bruce mcclung
Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Dean's Office - Visual and Performing Arts
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Email Address: bdmcclun@uncg.edu
Phone: 336.334.5789
Education
PhD in musicology, minor in music theory, University of Rochester, 1995
MA in musicology, Eastman School of Music, 1989
MM in organ performance and literature, Eastman School of Music, 1987
BM in organ performance, New England Conservatory, 1983
Biography
bruce d. mcclung is Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). The College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) is the most comprehensive set of arts programs in the UNC System and one of the largest in the Southeast with Schools of Art, Dance, Music, and Theatre. CVPA has been designated by the UNC System Board of Governors as an “area of distinction.” CVPA transforms lives by providing exceptional artistic and academic experiences.
With thirty-two years’ experience in higher education including seven years as a dean, Dean mcclung has held academic appointments at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and UNCG. At the University of Cincinnati, he received the A. B. “Dolly” Cohen Award for Distinguished Excellence in Teaching and the Graduate School Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring Award and was the first CCM professor elected to the University’s Academy for Fellows of Teaching and Learning. He has staffed leadership training programs for fifteen years and led seven-figure fundraising for CVPA, CCM, and the Society for American Music.
Dean mcclung is the author of Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical published by Oxford University Press, which received an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, the Kurt Weill Prize, and the George Freedley Memorial Award’s Special Jury Prize. He is co-editor of the two-volume critical edition of Lady in the Dark for the Kurt Weill Edition and served as the musical and textual consultant for the Royal National Theatre’s production of that musical play. He received an American Musicological Society Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Award, and a Lifetime Service Award from the Society of American Music.
Areas of Responsibility
- Administrative Head of UNCG’s College of Visual and Performing Arts
- Provides strategic and unifying leadership
- Provides astute and transparent financial stewardship
- Recruits, retains, and supports excellent faculty and staff
- Serves as a visible champion for CVPA and the arts internally and externally
- Advances UNCG’s commitment to diversity and inclusion