April continues, but upcoming events now include activities of the semester's end. Our final concerts for the academic year occur in these next ten days.
Facutly and Staff Business
*Prof. María del Rosario ("Mary Rosa") Hernández Iznaga, dean of music at the Institute of the Arts in Havana, Cuba will visit the University on Wednesday through Friday of this week. Here in the HSoM, she'll attend performances and observe classes, and at 11 am on Friday, in BMC 225, she'll give an informal presentation to faculty regarding music in Cuba. Please consider joining us for this presentation.
*This week's Honors Seminar (Friday at 1 pm, in Rosen) will feature three performances by students—soprano Madeline Hamrick, tubist Christopher Moore, and saxophonist Ben Bradburn—and presentation of numerous awards for students and faculty, including the Student Advisory Council's "Outstanding Teaching Award" and the inaugural awarding of the Jordan Howell Hallmark Music Industries Scholarship.
*The ASU Office of the Attorney reminds us, during this election year, that the following statements from the Handbook and Board of Governors Code govern political activity by university employees. The Office recommends, among other safeguards, that employees' social media postings not identify individuals as from the University specifically in their usernames. For example, I should not allow Facebook to list me as "Bill Pelto Appalachian State University" when I post to someone else's page, although my own site may certainly refer to my employment with Appalachian.
(ASU Faculty Handbook)
3.3 Academic Freedom and Responsibility of Faculty
3.3.1 It is the policy of Appalachian State University to support and encourage within the law full freedom of inquiry, discourse, teaching, research, and publication for all members of the academic staff of this institution. Members of the faculty are expected to recognize that accuracy, forthrightness, integrity, and dignity befit their association with this institution and their position as men and women of learning. They should not represent themselves, without authorization, as speaking for Appalachian State University.
3.3.2 Appalachian State University will not penalize or discipline members of the faculty because of the exercise of academic freedom in the lawful pursuit of their respective areas of scholarly and professional interest and responsibility. All members of the faculty, whether tenured, untenured, or non-tenure track, have the protection of academic freedom.
The language in the Faculty Handbook is consistent with that of The Code of the Board of Governors, which states:
SECTION 601. ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY OF FACULTY.
(1) It is the policy of the University of North Carolina to support and encourage full freedom, within the law, of inquiry, discourse, teaching, research, and publication for all members of the academic staffs of the constituent institutions. Members of the faculty are expected to recognize that accuracy, forthrightness, and dignity befit their association with the University and their position as men and women of learning. They should not represent themselves, without authorization, as spokespersons for the University of North Carolina or any of its constituent institutions.
(2) The University and its constituent institutions shall not penalize or discipline members of its faculties because of the exercise of academic freedom in the lawful pursuit of their respective areas of scholarly and professional interest and responsibility.
*The HSoM website will soon migrate to a new visual/organizational template that will closely resemble that of the appstate.edu home page and others. In advance of that move, we would like to update website text as comprehensively as possible. Please check any web pages that you manage or use regularly, and send the web address (URL) of any needed corrections, along with the original text with edits highlighted in red, to Anna Gaugert gaugertah@appstate.edu. Please consider text edits only at this point, and provide your suggestions to Anna by May 15.
*For the 2015 Faculty Annual Performance Review template, please see the Forms page on the Faculty portal of the HSoM website: http://music.appstate.edu/faculty-staff/updated-pdfs-forms Please schedule appointments for annual meetings with me through Lauren Hayworth.
*For faculty members of Pi Kappa Lambda: The Pi Kappa Lambda induction breakfast will take place May 7th at 8:30 A.M. at the Dan'l Boone Inn. The cost for the breakfast is $12.50 and annual dues are $20. Payment for both may be put in Andrea Cheeseman's box. The deadline to submit payment is April 27th. Checks should be made out to Pi Kappa Lambda.
Events
For complete listings of performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: http://music.appstate.edu/calendar and http://music.appstate.edu/news-events/live-streams
Concert Band performs Monday, April 25, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Symphony Band performs Tuesday, April 26, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Wind Ensemble performs Wednesday, April 27, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Chamber and University Singers perform Thursday, April 28, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
The Hayes String Quartet (graduate student ensemble) performs Friday, April 29, at 8 pm, in the Recital Hall.
Appalachian Symphony Orchestra performs Sunday, May 1, at 2 pm, in Rosen.
The Gospel Jazz Potpourri occurs Sunday, May 1, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Dean's Advisory Council meets Tuesday, May 3, at 11 am.
Appalachian Chorale performs Tuesday, May 3, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Cornocopia occurs Wednesday, May 4, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Looking Ahead
Thursday, May 5, is Reading Day.
The HSoM full faculty meets Thursday, May 5, at 11 am.
The Post Tenure Review Committee meets Friday, May 6, at 9 am.
The School Personnel Committee meets Friday, May 6, at 1 pm. The SPC will discuss renewal of non-tenure-eligible faculty (both full- and part-time) and Professional Development Committees.
Friday-Thursday, May 6-12, is Final Exam Week.
The Hayes School of Music Advisory Board meets Friday, May 13, at 9 am.
The Hooding Ceremony for recipients of Master of Music—Performance and Master of Music Therapy degrees will occur on Friday, May 13, at 1 pm, in the BMC Recital Hall.
The Hayes School of Music Commencement Ceremony for recipients of undergraduate and master's degrees will occur on Friday, May 13, at 3 pm, in Rosen.
Monday, May 16, is the last day for faculty to submit grades.
Kudos and Other News and Events
HSoM faculty music theorist Jenny Snodgrass is this year's recipient of the Appalachian Student Government Association's Outstanding Professor Award.
With best wishes for the fifteenth week of the spring 2016 semester,
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.