Michael Harrington, Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business, has been asked to chair the College Music Society’s first-ever Music Industry Outreach Task Force (MIOTF). The MIOTF was created through the initiative of College Music Society president Taylor C. Harding. The task force aims to foster a liaison with the music business and entertainment industry, and to identify and address goals in common between the music and entertainment industry with academia. The group is composed of innovative, renowned and dynamic figures in the popular and classical music worlds and covers all aspects of the contemporary music and entertainment industries and academia.