Linda Duckett, Biographical Statement
Linda Duckett, Professor of Music, teaches music theory, organ, and harpsichord, and has recently served as Interim Director of the Office of Affirmative Action and as Faculty Fellow in the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She has been active throughout her career as performer, educator and leader, and has served nationally and internationally as presenter, facilitator, mediator.
Active in the National Association of Schools of Music, Dr. Duckett served two terms as an elected member of the NASM Commission on Accreditation, and has given papers and chaired panels for Annual Meetings of the Association. She served six years on the National Council of the American Guild of Organists, and one term on its Executive Committee as Convener of the Regional Councilors; she has given papers and workshops on professional concerns for National American Guild of Organist Conventions, and was a featured artist for a Regional Convention of the American Guild of Organists.
Recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and Advisor of the Year Award from Stephens College, Dr. Duckett received the Clarence E. Harris Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Cultural Diversity Program at MSU Mankato. She has served as President of the Minnesota College and University Council of Music, and held office on the Minnesota State Board of the American Council of Education National Identification Program for Women in Higher Education Administration, and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning. She attended the four-week Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration at Bryn Mawr, PA.
Dr. Duckett served as founding Dean of Faculty and Chief Academic Officer at Effat College, a small private college for women in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, where she worked with the Ministry of Education for the Kingdom, the Effat College Founders Board, and with Effat College administrators, faculty and students to establish and oversee the academic agenda for the college.
Recipient of Faculty Research and Faculty Improvement grants for continuing study in mediation, negotiation, critical thinking, music theory and music theory pedagogy, organ pedagogy, American organ-building and design, performance practice, and study of non-western music of the indigenous people of the Andes, she currently serves as Co-Chair of the President’s Commission on Diversity. Her graduate degrees in organ performance are from Indiana University, and her doctorate was granted with distinction.
Although specific descriptions of her work as mediator are confidential, her work is highly respected by parties involved, and by the institutions, organizations and associations who asked her to serve in this way.