MISSION: The South Dakota Arts Council is a state agency serving South Dakotans and their communities through the arts.

Listing of 86 arts information centers.

In the issues closing essay, the author examines how research in the arts and culture can help to find new ways of thinking about cultural production and policy including the production, financing, marketing, distribution, operation, consumption, and social roles of the arts and entertainment.

In October 1996, as students in the Master of Arts Management Program at Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, we conducted the National Study of Arts Mangers (NSAM) to determine whether a glass ceiling exists in arts management. The project stemmed from an article entitled Power List: 100 Most Important People in Theatre, which appeared in Theatre Week Magazine in August 1995. Out of the one hundred people listed, only sixteen were women. The U.S. Department of Labor defines glass ceilings as those artificial barriers based on...

In January of 1983, Executive Editor Joan Jeffri led a roundtable discussion with three member of the editorial board ot <EM>The Journal of Arts Management and Law</EM> who direct graduate-level degree-granting programs in the U.S. The programs represented here offer sampling of the varieties of focus and structure offered in graduate education in the field.

In collaboration, The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and The Society for Human Resource Management conducted an in-depth study of the corporate perspective on the readiness of new entrants into the U.S. workforce by level of educational attainment.