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  • Toward an Anti-Racist CMS

    Author’s note: A version of this essay originally appeared as the President’s Column in the July 2020 CMS Newsletter. Music in higher education needs moral leadership. Did it really take the televised murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black private...

  • Education Debt, Accountability and Big Data: Measuring the Success of Arts Entrepreneurship Programs

    those skills are so little sought after in the labor market. In 2010, I was asked to make keynote remarks at the College Music Society’s Summit on Music Entrepreneurship Education (Dempster, 2010). Looking back, some of my observations seem right and...

  • Living and Learning In and Through Music

    more completely carry out its mission in order to provide stronger and more effective service to our profession?" The College Music Society contributes significantly to our field. It is my hope that CMS will not only continue its historic mission but...

  • On Performance Education and Careers in Music

    because he didn’t understand their experience. This impasse is one of the reasons I wanted to be President of The College Music Society. We are constantly trying to understand each other and the experiences of the individual music disciplines. The next...

  • Some Observations on College Teaching Vacancies

    When a survey was undertaken of advertisements for positions in the Music Faculty Vacancy Lists published by The College Music Society for the years 1980-1987, it was discovered that 3,628 vacancies existed in 748 schools for that period. Thirty-five...

  • Fragmentation and Change

    This article was stimulated by the provocative thoughts expressed in the article by Robert Weirich, which appeared in the March 2001 Newsletter. Are music specialists isolating themselves within their respective branches of the discipline, thus...

  • Stages in Musical Performance

    share similar experiences, and we probably all have ideas about stage fright and how to overcome it. Through The College Music Society, its publications, workshops, annual meetings, and other areas of outreach, we have many stages upon which to share...

  • Why is Hiring, Mentoring, and Retaining Minority an Issue at this Point in Time for College Music Professions?

    diversity and multicultural education, society looks to higher education for continued guidance. The officers of The College Music Society have charged the Cultural Inclusion Committee to focus on the inclusiveness of our cultural diversities. The...

  • Community Engagement and Community Outreach: Aren't They the Same?

    The College Music Society encourages its members to explore ways in which music professionals in higher education can interact with the cultural life of various communities and to re-think how we, as music professionals in higher education, encounter...

  • My Vision

    stronger and more effective service to our profession?” The contents of CMS Fourms demonstrate the strength of The College Music Society and its ability to contribute significantly to our field. It is my hope that CMS will not only continue its historic...

  • Music and Higher Education in the 1970's: A Needed Change in Attitude

    This paper was part of a panel presentation for The College Music Society at the University of Toronto on November 7, 1970 entitled Music and Higher Education in the 1970's. Chairman of the panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were Mantle...

  • [i]Music in Education[/i], edited by Willis Grant

    Music in Education (Proceedings of the 14th Symposium of the Colston Research Society). Edited by Willis Grant. London: Butterworths, 1963. [xiv, 234 p., 8vo; $10.00] Music in Education, the record of a symposium held at the University of Bristol, is a...

  • From the Member-at-Large for Music in General Studies

    We are pleased to reprint a piece of vintage Trotter that first appeared in the Spring 1978 Newsletter of The College Music Society. President Werner has recently honored me with an interim appointment as Member-at Large for Music in General Education,...

  • A View from the Basement

    one day, we will be the future of music scholarship and performance. Recently, at her suggestion, I joined The College Music Society. This organization has a long history of promoting the achievements of its individual members and, I believe, is well on...

  • On Community Engagement

    Within the cozy confines of Music Academe, it’s possible to make a living without ever sullying oneself with anything as loathsome as sales. The music department opens its doors and sets its curriculum, and majors and nonmajors appear to partake of the...

  • Faculty Job Qualifications vs DMA Curricula. Part I of [i]Equipping DMA Candidates to Win Tenure-Track Jobs[/i]

    searches at universities across the United States.2 I accessed the job descriptions online on October 9, 2019, via the College Music Society Music Vacancy List (MVL) and five other websites: HigherEdJobs.com (HEJ); Higher Education Recruitment...

  • Picking Up the Pieces after the Coronavirus Disruption and Black Lives Matter

    instance, many music societies engaged in intense self-reflection and some rethought their administration. The College Music Society has been actively encouraging dialogue and resolution and recently hosted a Leadership Mini Summit featuring the...

  • Enrollment Growth Amid a Shrinking Student Population

    Introduction From 2026 to 2031, the college-age population in the U.S. will drop about 15% due to the reduced birth rate during the Great Recession (Grawe 2018). Combine that phenomenon with competition from online learning, and numerous...

  • Commitment: A Life in the Service of Music, Robert Freeman, ed. Juergen Thym (Pittsburgh: Dorrance, 2023)

    Commitment: A Life in the Service of Music. Robert Freeman. Edited by Jürgen Thym. Pittsburgh: Dorrance, 2023. 247 pp. $66. 95 color images and figures; 39 b&w images and figures. ISBN: 9798886832563. Polymath performer, scholar, educator, and...

  • In Memoriam: Robert Moore Trotter (1922-1994)

    Robert Moore Trotter, Past President of The College Music Society and Dean Emeritus of the School of Music of the University of Oregon, died on Thursday, September 1, of complications following a bout with hepatitis contracted in Morocco in the late...