This article examines the importance of well-designed employee training programs for the association community. In addition, it provides guidelines to associations for developing and implementing training programs that would best serve their needs.

The author discusses several reasons for considering the future of higher education based arts administration training.

In October 1996, as students in the Master of Arts Management Program at Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, we conducted the National Study of Arts Mangers (NSAM) to determine whether a glass ceiling exists in arts management. The project stemmed from an article entitled Power List: 100 Most Important People in Theatre, which appeared in Theatre Week Magazine in August 1995. Out of the one hundred people listed, only sixteen were women. The U.S. Department of Labor defines glass ceilings as those artificial barriers based on attitudinal or

Today, there are approximately thirty-four programs across the and Canada offering graduate degrees in this field. Some offer comprehensive training in arts and entertainment management. Others have a specific focus such as theater, visual arts, or state and community arts agencies. Regardless of the focus, graduate programs in arts management seek to teach the methods and skills needed to function effectively in the increasingly complex environment of today's cultural institutions and businesses.

Describes background, orientation, purpose, administration, degree requirements, thesis or major paper requirements, internship, and admissions procedures for each of 33 graduate degree programs in arts management. The following information is listed in chart form for all the programs: degrees offered, application deadlines, exams required, and the number of applicants vs. number admitted each year. Includes a section describing masters theses and management projects written by students at the members schools during 1994-1996 in fulfillment of their degree. Grouped by topic, each entry

Describes and assesses data resources on arts organizations that inform policy makers, arts managers, and researchers working in the arts fields

Describes background, orientation, purpose, administration, degree requirements, thesis and internship requirements, and admissions procedures for each of 34 graduate degree programs in arts management. The following information is listed in chart form for all the programs: degrees offered, application deadlines, exams required, and the number of applicants vs. number admitted each year. Also includes a section, edited by Joan Jeffri and Kathleen Donahue, describing masters theses and management projects written by students at the members schools during 1992-1994 in fulfillment of their

Arts Administration is a recent development whose first academic programs in the     U.S. and Great Britain were started as late as the late 1960s. Although it is relatively new as a discipline, arts administration training is a field in which Western countries have more than twenty years of experience. In Japan, the terms Arts Management has recently become a well-known word among those who discuss improvement of the environment for artistic and cultural activities. As the first 4-year undergraduate program for Arts Managers in Japan was started in 1994 at the Showa

This book includes information on more than 660 graduate management programs both in the and around the world. Included are schools that offer a graduate degree in arts management, arts administration, and other specialties such as museum management. A chart indicates which schools offer such degrees and profiles of the schools are provided in another section.

The focus of the book is on the process of managing an arts organization through integrating many different disciplines. After covering a brief historical perspective, we will examine all of the functional and operational areas involved in operating an arts organization. Our study will focus on performing arts organizations in theatre, dance, music, and opera, and on museums.