Piano Lab budget (was [CAUT] Econ Article)

[Fred Sturm]

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Hi Richard,
     Responding to your particular query about piano labs, our  
department has a course fee for group piano courses for that precise  
purpose. It paid for the current equipment (Rolands, beginning as a  
hybrid loan program in which we bought an instrument or two each  
semester), and builds up now to pay for any maintenance and  
replacement as needed.
     Course fees, course fees, course fees - we couldn't function  
without them. We have one college wide (College of Fine Arts,  
including theater, dance, art and art history as well as music)  
devoted to "technology" (used for computer labs, for staff to take  
care of computers, for software, for LCD projectors, etc); one  
applied to all music department courses, dedicated to acoustic piano  
replacement and maintenance; various fees attached to individual  
courses or programs, with money collected dedicated to those courses  
or programs (eg, jazz history uses its fees to have a couple live  
performances each semester, as well as for purchase of recorded  
music; orchestra pays for rental of parts and scores, guest  
conductors and soloists, extra musicians to fill needed parts). I  
have mixed feelings about the principle of "socking it to the  
student" at a "state-sponsored" institution, but as a practical  
matter, course fees have transformed our department from unbearable  
to "quite reasonable, thank you very much."
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm@unm.edu
  "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to  
shape it."
Bertolt Brecht


On Oct 31, 2005, at 9:32 AM, Richard Murphy wrote:

> Hi Wim,
>         How about a budget.  Is there anyway to have monies  
> building up over a period of years to replace the piano labs when  
> all the pianos start to die at about the same time.  Equipment  
> requests are a yearly yes or no and when we get a no, then the  
> piano lab continues to fall apart yet for another entire academic  
> year.  The justification for this equipment seems obvious to  
> everyone excepty the budget committee.
> Richard
>
>
> On 10/30/05 11:19 AM, "Wimblees@aol.com" <Wimblees@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> As a member of the Economic Affairs Committee, I've been asked to  
>> write an article about an economic concern CAUT's have. I am not  
>> sure what to write about, so I am asking you guy for suggestions.  
>> What concern do you guys have, besides your salary?
>>
>> Wim
>>
>>
>>
>


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