Guidelines addendum

[Fred Sturm]

Mike,
	Certainly these are good points. My notion is to skew the whole thing
towards schools with consensus reputation, leaving the average ones
anonymous. The idea is to create peer pressure, and emulation of those
institutions which are above the common herd. I agree it would be nice
to categorize more finely, vis a vis performance oriented/education
oriented, number of majors, etc. But that seems a rather overwhelming
task. Something to work towards, but not something to accomplish by this
summer. 
	We really need to create and continually update a master database, with
a discrete and fairly easy to quantify set of parameters. I'm
considering this questionnaire, along with the CAUT survey, another
small step in that direction.
Fred

Michael Jorgensen wrote:
> 
> Hi Fred,
>      I think you should change the school classifications to be easier for
> technicians to select the correct classification without opinion or
> pride.  I wrote in some suggestions below.  The rest should be very
> interesting.
> 
> >
> > 2) Would you describe this institution as
> > a) Prestigious conservatory
> 
> This is probably ok because there are only a few which are all considered
> prestigious
> 
> >
> > b) Prominent music school
> 
> Should be just "School of Music".  I suspect all schools of music consider
> themselves "Prominent"
> 
> >
> > c) Music department of national reputation
> 
> > d) Average music department or other
> 
> Hard to know what average is or what constitutes a "national reputation"
> It would be easier if you classified them by the number of faculty  (full
> time/ rank, etc.) and majors, graduate programs and their mission.  Some
> are purely "education" oriented and some are oriented more toward applied
> music/performance sector.  This makes a substantial difference in how much
> the pianos are used.  The number of piano performance majors would be
> significant, also the number and type of concerts in a year would be
> important to understanding the school.
> 
> -Mike Jorgensen