Arts

Administrators

in Higher

Education

2026 Annual Meeting

The 2026 Annual Meeting will be held in New Haven, CT, at the Yale Schwarzman Center on June 10 – 13, 2026.

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2026 Annual Meeting

June 10-13, 2026 | New Haven, CT | Hosted by Yale Schwarzman Center | Register Today

Connect with colleagues, both familiar and new. Exchange ideas, successes, and best practices. Experience art at Yale and in New Haven. Join Us!

Tentative Schedule Overview (subject to change)

Wednesday, June 10

Afternoon

  • Optional Activities

Evening

  • Welcome Reception at BAR

Thursday, June 11

Morning

Afternoon

Evening

  • Summer at The Well Kickoff 
    • Mingling + live performance in The Well, YSC’s onsite bar

    Yale Schwarzman Center

    Friday, June 12

    Morning

    • Session on Community Engagement/Partnerships 

    Afternoon

    • Keynote Lunch featuring David Dorfman
    • Breakout Sessions
    • Professional Development: Emerging, Established, and Evolving Career Paths

    Evening

    Saturday, June 13

    All Day

    • Free time and Optional Activities

    Registration

    • Don’t miss out: REGISTER TODAY
    • Registration fee: $100 per person
      • Haven’t paid your membership dues this year? An optional $300 organizational membership dues add-on is available during registration. (Not required to register)
    • Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 27, but early registration helps us fine-tune the event.

    Hotel

    Past Meetings:

    The 2025 Annual Meeting was held in Philadelphia, PA, and hosted by The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation and the Platt Student Performing Arts House, May 28-30.

    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.