From Higher Ed... Timothy Phillips, President, Higher Education Division
Greetings fellow collegiate educators of Alabama,
As I write this HED update, I can almost see the finish line of this academic year. I hope your year has been rewarding and that you will soon get some vacation time to recharge your batteries over the summer months.
In the coming months, I would like to encourage applied music professors from our state to consider submitting an article for publication in Ala Breve. The “Call for Submissions” at the end of this update is really directed toward any of you who would be interested in publishing in a peer reviewed format. Simply put, this just means that your article will be selected by a review committee prior to publication. It is an excellent opportunity for you to share your vast knowledge of your particular area of expertise with our readers.
In the closing meeting of the AMEA Board of Directors at this year’s conference, we discussed some ideas for unifying the HED schedule within next year’s conference. We are still in the “idea” stages of this slight restructuring; but, the hope is that we can organize our events so that our members can easily attend everything from the HED business meeting, to the presentations, to the recitals, to the mixer. Also, there was a mention of incorporating student and faculty chamber groups into next year’s AMEA Conference. As this idea evolves, I will share details with you.
If you or any of your colleagues are interested in presenting sessions or performances at the 2012 AMEA
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Conference, please know that the deadline for submission is June 1, 2011. You will find application forms in this issue of Ala Breve. I encourage all collegiate music educators to consider presenting at AMEA. This is an excellent opportunity to share your research, experience, etc. and to interact with other great educators in our state. Also, if you are interested in nominating a fellow music educator for an award through AMEA, please submit application forms (also included in this issue) by July 15, 2011.
Also, I would like to remind you that AMEA’s membership year runs from July 1 through June 30. Please consider renewing your membership early as we embark on this new year.
As always, if you have any suggestions as to how we can improve the HED area of AMEA, please don’t hesitate to contact me. The AMEA Board will meet this summer to discuss next year’s activities and I am happy to bring any issues to the table for you. I appreciate your continued support.
-Timothy Phillips CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Ala Breve is seeking submissions of research articles for the Summer 2011 “Special Research” Edition to be published during the summer, 2011. Submissions may consist of quantitative, qualitative, descriptive, historical, philosophical, or any other kind of accepted research conducted by university faculty and/or active practitioners. The deadline for the submission is May 1, 2011. Submission Guidelines (adapted from the
Submission Guidelines of Update: Applications of Research in Music Education) 1. Manuscripts must be research-based. 2. Manuscripts may present a single research study or a review of the literature. 3. Articles should be unique and not published elsewhere. In accordance with the Code of Ethics, submitting a manuscript indicates that it has not been published previously and is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, either in its entirety or in part. 4. Authors should comply with APA ethical standards (
www.apa.org/ethics/ code2002.html) and institutional and federal regulations in the treatment of human subjects. 5. Quantitative manuscripts must conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed., 2001). Nonquantitative and historical studies may conform to APA style or to The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., 2003). Authors may not mix styles within a manuscript. 8. Authors should submit four copies of typed, double- spaced manuscripts, which normally should not exceed 20 pages, along with an abstract of approximately 150 words. Authors should also submit 4 to 6 keywords relating to their article’s content. Type size should be no smaller than 12 points (double-spacing should include 28 points total for a line of text and the following line). Figures and drawings should be camera-ready. 9. To preserve the author’s anonymity in the review process, the manuscript should not reveal the author’s identity or institutional affiliation. The author’s name, address (including e-mail, if available), and institutional affiliation should appear only on a separate cover sheet. Manuscripts not conforming to this stipulation will be returned. 10. Manuscripts should be addressed to: Dr. Carl Hancock, University of Alabama School of Music, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487.
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