2001 Executive Summary for Program Planning and Assessment
Music and Music Technology
Program Mission/Purpose
The Music and Music Technology programs provide a broad range of music courses to prepare students for the two year Music Technology degree and for transfer to 4-year institutions.
Students/Clients Served by Program
Our Music Program, the largest and most comprehensive of Washington community colleges, currently serves over 50 academic transfer music majors, more than 100 Music Technology majors, over 100 general students, and 200 community members.
Criteria and Methods for Measuring Program Effectiveness
- Growth of program through expanded offerings. In the past two years we have taught many new courses and have gained up to 100 new students each quarter.
- Evaluation of student work and observation of musical performances which assess learning outcomes.
- Student/client satisfaction with the program assessed with student surveys, teacher evaluations and well as oral and written responses by clients.
- Student success in obtaining employment.
- Student success in transferring to four-year schools.
Enrollment/Staffing Trends
- Enrollment in the music department has increased significantly since the 93/94 school years [SM1][SM2](168.60 annual FTES in 93/94 to 216 in 98/99 and 237 FTES in 2000/2001).
- Staffing trends reflect the enrollment patterns of growth (7.31 FTEF in 93/94 to 10.81 FTEF in 97/98 to 12.13 currently).
Significant Anticipated Changes
- Low-cost recording equipment has shifted the use of music technology, as well as in the Music Technology education marketplace, rendering a demand for the professional-quality equipment that we do not provide.
- Rapid changes in high-technology areas, including computers and recording studio technologies, more competition from other institutions, and a currently inadequate physical plant and infrastructure system continue to severely press the college to maintain and upgrade equipment. Upgraded hardware and software, and improved facilities are necessary in which to showcase the Music Technology program.
- Projected advances in Internet technology and delivery speed continue to severely impact our program.
Program Self-Assessment
The strengths of the Music program are:
- breadth of our offerings, the high quality of instruction, and our ability to meet the needs of our students at all levels.
- thriving private instruction program, unique to a community college, with more than 60 students studying voice, piano and other instruments.
- curriculum serves academic, vocational and community needs.
- we respect and integrate classical, jazz, ethnic and popular styles of music in our curriculum and performance opportunities, which is atypical in academia.
- Each Winter quarter we offer a main stage opera workshop production that includes operatic scenes and a one- act opera with chamber orchestra.
- Each Spring quarter a full Broadway musical with orchestra is presented.
- Our faculty are active in professional music organizations and bring recognition to Shoreline Community College and our Music department.
Diversity/Multiculturalism
- Department promotes all genres of music and supports diversity in music students bo
- New World Music course proposed for 2002/2003
Areas Needing Improvement
- We need a full-time instrumental music teacher, an additional Instructional Technician and a Program Manager.
- We need more space: classroom space, performance space, computer lab space, MIDI studio space, office space, an additional class piano lab and teaching studios. The space in the basement of the 800 building currently built for classrooms (858 and 860), as well as the half of the basement currently being used as a storeroom, could much more effectively be used to teach students and house the Music Technology program than the existing performance-related classroom space in the top of the 800 building. The top portion of the building needs to be re-modeled to accommodate contemporary class-piano, acoustics, and performance considerations.
- We need more equipment, more up-to-date equipment, and a larger repair budget for our equipment, especially in the Music Technology program.
Achievement of 1999-00 Program Goals/Objectives
1)Full- time, tenure track, replacement position in music theory (Jeff Junkinsmith).
2)12-month position for Instructional Technician (Alex Keller).
3)Acquisition of four ProTools stations, computer hardware/software, amplifiers.
2001-2002 Program Goals/objectives
- Hire a full-time tenure-track Instrumental Music faculty member or assign a pro-rata contract to instrumental music faculty member Doug Reid.
- Hire a full-time Program Manager for the combined Music and Music Technology department (similar to the current position in VCT).
- Gain new classroom space for the music program by fully utilizing the entire music (800) building:
- Acquire an additional 17 piano lab classroom.
- Replace 14 pianos (one per year) for 14 consecutive years, and stop the "rental" program with the Kawai Piano Corporation.
- Replace/add necessary instruments (4 timpani, 2 tubas, bassoon, Euphonium, concert snare drum) for the instrumental program.
- Add and replace needed computer hardware/software and related Music Technologies for the Music Technology program.
- Acquire additional electric bass and guitar amplifiers, a drum set and related
equipment for the Rock Ensemble and other music classes.
- Purchase 80 Wenger music chairs for Room 818.
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[SM2]1Why are we using the 93/94 baseline in a 2 year review?