{"id":481,"date":"2004-04-22T00:36:30","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T07:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2004\/04\/conferences_conferences_ever_m\/"},"modified":"2004-04-22T00:36:30","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T07:36:30","slug":"conferences_conferences_ever_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/conferences_conferences_ever_m.php","title":{"rendered":"Conferences, conferences, ever more conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m off again to another conference, this time of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsadministration.org\/\">Association of Arts Administration Educators<\/a> (yes, Virginia, there is an association for everything). This is a group of full-time degree program directors (of undergraduate and graduate programs) that prepare managers for the arts and cultural field.<\/p>\n<p>\nAvid readers will recall a point-counterpoint argument I was having with fellow blogger Drew McManus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/60787.php\">back in November<\/a> that addressed several of the pressing challenges of this group. Chief among these challenges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clearly stating and agreeing on what &#8216;successful arts administrators&#8217; look like, what skillsets and attitudes they have, and how they engage in their work;\n<li>Agreeing on how to train and foster leaders to move toward the ideal we defined in item one above;\n<li>Measuring our outcomes in meaningful ways (again, consistent with item one), so we can adjust our definitions and strategies to get closer to the mark.\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are essential arguments for me and my fellow full-time degree program directors in arts administration, and essentially impossible to resolve. As always, I look forward to the endless urns of bitter coffee, the trays piled with sugared carbohydrates, and the watery cocktails&#8230;the trinity of essential elements that make great conferences run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m off again to another conference, this time of the Association of Arts Administration Educators (yes, Virginia, there is an association for everything). This is a group of full-time degree program directors (of undergraduate and graduate programs) that prepare managers for the arts and cultural field. Avid readers will recall a point-counterpoint argument I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}