Fred: Would any of this information about school size, faculty size etc. be available from NASM? dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 3/14/01 at 3:30 PM Fred Sturm wrote: >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 David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275
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