A little survey
Dunkirk NY – As I mentioned in my earlier post this morning, I am currently conducting a small survey amongst alumni of SUNY Fredonia’s theatre department which is trying to determine how successful in financial terms our graduates have been in the arts/entertainment field. We maintain a Yahoo! group of our alums, so with 320 members the group represents an interesting cross-section of graduates who span a period of over 20 years. It’s also a good group to survey because all the members of this survey group have at least an undergraduate degree in theatre.
I have not had the survey up more than 24 hours as of this posting, and have received 41 responses so far. I hope to gain a minimum of 65 so that I would have a statistical sample of 20% of the membership. I thought readers of this blog might be interested in the results so far and open them up for comments and interpretation. So here they are, and I apologize in advance for any formatting issues represented by the vagueries of HTML and font/display issues: Continue Reading »
Post-Show Hangover
Fredonia NY – I can’t remember when a post-show hangover has ever lasted this long. I’m still not really back with it, actually. I think the fact that the show ended at exactly the same time the baseball season ended was a double whammy. I have been watching an inordinate amount of TV, mostly I believe as a substitute for the fact that baseball season is over and I keep thinking somewhere, somehow, a game will materialize. I can’t figure out why, if there’s a channel for the NBA, NFL, and golf for crissakes, there can’t be a channel for baseball. Fall season in Arizona? Winter ball in the Carribean countries? Somebody’s got to get with it.
Anyway, I only wanted to write this quick post to say I am slowly getting up off the mat and will pick this up soon. I’ve begun a little data-mining project using some alumni, and I do have an idea that I’d like to suggest which may help kick-start in a simple way some theatre education reform. This weekend I have opera-viewing duties, but hopefully I can squeeze in some of these notions in a more extensive post this weekend. -twl
