Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat is the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP)? Why and how was SNAAP initially developed? Why is SNAAP important now? Who in general will benefit from SNAAP? How will key groups benefit from SNAAP? Who will be surveyed? What kinds of questions will the SNAAP survey ask? How will SNAAP data be collected? What institutions have participated? How can my institution participate in SNAAP in 2010? What products will be available to participating institutions? Who will own the collected data and how will it be used? What is the SNAAP Lifemap? Who is supporting SNAAP? What were some of the findings from the 2008 SNAAP Field Test? |
What is the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP)?SNAAP is an online survey system to collect, track, and disseminate national data about the artistic lives and careers of alumni who trained as visual, performing, or literary artists at both the high school and college levels. As an ongoing research system, it allows educational institutions, researchers and arts leaders to look at the systemic factors that help or hinder the career paths of alumni, whether they chose to work as artists or pursued other paths. SNAAP is administered as an annual survey of alumni at specified junctures at 5, 10, 15 and 20 years following their institutionally-based arts training. SNAAP findings allow for national and other comparisons and can be disaggregated in various other ways so that institutions can better understand, for example, how students in different majors use their arts training in their careers and other aspects of their lives. |