Don Coffman
Professor
Music Education
Phone: (319) 335-3026
Office: 2003 VMB
don-coffman@uiowa.edu
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Don Coffman

Don Coffman is professor and area head of music education at The University of Iowa. He teaches undergraduate courses in conducting and instrumental methods. His graduate courses include techniques for researching and measuring musical behaviors.

An active researcher in life long music learning, he is the former Chair of MENC’s Adult and Community Special Research Interest Group. He has served on the editorial board of the Music Educators National Conference's Journal of Research in Music Education and currently serves on MENC’s Music Education Research Council, the executive board of the Society for Research in Music Education. He is also a board member for the Community Music Activities Commission of the International Society for Music Education. His writings have appeared in all the leading music education research journals.

Professor Coffman directs the Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center New Horizons Band, which provides an opportunity for "chronologically gifted" adults to learn or reacquaint themselves with wind and percussion instrumental music. In 2006 he was honored for his work with his New Horizons Band with three awards: The University of Iowa President's Award for State Outreach and Public Engagement, the State of Iowa Governor’s Volunteer Award, and the Outstanding Continuing Educator Award from the Johnson County chapter of AARP.

Professor Coffman holds degrees from Wichita State University (M.M.E.) and the University of Kansas (B.M.E., Ph.D.).

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