Music is an essential component of the human experience. The University of South Carolina School of Music exists to transform lives through excellence in music teaching, performance, creative activities, research and service. Toward these ends, the school endeavors to:
- prepare musicians for professional careers and leadership in music teaching, performance, composition, research and related fields;
- serve as a cultural and educational center of excellence for the State of South Carolina and the nation;
- generate research and other creative activities in music that have local, national, and international impact;
- provide meaningful music experiences for all University students through courses designed to foster an awareness of the role of the arts in society;
- enhance the University of South Carolina's commitment to become one of the finest public universities in America.
(adopted 9-27-2000)
The University of South Carolina School of Music seeks to be a model public higher education music school for America.
To be a model public music school our unit must:
- Be the music school that our students and our university require;
- Be the music school that our state requires;
- Be the music school that our art and our society require.
To achieve this vision, the School of Music has articulated its core values and has initiated a planning process to fully embrace these values by recognizing goals and actions that manifest the values, and to do so over the next ten years, 2015-‐2025.
Our core values:
Excellence. A School of Music cannot be a model without being musically, academically and artistically excellent. We observe this value by hiring only excellent faculty; recruiting and admitting only excellent students; conducting our work in excellent facilities; creating, delivering, and partnering with excellent programs at our exceptional university; and by expecting excellence in student achievement.
Student success. At the University of South Carolina School of Music we invest in the success of every student. We do not assume that some students will fail—we instead commit ourselves to assisting every enrolled student to achieve success. We realize this value by seeking to bring each and every student to our standards in all that we do and all that we expect of them, and by offering students choices and opportunities to realize success that our competitors do not.
The following three values distinguish us and combine with the two traditional ones
above to make our five core values that propel us toward our vision.
The Preparation of Music Leaders. The University of South Carolina School of Music acknowledges that for our budding
professional musicians, should they wish to make their lives and careers in music,
they will need to be prepared with more than just purely musical and traditional academic
skills and dispositions. Our students must be skilled music leaders to ensure that
they advance the quality of life in the communities where they live by helping to
make others happier, healthier, more hopeful, and more fulfilled through the power
of music. A School of Music‐wide culture fostered since 2008 by the work of the nation’s
first public university music leadership institute, Spark: Carolina’s Music Leadership Laboratory, makes possible the preparation of tomorrow’s music leaders by assuring their participation
and learning in four distinct but interdependent sub-‐disciplines: 1. Community Engagement
experiences; 2. Leadership training; 3. Entrepreneurship activities; and 4. Advocacy
education. We observe this value by insuring that in their degree programs professional
music students gain: documented and assessed community engagement experience through
either the school’s award-‐winning Music For Your Life programs or in other community endeavors; training in the principles and ethics of
music leadership; participation in and creation of entrepreneurial projects in music
that expand their imaginations, require deep collaboration, and help them create new
personal and professional behaviors; and instruction in and experience with the necessity
of making a case for music through music advocacy coursework.
The Preparation of Musicians as Educators & Educators as Musicians. The University of South Carolina School of Music has long been a leader in music education, realized in effective teacher training programs, specific elite instrumental and vocal pedagogy programs at all levels, and by renowned research and scholarship on music teaching and learning. We value the role that all of our professional music students ultimately play during their careers as teachers and educators in music and we have designed courses and programs to maximize these roles. We also value the proposition that all teachers and pedagogues must be excellent musicians and able to demonstrate that excellence as a part of their teaching—we actualize our commitment to this proposition by advancing choices for realizing musical skills through teaching activities in applied music, large ensembles, chamber music,and through academic coursework in music.
The Preparation of Diversely Skilled Musicians. The University of South Carolina School of Music recognizes the changing world and marketplace for professional musicians who wish to make music their life’s work and we value the necessary skills we feel our graduates will need to improve and sustain, in music, their own lives and the vitality and fulfillment of persons in their communities. We observe this value by offering our students both instruction in and experiences with making music in diverse ways; opportunities to utilize a variety of musical skills beyond performance, composition, writing, and teaching; work with persons from diverse populations in their community engagement activities; and by offering programs that contain such features.
FSC 1.00 - Faculty/Staff Directory
FSC 2.00 - Faculty Staffing Chart
FSC 3.00 - Faculty Meetings and Tenure and Promotion Committee Meetings
FSC 4.00 - Committees/Coordinators
FSC 5.00 - Administration and Staff
FSC 6.00 - Ensemble Directors
FPP 1.00 - Personnel Policy Documents
FPP 2.00 (2006) - 2006 Tenure and Promotion Procedures and Criteria
FPP 2.10 (2006) - 2006 T & P Appendix I: Explanations and Interpretations
FPP 2.20 (2006) - 2006 T & P Appendix II: Examples of Activities in the Academic Area
FPP 2.30 (2006) - 2006 T & P Appendix III: Examples of Activities in the Applied Area
FPP 2.40 (2006) - 2006 T & P Appendix IV: Examples of Activities in the Ensemble
Area
FPP 2.00 (2016) - 2016 Tenure and Promotion Procedures and Criteria
FPP 2.10 (2016) - 2016 T & P Appendix I: Explanations and Interpretations
FPP 2.20 (2016) - 2016 T & P Appendix II: Examples of Activities in the Academic Area
FPP 2.30 (2016) - 2016 T & P Appendix III: Examples of Activities in the Applied Area
FPP 2.40 (2016) - 2016 T & P Appendix IV: Examples of Activities in the Ensemble Area
FPP 3.00 - Probationary Faculty Review
FPP 3.10 - Teaching Observation of Faculty at the Rank of Associate Professor
FPP 3.20 - Guidelines for the Promotion of Non-Tenure Eligible Faculty
FPP 4.00 - Third Year Review
FPP 5.00 - Post Tenure Review
FPP 6.00 - Outside Professional Activities Policy
FPP 7.00 -Emeritus Faculty Policy
Events
OPE 1.00 - Event Calendar Scheduling Procedure
OPE 3.00 - Recital Scheduling/Cancellations
Facilities
OPF 1.00 - Facilities & Equipment General Info.
OPF 2.00 - Faculty Studio Assignments
Personnel
OPP 1.00 - Faculty Attendance
OPP 2.00 - Faculty Meetings
OPP 3.00 - Faculty Travel
OPP 4.00 - Music Executive Committee
OPP 5.00 - Teaching Evaluations
OPP 6.00 - Teaching Load
OPP 7.00 - Teaching Responsibilities
OPP 8.00 - Area Coordinator Rotation
OPP 9.00 - Faculty Search Procedures Handbook
Miscellaneous
OPM 1.00 - Copyright Information
OPM 2.00 - Provost Doctoral Graduate Award Funds
SP 1.00 - Undergraduate Advisement
SP 2.00 - Undergrad Scholarship Policy
SP 3.00 - Graduate Advisement
SP 4.00 - Graduate Assistantship Policy
SP 5.00 - Policies for Graduate Assistants
SP 6.00 - Syllabus Construction Guide
SP 7.00 - Syllabus Suggestions
SP 8.00 - Academic Integrity
SP 9.00 - Faculty Guide to Student Hiring