Business and Entrepreneurship Department

Columbia College Chicago

9/09 – 6/30/2015

Professor of Cultural Management and Chairman Emeritus
Business and Entrepreneurship Department

(formerly Arts, Entertainment and Media Management Department)

School of Fine and Performing Arts

Columbia College Chicago

Teach courses in cultural management. Research includes assessment of training needs of the cultural management field, arts leadership, fundraising practice.

2/91 – 8/09

Chairperson - Arts, Entertainment & Media Management Department

Columbia College Chicago

Managerial and fiscal responsibility for one of the oldest arts and entertainment management programs in the U.S. Managed a departmental budget of $4.5 million. 

Responsibilities include hiring, directing, supervising and evaluating 20 full-time faculty members, over 100 part-time faculty, and 13 support staff. Served as liaison with the college, academic, and arts/entertainment communities.

The department serves almost 1700 students. It offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees with concentrations in Performing Arts Management, Visual Arts Management, Media Management, Music Business Management, Arts Entrepreneurship/Small Business, and Sports Management. 

Significant Accomplishments:

· Increased student enrollment each year.

· Successfully marketed and promoted the department to various constituencies, which resulted in increased internship and employment opportunities for students. (The department now places over 100 interns annually.)

· Established collaboration and developed the American Module of the MBA in Cultural Leadership for the Salzburg Management Business School and the International Center for Culture and Management

· Led an Arts Entrepreneurship faculty team in establishing the Arts, Entertainment & Media Management Department as an SBA pre-qualification site

· Successfully led Department through NCA accreditation process

· Developed and raised over $4 million for new programs that resulted in the creation of a Center for Arts Policy, new practicum courses, and outreach activities related to the Arts Entrepreneurship/Small Business Concentration, and new computer laboratories for the department

· Led the work of a team of faculty, administration, and the Office of Community Arts Partnerships in initiating a new graduate program in Arts in Youth and Community Development

· Guided a team of faculty members and administration in developing a new undergraduate concentration in Sports Management and raised funds to provide scholarships in this program

· Directed a team of faculty and administration to bring to the AEMM Department the college’s first named professorship, the Coleman Foundation Professorship in Arts Entrepreneurship

· Collaborated with faculty and the Office of the Academic Dean to establish articulation agreements with area community colleges 

· Initiated new concentration in Arts Entrepreneurship/Small Business Management

· Expanded and professionalized the program in Fashion/Retail Management and hired director  (This program is now part of a new Fashion Studies Department.)

· Initiated faculty in-service training each semester

· Initiated and implemented an annual Arts Entrepreneurship Award. Each year the award recognizes entrepreneurial leadership in both the non-profit and for-profit arts

· Led efforts to create international exchange programs with the Internationales Zentrum für Kultur und Management – Salzburg, Austria, the St. Petersburg Academy of Theatre – St. Petersburg, Russia, the Fachhochschule Potsdam – Potsdam, Germany, and the Sibelius Academy – Helsinki, Finland.

· Initiated, in conjunction with InterStudio – the State Institute for Innovative Professional Development in Culture (St. Petersburg) and the Institute for Composition (St. Petersburg), a satellite graduate program in Music Business Management, Performing Arts Management, and Museum and Visual Arts Management in St. Petersburg, Russia

· Created the Charles Suber Scholarship Fund and the Paul Berger Graduate Fellowship

· Led on-going strategic planning process and led curriculum evaluation process that revamped requirements for the undergraduate major

· Established and led the curriculum revision process resulting in the development of a new degree for the Arts, Entertainment & Media Management graduate program, the MAM (Master of Arts Management)

· Initiated academic advising model now in use college-wide

· Revised management structure of student-run record company and introduced first student produced CD’s

· Increased full-time faculty from 5 to 20

9/96 – 11/2001

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