Carroll College of Arts and Sciences
Le Moyne’s intellectual liberal arts hub.
Award-winning faculty. Wide-ranging degree and academic programs. Part-time study options. An academic nucleus for both graduate and undergraduate students.
Le Moyne’s Carroll College of Arts and Sciences is home to:
- Nearly 30 majors and more than 20 minors
- Courses ranging from Writing 101 to honors seminars to organic chemistry to calculus
- Two Academic Centers
- Philosophers, cutting-edge scientists, radio show hosts and best-seller wanna bes
Meet Travis Newton, Interim Dean
With a career that has included work as an arts and higher education administrator, musician, and faculty member, Dr. Travis Newton serves as interim Dean of the Carroll College of Arts and Sciences at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY.
Previously, he served as director of the Le Moyne College music program, leading the program through a period of renewal and growth. He also founded the College’s undergraduate and graduate arts administration programs, successfully preparing students for careers at such varied not-for-profit institutions as the Manhattan School of Music, the San Diego Zoo, the National Museum for African American Music, Barrington Stage, and Cornell University.
Prior to his current role as interim Dean, Travis served as associate professor and chair of the department of visual and performing arts, facilitating the work of dozens of faculty and hundreds of students to further integrate the arts into the culture of the Le Moyne College campus, and to engage with the broader Syracuse community.
Dr. Newton’s research is focused on orchestra management and the relationship between professional symphony orchestras and their communities. In 2022, Oxford University Press published his Orchestra Management Handbook. His work has also been published in the Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society, American Journal of Arts Management, Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, and book chapters published by Routledge and Oxford University Press, including a co-authored chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Arts and Cultural Management. Dr. Newton previously served as an officer of the Association of Arts Administration Educators Board of Directors and as a board member of Classical Kids Music Education, and he currently serves on the board of the Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music, as well as Social Theory, Politics, & the Arts (STP&A).
As an arts administrator, his previous experience includes serving as Operations Director of The Florida Orchestra in Tampa Bay, managing the 74-member orchestra’s daily operations,
including approximately 200 rehearsals and concerts each season. Travis also served in numerous roles at the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, including Operations Manager, Education Manager, and Director of Community Engagement.
Travis has played and conducted more than 500 performances of Broadway musicals across the U.S. and Canada as well as multiple guest conducting appearances with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and Central New York’s professional orchestra, The Syracuse Orchestra (formerly Symphoria). He is a frequent guest conductor of all-county and area all-state orchestras, and has performed as section violinist with the orchestras of Syracuse, Charleston and Greensboro, as well as the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra at Eastern Music Festival, where he previously served as a faculty member. He is also the co-creator of Kafka’s Metamorphosis: The Musical! With Puppets!, which has received dozens of performances, including the New York Musical Festival and a recent month-long run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The GRAMMY-winning label Broadway Records released a recording of the show, produced by Dr. Newton, in July 2019.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in music performance (violin) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, an MBA from Le Moyne College, and a Ph.D. in Arts Administration from the
University of Kentucky.
