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Research Progress Report: What’s Up with Self-Actualization?

While the term continues to be bandied about with some regularity, there does not appear to be one agreed-upon definition of self-actualization and there is a lack of empirical support for Maslow’s hierarchy.

Capsule Review: What Do Happy People Do?

This study looks at the relationships between different ways that people spend their time according to 34 years of data collection in the General Social Survey and how those activities relate to overall life satisfaction.

Core Research Process Update: July 2015

Progress on a follow-up article to “Why Don’t They Come?,” and research on the major changes that have taken place in the arts ecosystem over the last 50 years.

Interns Still Unpaid, For Now (And Other July Stories)

A new federal court decision could increase employer leeway around education-based internships.

Two Exciting New Partnerships

New collaborations with CultureLab and the Howard Gilman Foundation help move Createquity’s work forward.

Capsule Review: The Cultural Lives of Californians

“The Cultural Lives of Californians” is an attempt to model a different approach to cultural participation surveys.

Learning from “The Cultural Lives of Californians”

A new survey of Golden State residents has a few things to teach us about arts participation and how we measure it.

Charitable Giving on the Rise (and other June Stories)

Charitable donations to arts and culture in 2014 rose by 9.2%.

Core Research Process Update: June 2015

Since our last update, we’ve made additional progress investigating the connection between arts participation and economic disadvantage. We’ve reviewed two new sources and also done “deeper dives” on one of the publications that were a part of our original investigation. This brings our total bibliography on the topic to 35 sources thus far. Here are the updates:Read More

Capsule Review: A Closer Look at Arts Engagement in California

Title: A Closer Look at Arts Engagement in California Author(s): Jennifer Novak Leonard, Jaclyn Wong, Ned English Publisher: James Irvine Foundation Year: 2015 URL: https://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/sites/culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/files/SPPA_CA_Report_Jan2015.pdf Topics: arts participation Methods: Analysis of California respondents to the 2012 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts What it says: “A Closer Look at Arts Engagement in California” wasRead More

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