Collegiate NCMEA

The 2025 NCMEA conference was a huge success! We held multiple well-attended collegiate sessions given by phenomenal speakers. We would like to take the time to recognize our state board for 2025-2026, and thank you to our outgoing officers for everything they have done over the past year!
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Outgoing:
Immediate Past President: Isaac Reyes, Campbell University
Recording Secretary: Mallory Young, Campbell University
Corresponding Secretary: Caleb Todd, Western Carolina University
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2025-2026 State Board:
Immediate Past President: Cris Lim, Western Carolina University
President: Annie Pinto, Gardner-Webb University
VP/President-Elect: Azariah Ropp, East Carolina University
Recording Secretary: David Dixon, Gardner-Webb University
Corresponding Secretary: Emily McManus, Western Carolina University
NEW POSITION: Advocacy Chair: Lola Mestas, Meredith College

Collegiates had a great time at NAfME’s Collegiate Leadership and Adovcacy Summit and Hill Day! We attended sessions that focused on our leadership and our advocacy to prepare for our legislator meetings on Hill Day.

This could be you! Please visit nafme.org/advocacy to learn how you can be an advocate for music education and participate at CLAS!

Advocacy doesn’t end after one day; keep the momentum going! Visit bit.ly/NAfMEHD25Campaign to send a letter to your elected officials about the importance of arts in our schools.

Please consider running for one of the open positions!!

Another amazing teacher we have the honor of recognizing this

is a first year band director and we are honored to recognize him today for

Join us in recognizing and appreciating the amazing NC music educator !!!

This last week of we want to show appreciation to both our new and veteran music educators! First up is our immediate past president !!!

We’re so excited to see you at conference tomorrow. Here’s the Monday and Tuesday schedules! Don’t forget to download the NCMEA app with all of the session information

Good morning everyone, and only 2 morning days till conference! Here is the schedule for Sunday, November 5th for the collegiate track. We hope to see everyone pop in at the mixer and hope everyone can attend the business meeting!

We are getting so close to conference!! Over the next couple days we will be posting the sessions for collegiate members by day. Today’s focus is November 4th, on Saturday!!! For more information on these sessions, visit ncmea.net We can’t wait to see y’all there!

Happy Music At Our Schools Month from the NCMEA VP Isaac Reyes!!

“I will be taking over the Collegiate NCMEA accounts for this week and I’ll be sharing a bit of what being a Music Ed major looks like for me here at Campbell University!”