Jack Megan, director of Harvard's Office for the Arts, leads a 50-person staff of instructors and administrators whose mission is to develop student participation and direct involvement in the arts, and to integrate creative thinking and expansion into undergraduate learning.States Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers, "The achievements of members of the Harvard community in the arts – in dance, drama, music and the visual arts – are enormously important intellectual achievements that are as serious and as significant as achievements that we strive for in philosophy or in science or in any other field."