The Elkins Park campus, devoted exclusively to Art, has provided a focused, intense, contemplative and relaxed atmosphere for studio art, didactic education and art exhibitions for generations of Tyler students and faculty. Additionally, Tyler became a major cultural asset for the Cheltenham Township community. During the last two decades, the character of the surrounding areas changed as urban development replaced suburban and rural countryside. An even higher velocity of change in the future is anticipated. No academic discipline or site is immune to these pressures.
None exists in isolation.
Tyler is being affected by these changes. Provost England's March 1997 Proposal to Move Tyler to the Main Campus Noting those realities and mindful of the capital investments needed over the next decade to upgrade the Elkins Park campus and to preserve Tyler's excellence, University Provost James W. England in March 1997 recommended that Tyler be relocated to the University's flagship Main Campus. Tyler would join the University's other excellent performing and visual arts programs already located and flourishing together on Main. These are the Esther Boyer College of Music, the Department of Theater, and the Department of Dance. Dynamic synergism would flow from these four excellent programs physically housed in a two-block area on Main.