Guidelines comments

[Fred Sturm]

--On Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:57 PM -0400 Wimblees@aol.com wrote:
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>  I'm trying to suggest a few ways to make the guidelines even better. It
> will require some more work on our part. But we've gone this far, so why
> not go the extra mile, and make it even better?

	I'm a little slow on the uptake, I guess. I should make clear that the 
Guidelines now posted on the caut website are complete. It says draft only 
because the final version will include a page of endorsements. An ad hoc 
sub-committee worked for several months this fall to complete editing and 
changes. The caut committee approved a final version and forwarded it to 
home office. Board members gave a bit of input, and a few final changes 
were made (mostly to syntax and format). So this is the 2003 version, and 
no further changes will be made in the immediate future. Maybe after 
another ten years.
	For now, the focus of the caut committee is on developing supplementary 
materials aimed at contract techs and at small schools; developing a 
curriculum of classes and other training for cauts with the aim of creating 
some sort of "caut credential" (certificate of on-going education, 
something along these lines); continuing to work with NASM to maintain and 
raise our profile vis a vis that organization and the music departments it 
serves; and ad hoc projects like developing a course outline and materials 
for "piano tech" and related teaching cauts might do at their institutions.
	IOW, we've got a pretty full plate.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
Universidad de Nuevo Mexico