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Program/Unit Reviewed: Performing Arts
Self-Study Chair: Carolyn Wray, Dan Bouweraerts
Division: Liberal Arts
Dean: Armida Fruzzetti
Year of Last PUR: 2010-2011
Year of next PUR: 2015-2016
Program/Unit Mission Statement: The mission of Truckee Meadows Community College's
Performing Arts program is to create a learning environment that fosters excellence in the performing
arts. Through a variety of traditional and contemporary approaches, students are prepared to create,
examine, analyze, and perform in music, theatre, musical theatre and dance for a career in the
performing arts or to transfer to a baccalaureate program. The program values the creative process, the
creative product, and the student's individual "'voice." The faculty is committed to setting positive
examples for students through scholarship, service, and collaboration. An emphasis is placed on
"lifelong learning" and on "serving a diverse population."
The Description of the Degree(s)/Emphasis(s)/Certificate(s) for your PUR area are listed below. Please reviewfor
accuracy.
Description of Degree/Emphasis/Certificates:
AA Fine Arts Degree Theater Emphasis
The Theater Program seeks to be an outstanding Performing Arts Program within the Visual and
Performing Arts Department. This program is noted for its excellence in the classroom and on stage,
providing our students with the knowledge and skills upon which they build careers and become
productive citizens.
AA Fine Arts Degree Musical Theater Emphasis:
The Musical Theater program seeks to be an outstanding Performing Arts Program within the Visual
and Performing Arts Department. This program is noted for its excellence in the classroom and on
stage, providing our students with the knowledge and skills upon which they build careers and become
productive citizens.
AA Fine Arts Degree Dance Emphasis:
The Dance Program seeks to be an outstanding Performing Arts Program within the Visual and
Performing Arts Department. This program is noted for its excellence in the classroom and on stage,
providing our students with the knowledge and skills upon which they build careers and become
productive citizens.
AA Fine Arts Degree Music Emphasis:
The Music Program seeks to be an outstanding Performing Arts Program within the Visual and
Performing Arts Department. This program is noted for its excellence in the classroom and on stage
that provides our students with the knowledge and skills upon which they build careers and become
productive citizens.
AA Fine Arts Degree Music Certificate:
The Certificate of Achievement In Music is formulated for the student who may want to develop skills in
a conservatory-type setting; the student who does not wish to transfer to a four-year institution; the
student who may already possess a degree in higher education; and the student who has a vocational
interest in music.
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AA Fine Arts Degree Theater Certificate:
The Certificate of Achievement in Theater is formulated for the student who may want to develop skills
in a conservatory-type setting; the student who does not wish to transfer to a four-year institution; the
student who may already possess a degree in higher education; and the student who has a vocational
interest in theater.
SECTION I
The Outcomes and Measures listed below were retrieved from Degree/Emphasis or Certificate submissions provided by
your area to CAP and approved. Please review the outcomes to ensure accuracy or submit changes to CAP via the
Degree, Emphasis, Certificate (DEC) Revisions form located on the CAP Resources web page. Ifyour area is scheduled
for a PUR in the nearfuture, please plan on reporting assessment efforts around these learning outcomes when you
participate in your PUR.
AA Fine Arts Degree Dance Emphasis - Perfonning Arts Degree Goals/Outcomes:
• Students completing the Associate of Arts-Fine Arts Degree: Dance Emphasis will demonstrate
competency in specific dance skills.
• Students completing the Associate of Arts-Fine Arts Degree: Dance Emphasis will demonstrate
supportive theoretical and knowledge base necessary to sustain and forward dance as an art
form.
• Students completing the Associate of Arts-Fine Arts Degree: Dance Emphasis will transfer to a
baccalaureate program or work in the dance field as an instructor, educator, technician or
performer.
AA Fine Arts Degree Music Emphasis - Perfonning Arts Degree Goals/Outcomes:
• Students completing the Associate of Arts-Fine Arts Degree: Music Emphasis will show
competence in specific practical music skills.
• Students completing the Associate of Arts-Fine Arts Degree: Music Emphasis will show
competence in supportive theoretical and knowledge base necessary to sustain and forward
music as an art form.
• Students completing the Associates of Arts-Fine Arts Degree Music Emphasis will transfer to a
baccalaureate program or work in the music field as an instructor, educator, technician or
performer.
AA Fine Arts Degree Theater Emphasis - Perfonning Arts Degree Goals/Outcomes:
• Students completing the Associate of Arts-Fine Arts Degree: Theater Emphasis will show
competence in specific practical Theater skills.
• Students completing the Associate of Arts-Fine Arts Degree: Theater Emphasis will show
competence in supportive theoretical and knowledge base necessary to sustain and forward
theater as an art form.
• Students completing the Associates of Arts-Fine Arts Degree Theater Emphasis will transfer to
a baccalaureate program or work in the theater field as an instructor, educator, technician or
performer
AA Fine Arts Degree Musical Theater Emphasis - Performing Arts Degree Goals/Outcomes:
• Students completing the Associate of Arts-Fine Arts Degree: Musical Theater Emphasis will
show competence in specific practical musical theater skills.
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Students completing the Associate of Arts-Fine Arts Degree: Musical Theater Emphasis will
show competence in supportive theoretical and knowledge base necessary to sustain and
forward musical theater as an art form.
Students completing the Associates of Arts-Fine Arts Degree Musical Theater Emphasis will
transfer to a baccalaureate program or work in the Musical Theater field as an instructor,
educator, technician or performer.
AA Fine Arts Degree Music Certificate - Perfonning Arts Degree Goals/Outcomes:
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Students completing the Associate of Arts Fine Arts Degree-Certificate of Achievement: Music
will show competence in basic music skills.
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Students completing the Associate of Arts Fine Arts Degree-Certificate of Achievement: Music
will complete the rehearsal and performance requirements for Music Ensemble.
AA Fine Arts Degree Theater Certificate - Perfonning Arts Degree Goals/Outcomes:
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Students completing the Associate of Arts Fine Arts Degree~Certificate of Achievement:
Theater will show competence in basic theater skills.
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Students completing the Associate of Arts Fine Arts Degree-Certificate of Achievement:
Theater will complete the rehearsal and performance requirements for the Theater Practicum
Core.
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SECTION II
The following recommendations and strategies were identified in your most recent Program/Unit Review.
Please respond to the strategies by including the status, actions taken to respond to the strategy, projected
timeline, and if resources are anticipated to fulfill the strategy.
Status: choose
Ongoing
Complete
Other
Timeline:
June, 2016
Plan and implement a strategy for course, degree, and certificate
fortheater
assessment immediately.
and dance/
June 2017
Ongoing
for all music
courses
Action: The Performing Arts PUR is in process this year. Great attention has been paid to the assessment
reports at the course level and by the end of this year all relative theater and dance courses will have gone
through the CAR process. There is still a lag in getting the Music Courses through the CAR process and the
Coordinator, the faculty and the Chair will have to make a concerted effort to get these assessments
completed. The degrees for Theater, Musical Theater, Dance and Music have been updated and the degrees
for Theater, Musical Theater, and Dance have been submitted in a corrected form for the new online
catalogue. The Coordinator met with the Academic Advisors, Department Chair and the Dean of
Assessment and Planning to streamline and update the Degree Requirements. To facilitate the assessment
process the many MCO's for Theater and Dance have been updated.
Anticipated Resources Needed: No specific financial resources are needed to complete this Action Plan,
but time and staffing help would be valuable to the Coordinator to complete the process. Although not a
resource per se, faculty cooperation in the process would be appreciated.
Unit Strategy #2
Status: choose
Timeline:
Ongoing
Strategies
Need to develop strategies for post-completion objectives.
in place by
Complete
Other
Fall 2016
Unit Strategy #1
Ongoing
Action: No strategies have been formulated for the tracking of former students or of former graduates from
the Performing Arts Program. Informal social media contacts are maintained because of the nature of the
program, but no questionnaires, surveys or transfer documentations are in place.
Anticipated Resources Needed: Time, advice and staffing are needed to formulate a system of tracking
graduates and of tracking students who have completed a series of Performing Arts courses.
Unit Strategy #3
Status: choose
Timeline:
Need to explore why courses are not transferring to UNR in an effort to
Ongoing
Music
address the low number of completers.
Complete
theory
Other
resolution
by June,
Ongoing
2016
Action: The process for UNR acceptance of certain courses for transfer concerns the courses for Music
Theory Ill and Music Theory IV. The Chair and the Music Faculty have taken on this mission to resolve the
problem. We have discontinued the Music History courses at the request of UNR and we are in the process
of streamlining and deleted some of the music courses which we no longer teach from our catalogue
offerinqs. The deletion of courses is part of the Curriculum section of the PUR process
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Anticipated Resources Needed: No specific resources are needed to complete this Action Plan
Unit Strategy #4
Status: choose
Need more specifics in the justification for the request for a fullOngoing
time dance position.
Complete
Other
Timeline:
A full-time
instructor
should be in
place by
Ongoing
Fall, 2016
Action: Because of the diversity rating for DAN 101, the Dance Appreciation course, the FTE for the dance
courses have risen dramatically. We now offer four sections of DAN 101 (120 students) and are looking to
offer online dance diversity courses if we can staff them. We realize that there have not been many Dance
majors and graduates who have completed their degrees, but there has also not been a full-time instructor in
Dance to propel the program forward . We have asked each year to have a full· time dance instructor to
complement not only the dance program, but the Musical Theater program as well. Another contributing
factor for the need for a full-time dance instructor is that we are currently asking our part-time dance
instructors to help with fund raising events and recruitment events which is above and beyond their per class
contracts. In our collaboration with the WCSD articulation process, a full-time dance faculty would be
valuable. Also, due to the fact that many of our public performances are musicals, a full-time
choreographer/instructor would be valuable to the program.
Anticipated Resources Needed: Salary rate is dependent on new hire experience and education. Support
Staff and office space are currently available at no extra cost. Benefits and office equipment are an
additional cost to the school.
Status: choose
Timeline:
Unit Strategy #s
Ongoing
Need to provide explicit requests for additional resources and
Complete
Continual
costs.
Other
requests for
fund
Ongoing
augmentati
ans.
Submit a
formal
request for
reduction of
18%by
June of
2016
Action: The Performing Arts have been very consistent and vocal in their specific requests for needed
resources. Student worker wage money has been forwarded from the Dean each semester to help with the
cost of technical and clerical help at RPAC since we were without an Administrative Assistant last year.
Additional funds forthe Regents Scholarship program to help with technical theater help was requested, but
not funded, although the request for 2015·2016 was funded. Plant and Facilities worked with the building
owners to fix the flooding problem in the basement and that is now complete. The improvement of the
ventilation system in the public restrooms at RPAC has been completed. Extra year end monies were
requested to help fund student workers through the summer and that request was funded. One request that
we need to submit is to have the 18% re absorption fee reduced for our Theater Ticket Sales account if
possible.
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Anticipated Resources Needed: We will continue to request the Regents Scholarship Award for technical
theater (s7,ooo a year} and we will continue to request augmentation of student worker funds (s6,ooo a
year) from the Division. Each capital improvement to the existing facility will be handled on a per case basis.
The s40, ooo improvements to our existing sound and lighting control systems has not been included in a
new request since we do not, as yet, know the fate of our stayinq in our current location.
Unit Strategy #6
Status: choose
Timeline:
Fund raising
Continue to seek better facilities.
Ongoing
efforts are
Complete
ongoing.
Other
Because of the
Ongoing
massive
nature of this
strategy, it is
hard to
commit to a
t1mehne. The
hope 1s to
have a new
performance
space in place
within three
years.
Action: The process of seeking better facilities for the Performing Arts is a massive undertaking involving
students, faculty, administration, NSHE and the community. Many steps have been completed including
three feasibility studies on three different sizes of Performing Arts Centers, various meetings with
Administration and donors, three major fundraisers, cost analysis reports, a tour to an existing large
performance area downtown, student surveys w ith input on priorities, tax incentives follow through and
community involvement. The TMCC President has been committed to finding the Performing Arts Program
a new, different venue which better matches our needs.
Anticipated Resources Needed: Resources needed for completion range from 8 million dollars to 40 million
dollars. The exact dollar amount will depend on what size the venue turns out to be. Plant and Facilit ies, the
President' s Office and t he Vice President' s office have the exact figures for the new venues.
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(OPTIONAL- Fill out only if adding new Unit Strategies)
Please include any newlv identified strategies for the Program/Unit. Please respond to the strategies by
including the status, actions taken to respond to the strategy, projected timeline, and if resources are
needed to fulfill the strategy. If there are no new strategies, please leave this blank and no signatures are
required.
Unit Strategies: need to clean up and streamline all
Status: choose
MCO's and DEC's for the Performing Arts Program and edit Ongoing Complete
Other
any and all cataloque errors or inconsistencies
Action: involve all faculty in the process of examining MCO's
Timeline:
June 2017
Anticipated Resource Needed: No hard costs needed but staff time and expertise in the process is
needed.
Status: choose
Timeline:
Unit Strategies: need to explore the updating of certain
This strategy is
Ongoing Complete
technical theater equipment
timed to the
Other
acquisi1tion (or not)
of new
Ongoing
performance
space.
Action: investigate costs for digital lighting and sound equipment upgrades.
Anticipated Resource Needed: This strategy is tied to the completion of a different performance venue
and is included in the projected costs for a new build ing. If we remain at our current location for an
extended period of time we will need approximately s40,ooo to upgrade our lighting and sound controls
t o t he digital mode
Status: choose
Timeline:
Unit Strategies: need to hire replacement instructor for
retiring full-time faculty
Ongoing Complete
Fall, 2016, or if a
one year transition
Other
period is needed,
Onqo inq
then Fall of 2 0 17
Action: implement a national search to fill the vacant posit ion
:
Anticipated Resource'Needed: There should be reduced salary/benefit costs due to the nature of the new
hire. Suooort staffs, office space, office equi pment are already in place.