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NAfME Awards Four Collegiate Members and Seven Institutions’ Collegiate Chapters for Excellence and Achievement
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National Association for Music Education Awards
Four Collegiate Members and Seven Institutions’
Collegiate Chapters for Excellence and Achievement
RESTON, VA (July 18, 2022) – The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) recognized the NAfME Collegiate Chapters of seven schools as “Chapters of Excellence” this summer. These preservice music educators and collegiate chapters will be recognized early this fall in a virtual event that will bring together NAfME Collegiate members to share best practices from their chapters. The Chapter of Excellence Recognition was developed to encourage chapters to plan and execute successful chapter music programs, professional development projects, recruitment techniques, and service projects. Recognition of excellent projects is conferred annually and is based on activities completed by the chapter between January 1 and December 31st of the year prior. Chapters are evaluated on participation, commitment, creativity, impact, organization, uniqueness, and visibility.
The seven chapters receiving Chapter of Excellence Recognition for the 2021–2022 school year include:
- Professional Development: Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
- Professional Development: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Professional Development: University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska
- Professional Development: University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, Georgia
- Service: Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan
- Service: Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
- Service: University of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg, Kentucky
Four NAfME Collegiate members were also recognized with Professional Achievement Awards. The purpose of the Professional Achievement Award is to recognize individual collegiate members for their commitment and dedication to NAfME and music education. This recognition is given to collegiate members who have served their chapters in an exemplary manner.
Professional Achievement Award recipients for 2021–2022 include:
- Hannah Combs—Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
- Amanda Herold—Sunderman Conservatory of Music, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- Aida Soria—University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska
- Kelsey Zetzl—Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana
Read about the work of these NAfME Collegiate members and chapters, and learn about past recipients of the NAfME Collegiate Chapter of Excellence Recognition and NAfME Collegiate Professional Achievement Awards. To learn more about the NAfME Collegiate program, visit nafme.org/collegiate.
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