Overview
Organizations and Services
Student organizations play an important role in the life of the school and are often associated with professional national organizations that maintain chapters at Indiana University as they focus on performance, community engagement projects, research, music innovation, and professional development. A list of organizations associated with the Jacobs School of Music can be found at https://blogs.iu.edu/jsomoecd/student-organizations/.
The IU Performing Arts Medicine Clinic provides specialized care for injured students, faculty, and staff of the Jacobs School of Music free of charge. Services include injury evaluations, manual therapy, rehabilitation, wellness, injury prevention, and referrals to other healthcare providers as needed with a goal of helping student-artists spend less time in pain and more time on stage. To learn more please email pamed@indiana.edu. To schedule an appointment visit bit.ly/IUPAMschedule.
The Office of Wellness and Arts Health Initiatives (OWAHI) is dedicated to promoting a culture of care within the Jacobs School of Music. To this end, OWAHI provides programming, cultivates partnerships, and serves as an advocate for initiatives focused on physical, mental, and emotional thriving and wellbeing within our community. More information can be found at https://music.indiana.edu/about/health-wellness/owahi/index.html.
The Jacobs Academy aims to educate, connect, and inspire learners and teachers of music and dance in their quest for a meaningful arts-infused life. The Jacobs Academy values lifelong participation in music and dance, and recognizes that the arts are a fundamental building block for societal and personal well-being. To this end, opportunities to learn and practice music and dance are offered to people of all ages, embracing the full spectrum of pre-professional to avocational learners, and connecting local, regional, and global artful communities. Participants in Jacobs Academy programs experience the highest level of teaching and learning with expert teaching artists who are versed in the best-known pedagogical and engagement practices, including training by Jacobs School of Music faculty, guests, and alumni. Through engaging in the rich variety of Jacobs Academy offerings, participants deepen their relationship with music and dance and join a community that values and promotes artful living. More information can be found at https://jacobsacademy.indiana.edu/index.html.
The Music Alumni Association, an affiliate of the Indiana University Alumni Association, supports the activities of the Jacobs School of Music and its graduates. More information can be found at https://music.indiana.edu/alumni/.
The Office of Entrepreneurship and Career Development (OECD) provides expert guidance and resources and hosts a variety of events that are designed to empower Jacobs School of Music students as they prepare for a career in music and/or dance. The OECD offers one-on-one career advising, departmental career days, a variety of workshops, and mentorship to student organizations and projects. The OECD also offers undergraduate and graduate career development courses designed to help students expand their professional knowledge, develop self-awareness, communicate effectively, and prepare a competitive portfolio. An undergraduate Certificate in Music Entrepreneurship, which includes two Jacobs of School Music courses and three Kelley School of Business courses, is available for all undergraduates. The OECD includes a student leadership team that promotes entrepreneurial action by offering high-impact career development and entrepreneurship workshops, networking events, peer support for projects, mini-conferences, and coordination of the annual Innovation Competition. The Office also provides mentorship, guidance, and support to the approximately 22 IU student organizations associated with the Jacobs School of Music. More information about the OECD can be found at https://blogs.iu.edu/jsomoecd/.
The mission of the Society of the Friends of Music is to create and sustain scholarships for promising and talented IU Jacobs School of Music students. Together, members of this vital annual giving society ensure that the rapidly evolving world students enter will continue to benefit from the unparalleled musical heritage of the Jacobs School. More information can be found at https://music.indiana.edu/giving/ways-to-give/areas-to-support.html.
The William and Gayle Cook Music Library spans four floors of the Beth Meshulam Simon Music Library and Recital Center. With close to 800,000 cataloged titles and well over 1,000,000 items, and a staff that includes nine librarians and professional staff, five support staff, and approximately forty-five student assistants, it is recognized as one of the largest music libraries in North America. The strengths of the collection include extensive holdings of printed music from all periods of music history, with a special emphasis on opera; theory treatises from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century; Russian/Soviet music and music of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War; early keyboard and violin primary source materials; Black and Latin American music collections; and scholarly editions of historical monuments and composers’ collected works. In addition, the performing ensembles collection contains scores and parts for large ensembles, including virtually all of the standard orchestral and choral repertoire in support of the Jacobs School of Music’s choirs and orchestras. The Cook Music Library also provides access to hundreds of electronic resources as detailed on its website. Digital music library projects, including Media Collections Online and Pages Online, provide digital access to more than 85,000 sound recordings and scores. The University’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative digitized nearly all of the unique and historic sound recordings in the Cook Library’s collections. Of the 120 public computers (Windows and Macintosh) in the library, more than half have MIDI keyboards, all with associated music software. Further information is available at https://libraries.indiana.edu/music-library.