- CMS makes it easy for you to develop a broad network of both human and information resources.
- CMS services and activities optimize your valuable time by gathering the professional information you need and presenting it in ways that make it useful for you.
- Here’s how to get on the fast track with CMS and wring every possible benefit out of your membership.
Build Your Professional Profile – The heart of the new CMS Web site is your professional profile. Build a professional profile and share the fruits of your work with the profession and the public. CMS creates forums in which individuals working in the various areas of music can interact and communicate, and your professional profile enables you to participate fully in CMS professional networking. Over time, your professional profile can serve as a legacy of work accomplished. Click here to get started.
Get a Music.Org Forwarding Email Address – Through email forwarding from music.org, you can establish the email name of your choice and have mail forwarded to your current address.
Connect with your Colleagues – After you have built your professional profile, join some discussion groups that reflect your professional interests. Joining groups is easy and within them you will enjoy conversation with like-minded colleagues. CMS offers convenient search features to locate CMS members, institutions, faculty, and CMS Regional Chapter memberships.
Enjoy Discounts – CMS offers easy means of obtaining discounts on rental cars, insurance, and publications. Discounts are displayed on the Members Home Page.
Share the Good News!– CMS offers a convenient, online means of sending membership information to colleagues and students. Increase your membership term with each positive response CMS receives. Access these easy-to-use forms:
Receive Monthly CMS Communications – CMS provides consistent communications with its members highlighting details of opportunities and coming activities:
- Report to Members on the first day of September, February, and May
- This Month at CMS on the first day of the nine other months of the year.
Review these regularly and you will stay on top of all professional opportunities offered by the Society.
Develop your Career – Visit the Career Center for resources and information concerning CMS programs. CMS helps you make sense of the music world and thrive in your career. Administration, mentoring, academic citizenship, music entrepreneurship, financial planning, and professional life initiatives offer insight into the field of music that can be helpful to your career. The Music Vacancy List brings to you each week the latest employment opportunities.
Take Part in Professional Activities – Professional activities provide opportunity to share ideas on all aspects of music. You’ll meet interesting professional colleagues, make new professional friends, begin to develop a network in music, and immerse yourself in the issues facing the field of music today.
- Attend annual U.S. conferences, biennial international conferences, annual U.S. Regional Chapter conferences, and CMS professional development workshops.
- Submit proposals for conference programs. By offering your best work, your professional life, the work of the music and higher education community, and the professional lives of the Society’s members are enhanced.
- Get Involved in a CMS Student Chapter. If one is not yet established on your campus, create one!
- View the Calendar of CMS Events.
Use and Contribute to Symposium – Symposium will debut in the fall of 2012 and will serve as the means by which CMS presents the work of the music field to the public. The nine distinct sections offer valuable information on both your specialization and the width of concerns of the music field. You are welcome to contribute to Symposium. Review the messages from Symposium's editors and submit your best work for their consideration.
Receive Discounts on CMS Books and Monographs – The Society continues to publish important work in traditional format. You are welcome to submit ideas for the Bibliographies in American Music, Sourcebooks in American Music, and Cultural Expressions in Music. The Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada is the standard reference work for the field.
Engagement and Outreach – Visit the Engagement Center for resources and information concerning CMS programs. CMS sponsors initiatives to enhance relationships with the broader educational and cultural communities. Community Engagement, Higher Education, Music Business-Industry, and International initiatives bring focus to the relationship of musicians to their cultural surroundings.
Stay in Touch – Get in touch with CMS whenever you have questions, need further information concerning any of the Society's activities, or have ideas for how we might serve you more effectively. The CMS Executive Office contact information is listed below.
The College Music Society
312 East Pine Street
Missoula MT 59802 USA
406.721.9616
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