Arts Organizations Step Up To Help Kids Make Music
Coordinator of Music Education Kenneth Elpus joined The Kojo Nnamdi Show to share research highlights.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
The School of Music facilitates robust relationships between our students and the greater community to create global, service minded artist-citizens. By sharing their music education, our students provide underserved and under-resourced communities with meaningful access to and inclusion in the arts.
As part of our commitment to community engagement, the School of Music offers a range of opportunities for students to share their love of music beyond campus.
We offer summer camps and programs for both youth and adults in the community. We also offer a service that connects those who wish to hire a musician to our qualified students.
Engagement Programs
Our engagement programs cultivate community-minded leaders by placing students at local schools, senior living facilities, museums, cultural events and more for performance and instructional opportunities. Through these initiatives, our students bring their world-class training from the classroom to the community.
Summer Programs & Camps
Our vast array of summer education opportunities, from youth camps to adult workshops, give members of the community access to our extraordinary School of Music faculty and facilities. Summer programs include Terrapin Music Camp, FAME, UMD Summer Chorus and the Clarinet Academy of America.
Hire a Musician
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Director of Community Engagement
Robert DiLutis
Associate Professor, Clarinet
1124 The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
College Park
MD,
20742
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Exploring Links Between Arts Education and Academic Outcomes in the International Baccalaureate
An interdisciplinary research team is exploring the relationship between arts education and college student outcomes.
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$600,000, 2-year Arts in Education Research Grant
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Principal Investigator: Kenneth Elpus, associate professor of music education
Co-Principal Investigator: Stephanie Prichard, assistant professor of music education
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to explore the relation between rigorous, high quality arts education in high school and academic outcomes at the high school and postsecondary levels. Prior research on the association between arts education and academic outcomes has yielded mixed results, possibly due to wide variation in the definitions of arts education and the academic measures used by researchers. In this study, the research team will analyze a novel administrative dataset that overcomes those weaknesses to establish the relationship between arts education and academic achievement.
Project Activities: The research team will examine the academic achievement outcomes for students who chose to enroll in arts courses compared to those who did not for ten cohorts of American students who pursued courses from the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program, using data provided by the International Baccalaureate Organization. Additionally, they will link IB data to data from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) to compare postsecondary outcomes for arts and non-arts IB students. Finally, they will see if their findings from the IB dataset replicate using data from the Maryland Longitudinal Data System (MLDS) Center for students in the public high schools of Maryland.
Products: The research team will produce preliminary evidence of the potential for arts education to improve high school and postsecondary academic outcomes. In addition, they will produce peer-reviewed publications in arts education and general education research journals, host in-service workshops for arts educators; participate in annual meetings for arts educators and policymakers; publish articles in education practitioner journals and magazines; publish blog posts and op-ed articles on platforms intended to reach the general public; and communicate about these products through various social media platforms.