---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment List, I believe Fred has it right in his post. That is exaclty what happened here at IC back in the 80's during and after the NASM visit. Also, I had to submit a report to the dean on our plan for replacement of the old inventory. We got a capital budget for several years to purchase new instruments. Of course it helped that it was "the fat 80's" and the college had some extra money to burn. Don McKechnie Ithaca College Fred Sturm wrote: > Don't count on NASM to force departments to keep pianos tuned. > Accreditation review happens only every ten years. And most of it is > done through self-study (ie, the department reviewing itself). There > aren't any NASM police out there watching - NASM reviewers are volunteer > faculty from other institutions, who go for one week or so, read the > self-evaluation, talk to some people, wander around, and write their > reports. > Not to say that NASM can't be useful. I'll write more a little > later, but will just note briefly here that I think our department > managed to get sufficient attention of the upper administration, via a > NASM report that noted lacks in piano purchase and maintenance, that we > may end up with a replacement budget. > Regards, > Fred Sturm > University of New Mexico > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/cb/b9/77/34/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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