To support Art and Social Justice, an effort that includes the establishment of an ongoing role for community arts in the Tisch School and the development of local and national university/community arts networks so that knowledge can be shared among practitioners and theorists. The Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA) at New York University is one of the nation's leading centers of study in theater, theater design and lighting, drama, film, dance, cinema arts, dramatic writing, performance studies, photography, imaging, art and public policy and recorded music. In 1999 TSOA institutionalized its community based programming by creating a Department and a Center for Art and Public Policy and an Office of Community Connections. TSAO also uses its Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) to encourage students to create new forms of communication. ITP's goal is to train a new kind of professional, whose understanding of technology is informed by a strong sense of aesthetics and ethics. TSOA is seeking to place students in community arts internships; document its Youth and War Project, expand its website to include new resources; and gather materials for a new curriculum.