Today CAN brings you a new essay that presents a dilemma: There is tension between community arts and the academy. Who are the experts? In "What’s Good Enough? Excellence and Expertise in Community Arts Training," artist Jerri Allyn, former director of ACT: Artists, Community and Teaching at Otis College of Art and Design, claims "Higher Ed thinks it's got the upper hand with scholarship and research. The trend in colleges and universities toward rigorous standards and measured learning outcomes, however, does not reflect the visceral, organic process and excitement that can happen between professors and students, either in a classroom of engaged participants learning together or in the field making new discoveries." She contrasts her experience teaching in higher ed with training programs in the field, such as the Blues Camp at Centrum: A Gathering Place for Artists in Port Townshend, Wash. This essay is part of Community Arts Perspectives, a publication of the Community Arts Convening and Research Project, Vol. II, Issue 4. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham