman wrote, “A rational political system would long since have created a 21st-century version of the Works Progress Administration — we’d be putting the unemployed to work doing what … Continue reading →

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Hey, Where’d Your Creativity Go? (a personal answer)

Posted on January 4, 2011 by lindaessig

Over the past eight years, I’ve found myself designing fewer and fewer plays and instead devoting more and more professional time to administration/leadership/management and to research, all by my own choice.  It has now been two years since I last … Continue reading →

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Compete Less, Cooperate More

Posted on January 3, 2011 by lindaessig

I was catching up over the weekend on the December issue of American Theatre magazine, which had accidently gotten buried under a stack of guidebooks to Prague and Vienna.  I was struck by a short news piece about the new … Continue reading →

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Howard Gardner’s “Disciplined Mind,” or How to Teach Fishing

Posted on January 2, 2011 by lindaessig

I recently posted on the entrepreneurthearts blog connecting entrepreneurial habits of mind with Michael Kaiser’s New Year’s resolutions.   In the few days since, I not only launched this blog, but delved a bit deeper into Howard Gardner’s Five Minds for … Continue reading →

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First thoughts on arts, technology and education

Posted on January 1, 2011 by lindaessig

You’re likely to read a lot on this site about an arts entrepreneurship symposium that the program I work with, p.a.v.e., is hosting April 1-2.  But before that event happens, I’ve accepted an invitation from Southwestern University to participate in its … Continue reading →

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New Year, new blog

Posted on December 31, 2010 by lindaessig

I think a lot about the infrastructure that is needed to support creative work in the arts.  Some of that thinking led to and subsequently derives from my work in arts entrepreneurship education and is given voice in both scholarly … Continue reading →

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