
From ATHE's official website:
The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) is a comprehensive non-profit professional membership organization. Founded in 1986, ATHE serves the interests of its diverse individual and organizational members, including college and university theater departments and administrators, educators, graduate students, and theater practitioners. n advocate for the field of theater and performance in higher education, ATHE serves as an intellectual and artistic center for producing new knowledge about theater and performance-related disciplines, cultivating vital alliances with other scholarly and creative disciplines, linking with professional and community-based theatres, and promoting access and equity.
