Just three more days separate us from the end of classes for Fall 2015. We'll look forward to our final three concerts of the semester, and then, following Finals Week, we'll celebrate with our December graduates. (See Events and Looking Ahead below.)
Faculty and Staff Business
- Please see the revised draft proposal for dividing the coordinator for two colleagues' work (attached to last week's announcements). Please review the lists of responsibilities and let me know if you are interested to be nominated—either for the whole position or for a shared position. Release time or stipend will be available, depending on the coordinator's (or coordinators') preferences: either an 8% annual salary stipend (4% per coordinator if shared) or 6-teaching load-hour annual release (3 teaching load hours per year per coordinator if shared), as established by ASU campus-wide protocol.
- Please see the following request from a Mathematics graduate student:
- My name is Michael Rudziewicz. I am a graduate student in the Math Department. I am collaborating in research with Dr. Eric Marland, Dr. Greg Rhoads, and Dr. Michael Bossé. For my research project, I am investigating and comparing how math and art faculty visualize data and create a line of best fit for different distributions on scatter plots. I was wondering if you would agree to complete a short activity (approximately 10-15 minutes) that I developed in The Geometer's Sketchpad, a mathematical program. Since The Geometer’s Sketchpad is not a web-based program and the School of Music does not have a license for it, we must hold the activity in a computer lab in Walker Hall. You can complete the activity anytime between 9:30 am to 12:30 pm on Friday December 4 in 205 Walker Hall. Refreshments will be provided. In order to plan for sufficient refreshments, please RSVP for Dr. Michael Bossé bossemj@appstate.edu if you plan to attend. Thank you all in advance for your willingness to participate.
Events
For complete listings of performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: www.music.appstate.edu/calendar and www.music.appstate.edu/news-events/live-streams
- Appalachian Chorale performs on Tuesday, December 1, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
- Dean's Advisory Council meets on Tuesday, December 1, at 11 am.
- On Wednesday, December 2nd, students in the Introduction to Music Industry Studies class will present a poster session highlighting their semester research projects from 9-10am in the "Brickyard." Everyone is invited to stop by and see what the MIS students have been working on.
- Symphony Band performs on Wednesday, December 2, at 8 pm, in the Schaefer Center.
- Deans' Student Advisory Council meets Wednesday, December 2, at 5 pm.
- The HSoM full faculty meets Friday, December 4, at 11 am.
- Friday, December 4, is ASU's Reading Day.
- The HSoM Holiday Scholarship Concert occurs Friday, December 4, at 7:30 pm, in the Schaefer Center. $$
- The "Messiah Singalong" occurs Sunday, December 6, at 6 pm, in Rosen.
- Jazz Ensemble I presents "An Evening of Holiday Big Band Jazz" (dinner/concert) on Sunday, December 6, at 7 pm, in the Parkway Ballroom (Plemmons Student Union). $$
Looking Ahead
- Final Exams occur Monday-Friday, December 7-11.
- University Commencement occurs December 12.
- Final grades are due by noon on Monday, December 14.
- Spring 2016 semester classes begin Monday, January 11.
HSoM On the Road and Around Campus (upcoming)
- HSoM faculty choral conductor Stephen Hopkins's work "When Jesus Was Born" will be performed by the Hickory Choral Society at their annual Christmas Concerts. These five concerts take place from Friday, December 4 through Sunday, December 6 at Corinth Reformed Church in Hickory.
Kudos and Other News and Events
- See the following URL for an article regarding HSoM ethnomusicologist Laurie Semmes's study-abroad trip to Cuba with Appalachian colleagues and students: www.appalachianmagazine.org/stories/id/512
- See the following URL for an article regarding Patricia Ferguson Beane's honorary bachelor's degree, awarded in early October at the University's Celebration of Integration, and her time in the Marching Mountaineers in the mid-1960s: www.diversity.appstate.edu/news/id/56
With best wishes for week 16 of the 2015-16 academic year,
Bill
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William L. Pelto, Ph.D.
Dean, Hayes School of Music
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-3029
**If you'd like to have something included in future iterations of these announcements, please send me an email with "announcements" in the subject line. Please feel free to send me information about artists (HSoM colleagues and others) who will collaborate in faculty recitals. My listings here sometimes miss those details. I'll be happy to add family/personal announcements, too. Please submit announcements as pdf's or in plain text, unformatted (no special spacing, bullets, etc.). Please include hyperlinks as appropriate.
**Please send information about upcoming off-campus performances and presentations by faculty and students. I'll include them in this "HSoM On the Road..." section.