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Idea to send:	Topic Education Content With growing evidence that the arts can make significant contributions to students' learning and development, Oklahoma higher education students deserve a share of the rich cognitive benefits that the arts provide; college students could reap those benefits through an interdisciplinary, arts integrated core curriculum and classes. The work of the Oklahoma A+ program and arts integration schools have already made and continue to make significant strides in Oklahoma for primary and secondary education. Through an arts integration initiative at Oklahoma City University, the institution seeks to be the first Oklahoma post-secondary institution to embrace the arts integration format in a formalized way. The format focuses on student learning and engagement as well as the practice of the scholarship of teaching and learning. The potential of arts integration for the expansion, and more particularly, the bridging of methods of pedagogy from the secondary to post-secondary education have reached a critical juncture and higher education institutions in Oklahoma have the opportunity to set a precedent for education across the nation. An arts integration education has the potential for serving broad individual, social and economic goals; the cognitive benefits, attitudinal and behavioral benefits, health benefits, community-level social benefits and economic benefits research shows the arts have a significant impact at all educational levels. J. Palladino, R. Reed