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 Cynthia.Uitermarkt@moody.edu,
or by telephone at 312-329-4081, if you have a question or concern, or if you
would like to learn more about AIMS.
Cynthia Uitermarkt,
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 $35 annual institutional membership fee covers all faculty for a
single institution.
Fall Meeting – Friday, October 12, 2007
Dear Music Colleagues,
In keeping with the purpose of the Association of Illinois Music Schools
(AIMS), which 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, we are pleased to announce our Fall 2007 Meeting, where both
administrators and all interested faculty of AIMS member institutions are invited
to attend.
Friday,
October 12, 2007, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Robert
H. Michel Student Center, Executive Suite
Bradley
University
1501
West Bradley
Peoria,
IL 61625
Host
Dr. David Vroman, Chair – Music Department
RSVP to Cynthia Uitermarkt e-mail: Cynthia.Uitermarkt@moody.edu
The
meeting will be held in the Executive Suite in the basement of the Robert H.
Michel Student Center. Click here for a
printer-friendly map of campus and click here to map driving
directions to campus. Refreshments will be available at 9:00 am, and the
meeting begins at 9:30 am.
Topics: Bradley University has been a leader
in distance learning technology and the use of audio-video conferencing
technology for instruction for a number of years. The agenda will include
demonstration of the technology Bradley regularly uses to provide music
course instruction to remote locations. Additional presentations will be made
to demonstrate current audio-video conferencing technology in use for music
instruction, including lower bandwidth (Commodity Internet) and higher
bandwidth (Internet2). These technologies are now within the fiscal reach of
many institutions, and they hold potential as valuable resources for students
and faculty, as well as for general institutional outreach.
Mark your calendar
The next Fall Meeting will be held on October 17, 2008, at Olivet Nazarene
University in Kankakee. Our host will be Don Reddick.
IMEA AIMS Music Executives Luncheon Meeting – Friday, February 1,
2008, noon
Normally this meeting is smaller
in size than the fall meeting and reserved for music administrators of the
member institutions.
Location:
Lindsay’s on Liberty
300 Liberty St.
Peoria, IL 61602
RSVP to Cynthia Uitermarkt e-mail: Cynthia.Uitermarkt@moody.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 November 1, 2007