Goal 1
Academic Environment
WVUSOM faculty will cultivate an academically rigorous and musically creative environment for all WVUSOM students.
Objective 1
Maintain accreditation for all WVUSOM programs.
Action Items
- Maintain accreditation by the National Association of Schools of Music.
Objective 2
Prepare students for careers in music professions.
Action Items
- Promote student engagement in professional organizations.
- Mentor students in acquiring employment in music education, music performance, music therapy, music industry, technology, and composition.
- Maintain licensure standing and certification agreements in music therapy and music education.
- Increase job placement and graduate placement rates of undergraduate programs.
- Increase job placement rates of DMA and PhD programs.
Objective 3
Cultivate and maintain an excellent cohort of musically and intellectually curious
undergraduate and graduate students.
Action Items
- Pursue effective recruiting efforts to attract a diverse and high-quality undergraduate and graduate student cohort in all programs.
- Maintain freshman-to-sophomore retention rate at or above the university rate.
- Pursue effective recruiting efforts to target performance majors in all areas.
- Maintain record of excellence in faculty advising through mentoring and recognition of success.
- Develop and/or maintain academic support services for undergraduate and graduate students in music.
- Recruit music minors and students wishing to double major in music.
- Create a peer-mentoring program where junior and senior students are paired with graduate students in the same field.
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Raise awareness among the School of Music, the College of Creative Arts, and the University
in celebrating student achievement and successes.
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Promote and reward excellence in teaching and advising
Objective 5
Create opportunities for students to engage in experiential learning, both in and out of the cl assroom.
Action Items
- Cultivate pre-professional, paraprofessional, and co-curricular opportunities for students to develop job skills.
- Create opportunities for students to engage with a wide range of music professionals through masterclasses, workshops, lectures, and other events.
- Host regional, national, and international conferences.
Objective 6
Develop and maintain course offerings and curricula that prepare students for contemporary challenges.
Action Items
- Regularly review course offerings and program curricula in all undergraduate, graduate, and certifica te programs.
- Regularly review undergraduate and graduate offerings that are common to all programs.
- Revise music theory and musicianship curricula to meet the needs of the profession.
- Integrate instructional technology into courses in response to changing professional and academic expectations.
- Develop and refine courses in music technology to better serve the multiple student populations whose backgrounds, technical needs, and career goals vary widely.
- Create opportunities for global education and the integration of global perspectives into existing curricula, including courses in ethnomusicology and world music.
- Develop and revise GEF courses to cultivate musical and cultural literacy for non-majors.
- Develop ensemble performance, masterclass, and workshop opportunities to include professional guest artists; regional, national and international venues; and participation in significant performance-based events
- Create interdisciplinary courses and opportunities to foster innovation and creativity across the WVU campus.
- Create and maintain Honors course offerings and research opportunities.
- Continue to develop distinctive regional, national, and international program opportunities to expand the artistic and scholarly perspectives of our students and the reputation of the School of Music.
- Advocate for the expansion of the academic faculty to meet the needs of a diverse and growing student population.
