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The “Department of Music” astatine Fresno State has changed its sanction to the “School of Music.” The Academic Senate approved the sanction alteration connected Oct. 7.
“Becoming the Fresno State School of Music offers an unthinkable accidental for Fresno State to further showcase our vibrant assemblage of musicians, educators and scholars,” said Dr. Cari Earnhart, seat of the School of Music. “The alteration volition positively interaction not lone our students but besides our estimation wrong the world and nonrecreational euphony communities and bespeak our bequest of excellence and innovation.”
“Elevating our programme to a School of Music communicates to each existent and aboriginal students that they volition person an enriched acquisition astatine Fresno State with our stellar faculty,” said Dr. Honora Chapman, dean of the College of Arts and Humanities. “Fresno State’s School of Music is, indeed, the premier assemblage programme for studying euphony passim the full San Joaquin Valley.”
The alteration comes aft the School of Music updated its instrumental performance, jazz studies, composition, euphony education, and vocal show programs from Bachelor of Arts to Bachelor of Music degrees successful 2022. The caller program required for the B.M. degrees is much rigorous and meets the standards of the National Association of Schools of Music nonrecreational euphony degrees.
