2025 Annual Meeting

Simone Leigh’s Brick House, University of Pennsylvania

The 2025 annual meeting will be held in Philadelphia at the University of Philadelphia on Thursday and Friday, May 29 and 30, 2025, with a welcome dinner on Wednesday, May 28

Click Here to Register for the Meeting!

The hotel, Homewood Suites by Hilton, University City, will have a room block for the 28th – 31st. Please use this GROUP BOOKING LINK for reservations.

We can’t wait to see you all in Philly!

AAHE 2025 Annual Meeting Schedule (Tentative as of 4/7)

Wednesday, 5/28

5pm – 8pm: Arthur Ross Gallery Tour & Welcome Reception

- Common Press printing activity

Thursday, 5/29

9 – 9:30 AM: Coffee and Breakfast

9:30 – 10:30 AM: Point of Pride Roundtable

10:30 AM – Noon: Charting Your Career

*Noon – 1:30 PM: Keynote & Luncheon (live streamed)

- “Arts Leadership in Higher Ed: Navigating the Future” with:
  - Youngmoo Kim, Vice Provost for University and Community Partnerships, Drexel University
  - Leila W. Kinney, Executive Director of Arts Initiatives and MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  - Josh Kun, Vice Provost for the Arts at USC, and Professor and Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication at the USC Annenberg School

1:30 – 2PM: Break

*2 – 3:30 PM: AAHE Business Meeting (zoom available)

3:30 – 3:45 PM: Break

3:45- 4:45 PM: Breakout Sessions

- Funding & Grantmaking
- Community Engagement

4:45 – 5:45 PM: Walking Tour to Visit Art Centers

6 – 7:30 PM: Dinner (+ navigating the current moment, dinner discussion)

8 – 9:30 PM Late Night Activities and Socializing at Platt House

Friday, 5/30

9 – 9:15 AM: Coffee and Breakfast

9:15 – 10:15 AM: Breakout Sessions:

- Flourishing in Higher Education Arts Administration: Well-Being Across the Career Lifespan (a session with Sarah Sidoti, Humanities and Human Flourishing) (working title)
- Student Engagement

10:15 – 11:15 AM: Equity & Accessibility in the Arts

11:15 – 11:30 AM: Travel

11:30 AM – Noon: Tour WXPN Radio Station

Noon – 12:40 PM: WXPN Free at Noon Concert

1 – 2 PM: Lunch

2 – 3 PM: Closing Session

3 – 4 PM: Walking Public Art Tour

4 – 5 PM: Break

5 – 7:30 PM: Dinner

7:30 PM: Reception at Sachs Program Office

8 PM: Parsons Dance at Penn Live Arts

*An asterisk indicates that zoom or live-streaming will definitely be available for these sessions. We are exploring whether we can make more sessions available by zoom, as well.

Past Meetings:

The 2024 Annual Meeting was held in Boston, MA, and hosted by Brandeis and Suffolk, June 10-11.

AAHE members posed in front of "Oy/Yo", a Stanford public art installation

The 2023 Annual Meeting was held in Palo Alto, CA, and hosted by Stanford University from June 21-23, 2023

The 2022 Annual Meeting was held in Ann Arbor, and hosted by the University of Michigan from June 2-4, 2022

The 2021 Annual Meeting was held virtually from 8-10, 2021

The 2019 Annual Meeting was held in Chicago, and hosted by University of Chicago from May 30-31, 2019

The 2018 Annual Meeting was held in Atlanta, and hosted by Georgia Tech from June 22-23, 2018

The 2017 Annual Meeting was held in Los Angeles, and hosted by USC & UCLA from June 21-23, 2017

The 2020 Annual Meeting was held virtually, and hosted by University of Virginia from July 15-17, 2020

The 2016 Annual Meeting was held in Boston, and hosted by MIT on June 15

The 2015 Annual Meeting was held in Pittsburgh, and hosted by University of Pittsburgh on June 4-5

The 2014 Annual Meeting was held in Boston, June 2-3

The 2012 Annual Meeting was held in Ann Arbor, and hosted by University of Michigan, June 18-20

2011 Annual Meeting was held in Philadelphia, and hosted by University of Pennsylvania, March 11-12

2009 Annual Meeting was held in Princeton, and hosted by Princeton University, November 13-14

2008 Annual Meeting was held in Bethlehem, and hosted by Lehigh University, June 12-13

2007 Annual Meeting was held in Baltimore, and hosted by Johns Hopkins University, May 22-23

We began calling ourselves the Campus Arts Directors which we continued to use until November of 2009 when we selected the name Arts Administrators in Higher Education.

In March 2006 Eric Beatty (Johns Hopkins), Ty Furman (U Penn at the time, now Boston University) and Jack Megan (Harvard) hosted the first gathering at Harvard. In attendance were arts staff from Brandeis, Cal Tech, Dartmouth, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, U Penn and UVA.