Baldwin Wallace VS. CCPA/Roosevelt

Happymom08
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:48:50 +0000

The two problems BW has are
a) the dance program is weak and many students go to a private studio, or even pay better dancers in the MT program for extra instruction and
b) if Vicky is incapacitated in some way (and she works all the time and travels a lot from what we gathered) there basically is no program left, and then you are stuck at a small liberal arts school that may or may not be able to hire someone with connections and drive.

Since the Drama Dept and MT department are separate entities in separate schools at the college, it’s not like there’s an Assistant Chair of MT, or anyone who could just step in from day one and keep the program running smoothly, as there are at colleges with larger departments. BW’s Music Department is good, but it’s small too, so we couldn’t expect the Music Professors could step up and take over the MTers. They did hire another acting professor for the program last year, but it’s still basically the Conservatory Professors for keyboard, theory, sight singing, and voice lessons, one dance instructor, and Vicky and 1 or two other drama teachers.

The best thing about BW is it is a BM program, so you can get a minor or double major as the MT major at BW is not as course intensive as a BFA in some other schools. Also, if you ended up teaching, you probably could get a temporary certificate in a lot of jurisdictions with the BM from BW while you got your Masters in Education as you will have a good liberal arts background.