By Anne K. Galito, assistant director of university communications

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. - Dr. Frieda Gebert, associate professor of music at Campbellsville University, has been approved by the CU Board of Trustees to receive tenure as a faculty member.

Gebert received both her bachelor of arts and master of fine arts degree from the University of South Florida. She received her doctorate of musical arts degree from the University of Texas.

She has taught at Salem College in Winston-Salem, N.C., Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Ind. and Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.

Gebert is a member of the National Association of Singing and the Kentucky Association of Gifted Educators.

She has been employed at CU since 2003 and also serves as the associate dean of CU's School of Music.

She is married to Mark Gebert and they have four children, Ellis, Nick, Phillip and Morgan.

Campbellsville University, founded in 1906, is a private, comprehensive institution located in South Central Kentucky. Affiliated with the Kentucky Baptist Convention, Campbellsville has an enrollment of 2,197 students who represent 100 Kentucky counties, 32 states and 28 foreign nations. Listed in U.S. News & World Report's “America's Best Colleges” 13 consecutive years as one of the leading Southern master's colleges and universities, Campbellsville University is located 82 miles southwest of Lexington, Ky., and 80 miles southeast of Louisville, Ky. Dr. Michael V. Carter is in his seventh year as president.