Butts In the Seats: This weekend Scott Walters quoted an extensive comment made on another blog about the value of MFA acting programs. The gist is, students are ill served by the programs which need to focus on training students for 21st century opportunities. This struck a chord with me because I had recently read a Fast Company article about how UC Berkeley’s Business School started to screen applicants based on whether they embodied the school’s core values. The school had decided to embrace these values in the interests of creating a “reduction of overconfidence and self-focus, which are perceived to be excessively present among the business graduates and leaders of the top business schools.”
Thursday, February 23, 2012
What Values Matter In Arts Grad Training Programs?
Butts In the Seats: This weekend Scott Walters quoted an extensive comment made on another blog about the value of MFA acting programs. The gist is, students are ill served by the programs which need to focus on training students for 21st century opportunities. This struck a chord with me because I had recently read a Fast Company article about how UC Berkeley’s Business School started to screen applicants based on whether they embodied the school’s core values. The school had decided to embrace these values in the interests of creating a “reduction of overconfidence and self-focus, which are perceived to be excessively present among the business graduates and leaders of the top business schools.”
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This article seems to make the point that the way forward as artistic training programs in theatre we need to adapt to the times and get away from the conventional path. It seems to me that the problem is not that the conventional path is the problem it is the fact that there are so many programs out there that are not qualified to grant degrees. No matter how many goals and values you put forth for your program it will not fix the fact that there are too many unqualified professors and staff at many smaller institutions. Also these unqualified programs do not have the moral fortitude to avoid preying on the high school kids who do not know how the industry works. Colleges in the US graduate too many under qualified kids for too few jobs and this is not healthy for the country or the industry. We need to put tougher standards on training programs for admission and graduation. The idea that we need a wider spectrum of skills is not flawed. Being able to do many things in our industry can be a great selling point but that means that you can not support yourself in your chosen field which means that the school has mislead you into thinking that you can make it.
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