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Founded in 1975, South Arts is one of six not-for-profit, regional arts organizations (RAO's) funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The NEA's House reauthorizing committee encouraged the development of RAO's in 1973 to create a more effective mechanism for delivering services, especially those related to touring and presenting the performing arts.
Founded in 1915, University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) is a higher education association non-profit which focuses on professional, continuing, and online higher education. UPCEA serves more than 400 institutions, including most of the leading public and private colleges and universities in North America.
NASAA advocates for federal funding for the arts and aims to protect that portion of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant budget that is dedicated to state arts agencies. It provides national representation for state arts agencies NASAA monitors state arts agency trends and documents the scope and impact of state arts agency ...
The National Endowment for the Arts was created during the term of President Lyndon B. Johnson under the general auspices of the Great Society.According to historian Karen Patricia Heath, "Johnson personally was not much interested in the acquisition of knowledge, cultural or otherwise, for its own sake, nor did he have time for art appreciation or meeting with artists."
The US Regional Arts Organizations (US RAO) are six not-for-profit entities created to encourage development of the arts and to support arts programs on a regional basis. . Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, membership dues, and various enterprises, these organizations, which include Arts Midwest, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, New England Foundation for ...
Georgia is refusing to provide state funding for the new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies, so some school districts have cancelled plans to teach the course to high schoolers.
The University System of Georgia (USG) is the organizational body that includes 26 public institutions of higher learning in the U.S. state of Georgia.All public schools are partially supported by the state legislature.
National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, 524 U.S. 569 (1998), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act, as amended in 1990, (20 U.S.C. § 954(d)(1)), was facially valid, as it neither inherently interfered with First Amendment rights nor violated constitutional vagueness principles.