The Program : Goals

"Making a management choice can help a group-'to reinvest the rhetoric of its early enthusiasms with the wisdom of its painful adolescence; to measure how far it can go by how far it has come; and to choose-'to make management work for it, not as a medicine for the future, but as a strategy for survival."

                                                                                                               -- Joan Jeffri, Arts Money , 12.

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The Program in Arts Administration strives to integrate four issues to help professionals meet the challenges of the coming decades: an increased understanding of the arts, the role of the arts in education, the business of the arts and arts law. Questions about the long-term health of arts organizations, their missions, governance, management, sources of income and tax regulations continue to be important issues for today’s leaders to consider.

1. Train new leaders to manage and administer arts and culture venues
2. Raise the standards of arts administration to a new level of social responsibility
3. Broaden the horizons of arts educators, facilitating their interactions with the arts community
4. Give arts educators new management and administrative tools
5. Strengthen advocacy roles for artists
6. Provide the theoretical and practical preparation for students whose professional objective is a career in arts administration, arts education or a combination of the two

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