Enrollment Growth Amid a Shrinking Student Population

01 May 2023 Department at UNC-Charlotte implemented such a fall-semester seminar, using my book The Musician’s Way as the core text (Klickstein 2009), they achieved dramatic upswings in student retention, satisfaction, and GPA (Grymes 2011). 5. Recruit Efficiently...

Modifying DMA Curricula and Advising Part II of [i]Equipping DMA Candidates to Win Tenure-Track Jobs[/i]

01 May 2021 2018). Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel, Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Harvard, 2014). Gerald Klickstein, The Musician’s Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness (Oxford, 2009). Robert A. Duke, Intelligent Music Teaching...

Faculty Job Qualifications vs DMA Curricula. Part I of [i]Equipping DMA Candidates to Win Tenure-Track Jobs[/i]

01 May 2021 the features of applied music doctoral curricula nationally rather than characterize individual schools. authors: Gerald Klickstein author_ids: 606 authors: Gerald Klickstein author_ids: 606

Improve Outcomes with Paid Internships

22 April 2026 to launch paid internship programs as well as curricular innovations that will raise the economic value of music degrees (Klickstein 2023). By doing so, we outfit our graduates for both artistic and financial success. [1] Some financial aid offices...

Recommended Course Additions to the Higher Education Music Curriculum

04 February 2015 and Committee members Astrid Baumgardner, Judith Coe, Bernard Dobroski, Gisela Flanigan, Michael Harrington, Gerald Klickstein, Michael Millar, Jeffrey Nytch, Mark Rabideau, and Julia Torgovitskaya. Guest authors include Jennifer Rosenfeld and Ivan...

Preface: New Perspectives and Scholarship

01 May 2021 Makers,” noting that retaining forward thinking, even impatient individuals, can generate much needed change. Gerald Klickstein in his two essays, parts 1 and 2 of “Equipping DMA Candidates to Win Tenure-Track Jobs,” clarifies job skills needed to be a...