Now with summer commencing and most academic terms reaching or having reached closure, it’s time to initiate those summer projects. I hope part of your summer will be spent reflecting on curricular change, one of the pressing topics of our time. Of the many challenges today, our students need to be stylistically nimble in negotiating multiple genres, technologically savvy, and entrepreneurial. My column this week focuses on contributions to that conversation in recent years by members of The Society.

Summer 2018 will bring fresh faces and voices to CMS operations.  The executive office will be welcoming an on-site intern to work in Missoula for the summer term and continuing remotely during the academic year, while five remote interns will be working through the summer and/or the academic year on specific CMS projects.

Call for Nominations for Editors
The College Music Society is pleased to announce a call for new editors of its Books and Monographs Series. Continuing our new collaboration with Routledge, CMS seeks individuals who will assist the series’ mission to provide outstanding publications that address relevant issues and interests of professional musicians, especially those working in the field of music and higher education. CMS members are urged to review information about the series and consider nominations for three series: