Elected to the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Nominating Committee, 2023-2025

• Duties include the preparation of one slate of national officers and one slate of division directors-elect

Guest Artist-Piano Faculty, University of Iowa Summer Music Camp, Iowa City, IA, June 2024

• applied piano lessons​

• ​performance at faculty recital​

Lecture, co-presenter with Christina Whipple, board-certified music therapist, Neurodiversity Awareness: Multimodal Music Teaching for ALL Students, Iowa Music Teachers Association State Conference, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, June 2024

Published review of Bruce Stark’s, To a Child’s Heart (vol 1) in the American Music Teacher magazine, (Feb/March 2024 issue).

Adjudicator, Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Northwest Division Performance Competitions (Junior, Senior, Duets, and College/Young Artist categories), Online Platform, January 2024

Completed and passed third-year tenure review process, Doane University, Sept.-Nov. 2023

• "The Promotion & Tenure Committee commends Dr. Whipple's mission to meet the needs of a neurodiverse population and his hope to forever end the "direct style" of teaching (lecture) 100% of the time."​

Adjudicator, 2024 Manhattan Area Music Teachers Association Pre-College District Auditions, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, October 2023

Elected to the Office of Vice-President of the Nebraska Music Teachers Association (NMTA), 2022-2023

• Organized and led the NMTA 2022 and 2023 State Festival

• Supported the NMTA District Festivals: Omaha, Lincoln, and Central Districts

Adjudicator, 2023 Nebraska Music Teachers Association District Festival-Omaha, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, NE, May 2023

Lecture, Under The Hood: Are You “Prepared” To Take Your Students Inside The Piano? Manhattan Area Music Teachers Association, Manhattan, KS, April 2023

Lecture, Under The Hood: Are You “Prepared” To Take Your Students Inside The Piano? Lincoln Music Teachers Association, Lincoln, NE, April 2023

Lecture, Under The Hood: Are You “Prepared” To Take Your Students Inside The Piano? Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, March 2023

Pedagogy Lecture, Electronic Music and The Prepared Piano, Voxman Music Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, June 2022

Adjudicator, 2022 Nebraska Music Teachers Association District Festival-Lincoln, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE, April 2022

Lecture, co-presenter with Dr. Brandon Bascom, Listening With Body and Mind: Using Visuals and Movement to Enhance Ear Training. MTNA National Virtual Conference, March 2021

Lecture (online), Are You “Prepared” To Change Your “Vision” About Student Learning? University of Iowa Piano Pedagogy Guest Lecture Series, Iowa City, IA, October 2020

Pedagogy Lecture, The Importance of a Lesson Plan, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, February, 2020

Masterclass Clinician, St. Croix Valley Music Teachers Association, Hudson, WI February 2020

Pedagogy Workshop, Teaching Strategies For The Group Piano Classroom: scales, sight-reading, chord progressions, Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, February 2020

Graduate Pedagogy Lecture, The Importance of a Lesson Plan, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX, November 2019 

Pedagogy Workshop, Teaching Strategies For The Group Piano Classroom: scales, arpeggios, chord progressions, transposition, sight-reading, and harmonization, Texas Woman’s University Piano Lab, Denton, TX, November 2019

Masterclass Clinician, Texas Woman’s University, Eberly Recital Hall, Denton, TX, November 2019

Lecture, co-presenter with Christina Whipple, board-certified music therapist, Neurodiversity Inclusion: Implications For Educators And Multimodal Teaching, College Music Society National Conference, Louisville, KY, October 2019

Lecture, Are You “Prepared” To Change Your “Vision” About Student Learning? WMTA State Conference, Eau Claire, WI, October 2019

Lecture, Under The Hood: Are You “Prepared” To Take Your Students Inside The Piano? MTNA National Conference, Spokane, WA. March 2019