Name of Organization
Service and Housing Foundation (SHF) The primary purpose of this organization is to promote student awareness and involvement in affordable housing issues, as well as encourage students to participate in local development. To act as a leader and promoter of the development of the community, particularly in improving housing conditions for underprivileged families. Our activites will include meetings for awareness and discussion of affordable housing issues and local development. Service projects that would benefit both the University of Florida and the community. A continuous interaction with other community services agencies as well as the business community.
We are doing a study for the City of Gainesville that explores strageties to ensure a sufficient stock of decent and affordable housing for very low to moderate income families in the East Gainesville. The study also investigates strategies facilitating higher density for residential development, providing a diverse of housing types and costs, and maximizing the efficient use of available urban infrastructure in East Gainesville.
President John Paul Mejia is working to establish a new Homeless assitant Center near downtown. He is working to establish a recreation Park in NW Gainesville. He is helping to establish a church and missionery Center in Honduras and develop 23 houses in the Mountains. John Paul Mejia is going to be meeting in Israel with the Director of the Department of Man in Desert to discuss ways to develop the South of Israel.
The Architecture College Council promotes and enriches the academic and educational objectives of the College by promoting extracurricular programs consistent with the intellectual and educational interest of the students.
Concerns are presented to the Council for administration in a constructive, logical and effective manner. All decisions made by the Council are presented to the college directly and/or presented to Student Government.
All students are strongly encouraged to participate in the Architecture College Council and it's decision making process. The Architecture College Council has no fees or requirements, council just asks for student participation in order to have an accurate account of the voice of the students in the College of Design, Construction and Planning. Students are also encouraged to join respective Student Organizations related to their field of study.
The mission of the Apollodorus Chapter of APX at UF seeks to enhance students' personal and educational experiences in Architecture and the Allied Arts by developing leadership skills, promoting professionalism, and encouraging social interaction as a unified group of diverse members benefiting the community. The vision of the Chapter is to facilitate a supportive and professional atmosphere of brotherhood, pride, and commitment congruent with the educational mission to ensure the longevity of the fraternity and to invest in education, careers, and life-long friendships.
The Apollodorus Chapter sponsers seminars, workshops and exhibits promoting interaction with faculty and practicing professionals. Social activites include billiard and bowling nights, tailgating barbeques, woodsers, and faculty socials. The Chapter also serves the community by working polls at general elections, carving pumpkins for children at SHANDS Hospital in the fall and participating in CANstruction with local schools in the spring.
The American Institute of Architecture Students was founded in 1956 as a student run organization dedicated to the constant flux of issues that tax the profession. Working for better educational standards as well as influencing the profession for which they will soon be apart of. Membership is open to anyone interested in the organization and its purposes. The activities involved are far ranged and far reaching. The primary focus of the University of Florida AIAS chapter is to bring together students of all levels, providing the stage for interaction within the discipline as well as possibly outside of it. This platform for meeting will become the foundation from which the future of our profession is decided.
NOMA, thriving only when voluntary members contribute their time and resources, has as its mission the building of a strong national organization, strong chapters and strong members for the purpose of- if it not eliminating racism in the profession- to at least minimize its effect to the degree possible.
Strength in NOMA is built through unity in the cause that created the organization. Our impact is felt when our organization wresles with the dilemmas that face this nation, particularly as the dilemmas affect our profession. There is strength in numbers. By increasing the number of people in this organization, we add strength to the voice with which we can speak against apathy, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance; against abuse of the ntural environment; and for the unempowered, the marginalized and the disenfranchised.
The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) is a nonprofit professional society representing the interests of interior designers and the interior design community. The society is lead by a volunteer board of directors that includes the society's president, president-elect, and immediate past president. Daily operations are carried out by a small staff housed in the society's headquarters in Washington, D.C.
ASID was founded in 1975 with the consolidation of the American Institute of Decorators (AID) and the National Society of Interior Designers (NSID). It is the oldest and largest professional organization for interior designers with the largest residential and commercial membership. ASID promotes professionalism in interior design services and products for the workplace and home.
Unites graduate and undergraduate landscape architecture students to combine interests toward fulfiling educational and social needs and broaden the understanding of the profession and the Society.
The Student Planning Association (SPA) is a student-run organization within the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. Students in SPA are involved with a variety of community service projects, organize numerous social events for members throughout the year, and also recognize an Outstanding Student of the Year and Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year each spring. In the past SPA has participated in such diverse projects as Paint Your Heart Out Gainesville, the St. John's River Clean-up, a Spring Speaker's Forum, and Habitat for Humanity.
One recent project under development is a joint endeavor between the Department and the San Felasco Section of the Florida Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA). Through this program SPA offers Urban and Regional Planning students exposure to professional planners through a coordinated mentoring program. The goal of the program is to match student planners with experienced, local planners who share similar planning interests with the student. Both the student and the practicing planner learn from each other, and the experience often leads to career contacts. The program has been in development for over a year now and is still taking shape.
