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Joseph Andrew Canter
"Ultimately, I hope that an increased focus on the arts can both challenge our minds to feel new emotions and help individuals express the wonders and difficulties of life."
- Alumni of: 2003 Graduate Scholarship Program
- Resides: Greenbelt, MD
- Hometown: Maryland
- Age: 29
- Four-year College or University: University of Maryland
- Graduate School: Harvard University
- Academic/Career Pursuits: Lawyer / Legal Scholar, Nonprofits, Public Policy, Public Services
- Other Interests: Performing Arts / Theatre, Volunteer Work, Music
Biography
Andrew Canter loves music and wants to bring it to greater prominence in American society. He writes eloquently about the synthesis of a composer's mind and a performer's body, of 100 minds and hearts working together in concert, and of how individuals can combine to transcend their solitary existence to make an extraordinary artistic statement. Although he plays the trumpet, Andrew will make his primary contribution not as a performer, but through involvement in domestic social policy, ideally as the head of an arts organization, advocacy group, or university arts center.
Andrew has already been involved in the kinds of tough decisions policy makers face. As the student member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland, he represented the state's 125,000 students on all matters of University System governance; housing, academic issues, and tuition and fees. He wrestled with having to cast a vote to increase tuition for all students by 5 percent or laying off 550 employees, noting that choosing between "bad" and "worse" doesn't provide a sense of accomplishment.
As the chair of the University Senate Committee on Student Conduct, Andrew developed policy for the University Code of Student Conduct and the Code of Academic Integrity. He heard and decided all University expulsion and suspension appeals. The next year, as chair of the Student Honor Council, Andrew was responsible for all academic programming and public relations, resolving over 250 cases of academic dishonesty, implementing a new Honor Pledge, and deciding all academic integrity appeals.
During the 2003-2004 academic year, Andrew will participate in the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs at the Coro Center for Civic Leadership in Pittsburgh. He was one of 52 students chosen to participate from nearly 300 candidates who want to translate their ideas into action for improving their own communities. The experiential leadership training program introduces young public servants to all aspects of the public affairs arena through field assignments, site visits, interviews, and individual and group projects and consultancies.
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