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July 22, 2010

Arts Engagement Exchange Grants Lead to New Projects

Thanks to a generous new round of grantmaking by the Arts Engagement Exchange here in Chicago, we’ll be conducting additional research for a favorite client, TimeLine Theatre, and beginning to work with two other terrific organizations: The Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago and the statewide service and advocacy group Arts Alliance Illinois. More »
July 22, 2010

Meet Us in Phoenix at VSA

Slover Linett partner Peter Linett and senior associate Sarah Lee will be in Phoenix next week for the 23rd annual conference of the Visitor Studies Association (VSA). They look forward to meeting new colleagues in the museum field and picking up the conversation with old friends. More »
July 19, 2010

Cheryl Slover-Linett Presents Findings on Social Media in Higher Ed

The firm’s founding partner is in New York City this week for the annual CASE Summit For Advancement Leaders. Slover-Linett will give a talk with Michael Stoner, president of mStoner, and others about new data on how colleges and universities use social media tools to build and cultivate relationships. More »
July 06, 2010

Second Wave of Findings from MBA Prospects Survey Released

Findings from our second annual study of students planning to pursue an MBA degree are now available in the publications section of sloverlinett.com. Bill Hayward, the firm’s practice leader for higher ed, presented the findings last month at the annual conference of the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC) at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. More »
June 25, 2010

Farewell Flinner: A Colleague Heads to NYC

Join us in saying au revoir to Kate Flinner, Slover Linett’s manager of field research. Kate is moving to New York to pursue a career in museum exhibits, starting with an internship at Thinc Design, a leading exhibition design firm with clients around the world. More »
June 22, 2010

Coming Up for AIR: Bill Hayward Presents at Institutional Research Conference

Over 1,500 research and assessment professionals from colleges and universities converged on Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend for the annual meeting of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR). We presented findings from a study of the relationship between student engagement and later alumni connectedness. More »
June 14, 2010

Research Fellow Michael Di Giovine Presents Heritage Management Framework at UNESCO Conference

Di Giovine, an anthropologist completing his doctorate at the University of Chicago and currently conducting research in Italy, spoke at an international conference on heritage and tourism in Quebec City, Canada earlier this month. His influential book on the “heritage-scape” had just been praised by the conference’s keynote speaker, so Di Giovine’s sessions were packed. More »
June 12, 2010

Helping Create a New Center for Art Museum Studies

The art history department at Case Western Reserve University has asked Slover Linett to lead part of a planning study for a unique new research center. The project is a collaboration between Case Western, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and other educational and cultural organizations in northeast Ohio. More »
June 12, 2010

Cleveland Museum of Art Turns to Slover Linett for Integrated Exhibition Research

The museum, one of the largest art institutions in the country, has engaged us to help develop a new audience research approach that combines exhibition evaluation and market research. The integrated process will be developed in conjunction with an upcoming exhibition of pre-Incan art, which will serve as a “pilot project” for the new approach. More »
June 11, 2010

Inside the Beltway, A New Donor Study

We’re proud to begin a relationship with George Washington University in Washington, DC. We’ll be working with the development department at the university’s medical center to discover ways of strengthening the institution’s relationships with individual supporters. More »
May 19, 2010

We Welcome Amy Barr to the Firm as Office Manager

Amy Barr, who recently earned a Master’s degree from George Washington University’s well-regarded museum studies program, joined the team part-time earlier this month. And not a moment too soon! More »
May 05, 2010

Meet Us in Los Angeles at the Museum Conference

Partner Peter Linett and senior associate Sarah Lee will be in Los Angeles later this month for the American Association of Museums meeting. Linett will give a talk on museums in a postmodern world at the Museum Group’s annual side conference. More »
May 05, 2010

University of Chicago Partnership Extended

This month we were asked by the President’s Office to help the university with its 2010 COFHE survey of graduating seniors. The study is conducted every four years by the 31 highly selective colleges and universities that are members of the COFHE research consortium. More »
May 04, 2010

Exploring “Scientific Chicago” with WTTW

We’re excited to be working with WTTW, Chicago’s public television affiliate, to conduct an audience evaluation of the station’s new science series. The programs will run as part of Chicago Tonight, WTTW’s popular evening show that covers a wide range of civic, cultural, and other topics of interest to Chicagoans. More »
April 18, 2010

Benchmarking Social Media Practices

Slover Linett has partnered with its friends at mStoner, a leading communications firm for educational institutions, and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), to conduct a national study examining how colleges and universities manage their social media activities. More »
April 07, 2010

Greg Sandow Chicago Lecture Co-presented by Slover Linett

The firm, in partnership with the University of Chicago’s Cultural Policy Center and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, will host a conversation with Sandow on April 20. Sandow is an influential commentator on the future of classical music and serves on the faculty at Julliard. More »
March 26, 2010

“Come on Eileen” — We Welcome Eileen Bevis to the Firm as a Research Analyst

After a three-month national search for an additional Research Analyst, we concluded that the ideal candidate was already near at hand. Eileen Bevis, a PhD student in sociology at the University of Chicago and a freelance analyst for Slover Linett since mid-2009, joins the team full time next week. More »
March 26, 2010

Second Wave of International MBA Research Begins

Slover Linett is partnering with the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC) to extend our joint study of MBA prospects, first conducted in early 2009. The new results will be presented at AIGAC’s annual conference in June at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. More »
March 12, 2010

Article on Planning for Audience Research Published by National Arts Marketing Project

The two-part article by Peter Linett aims to help arts leaders ask the right questions before embarking on a research project. It was recently published on the website of the National Arts Marketing Project, a unit of Americans for the Arts. More »
March 08, 2010

Slover Linett to Lead Arts & Business Council Workshop on Using Audience Data

The March 30 session in Chicago will help arts professionals learn how to take a data-driven approach to developing marketing strategies. Registration is now open. More »
March 05, 2010

New Cultural Clients in Chicago, St. Louis

We’re proud to welcome two highly respected arts institutions to the Slover Linett family this week: the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. More »
March 04, 2010

Leading Community Music School Turns to Slover Linett

The Merit School of Music in Chicago has selected us to help with a Wallace Foundation-funded research project examining arts education decisions. More »
February 22, 2010

Appraisal of Museum Literature Published in Curator

Peter Linett's article looking back at his six-year tenure as book review editor at Curator: The Museum Journal appears in this month's issue of the journal. More »
February 10, 2010

Writing the Book on Institutional Research

A chapter in the forthcoming Handbook for Institutional Research will be co-written by Slover Linett senior associate Bill Hayward and Northwestern University’s Rachelle Brooks. More »
February 02, 2010

New Collaboration with Cultural Economics Firm AECOM

We’re proud to be beginning a new study this month with our friends at AECOM, with whom we’ve collaborated on museum research and analysis projects in the past. More »
February 01, 2010

Alumni and Development Analysis Delivered to University of Chicago

Last week, Slover Linett presented the results of a custom analysis of alumni survey responses originally collected by COFHE, the Consortium on Financing Higher Education. More »
January 19, 2010

Passing the Bar for Hofstra

Along with our partners at the communications firm mStoner, Slover Linett was selected by Hofstra University’s School of Law for a major research and engagement initiative. More »
January 07, 2010

Comparison Wave of Alumni Study Launched

First conducted in 2007, the University of Chicago "Relationship Monitor" surveys alumni living around the globe to reveal ways of increasing engagement. More »
January 05, 2010

New Year, New Website

We're ringing in 2010 with a fresh face online. Our full-featured site and blog went live this week at sloverlinett.com. More »
January 02, 2010

Peter Linett Begins Visiting Role at Cultural Policy Center

Slover Linett partner Peter Linett was recently named a Visiting Associate at the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago. More »
December 21, 2009

It's Only Natural...History

Slover Linett presented evaluation findings this week that will help the education department at the nation's busiest natural history museum plan for a new learning center. More »
December 12, 2009

Capital Campaign Study Findings Presented

Managing partner Cheryl Slover-Linett presented findings from a new national study on how cultural and educational institutions plan for and fund their captial campaigns. More »
November 15, 2009

An Elevated Client

Slover Linett will provide audience research services to Friends of the High Line, the nonprofit organization responsible for New York City's hottest cultural and recreational site More »
October 16, 2009

Slover-Linett Shares Insights about Delaware Arts

This weekend, Delaware's "State of the Arts" podcast and radio show will rebroadcast its August 2009 interview with Cheryl Slover-Linett about Delaware arts audiences. More »
September 12, 2009

It's a book!

Slover Linett research fellow Michael Di Giovine recently published The Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage and Tourism. More »
September 08, 2009

Tufts Graduate Jett Joins Firm

Catherine Jett joins Slover Linett Strategies from the Rotary Foundation, becoming the firm's first Research Assistant. More »
September 07, 2009

Curtain! Online Ticketing Study Completed

Slover Linett Strategies reported findings to Chicago's nonprofit theater community about audiences' online ticketing behaviors and needs. More »

 

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