Michael E. Sikes is an educational consultant primarily in the area of program evaluation, serves as adjunct faculty member at Antioch University Santa Barbara, and is former assistant director for education at the National Endowment for the Arts. For the past three years, he has been the principal investigator for an international cultural exchange program of the Ohio Arts Council, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Over the last decade, he has helped to design and evaluate an umbrella organization of over 30 cultural organizations in Charlotte, NC. Co-author of The Appreciative I...