Not Without a Grievance: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the Suffrage Movement, and the Reception of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

01 October 2024 Abstract In an 1882 article in the American suffrage newspaper, The Woman’s Journal, Thomas Wentworth Higginson expressed outrage that the Mendelssohn family had discouraged Fanny Hensel from composing and that her music had been published under Felix...

Moving Forward into Music Administration

01 May 2009 on one's career and possibly consider new directions. Administration may be one of those directions. In this article Todd Sullivan, the Director of the School of Music at Northern Arizona University and member of the CMS Committee on Academic Leadership...

From Faculty Member to Department Chair: Making the Transition to Administration

28 April 2014 Abstract Each fall dozens of faculty in music departments around the country make the move from faculty member to administrator, most likely department “chair” or “head” depending on terminology in the particular institution. Few, if any, music faculty...

Now That I’m Here, What Should I Do? Encouragement and Advice for New Department Chairs: Part 1

31 August 2008 (Delaware State University) Judith Kritzmire (University of Minnesota Duluth) Anne Patterson (Fairmont State University) Todd Sullivan (Northern Arizona University) Keith Ward (University of Puget Sound) Nancy Ypma (McKendree University) authors: Keith...

Now That I'm Here, What Should I Do? Encouragement and Advice for New Department Chairs: Part 2

31 October 2008 In the first of this two-part article members of the Committee on Administration, now titled the Committee on Academic Leadership and Administration, offered words of reflection and advice to faculty entering administration. In this second article...