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JOHN JENKINS

jenkins@admin.umass.edu
260 Fine Arts Center
(413) 545-0030

ASSOCIATE CHAIR FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC & DANCE; PROFESSOR, MUSIC EDUCATION; ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, FINE ARTS CENTER

John Jenkins received a B.M., M.M., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. At UMass Amherst he Chaired the University Task Force on General Education and the General Education Council. A former Professor in Residence at Hokkaido University, Japan, Jenkins' publications appeared in the Journal of Higher Education and Lifelong Learning at the Center for Research and Development in Higher Education, Sapporo, Japan. Founder of The Lively Arts course and artist residency program at UMass Amherst, he is the recipient of the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Study Visit Grant to Hofkapelle, Thurn und Taxis and Regensburg.

Appointed 1963

John Jenkins
Dance Department