Our Mission
The Music Industry Studies program serves as the preeminent center of
music industry education among all Jesuit colleges and universities in
the United States. In the Ignatian traditions of truth, service, and justice,
the program prepares and graduates individuals with the capacity and motivation
to become effective and socially responsible community and professional
leaders who possess a love for, the critical intelligence to pursue, and
the eloquence to articulate truth. As a program designed to cross all
college lines within the University, the academically-rigorous program
is professionally oriented within the context of a liberal arts institution.
Students prepare to enhance their chosen professions, to work as music
industry professionals, and/or to prepare for advanced graduate work in
related areas.
Goals:
The Music Industry Program seeks:
- to be one of the leading programs of its type in the nation;
- to have a faculty combining a rich mixture of musicians and industry professionals who are national leaders in their fields of expertise;
- to offer professional/liberal arts curricula recognized for their overall excellence and innovation;
- to be recognized nationally for the academic quality of its students;
- to be recognized nationally for the quality of its alumni in leadership positions in the profit and non-profit sectors and as music industry entrepreneurs; and
- to be the major resource for music industry education in the Greater New Orleans region.
Objectives:
After successful participation in the program, students will have:
- an ability to use knowledge and skills gained to enhance career success or to gain entrance into a related graduate program;
- an understanding of the ethical and social consequences of a complex local, national, and global music industry;
- an ability and desire to apply ethical and moral values in the decision-making process;
- specific leaderships skills, including refined organizational and management strategies as well as critical awareness, visionary abilities, ability to make decisions, flexibility, a creative nature;
- broad knowledge of a wide range of relevant technical skills and organizational competence;
- a thorough knowledge and/competence in one more areas of expertise in the music industry;
- an ability to formalize basic concepts and make generalizations from the program’s content of present-day knowledge and skills; and
- an ability to function in a dynamic job market and rapidly evolving music industry.
