Goals
- Ensure artistic and academic excellence.
- Attract and inspire exceptional students.
- Advance global experiences.
- Provide a dynamic academic and performance environment.
- Engage in community outreach and fundraising.
Objectives
1. Ensure Artistic and Academic Excellence
- Provide academic instruction to prepare students for successful careers as artists, educators, composers, and scholars.
- Prepare students for advanced study.
- Maintain and strengthen our graduate program.
- Foster intellectual and musical expression through research, creative, and scholarly activity.
- Mentor students in performance, teaching, research, and writing.
- Continually develop, review, and revise curricular offerings.
- Maintain curricular currency in educational technology.
- Offer an abundance of performance opportunities in Major Performing Organizations, chamber music, and other opportunities.
- Develop music educators who utilize appropriate pedagogical educational practices.
- Support attendance and participation in performance and research at state, national, and international conferences.
- Invite guest artists, composers, scholars, and educators to campus.
- Provide guidance and timely feedback during the entire process of writing a project report or thesis.
- Provide the foundations required to use basic music technology.
- Empower students to envision and pursue their own careers.
- Provide the foundations required to succeed in the business of music.
- Conduct exit interviews and assess overall conservatory excellence.
2. Attract and inspire exceptional students
- Identify, contact and engage students who demonstrate determination, curiosity, and a strong work ethic.
- Offer competitive scholarships.
- Assess recruitment activities annually.
- Produce appropriate and sufficient recruitment materials for print and digital delivery.
- Ensure that the audition day experience is informative and professional for prospective students and their families.
- Track follow-up contact and admission responses by frequent contact between music office and area directors.
- Attend California All State Music Education Conference and other conferences as appropriate.
- Strengthen the Bob Cole Honor’s Festival for high school students.
- Maintain a current web presence and engagement through social media.
- Invite potential students and their families to performances.
3. Advance Global experiences
- Fund Major Performing Organizations and other ensembles to provide experience with diverse musics.
- Fund Major Performing Organizations to provide outreach and travel experience in the state, nationally, and internationally.
- Seek culturally and professionally diverse performance and academic experiences.
- Offer courses that explore global performance practices.
- Fund student application fees and travel expenses for advanced study and professional development events.
4. Provide a Dynamic Academic and Performance Environment
- Foster a collegial community of students, faculty, and staff.
- Perform in an appropriate state-of-the-art concert venue.
- Maintain suitable state-of-the-art rehearsal, performance, and classroom facilities.
- Acquire and maintain professional equipment, music, resources, and instruments.
- Produce concerts and other musical events of the highest quality for CSULB and the greater community.
- Secure opportunities for students to perform, research, and teach alongside faculty.
- Provide an environment which encourages and supports faculty development through research, scholarly, and creative activity.
- Keep in contact with the conservatory and university communities through a weekly update of announcement and activities, and a weekly email listing performances, master classes, and lectures.
- Nurture an environment of acceptance and safe spaces for students, staff and faculty.
5. Engage in community outreach and fundraising.
- Educate students campus wide to enrich their musical appreciation and understanding of music.
- Offer non-music majors at CSULB the opportunity to perform in an ensemble.
- Maintain and strengthen professional relationships with local school districts.
- Cultivate audiences for our performances.
- Build a cohort of professional alumni with whom new graduates can network.
- Encourage long-term alumni involvement.
- Track alumni employment and activities and assess how skills are transferred to multiple arts-related careers.
- Cultivate donors, patrons, and supporters of the conservatory.
- Support faculty and students to engage with the community.