Press Release - MENC: The National Association for Music Education Announces Collegiate Chapter Growth Recognition for 2005-2006
MENC: The National Association for Music Education Announces Collegiate Chapter Growth Recognition for 2005-2006
Chapter Growth Seen as Critical to Future of Music Education Profession
RESTON, VA (May 2, 2006) “ MENC: The National Association for Music Education has announced the recipients of its Collegiate membership program™s Chapter Growth Certificates of Achievement. This program was established to stimulate growth in Collegiate membership. Since its inception in 1986, Collegiate chapters have received national and statewide recognition for significant chapter growth. The recognition is given to chapters that increase their enrollment from the previous year.
MENC is committed to addressing growing concerns over teacher shortages in the fine arts, said Mark Britt of Furman University, MENC national Collegiate Membership chair. The Chapter Growth Certificates are one way that we recognize this commitment among our collegiate membership. An increasing number of young people are seeing the importance and value of a career in music education, and this recognition validates the work that these pre-service educators and their chapter advisors accomplish throughout the academic year.
For a complete list of 2006 Collegiate Chapter Growth Recognition Recipients, email SheilaH@menc.org.
For more information call 1-800-336-3768 or visit the Web site.
MENC: The National Association for Music Education, the world™s largest arts education organization, is the only association that addresses all aspects of music education. More than 120,000 members represent all levels of teaching from preschool to graduate school. Since 1907, MENC has worked to ensure that every student has access to a well-balanced, comprehensive, and high-quality program of music instruction taught by qualified teachers. MENC™s activities and resources have been largely responsible for the establishment of music education as a profession, for the promotion and guidance of music study as an integral part of the school curriculum, and for the development of the National Standards for Arts Education.
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