Calendar


1/2025 – 6/2026

This calendar contains major, but not all, deadlines and events.

JANUARY

January 9, 2025
Third-Party Comment Opens
(institutions scheduled for comprehensive review
at the spring Commission meetings)

January 26-29, 2025
Winter Executive Committee Meetings
(Hyatt Centric Chicago Magnificent Mile – Chicago, Illinois)

FEBRUARY

February 13, 2025
Third-Party Comment Closes
(institutions scheduled for comprehensive review
at the spring Commission meetings)

MARCH

No major events.

MAY

May 1, 2025
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
-Optional Responses
-Responses, Progress Reports
-New Curricula
-Substantive Change
(for consideration at the spring Commission meetings)

May 29 – June 2, 2025
NASM Spring Commission Meeting
(Hyatt Regency – Reston, VA)

APRIL

No major events.

JUNE

June 1, 2025
Annual reporting documents emailed:
Accreditation Audit 2025-2026
Affirmation Statement 2025-2026

May 29 – June 2, 2025
NASM Spring Commission Meeting
(Hyatt Regency – Reston, VA)

June 30, 2025
Third-Party Comment Opens
(institutions scheduled for comprehensive review
at the fall Commission meetings)

JULY

July 1, 2025
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
Accreditation Audit 2025-2026
Affirmation Statement 2025-2026

July 29, 2025
Third-Party Comment Closes
(institutions scheduled for comprehensive review
at the fall Commission meetings)

AUGUST

August 1, 2025
NASM Invoices emailed for 2025-2026
(Payment due upon receipt; invoices may be paid online.)
Application Fees

SEPTEMBER

September 1, 2025
NASM Invoices emailed for 2025-2026
(Payment due upon receipt; invoices may be paid online.)
Accredited Institutional Membership Dues
Library Subscription Fees

Annual reporting document emailed:
Supplemental Annual Report 2024-2025

OCTOBER

October 1, 2025
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
Responses, Progress Reports
New Curricula
Substantive Change
(for consideration at the fall Commission meetings)

October 15, 2025
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
Optional Responses
Supplemental Annual Report 2024-2025

NOVEMBER

November 1, 2025
HEADS Data Survey 2025-2026 Launch Date
for Degree- Granting and Non-Degree-Granting Music Units/Institutions

November 16-21, 2025
NASM Commission on Accreditation Meetings
(Signia Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek — Orlando, FL)

November 16-21, 2025
NASM Commission on Community College Accreditation Meetings
(Signia Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek — Orlando, FL)

November 21, 22, and 23, 2025
NASM Board of Directors Meetings
(Signia Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek — Orlando, FL)

November 21 and 24, 2025
NASM Executive Committee Meetings
(Signia Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek — Orlando, FL)

November 21-25, 2025
NASM Annual Meeting
(Signia Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek — Orlando, FL)

November 24, 2025
NASM Regional Meetings
(Signia Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek — Orlando, FL)

November 26-28, 2025
Holiday Closing of the NASM National Office

DECEMBER

December 24, 2025-January 2, 2026
Holiday Closings of the NASM National Office

December 28, 2025
Third-Party Comment Opens
(institutions scheduled for comprehensive review
at the spring Commission meetings)

JANUARY

 January 25-28, 2026
Winter Executive Committee Meetings
(Hyatt Centric Chicago Magnificent Mile – Chicago, Illinois)

January 31, 2026
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: HEADS Data Survey 2025-2026
for Degree-Granting and Non-Degree-Granting Music Units/Institutions

FEBRUARY

February 1, 2026
Third-Party Comment Closes
(institutions scheduled for comprehensive review
at the spring Commission meetings)

MARCH

No major events.

MAY

May 1, 2026
SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
-Optional Responses
-Responses, Progress Reports
-New Curricula
-Substantive Change
(for consideration at the spring Commission meetings)

APRIL

No major events.

JUNE

June 1, 2026
Annual reporting documents emailed:
Accreditation Audit 2026-2027
Affirmation Statement 2026-2027

May/June, 2026
NASM Spring Commission Meeting
(TBA)

June 17, 2026
Third-Party Comment Opens
(institutions scheduled for comprehensive review
at the fall Commission meetings)