This past month I ran across my copy of Mary Anne Rees’s book, CMS: The First Fifty Years (2010). Delving into The Society’s archive, Mary Anne highlights major developments that defined CMS between 1958 and 2008. It’s a rich history she tells! Her book captures qualities that highlight our Society’s unique contribution to music in higher education as an umbrella organization -- a meeting place for our many specializations, a place where work within disciplines shares space with interdisciplinary inquiry, exploration of new pedagogies, curricular innovation, and career development.

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: