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Student Activities ducting at Michigan State University), and Rebecca
Saltzman (Choral Director, Simsbury High School;
Eastern ACDA Region Contemporary A Cappella &
Ryan Beeken Vocal Jazz R&R Chair).
National R&R Co-Chair, Student Activities
ryan.beeken@wichita.edu
Briefly describe your institution and the
Elizabeth Swanson makeup of your student ACDA Chapter.
National R&R Co-Chair, Student Activities
elizabethkswanson@gmail.com
SUNY Potsdam is a public liberal arts college with
2,000 undergraduate students, the Crane School of
Music making up about 500 of those students. Our
Student Chapter Development: ACDA chapter comprises 40+ active members. A ma-
Conversations with ACDA Student Chapters jority of our members specialize in voice, with approxi-
by Ryan Beeken and Elizabeth Swanson mately 35 of our members being music education ma-
jors on the choral track. Our other members include
We are eager to support student members and facul- music business, music history, and music theory majors.
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ty advisors of your institution’s ACDA student chapter.
With a forthcoming manual on how to start a student
chapter, we offer this article with compelling ideas for
how to build and sustain your chapter based on a Q&A
from some of our nation’s leading student leaders and
faculty advisors. These student chapters fall under the
auspices of Crane School of Music, Indiana University,
and Ithaca College. Each has won the “ACDA Student
Chapter of the Year” award or were the runner-up for
this honor. We are grateful for their contributions to
this collaborative article. Below are the individual con-
tributors for each student chapter.

• Elizabeth Powell, Music Education, Voice and Spe-
cial Education Major, at State University of New York
(SUNY) Potsdam’s Crane School of Music (student of
Nils Klykken, Associate Professor of Choral Conduct-
ing).

• Chris Albanese (Associate Professor of Choral Con-
ducting at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music).

• Janet Galván (Professor Emerita, Ithaca College)
along with three Ithaca College alumni: Juliana Joy
Child (Assistant Artistic Director, Pensacola Children’s
Chorus), Keilah Ussi (Former Secondary Choral Di-
rector and Current Graduate Student in Choral Con-

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