Program in Arts Administration

: Affirmative Action and Diversity; Affirmative action and diversity can serve as a powerful framework for helping arts management educators address the challenge of diversity in the arts. This article encourages arts management educators to use affirmative action and diversity to proactively recruit diverse students into academic degree programs., Keywords: affirmative action, arts management education, arts management theory and practice, culturally specific arts organizations, diversity, recruitment, Note: This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, © 2013 Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10632921.2013.786009. The article will be accessible 18 months after publication., Citation: Affirmative Action and Diversity: Implications for Arts Management. Antonio C. Cuyler. The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society. Vol. 43, Iss. 2, 2013

: Critical Issues for Research in Arts Management; To develop a more respectable image as a field of inquiry and employment, Dorn (1992) warned that Arts Management needed to create a body of knowledge through scholarly research. To accomplish Dorn’s goal, Arts Management should address three critical issues: (1) the need to establish a discipline and profession specific research agenda, (2) faculty preparedness to conduct and supervise research, and (3) student education in research, to guide the development of Research. Addressing these three issues will ensure Arts Management’s ability to benefit from and protect its intellectual capital while developing a reputation as a viable academic discipline and profession., Keywords: Arts Management education, Arts Management research, Discipline building, Research agenda, Systematic review, Publication Note: Publisher's Version also available at http://www.encatc.org/en/publications/online-journal/, Preferred Citation: Cuyler, A. C. (2014). Critical issues for research in Arts Management. ENCACT Journal of Cultural Management and Policy, 4(1), 12.

: Diversity Internships in Arts Management, do they work?; This participant-oriented evaluation answered the research question; does a diversity internship in arts management work by assessing if the Diversity Initiatives at Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts: 1) recruited culturally diverse interns, 2) provided quality professional development in arts management valued by participants of the diversity internship, and 3) placed and retained diverse interns in careers in arts management. Based on the perceptions of participants, this evaluation determined that the Diversity Initiatives at Wolf Trap works., Keywords: Arts administration, arts management, diversity, internship, participant-oriented evaluation, professional development, Publication Note: Publisher's version available at http://www.artsmanagementjournal.com/, Preferred Citation: Cuyler, A. C. (2015). Diversity internships in arts management, do they work? American Journal of Arts Management, 13.

: Effect of Diversity on U.S. Arts Managers' Managerial Level and Salary; This quantitative study investigated the research question, does diversity have an effect on U. S. arts managers’ managerial level and salary? The researcher defined diversity as disability, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, which all served as independent variables. By conducting an ordinal logistic regression analysis and a multiple regression analysis, the researcher determined that gender has an effect on arts managers’ managerial level, and in addition to disability has an effect on arts managers’ salary. Ethnicity and sexual orientation have no effect on arts managers’ managerial level or salary. These results have critical implications for the continued pursuit of diversity and inclusion in the U. S. Arts Management workforce., Keywords: Arts managers, Diversity, Managerial level, Salary, Publication Note: The publisher's version of record for this article is available at http://www.artsmanagementjournal.com/., Preferred Citation: Cuyler, A. (2017). The Effect of Diversity on U. S. Arts Managers' Managerial Level and Salary. American Journal of Arts Management, 5(1), 1-18.

: Exploratory Study of Demographic Diversity in the Arts Management Workforce; Publication Note: Publisher's Version can be found at http://www.giarts.org/, Preferred Citation: Cuyler, A. (2015). An exploratory study of demographic diversity in the Arts Management workforce. GIA Reader, 26(3), 16-19

: From Theory to Practice in the Ivory Tower; Amid public criticism about the academic nature of degree programs in Arts Management, the authors illustrate how degree programs contribute to professional practice and the financial impact of that practice through off-campus and on-campus internships. More importantly, this article offers Arts Management educators a new way for viewing experiential education in Arts Management by highlighting undocumented professional practice., Keywords: Arts Management education, Arts Management practice, Arts Management theory, Experiential Education, and Internships., Publication Note: Publisher's version available at http://www.artsmanagementjournal.com/, Preferred Citation: Cuyler, A. C., Hodges, A. R., & Hauptman, B. (2013). From theory to practice in the ivory tower: How degree programs in Arts Management contribute to professional practice. American Journal of Arts Management, 10.

: From the Student Side of the Ivory Tower; As internships play a critical role in arts and cultural management curricula, cultural organizations and academic programs need to remain aware of students' expectations of their internships. This cross-sectional international descriptive study addressed the following research question: What expectations do arts and cultural management students have of their internships? The study also investigated whether and how students' expectations differ across enrolment status and gender. The results have implications for how cultural organizations design and manage internships as well as how academic programs in arts and cultural management evaluate learning gained through internships, Publication Note: Publisher's version also available at http://search.proquest.com/docview/1685001547/fulltextPDF/388569CBBD2F470EPQ/1?accountid=4840, Preferred Citation: Cuyler, A. C., & Hodges, A. R. (2015). From the student side of the ivory tower: An empirical study of student expectations of internships in arts and cultural management. International Journal of Arts Management, 17(3), 68-79,94. Retrieved from https://login.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1685001547?accountid=4840

: Integrating Diversity into Arts Management Education; Demographic shifts have altered arts audiences throughout the world, an important external factor for educators to remain cognizant of as they prepare future arts managers (Johnson et al, n.d.; MetLife, 2011). This article advocates for and discusses teaching methodologies mindful of both diversity and multiculturalism. Educators are encouraged to infuse issues of diversity into their teaching to foster inclusion and cultural sensitivity in future arts managers. The teaching strategies outlined in this article are designed to help students develop the skills necessary to empathize with the lived experiences of the diverse populations served by arts organizations., Keywords: Diversity, Globalization, Inclusion, Multiculturalism, Preferred Citation: Heidelberg, B. M., & Cuyler, A. C. (2014). Integrating diversity into Arts Management education. American Journal of Arts Management, 10.

: Participant-Oriented Evaluative Case Study of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts Internship Program; For more than forty years, the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts has professionally prepared aspiring arts managers through its premier internship program. Until now, no empirical case study existed on a successful internship program in a cultural organization. Therefore, this participant-oriented evaluative case study answers two questions, (1) what best practices has the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts used to develop a successful internship program? In addition (2), why has the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts internship program been so successful? With answers to these questions, this study contributes to practice and will enhance the conceptualization, design, implementation, management, and planning of internship programs in cultural organizations., Publication Note: Publisher's Version available at http://www.artsmanagementjournal.com/, Preferred Citation: Cuyler, A. (2016). A participant-oriented evaluative case study of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts internship program. American Journal of Arts Management, 4(3), 1-18.

: Unresolved issues: Students' perception of internships in arts and cultural management; Based on 76 open-ended survey comments from arts and cultural management students, this study used content analysis to identify and describe unresolved issues with internships. The data revealed issues of concern including financial challenges, cultural organizations’ commitment, intern satisfaction, and distinguishing between graduate and undergraduate internship criteria and expectations. Identifying and describing students’ perceptions of these issues alert the field that improvement in these areas could lead to enhanced internship satisfaction and professional development for arts and cultural management students., Keywords: Internships, Arts and cultural management, students' perceptions, Preferred Citation: Cuyler, A. C., & Hodges, A. R. (2016). Unresolved issues: Students' perception of internships in arts and cultural management. ENCATC Journal of Cultural Management and Policy, 6(1), pp. 73-79.

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