Arts Degree Research Articles

The Value of an Arts Degree: Career Success and Inequality

This study examines the value of a college degree for artists, in addition to racial, sex, and ethnic differences. I use propensity score matching on data from the 2015–2019 American Community Survey to produce causal estimates of the effect of getting an arts degree and a non-arts bachelor’s degree on income, and the probability of unemployment, self-employment, and working in an arts industry. The results illustrate that degrees positively affect artists’ average incomes and, depending on the type of degree, the probability of working in an arts industry. The analyses also illustrate that degrees have differential effects on artists’ employment outcomes based on race, sex, and ethnicity, though not always in the direction we would expect. The results illustrate the often-delicate balance between building a career as an artist and maintaining a livelihood and that individual differences with respect to career aspirations and personal circumstances moderate employment outcomes that are often attributed to common educational trajectories.

African Vernacular Symbols of Black Intersex Children in Sinethemba Ngubane's Installations (2007-2016)

African Vernacular Symbols of Black Intersex Children in Sinethemba Ngubane's Installations (2007-2016)

Employability development in undergraduate programmes: how different is liberal arts education?

ABSTRACT This paper examines how students’ employability develops during undergraduate studies at a Dutch liberal arts college compared to a conventional bachelor’s programme in law at the same university. Drawing on the graduate capital model, the study focuses on six skills that enhance employability: creativity, lifelong learning, career decidedness, self-efficacy, resilience, and personal initiative. To measure employability growth, a cross-sectional pseudo-cohort research design is adopted, comparing first-, second-, and third-year student cohorts. The results show that liberal arts students make significant progress in five out of the six examined employability-related skills. Compared to the conventional programme, the gains in creativity and personal initiative particularly stand out, reflecting the differences between interdisciplinary and monodisciplinary learning, and self-tailored and fixed curriculum structures. This refutes the stereotype that a liberal arts degree does not prepare students for the labour market and points to the relevance of programme-specific features for employability development in higher education.

Coexistence and creativity: screen media education in the age of artificial intelligence content generators

ABSTRACT This article discusses the implications of Artificial Intelligence Content Generators (Gen-AI) for the field of screen media education. In light of the 2022–2023 releases of ChatGPT, DALL·E 2 and Midjourney AI, the article addresses the idea of what value there is for a student to enrol in a creative arts degree given the public view that Gen-AI threaten to replace human jobs in artistic fields. The article argues that there is potential for Gen-AI to offer major benefits to existing approaches to media education and that the technology could in fact drive greater interest in studying the creative arts. The act of creativity is valued by those who practise it for intrinsic purposes, and many graduates of screen programmes have traditionally leveraged their passion and creative conceptual understandings in a wide variety of employment fields outside vocationally-oriented screen production roles. Therefore, the article demonstrates that Gen-AI can benefit screen media programmes by improving employment opportunities for graduates, enhancing access and diversity for under-represented students, and can address the classic challenges of the theory-practice nexus for media production students.

Lessons Learned From a Veteran's Perspective.

Lynn S. Muller, JD, RN, BA-HCM, CCM, began her career at Pace University as a registered professional nurse (RN), went onto earn her Bachelor of Arts degree in Health Care Management at St. Peter's University of New Jersey, and then her Juris Doctor from Quinnipiac University School of Law. She is currently a practicing attorney and the managing partner of Muller & Muller. Her practice includes defense of health care professionals before the state licensing boards, case management litigation, family law, wills, trusts, and estates, as well as consulting representation of medical practitioners, facilities, and health service corporations on such issues as regulatory compliance and day-to-day operations. Dr. Muller is a popular and sought-after keynote and session speaker at national and regional conferences. She is the Contributing Editor of Professional Case Management: The Official Journal of the Case Management Society of America (CMSA) and the Commission for Case Management Certification (CCMC), a former member of the Board of Directors of CMSA of New York City. She is an adjunct professor at Saint Peter's University School of Nursing in the MSN and DNP programs. Dr. Muller is the author of more than 80 articles in nursing and case management journals and listed on the NIH website. She is a contributor to the 2016 CMSA Standards of Practice and CMSA Career & Knowledge Pathways. Dr. Muller is the author of both legal chapters of the 3rd edition of Case Management: A Practical Guide for Education and Practice and 3rd edition of the CMSA Core Curriculum for Case Management. She is a former Commissioner for the Commission for Case Management Certification (CCMC), where she now serves on the Professional Development and Education Committee, is a Certified Facilitator for CCM CERTIFCATION 360 a Multi-day Immersion Program and other special projects. She is a contributor to the CCMC Case Management Body of Knowledge (CMBOK) and a past president of the New Jersey Chapter of CMSA. Dr. Muller is the former Director of Social Services for the Borough of Bergenfield, NJ, a community-based case management program she developed and initiated. Dr. Muller has also served her community as public defender, municipal court judge, and councilwoman and chaired the Borough's Barrier Free Committee. Address correspondence to Lynn S. Muller, JD, RN, BA-HCM, CCM, P.O. Box 164, Bergenfield, NJ 07621 ([email protected]). You are Invited to share your knowledge and experience. Do you have a question or issue you would like to see addressed here? Questions are always welcome. We encourage and invite all readers to submit questions and/or manuscripts, as well as topics you would like to see addressed in this department. If you have an idea, you would like to discuss, or are considering being a first-time author, send your contact information by email and you will be contacted via your preferred method. All inquiries and submissions are accepted by email at [email protected] Case Management Matters welcomes and invites you to submit articles, stories, practice tips, reflections, and revelations. We encourage new/first-time authors and will work with you. How has case management changed you and/or how have you affected the lives of others? All inquiries, questions, comments, and manuscripts should be submitted via email to [email protected] or by mail to Lynn S. Muller, P.O. Box 164, Bergenfield, NJ 07621-0164. If you have an idea for an article, but would like to discuss it, provide contact information in your email and you will be contacted by your preferred method. The author reports no conflicts. The author reports no conflicts of interest.

Diversity in Leadership Among Arts Graduates: Aiming for an Inclusive Leadership

This research explores the multiplicity of diversity based on gender, ethnicity, and age, and how it is reflected among leaders with an arts degree. They include leaders who are managers, arts administrators, curators, arts educators, theatre producers, and stage directors. In this quantitative study, the aggregated data of arts alumni, nearly 65,000 respondents from three consecutive years (2015, 2016, and 2017) from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), are analyzed using a descriptive method. The study shows that 45.7% of art alumni are in management positions, of whom 78.5% are white, and the remaining 21.5% are fairly evenly distributed among other ethnicities. Therefore, there is a lack of diversity in the positions of leadership. This paper suggests the need for inclusive leadership, in which diversity is encouraged.

Chief Human Resource Officers and accounting disclosures: Illuminating the firm’s most important asset or window dressing?

Social activism, including movements towards equal pay, gender rights, and racial equality, has heightened public scrutiny, exerting pressure on firms to reassess and reform their human resource practices to ensure they align with current social and ethical norms. Chief Human Resource Officers (CHROs) have a potentially important role in defining and promoting appropriate human resource practices through human resource disclosures in corporate annual reports. We empirically examine the effect of CHROs on expanded human capital resource (HCR) disclosures, recently mandated by the SEC. We find that CHROs have a greater effect on the quality of HCR disclosures when they belong to the top management team, and less so when they belong to groups that are more poorly represented in top management, such as women, racial or ethnic minorities, or non-US nationals, and CHROs holding a liberal arts degree. Jointly considering the characteristics of CHROs, CEOs, and CFOs, we additionally find that pro-democratic political ideology is related to higher quality HCR disclosures. This study contributes to the literature by introducing a generalizable measure of HCR disclosure quality, uncovering significant heterogeneity in HCR disclosure quality across large US firms, and highlighting the role of CHROs in this process. In doing so, this study documents evidence that individual top executives in addition to the CEO and CFO can have a measurable effect on voluntary financial disclosures.

Nigel Wiseman: Modern Texts, Classics, Terminology, and Language-learning Material

Abstract In this article, I trace my career from an early interest in language that eventually led me to engage in Chinese medical translation. Born in the United Kingdom in 1954, I gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in German and Spanish from the University of Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh. Subsequent study of Chinese took me to Taiwan, China, where I gained an interest in Chinese medicine and developed a coherent linguistic approach to Chinese medical term translation, which I and various colleagues have systematically applied in the translation and compilation of numerous works spanning modern texts, classics, dictionaries, and language-learning materials. Our translation approach, though conforming to principles universally recognized by translation theorists, has proven to be highly controversial, with opponents in both Western and Chinese circles.

Reflections on Leonard J. Arrington

Reflections on Leonard J. Arrington

The impact of employability on Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences degrees in Australia

In Australia, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) faculties are under pressure to demonstrate that their degrees result in employable graduates. Employability has become a key strategic goal of all universities and is driving federal government funding changes. We surveyed 17 Directors of Learning and Teaching in HASS across Australia’s 37 public universities to ascertain their views on how employability has affected HASS. Our thematic analysis of questionnaire results reveals a highly complex and, at times, contradictory picture of the relationship between HASS and employability.

Crafting professionals: Logics of professional development in craft higher education

This article explores how the presence of competing logics in craft higher education (HE) influences educational provision and student experience. Findings are presented from four craft HE case studies across England, including analysis of degree programme specifications and module curricula and interviews with educators, current students and recent graduates conducted in 2018. The article presents how these logics influence employability-focused teaching in craft curricula and how this impacts time, space and facilities allocated to physical craft work. Key tensions identified include perceptions and measurement of graduate “success”, the impact on skill development and studio space and (dis)engagement with professional development training. The article concludes with reflection on how this relates to the perceived value of arts degrees, but argues that the responsibility to “prepare” students for craft careers cannot lie solely with HE providers.

Increasing Retention of Underrepresented Students in STEM Fields at California Community Colleges: A Study of the STEM2 Program

With the need to increase Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduates, higher education institutions need to identify and improve ways to increase underrepresented STEM student retention rates. Cypress College in Southern California implemented a program called STEM2 (Strengthen Transfer Education and Matriculation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) to give students the support and the resources to continue with their intended majors. In this study, we examined the impact of the STEM2 participation for 1,113 students on multiple core outcomes of retention, four-year transfer, and associates of arts (AA) degree completion of STEM students. Logistics regression was used to determine the significance of input variables and the odds that the desired outcome was achieved. Results indicated there is a difference in student outcomes based on the students’ ethnicity, enrollment in the STEM2 program, and use of student support programs. Implications for practice and future research were also included.

EXPLORING URBANITY IN ALMATY & NUR-SULTAN: AN OVERVIEW OF A MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECT

This paper showcases the logic, methodology, and findings features in Dmitrenko’s Major Research Project submitted to the University of Toronto for partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree. Dmitrenko’s research focused on exploring city development as an agent of political development in Kazakhstan. Exploring Almaty and Astana as her two case studies, Dmitrenko argues that the concurrent growth of both cities tells a story of Kazakhstan’s complicated relationship between the government and its citizens. In navigating these bottom-up or top-down relationships between the government and its citizens, Kazakhstan’s urban space seems to be organizing itself according to the principle of digitalization – the idea that digitalization can improve institutional trust and the quality of life. In doing so, Kazakhstan may be carving out a path for a new kind of political development.

Leading relationships through change

The goal of many consulting veterinarians in dairy and beef practice is to work toward continual improvement of their cli­ents’ health, management and overall business success. Such improvements will require changes to current management practices and strategy to adapt to changing market demands, herd dynamics or other external factors. This may feel like a constant state of change. However, our farm has had success in managing and implementing change through being cognizant of the Kübler-Ross Change Curve. This is a process to consider when implementing a successful change, regardless of the mag­nitude of change. Additionally, there are common pitfalls to avoid when fully executing a change. Following a disciplined change process will often yield a faster cycle of change and more desirable results. anish Language, Literature, and Culture from Colorado State University and a B.A. degree in Dramatic Arts from the University of New Mexico. She specializes in designing and teaching courses in Spanish for Specific Purposes in the areas of animal health and care and veterinary medicine and has created and taught Spanish programs for Colorado State University's Languages, Literatures and Cultures department as well as their Veterinary College since 2016.

Ethics and Moral Agency for a Postpandemic Era: Beyond the Storm.

Laura Lee (Dolly) Swisher, PT, MDiv, PhD, FAPTA, the 53rd Mary McMillan Lecturer, is professor emerita and former director of the school of physical therapy and rehabilitation sciences at the University of South Florida in the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. Dr Swisher received a bachelor of arts degree from Wilson College and is a 1986 physical therapy graduate of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. She received the M.Div. from Andover Newton Theological School and a doctoral degree in public administration from Tennessee State University. Dr Swisher is a highly regarded expert on professionalism, ethics, and interprofessional education and has been a featured speaker at local, state, and national conferences. She is the coauthor of Rehabilitation Ethics for Professional Practice, Professionalism in Physical Therapy and Legal and Ethical Issues in Physical Therapy and is a lead author or coauthor of multiple peer reviewed articles and individual book chapters. She served as a member and chair of the Commission on Accreditation for Physical Therapy Education, was former chair and member of the APTA Ethics and Judicial Committee, and served as co-chair of the Task Force to Revise the Core Ethics Documents. Dr Swisher served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Physical Therapy Education and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation. She is the recipient of APTA's Lucy Blair Service Award and the Polly Cerasoli Lecture Award and is a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the APTA.

Evil

I am a First Nations artist. My father is Dene, and my mother is a second-generation Canadian from Ukraine. I have spent almost all of my life creating art and grew up with family members who were professional artists. My goal has always been to create art for my own mental health and for the enjoyment of those around me. I also try to create some of my ideas in a simple easy-to-digest way while trying to also stay simple with the materials I use. Before I came to university, I spent many years as a teenager practicing the art of graffiti, but as I grew older and my criminal record became more extensive, I struggled with my identity as a native artist and began to ask myself introspective questions that a young teenager doing graffiti would tend not to ask. Those questions led me to pursue a degree in fine arts and also led me to pursue my love of art through many different surfaces and mediums than my younger self could have ever thought possible

Moving On from a Bachelor of Arts degree

Understanding the causes of attrition at the undergraduate level has been an increasing concern in efforts to increase student persistence to graduation. Research has identified demographic, academic, and experiential factors influencing students’ decisions about withdrawing from university. This narrative enquiry was conducted to identify demographic and academic factors as well as learning experiences that may have influenced students’ decisions to withdraw from university. Twenty-one students in a Bachelor of Arts degree programme in a New Zealand university were each interviewed three to six times over their first year and a half at university, and the interview data was analysed thematically. Seventeen students continued their studies, while four withdrew. Relationships were found among academic achievement, ethnicity, and withdrawal. In addition, aspects of students’ learning experiences were identified that could be improved to increase persistence.

The Value of a Liberal Arts Degree: Students’ Perspectives on Financial and Nonfinancial Returns on Investment

This study explores student perceptions of the financial and nonfinancial return on investment (ROI) of a liberal arts (LA) degree through surveys and interviews. Four prominent returns emerged through qualitative analysis of data: financial security, a credential, personal growth, and the promise of meaningful work. Results demonstrated the influence of anticipatory socialization on conceptions of meaningful work and the ROI of the LA degree. These findings detail a contemporary view of the value of a LA degree in the United States and are important for educators and administrators who seek to transition students from college to career.

Milton Friedman and the Road to Monetarism: A Review Essay

Milton Friedman and the Road to Monetarism: A Review Essay

Notes on Contributing Authors

Other| October 01 2022 Notes on Contributing Authors Ethnomusicology (2022) 66 (3): ix–x. https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.66.3.02 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Notes on Contributing Authors. Ethnomusicology 1 January 2022; 66 (3): ix–x. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/21567417.66.3.02 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressEthnomusicology Search Advanced Search Benedict Nwabugwu Agbo is Associate Professor in the Department of Music, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN). He holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Urban University Rome; Bachelor of Arts in Music, UNN; Bachelor of Theology, Urban University Rome; Master of Arts in Music, UNN; and Ph.D. in Music Theory and Composition, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. His research interests are in the areas of the inculturation of liturgical music and general compositional research from an ethnomusicological perspective with a theological bent in sacred /liturgical music. He teaches courses on music theory, tonal harmony, tonal counterpoint, orchestration, analysis, and analytical styles of twentieth-century music and modern compositional techniques.Bernardo A. Ciro-Gómez is assistant professor of the Escuela Superior Tecnológica de Artes Débora Arango in Envigado, Colombia. He is a musician and researcher of Colombian oral traditional music. He has a bachelor's degree in Musical Education and a master's degree in Arts from... Issue Section: Notes on Contributing Authors You do not currently have access to this content.