Accreditation[edit]
NASM is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as a programmatic accreditation organization for institutions offering degree and non-degree educational programs in music and music-related disciplines.[1][2] It currently has approximately 625 accredited institutional members, including specialty schools of music, conservatories, and universities offering music programs.
The Music Conservatory of Chicago College of Performing Arts
Cleveland Institute of Music
Boston
New England Conservatory of Music
Oberlin College
Syracuse University
University of Cincinnati
University of Michigan
University of Oregon
University of Southern California
Yale University
On June 10, 1924, leaders from six music schools met to organize the inaugural convention of the "National Association of Schools of Music and Allied Arts", which was held on October 20, 1924 in Pittsburgh. The six founding schools were:
The attendees at the first NASM Convention of October 20, 1924, decided to officially form the "National Association of Schools of Music and Allied Arts." The accreditation aspect of NASM, though, did not launch until about 1929. The charter members currently in existence are:
NASM's founding officers were Kenneth M. Bradley, President; Burnet C. Tuthill, Secretary; and Charles N. Boyd, Treasurer.[3][4]
1924–1928 — Kenneth McPherson Bradley (1872–1954),
Bush Conservatory of Music
1932–1935 — Earl Vincent Moore (1890–1987),
University of Michigan
1935–1944 — Howard Harold Hanson (1996–1981),
Eastman School of Music
1944–1948 — Donald Malcolm Swarthout (1894–1962),
University of Kansas
1948–1952 — Price Asher Doyle (1896–1967),
Murray State University
1953–1962 — Thomas Artur Gorton, PhD (1910–1997), (served 4 terms as president)
University of Kansas
1955–1958 — Erza William Doty PhD (1907–1994),
University of Texas at Austin
1962–19?? — Charles Brownlow Hunt, Jr. (1916–2002),
Peabody College
1971–1972 — Carl Melvin Neumeyer (1911–1972),
Illinois Wesleyan University
1976–1978 — Warner Imig (1910–2005),
University of Colorado at Boulder
1983–1985 — Thomas W. Miller,
Northwestern University
1986–1988 — Robert Burr Glidden (born 1936),
Florida State University
1989–1991 — Robert J. Werner,
University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music
1992-1994 — Fred Miller
DePaul University
1995–1997 — Harold M. Best, (born 1931), , Illinois
Wheaton College
2001–2003 — David J. Tomatz, PhD (1935–2014),
University of Houston
2007–2009 — Daniel Sher,
University of Colorado at Boulder
2010–2012 — Donald Gibson,
Florida State University
2013–2015 — Mark Wait,
Vanderbilt University
2016–2018 — Sue Haug,
Pennsylvania State University
2019-2021 — Robert Earl Bays (born 1921)
List of recognized accreditation associations of higher learning
United States Department of Education
(AEC)
European Association of Conservatoires
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
National Association for Music in Higher Education
Carl Melvin Neumeyer (editor) (1911-1972), By-laws and regulations, National Association of Schools of Music (1965) 4558345
OCLC
Sheila A. Barrows (born 1931) (compiler & editor), Historical Perspectives, 1924-1999: National Association of Schools of Music, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, National Association of Schools of Music (1999) 43434388ISBN 1879120054 ISBN 9781879120051 ISBN 1-879120-05-4
OCLC
General references
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