Association of
Illinois Music Schools
AIMSweb
Welcome to the website
for the Association of Illinois Music Schools (AIMS). AIMS
is an organization created to assist those of us in decision making
positions in music units in institutions of higher education throughout the
State of Illinois. It is important to have a network of
colleagues facing similar issues with whom you can have discussions. Issues
often discussed relate to articulation of curricula, music education
requirements, funding, advancement strategies, and technology, to name a few.
AIMS provides a forum for this kind of professional
exchange and support.
The organization has
two annual meetings, one in October and another held during the Illinois
Music Educators Association meeting in Peoria scheduled in January. Please
feel free to contact me at mpelusi@iwu.edu, or by telephone at
309-556-3061, if you have a question or concern, or if you would like to
learn more about AIMS.
Mario Pelusi, President
Association of Illinois Music Schools
Purpose and Membership
The purpose of the Association of Illinois Music Schools is to advance the
cause of music in higher education generally and to improve the quality and
program of the music educational system in Illinois through the promotion of
cooperation between all colleges and universities and through the exercise of
educational leadership. Membership is open to all institutions of higher
education in the state of Illinois.
Print an AIMS Institutional
Membership Form (.PDF
format)
The $45 annual institutional membership fee covers all faculty for a
single institution.
Fall Meeting – Friday, October 9, 2009
Dear Colleagues at Illinois Colleges and
Universities,
I wish to invite you to attend the annual fall meeting of
the Association of Illinois Music Schools, which will be held on Friday,
October 9, on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston,
Illinois. Prof. Terry Daniels, Interim
Chair of the Department of Music at EIU, will be our host. (I believe that most of you have also
received an e-mail announcement regarding this event.)
Last fall, our meeting focused on transfer credit issues;
specifically, we discussed the following:
·
The status of the
Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI) and the related web site
·
The status of the
Associate of Fine Arts (AFA) degree, which has been implemented at some community colleges; and
·
Issues related to
transfer credit for music theory (including AP Music Theory), aural skills,
and keyboard skills, etc.
Subsequent to that meeting, it was agreed that we would
develop a questionnaire that would be sent
to all music schools and departments in Illinois with which to solicit
detailed information regarding the areas of theory, aural skills,
fundamentals, keyboard skills, ensemble performance, applied studio, and
literature as experienced by students in their first and second years of
study. The purpose of this effort would be to gather all of these data, which
would then be posted on the AIMS web
site, thus making it easier for students to know what would be required of
them should they wish to transfer to a four-year institution, or if they were
to apply to a four-year institution upon completion of their community
college degree.
I know that this is an issue with which all of us, in
varying degrees, are involved—even more so these days, due to the
current economic environment.
Therefore, a portion of our meeting on Oct. 9 will be devoted to a collective
work session that would produce—at the end of our meeting—a
definitive questionnaire. I
suspect that this topic may not sound very “glamorous,” but this
effort could yield many benefits for all, especially if we develop this
questionnaire with direct input from you.
Also, as many of you know, EIU has a brand new music
building, so in addition to our collective work session as described above,
Dean Jeffrey Lynch, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at
Eastern Illinois University, will speak to us about the process that EIU
pursued in order to fund and build its new music facilities, after which we
will be given a tour of the facilities.
Here is the Agenda.
We will meet in the Doudna Fine
Arts Center, which is located one block west of Ninth Street at Garfield Ave.
on the EIU campus. Here’s a campus map and
directions.
Our first meeting will take place in the University
Ballroom. You can park in any student lot; there are two lots adjacent the Doudna Fine Arts Center on the eastside.
Those driving a considerable distance who would like to
arrive the night before, here’s a suggested
list of hotels and motels EIUhotels.doc.
Please note that each institution can be represented at
this meeting by more than one chair/dean/director or faculty member. In order
to ensure that we will have the requisite number of lunches prepared, please
R.S.V.P. to me via my e-mail address: . It would be most helpful if you
replied by no later than Friday, Oct. 2.
With best wishes, and hoping to see you on October 9, I
am
Yours cordially,
Mario J. Pelusi
President, Association of Illinois Music Schools
Director, School of Music
Professor of Composition and Theory
Illinois Wesleyan University.
Friday,
October 9, 2009, 8:30 am – 2:15 pm
Doudna Fine Arts Center
Eastern
Illinois University
One block west of Ninth Street at Garfield Ave.
Charleston, IL
Host
Professor Jerry Daniels, Interim Chair – Music Department
RSVP to Mario Pelusi
e-mail: mpelusi@iwu.edu
IMEA AIMS Music Executives Luncheon Meeting – Friday, January 29, 2010,
noon
Normally this meeting is smaller
in size than the fall meeting and reserved for music administrators of the
member institutions.
Location:
TBD
Peoria, IL
RSVP to Mario Pelusi
e-mail: mpelusi@iwu.edu
Sincerely,
AIMS Executive Committee
AIMSweb
AIMSweb was established to provide a single access
point for information about university music programs affiliated with AIMS.
It is intended for use by faculty, administrators, and current and
prospective students, for tasks such as articulation between programs. This
project was presented at the AIMS meeting on October 13, 1995 at Millikin University. A committee was appointed to
determine the format for presenting information for articulation in a common
format on this page.
For more information about the AIMSweb project,
contact at Illinois State University or Paul
Bauer at Northern Illinois University.
updated September 16, 2009