MUE Division Faculty Meeting

3rd Floor, Music Education Building

March 28, 2011, Wednesday1

April 04, 2011

Next Meeting: April 11, 2011

c. Karl Kramer

INFORMATION AGENDA (QUESTIONS AT MEETING or MOVE ITEM TO ACTION AGENDA)

1. Who will take minutes today? Same person to scan and email to faculty, please.
2. Meeting of March 14 was devoted to selection of BME award winners. Led by Matt. No
minutes
3. MUE Search: committee has sent its advisory report to Karl. Report is going to EEO
after this meeting. LB expects this to be filled for Fall 2012.
4. TAs for 2011-12
a. waiting to hear from CTE about their level of support. The whole stack of cards
depends on that
b. no cuts in School of Music, TAs and Waivers
i. potential net increases in that 242 and 332 TAs are assigned to Band TAs
and we still keep FTEs in MUE. We will discuss what to do with them, but we
may be able to re-coup some reductions from last year.
c. have recommendation from Greg re: Boddicker. Matt: Nick. Bridget to let LB
know about recommendation for MUS346-B
5. Accomplishment, Updates, and Bits o' News
a. Faculty
i. Al: Madelyn Josephine Legutki. Anything else?
ii. Karin: ASTA National Conference presentation; Ball State University
iii. Louie:
• Clinton IA High School Orch on campus last Friday. Master class
• ASTA Convention presentation, Thursday, March 16. “Hearing
Even the Rests: Sexual Orientation in String Education.” Booth at
conference sponsored by Admissions and staffed by ASTA
Student chapter.
• MSU: 2 talks. Undergrad talk had 60-65 students, many not
known to MUS faculty as MUS majors
b. Undergraduates: faculty comments?
i. Erica Charous: so far, she’s only 1 of 12 first year teachers to be rehired and
increased from .8 to 1.0 FTE
c. Graduates: faculty comments?
i. Chee Kang: dissertation exam this week.
ii. Sherrie has taken Remedial Qual. Results April 8, this Friday.
iii. Brian Kellum’s proposal is out to this committee. Trying to find date for
Prelim.
d. Alumni News
1
March 28 cancelled and used for interview of finalists #4 for faculty vacancy.
 i. zz
6. Doctoral Application Reviews
a. please get LB your vote by Friday: “approve-TA, approve-noTA, consider, reject”
b. two applications: Andre Strizek and Xinzhu Xu
7. Doctoral Quals: LB to ask Sherrie to share her questions and responses with Matt and
Bridget once decision is rendered.
8. BME Revisions: hung up due to new Illinois State Teaching Standards. We will have to
re-map each course and the entire program to them.
9. Chris Dye: Year 1 Review. May 2nd, Monday, at 11:00-11:30am. Matt to Skype in.
10. Spring MUE Newsletter. Lead story will announce WBP hire. Issue to be sent to all
applicants for Fall2011 and current students. Mike West has draft/layout done. Send
items for Faculty Activities/Calendar to him. Michael West mjwest2@illinois.edu
11. Greg requested of Ed Rath that it be determined whether the MME Thesis (MUS569)
procedures that were approved in XX and have since appeared in advising
handbook/website need to be approved by Graduate Committee. (Grad College leaves
decisions about master’s exams and research documents to each academic unit).
12. LB has recommended to Karl that Joe Grant be contracted to teach, MUS346-A for Fall
11 during Bridget’s family leave. (Other courses are covered.)
13. MME plus Certification [follow-up from 08 September meeting with Brenda Clevenger,
COTE]
a. Substitution of graduate-level courses for undergrad certification course
i. Greg will gather information from Division faculty as to whether and which
graduate course/s in their concentration could be a substitute for an undergrad course. In this
way a course could be counted toward the MME as a music education elective (still requires
petition).
ACTION AGENDA
14. Approve Minutes from March 7 (14th was devoted to Awards)
a. Revisions: We stopped at agenda item #20
15. TA, DA, and Fellowship Awards for 2011-2012 (LB)
a. TAs for 2011-12 (waiting to hear from CTE)
b. Zimmerman Fellowships: We can award up to two for 2011-2012, if we wish.
i. “We can award no more than 20K for AY11-12. The minimum stipend for a
fellowship to include a tuition waiver is 10K. In two years, AY13-14, the fun
will likely only be able to fund 1 - 10K fellowship assuming the markets don't
tank.” (email from Joyce with copy to Paul Redman)
ii. Nominations for 2011-2012?
• xx
• yy
iii. ABD by August 15th. Do we want to revise this for 2011-2012?
16. 2011 Leonhard Lecture (BS)
a. Doreen Rao (confirmed: April 21, 22, R, F)
b. From Paul Redman: “I think it depends on what the divisions plans are for the
coming years. The fund pays out about $1,200/yr so it will not replenish very
quickly. Perhaps using $4K this year if you have something special and then
$3k/yr going forward. That would keep you funded for 5 yrs at $3k/yr. After that
you would be back to $1,200/yr.”
c. Stipend amount: $2,000 plus expenses
17. MME Comprehensive Exams. Schedule and Personnel (Matt)
18. MME Capstone Option A: Research Project
a. Current text, with deletion for clarification. (Current language refers to a time
when there was a single advisor for academic year, summers only, and +cert
 MME students.)
i. A. Research Project (MUS530). With the approval the student’s MME Academic Advisor
the MME Coordinator or Division Chair, a student may elect request to complete a research
project as part of the MME degree. After successful completion of MUS533, enroll for 2
credits of MUS530 with a faculty advisor in order to complete a research project in chosen
area. A student may count the credit hours for this Capstone Option as Music Education
Electives in her/his degree program.
b. Add this revised (3-07-11) phrase: “Given the complexity and challenges involved in completing
an original research project of quality, it is strongly recommended that students secure a faculty
member who will supervise the project and serve as Responsible Project Investigator (RPI) one
full calendar year in advance.”
19. Communications from Committees
a. ad hoc group on summer MME and developing sense of cohort and opportunities
for research (Greg, Matt, Bridget)
b. Bridget: Undergraduate Committee
d. Chet: FAA Executive Committee
e. Greg: CRME; Library, FAA (Chair); Graduate Committee
f. Louie: Executive Committee, Ensemble Committee
g. Matt: Computer Advisory, FAA IT Committee, Undergraduate Committee, FAA
Online Learning Task Force (Chair)
20. Doctoral Seminar: faculty research director to attend? to approve peer presentation?
(LB)
21. Piano class competencies (Chet)
22. Possible post-doc: Dr. Walênia Marília Silva. Brazil. Government-funded fellowship
a. cv here: https://files.me.com/lbergonzi/py3xq8
b. Excerpt from an email from her
i. I have not submitted a scholarship proposal yet. I am still working on my research proposal
and will submit it to the Brazilian agency early April, This is the first step. While it is
evaluated I'll work on a leave of absence from my department. I do have chances to get
approval from both, but at this moment I am really at the beginning of the whole process.
ii. There is a chance to apply for August 2011 or January 2012, but in order to do that I need an
institution that would be willing to accept me as a post-doc student.
c. The sponsoring program: CNPQ www.cnpq.gov.br
23. Follow up to Meeting of November 22 (“Next Dance” and Diversity in MUE)
a. 3-4 sentence statement to be sent to the media as a response to any inquiry
(sent as a separate doc with this agenda)
b. anyone can pursue other avenues, as they wish. Clarification requested by LB to
appear in minutes.
c. draft of requested statement was sent via email to faculty
d. LB-only Letter (“Next Dance” and Diversity in MUE)
a. draft was sent to faculty November 25th asking for comments, opinion on
letter as strategy, and outside reader edits
e. Dean Graves called LB same day
a. LB to report on phone call to faculty
f. Request from LB for this to be recorded within meeting minutes: LB has no plans
to do anything with the letter without faculty consultation
24. UIUC Collections of Test in Music (Louie)
a. Components: audio tapes, cassettes, test documentation, and documents on the
background of some of the test
b. Most of drawers are full of student test-taking materials. Do we want TA to organize
files and removed duplicates of student test forms-booklets. Reduce size of
collection and maybe move it into library?
 c. Greg: Is it possible to monetize this collection?
UPCOMING SOON
25. Doctoral Application and Research Requirements:
a. Masters thesis/Early Research Project for PhD is limiting attractiveness of PhD.
(LB to have emails inquiring about this from persons who ended up not applying.)
b. “Early Research Project” vs “PhD Dissertation Readiness” are there alternatives
to a singular study, i.e. Master thesis (LB). What does College of Ed require?
26. MME Research Opportunities
a. Since MUS533 is not enough background to complete a Research Project or
Thesis for MME, how do MMEs complete a study? Might doc students be
brought in as apprentice advisers, paired with a faculty member, specifically to
put into use the knowledge gained in their research methods class.
FOR FUTURE MEETINGS
27. MME stipulates: 4-credit maximum for applied lessons; 1 cr. max for ensemble. Do we
want this stipulation in the EdD which currently has none on the 10 credits of music
option. Do we want to remove it from the MME?
28. Leonhard Lecture Fund
a. Events on the Horizon
i. Michael Fannelli, Rolland Centennial, November 11-12, 2011
ii. J Terry Gates, doctoral seminar. Very inexpensive.
29. Sabbatical Rotation?
30. Summer 2012: “Karl can predict student enrollment and credits taken per student, then
let us know how many courses can be offered. The we decided which.”
31. Common Faculty Engagement Calendar for website. See U.North Texas (LB)
32. Two required MUE courses in the MME are MUS 532 and 536. Should there be other
options?
33. College of Education’s Qualifying Exam (Greg)
a. http://education.illinois.edu/saao/handbooks/ghandbooks_dr_phd_quals.html
34. Make M343 methods, Gr. 9-12, instead of 6-8. (Greg)
35. MME Tweaks and Possibilities to consider in future (from 09.14.09)
a. offer only 2 credit versions of courses in summer (not for 533 or 531)
b. require certain # of courses in College of Education
c. paired with certain MUE course that list of electives instead preferred list DONE
9/14/09
d. summer courses in School in Education
e. online courses in School of Education
f. pre-fabricated course sequence, i.e., have a Sequence A, Sequence B, to be
followed depending on year of matriculation