[TPIN] Jazz vs classical vs liberal arts vs athletics

[Glenn Bengry]

Maties,
 
I wonder if NU is dropping their Phd program in Physical Anthropology.  Or perhaps their  Phd program for Indo-European languages, or their graduate level Sanskrit course offerings.
 
    Seems to me their men's basketball program has less than 24 members and is fairly useless.  Dropping that should save them a lot of money  and some significant embarrassment.   If I needed to save some clams, there are a lot of places I should look besides the jazz degree.
How much to you have to pay an adjunct faculty as opposed to a full professor?
 
    Further, how many non-jazz majors take the courses offered for the jazz studies degree?  How many classical or non music majors play in the jazz groups?  How many non -jazz students take the improvisation classes?  The Jazz history?  How many jazz students take regular music department classes such as Theory, History, Applied lessons?  How many Liberal Arts classes do Jazz Studies majors take; English, Humanities, etc....  
 
     In the grand scheme, I'll bet it doesn't save them squat.
 
glenn
 
PS  I wish they would require that all 
their string players take a class in how 
to swing eighth notes. Most of them
suck eggs when they play any kind of 
Pops material. Modern day audience
building demands that orchestras be 
more versatile, but most  are pretty stiff.
They should put a pops tune on every 
string audition. 
 
 
PPS.  Rex Richardson who will play at the ITG
conference was good enough to get placed at
the top of some of the major ensembles as a 
freshman.  They put the upper classmen there
instead.  So Rex blew off the music department,
and got an Anthropology degree.  He now has
a music career as good or better than most 
NU grads of his era.  Maybe they should dump
the whole department.> On May 18, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Ellis Workman wrote:> > > It costs about 46K a year to study at NU...> >> > Even if costs were of no concern; if I were really interested in > > studying jazz is that where I would go? If one of my kids were > > interested in studying jazz is that where I would encourage them to > > go?> >> > Maybe there is no big conspiracy at all; perhaps NU decided that it > > would be better to have no jazz program at all than one that was > > not on an academic par with other programs -at the school.... just > > thinking out loud.> > Clearly, Northwestern was not offering a compelling option to > established jazz programs in other highly regarded music programs > that they compete with (Eastman, North Texas, and Indiana come to > mind, and I know there are many, many others). From what I know, NU > had been sort of limping along with a very modest sized jazz faculty > and a bunch of adjunct people to service a dozen or two dozen > students interested in investing almost $200,000 for an undergraduate > degree that might not even help them get a position in their field. > Anyone looking at what it would cost for NU to build a program that > could compete compete with those other schools would see that it > would require a huge, long term expense and commitment of both the > music school AND the university administration (thats where new > positions come from) to grow the program. Most universities are > facing difficult budget times and have to make many choices and > compromises to maintain the quality of their offerings. Maybe there > is no conspiracy at all. Maybe they simply decided to invest their > resources on what they do best.> > Frank Hanson