Dear Colleagues,
I wanted to follow up on Provost Inboden’s earlier message about Bob Bursey’s new role as vice provost for the arts, where he will oversee Texas Performing Arts and the Blanton Museum of Art and elevate the arts as a core institutional strength for The University of Texas at Austin.
As part of this change, Texas Performing Arts will be separating from the College of Fine Arts as it moves to the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost. I want to reassure our faculty and staff that support for our academic needs will continue. We expect this coming year to be business as usual with TPA’s support for our academic productions, and we will be working through a memorandum of understanding to codify this support for our academic units for the long term.
While this will mean some operational changes for our relationship with TPA, I believe this change will help us focus our portfolio on our academic strengths in the college and create new opportunities to further engage students and integrate the arts across teaching, research and public service at the University.
Sincerely,
