You would think something has to turn around soon with so many expanding programs. Some people say the significant difference is public vs. private. This small town is home to 2 private colleges though and the other school, Carleton, has always had a larger endowment and higher tuition but they have also recently downsized. Word is that they were used to decades of relying on their huge endowment, which took a major hit. My understanding is that we rely more on a balanced year to year budget, which is ok. Not impressive, but ok. No raise last year but this year I got a decent 2.5%. Nobody has lost a job here due to recession. Dennis Johnson On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Paul T Williams < pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote: > Ours is expanding rapidly as well. We did, 2 years ago eliminate one > position in SOM; instrument technician, which scared me to death!! it's > outsourced to a local dealer and seems to be working well. They also > eliminated the house manager for the main- School of Music Recital Hall, > Kimball Hall, which shocked everybody after her 17 years of service; the job > duties were dived up amongst our SOM general manager, and several GTA's to > control the set up and tear down of the stage. This also made me very > nervous on my position. > > The communication to get things where they need to be at the right time is > still a challenge, but is getting better. For instance, I moved the > harpsichord, by my self this morning from our music building to Kimball to > find that the previous evening's set up was still on stage, and the Steinway > D that was supposed to be there for that day's rehearsal tuning first thing > in the morning was not there.. It, of course, wasn't there, but I at least > had time to tune the harpsichord. This sort of thing has happened many > times, where it never happened before. I had no time to tune for 3 faculty > recitals last year due to this stuff. (I'm still batting 95% of getting > everything ready, so....not bad) > > Our former instrument tech is doing better independantly now than he did > here! Just no benefits. So it's probably a wash, but at least he didn't > lose his home, Harley, or new car he bought just before the hammer came > down! (Too far extended, I thought even at the time) > > The former stage manager, however, is having a hell of a time getting > something going. I wish her luck! > > Above all, our School of Music has been growing in leaps and bounds since I > started here in 2006. We just added a new Digital Arts Professor position, > reconstructed several areas to expand this venture, and did a lot of > reconfiguring spaces to make this happen; And, the Jazz Dept has really > made some great strides in expanding, which I really like! You should hear > our new bass professor, Jeffry Eckles, from North Texas: Outstanding!!! > It's been a great success so far. I'm busier than ever, so I guess that's a > good thing! (no raises for two years now.....) > > Paul > > > > > > > > > > From: > Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> > To: caut at ptg.org Date: 10/12/2010 01:40 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] cutting > departments > ------------------------------ > > > > On Oct 12, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Laurence Libin wrote: > > > The linked article and comments have important implications for > > techs. Be prepared! > > Laurence > > > Here at UNM it seems like the liberal arts and humanities > may be > stagnating or shrinking, but the performing arts, especially music and > film, are expanding rapidly. Studio art as well. > What worries me is the collapse of the dealer networks and > retail > market. When I started in the business 30 years ago, Albuquerque had > several full size dealers: Steinway/Wurlitzer, Baldwin (two stores), > Kimball (two stores), Yamaha, plus smaller concerns selling Young > Chang, Everett, Lowrey/Story & Clark (shopping mall), not counting > some folks selling used instruments. All were locally owned and > reasonably prosperous. Today, the latest Steinway dealer is going out > of business, and once it is gone we will be left with a fairly new > store selling Yamaha, Schimmel and generally top end grands, a mall > store selling Chinese product, and a small concern selling digitals > and stocking one or two Kawai acoustics. Period. No used, no nothing > else. In those 30 years, Albuquerque metro has at least tripled in > population. That is downright sobering. > > Regards, > Fred Sturm > fssturm at unm.edu > http://www.createculture.org/profile/FredSturm > http://www.youtube.com/fredsturm > http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101012/a5e4ce50/attachment-0001.htm>
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