A Model for Saving Student, Instructional, and State Costs Music instruction is expensive. Further there is increasing use of technology throughout the curriculum, which, though pedagogically effective and important to professional development, is also costly. Reducing support for these areas would be neither prudent nor practical, for to do so would reduce standards and programs essential to students preparing for competitive careers as professional musicians.
Cost savings are possible, however, in the academic portion of the music degree.
We are developing a model program, comprised of two distinct, concurrently running parts, which does just this. In the first part of the project we hope to eliminate the need to provide remedial instruction in music fundamentals on campus. In the second part, we will increase the number of students who can achieve advanced placement in the music core curriculum by actively promoting and facilitating the teaching of college-equivalent music courses in the secondary schools.