We're still finalizing all the last details, but it appears that my songwriting and recording studio production students will, starting this fall, be able to receive as much as 12 college credits for their work with me, through SCC.
This is obviously a pretty serious step forward on my quest to further legitimize the CMAS program as the new paradigm for music education, and in truth without the support of Ron Marschall, and the efforts of Paul Langworthy, both from SCC, none of this would coming to fruition. On a personal note, it has been very gratifying knowing that not a single element of the curriculum I created needed to be altered. In fact, CMAS seems to have more than exceeded all parties' expectations, which is certainly no small matter.
So what does this really mean? Well, aside from the legitimizing I mentioned already, it is also a potentially big motivating factor for the students. It not only is going to be a huge selling point to parents and students to take part in the program, but it also means we can enforce an even higher standard of work ethic from the students. I suppose it also puts a bit more pressure on us to produce even more significant results, as this will further increase the attention the CMAS program gets, but I, for one, feel that to be a good thing.
In the end, CMAS is still about giving students an opportunity to pursue their musical instincts, and frankly that will not change. Nor will the notion of self-reliance be diminished - probably increase in truth. For me the most interesting part of all this is how, at each evolution of CMAS (original curriculum adoption, ASU Music Ed collaboration, now the credit from SCC, etc) the general experience has been pretty easy on our end. We just keep doing what we do, and others jump on board. That might be the most legitimizing aspect of all.
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