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The proposed cuts – UMaine Division of Music

The Academic Program Prioritization Working Group (APPWG) Committee, led by Provost Susan Hunter, is taking comments on the proposed cuts to the Music Division offerings, but only through next week. You can send comments directly to Dr. Hunter via FirstClass, or send comments to the address described on the Committee’s website: http://www.umaine.edu/achievingsustainability/send-us-your-feedback/

“I can summarize the proposed cuts by saying that the B.A. in Music, the B.M. in performance and our graduate degrees have been targeted to be eliminated. My argument to the administration will include the facts that many of the actual courses required by the B.M. in Music Education degree (which is NOT in danger) are the same courses that are required by the other undergraduate degrees. So, any possible savings will come only with eventual faculty retirements. We in the Music Division have already discussed ways that we could adapt to offer many of these degrees even when we have fewer faculty after 2014. So, we are working towards keeping the Division strong, both by attracting the same variety of music majors that we have in the past, and keeping the Music Education program strong by offering the opportunities for advanced study that our graduate program gives them.”

Beth Wiemann
Chair, Music Division
Associate Professor
University of Maine
School of Performing Arts
Orono, ME 04469-5788

(207) 581-1244