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The Department of Music and Dance is among four academic departments selected to pilot a new approach to evaluating teaching at UMass Amherst, along with computer science, linguistics, and physics.

According to Gabriela Weaver, vice provost for faculty development and director of the Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development (TEFD), these departments were selected from a field of nine across five schools and colleges to participate in the initiative, which is part of a multi-university project supported by a $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

The Music and Dance application was submitted by department chair Roberta Montemorra Marvin and Director of Wind Studies Matthew Westgate.