Our Mission

MIC’s Mission is to develop the talent of future leaders in the music industry by providing valuable speaker series, engaging professional development workshops, and career opportunities at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. MIC is also supported by the MIC Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that aims to provide education about the music business to a broader audience through digital content.

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Our Values

• Cultivating Creativity: Creativity is not only vital to a musician’s success, but to every single young professional. Creativity is not just artistic; it is your way of identifying problems within your life, your organization, or your company and finding innovative ways to solve them.

• Fostering Self-Improvement: We all want you to constantly be improving yourselves, as individuals, as music-makers, and as professionals. We want to see you enter into this club, and build yourself into one of the music industry’s future leaders.

• Making the Music: One of the most rewarding parts of working in the music industry is knowing that you’re helping artists within the industry reach and influence their audience by working in live music, talent booking, and corporate.

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Our Vision

Within the next few years, MIC hopes to develop avenues for its students to get real world opportunities to work in potential areas of interest, including but not limited to studio recording, music journalism, podcasting, long and short term content creation, and event planning. Through that student support, MIC hopes to monetize these operations to support further growth, education, and career opportunities of its members.