UND music therapy alumna now director of returned program, adds more neuroscience and business to curriculum

GRAND FORKS — When Carly Flaagan saw her alma mater, the University of North Dakota, was bringing back the music therapy program and was looking for a director, she jumped at the opportunity.

Flaagan graduated from UND with a degree in music therapy a year before the program was removed, and spent eight years in Colorado earning a master’s degree, practicing music therapy and running an internship program. Now the director of UND’s returned music therapy program, she and her husband have come back to Grand Forks.

“I had it on my radar,” she said. “I had a wonderful experience here as an undergraduate music therapy major. I absolutely loved it and benefited so much from the education and clinical training that I received here at UND.”

The music therapy program’s return was first annou