A five-part series of distance learning courses that may be taken online over the World Wide Web. Courses include planning, board development, fund raising, marketing, and arts programming. Groups of no more than 20 students are matched with an instructor who oversees their work. Students learn through written lectures, links to resources and examples, discussion forums, and field assignments that allow working managers to solve workplace problems and learn management skills and principles. Participants communicate with their instructor and each other through email.
Courses are noncredit, but with undergraduate and graduate credit options for additional fees.
Advanced and special-topic workshops and keynote presentations are also presented. Chapters include history of community arts, planning, board development, volunteers, marketing, program development, fundraising, and financial management. These include Tom Weidemann, June Choi, Barbara Davis, Ann Davis, Bill Cleveland, Pam Korza, and Barbara Schaffer Bacon. The online course and text are the products of a group of highly qualified authors. These include Dr. Craig Dreeszen, Barbara Schaffer Bacon, Pam Korza, Halsey and Alice North, and Dr. Dorothy Chen-Courtin.