National Association of Schools of Music

Accreditation

History

1. Burnet Corwin Tuthill, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
2. John James Hattstaedt, American Conservatory of Music
3. Kenneth McPherson Bradley, Bush Conservatory of Music, which merged in 1932 with The Chicago Conservatory College under duress of the Great Depression
4. Arthur Wright Mason, Louisville Conservatory of Music, which merged in 1932 with the University of Louisville under duress of the Great Depression
5. Charles Newell Boyd, Pittsburgh Musical Institute, which merged in 1963 with the University of Pittsburgh
6. Edwin John Stringham, Wolcott Conservatory of Music, founded in 1920 and in 1925 was reorganized and renamed as the Denver College of Music

• The Music Conservatory of Chicago College of Performing Arts
• Cleveland Institute of Music
• Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina
• Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
• New England Conservatory of Music, Boston
• Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
• Oberlin College
• Syracuse University
• University of Cincinnati
• University of Iowa, Iowa City
• University of Kansas, Lawrence
• University of Michigan
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• University of Oregon
• University of the Pacific, Stockton, California
• University of Southern California
• Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, Milwaukee
• Yale University

Current and past presidents

• 1924–1928 — Kenneth McPherson Bradley, Bush Conservatory of Music
• 1928–1931 — Harold Lancaster Butler, Syracuse University, University of Kansas
• 1932–1935 — Earl Vincent Moore, University of Michigan
• 1935–1944 — Howard Harold Hanson, Eastman School of Music
• 1944–1948 — Donald Malcolm Swarthout, University of Kansas
• 1948–1952 — Price Asher Doyle, Murray State University
• 1953–1962 — Thomas Artur Gorton, PhD, University of Kansas
• 1955–1958 — Erza William Doty PhD, University of Texas at Austin
• 1962–19?? — Charles Brownlow Hunt, Jr., Peabody College
• 1971–1972 — Carl Melvin Neumeyer, Illinois Wesleyan University
• 1976–1978 — Warner Imig, University of Colorado at Boulder
• 1983–1985 — Thomas W. Miller, Northwestern University
• 1986–1988 — Robert Burr Glidden, Florida State University
• 1989–1991 — Robert J. Werner, University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music
• 1992-1994 — Fred Miller DePaul University
• 1995–1997 — Harold M. Best,, Wheaton College, Illinois
• 1998–2000 — J. William Hipp, University of Miami School of Music
• 2001–2003 — David J. Tomatz, PhD, University of Houston
• 2004–2006 — Karen Lias Wolff, University of Michigan, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
• 2007–2009 — Daniel Sher, University of Colorado at Boulder
• 2010–2012 — Donald Gibson, Florida State University
• 2013–2015 — Mark Wait, Vanderbilt University
• 2016–2018 — Sue Haug, Pennsylvania State University
• 2019-2021 — Robert Earl Bays