(Aired Tues 10/28/25)
When what we now call the Arts-Based Collaborative here on our campus - the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - was formed in 1987, it was established as the Southeast Center for Education in the Arts - or SCEA.
The acronym encapsulates the goals that remain to this today for the Collaborative.
- Support academic and social emotional learning needs through an arts-based approach to teaching and learning.
- Cultivate a roster of visual and performing artists that connects our area's creative community with learning needs across multiple fields and disciplines.
- Empower communities to collaborate from a place of strength to close opportunity gaps in the arts.
- Activate pathways for ongoing professional learning opportunities in and through the arts.
Lee Harris, now a professor of music education here at UTC, joined this campus in 1995 - thirty years ago - as Music Director of what is today abc@utc.
