In recent events, the MSU College of Music has proposed to put a moratorium on the Music Therapy (MT) degree programs.
This means that the College of Music would NO LONGER be ACCEPTING ANY NEW UNDERGRADUATE or GRADUATE students to the program, ultimately dissolving this historic MSU program once the current students have graduated.
Among the programs that have benefited directly from the MSU Student Music Therapy program are Community Mental Health, Autism Foundation of Ingham County, Eric 'Ric Star' Winter Music Therapy Camp, MSU Community Music School, Lansing Parkinson's Disease Support Group, a number of mental health and DD residential group homes, Transitions North and South vocational programs for persons with disabilities, several nursing homes, and many special needs school programs surrounding the Greater Lansing Area.
To have a program such as this removed from the community would be a tremendous loss to the populations we serve as therapists, those who have very little voice, control, or power.
We are asking for your support to help us keep this program alive. We need letters, emails and phone calls to the following people to tell them how important this program is within the Greater Lansing Community and within the music therapy profession itself.
