Presidential Excellence Award: BUSMEA

The Presidential Excellence Award is awarded monthly to a full time student, faculty, staff or club member that has made a special contribution to the quality of academic or non-academic life on campus or within the Brandon Community. On a monthly basis, the committee consisting of; a BUSU representative, Quill representative and the Dean of students, selects from various nominations received. Anyone interested in nominating an individual or group for the award can email springers@brandonu.ca or quill@thequill.ca.

It is with great pleasure that the committee would like to congratulate Brandon University’s Music Educators Association on receiving the award for the month of January, 2010. We would also like to make special mention of the executive of BUSMEA and recognize their efforts to improve the educational experience of Music Education students, both on and off campus.

The council members include:

Chloé Plamondon - president Leandra Williams - vice president Anna Jardine - secretary/treasurer Stephanie Dzubinski - corresponding secretary Carly Swain - fundraising chair Jennifer Shead - events coordinator Roberta Matheson - student rep Robert Hodgins - student rep

The busy executive of BUSMEA this year has many accomplishments to its name. BUSMEA hosts DaCapo annually, which is a conference geared towards building educational resources and networking. The council also prints a Music Education Journal called the BUSMEA BUZZ, which prints its final copy shortly.

Past recipients of the award include Jennalee Burch, Dr. Wendy McCallum, Pat Alvestad and Claire Robson. Each winner has their picture taken with the president of the university, and receives a gift certificate. In the case of a group award, the prize is often a pizza party, or other celebration hosted by the Dean of Students.

Once again, we would like to congratulate BUSMEA on its efforts throughout the year, and for its commitment to academic life here at Brandon University.

Congratulations BUSMEA!