About four times a year, our College's administration is tasked with submitting a report on faculty & student "accomplishments" as part of a report to the university's Board of Regents. Now, I know who some of those people are, and I know some of the reasons that they wind up appointed--by our helmet-haired wingnut Governor--to serve on that Board...and let's just say that I don't invest a lot of effort into hoping they're going to understand the value, or the metrics for determining that value, of what a university does--and particularly not the value of what a "College of Visual and Performing Arts" does. These are people who, having heard a lengthy, detailed and articulate description from my boss of all that we do, are wont to say "yeah...I shore do love that marchin' band!" So I don't hold out a lot of hope that they're going to understand the significance of the range of accomplishments revealed in Musicology's part of that quarterly report.
But I do.
See below:
LJ (MM Musicology) was accepted as a PhD candidate and teaching assistant in Musicology at the University of __ School of Music (Fall 2009).I am bursting-my-buttons braggin'-rights proud of my guys. All of them.
CG (MM Musicology candidate) began a semester-long internship at the __ Museum in Oxford, England, cataloging the photo-archive of FDW as assistant to Music Education professor SB (Fall 2009).
HD (MM Musicology candidate) began a semester-long Study Abroad experience at Syracuse in Italy as part of her thesis research on ancient music (Fall 2009).
ES presented a paper ("__") at Music and the Moving Image Conference sponsored by New York University (May 2009). Her paper "__" was accepted for the national meetings of the Society for American Music (Ottawa Canada, March 2010). She also received the Summer Thesis/Dissertation Research Award 2009, funding a research trip to Philadelphia (June 2009) to study primary source materials of __.
ES and KR (MM Musicology candidates) both presented papers on their thesis research (on __ and __) at the 2009 Women's Studies Conference.
Dr IR (PhD Musicology), a first runner-up in the awards for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation, accepted a post teaching at __ Community College in Houston, TX. Dr R continued as coordinator of the MUHL3310 "History of Rock 'n' Roll" distance-education course.
Dr MB (PhD Musicology/Arts Administration) was appointed first Director of the Community Exchange initiative.
Dr MM (PhD Musicology/Arts Administration) joined the staff of the __Symphony Orchestra.
JB (PhD Musicology candidate) accepted a post as Music Director/ Honors Program Coordinator at __ University.
SC (MM Musicology candidate) was accepted into the Law School at __.
RL (MM Musicology candidate) assumed duties teaching MUHL3310 "History of Rock 'n' Roll" on the __ campus, a course enrolling over 425 students per semester.
JS (MUBA-Vernacular Music; percussion) was awarded the 2009-10 Vernacular Music Center Scholarship.
KB (MUBA-Vernacular Music; fiddle), the 2008-09 VMC Scholarship recipient, will graduate with the MUBA in Vernacular Music, with Irish fiddle concentration, in Dec 2009.
Dr Coyote (Chair of Musicology & Director of the Vernacular Music Center) gave a presentation ("__") for the Teaching Academy's "Jump-Start New Faculty series" in August 2009. Dr Coyote also: visited the University of L/L as expert consultant to their new Chair in Music and Acadiana Studies (September); gave a paper at the "Music and Migration" conference in Southampton England and another in the University of Southampton's Musicology Colloquium series (October); taught bouzouki at the O'Flaherty Irish Music Retreat in Midlothian TX (October); served as member of the Program Committee at the national meetings of the American Musicological Society (November).
A contingent from the Musicology program attended and participated in the Fall meetings of the American Musicological Society SW chapter in San Antonio, TX (October).
The Vernacular Music Center was awarded a grant by the Growing Grad Programs initiative to fund Ms AR (MM Musicology candidate) to serve as vMC administrative assistant for the academic year 2009-10; she will engage in promotions, fundraising, and recruitment for both the VMC and the Musicology graduate program.
The Celtic Ensemble gave a concert ("Across the Western Sea: Music of Anglo-Appalachia") in the Legacy Great Hall in October 2009, which program they will repeat as part of a tour to the Metroplex in performance at Tarleton State University (November).
4 comments:
As well you should be. The dedication and LOVE you put into each one of us is over and above what all those board members will EVER understand about what you (and just about every professor in the SoM) do.
P.S. You should hear the braggin' some of us do about YOU.
Oh Fun! , non-specific dashes and spaces where pertinent and interesting information should be, left out for what are probably perfectly justified and intelligently thought-out politically expedient reasons!
Now I can:
1) recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of the department even without all the pertinent info. Congrats to all (even though I probably don't know the one of them). That's quite the professional output for a year, for ANY music program.
2) make one hell of a Musicological Mad Libs, all in good fun of course!
like so:
MM Musicology candidate began a semester-long internship at the _TOOTHPICK_ Museum in Oxford, England
PhD Musicology/Arts Administration joined the staff of the _PEREZ HILTON_Symphony Orchestra.
PhD Musicology candidate accepted a post as Music Director/ Honors Program Coordinator at _PEANUTS_ University.
MM Musicology candidate was accepted into the Law School at _an impromptu street surgeons regional chapter convention_.
enjoy the (i hope....) chuckle!
=D
-K
BG:
Aw, shucks, mijo. Y'all guys are the best reward any teacher could ever ask for.
KF: Ha! This is bloody BRILLIANT! You have to complete them!!!
Bravo!
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