UTSA String Project receives donation from Ford Foundation
(July 2, 2003)--The University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Music recently received a $3,500 donation from local Ford dealers to support the UTSA String Project.
Photo left to right, Stephen Pollock, branch manager, Ford Credit; Billy Vaughn, general manager, North Park Lincoln Mercury; Andrea Yun, UTSA assistant professor of music; Greg Wood, district manager, Ford division, Southwest region and Eugene Dowdy, chair, UTSA department of music.
The UTSA String Project began January 2002 and features over 60 young string players from the San Antonio metropolitan area taught by both the project Master Teacher Andrea Yun and UTSA students training to be teachers.
The project is funded by a three-year $15,000 grant from the American String Teachers Association String Project Consortium and is designed to help universities build the practical training component of their music education programs. The purpose is to help alleviate a national string teacher shortage by encouraging string players to become string teachers.
"We're in the final year of the grant and we're continuing to find ways to fund this wonderful program," said Eugene Dowdy, UTSA department of music chair.
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