Arts and Design Student Organizations | David R. Hayworth School of Arts and Design
Alpha Psi Omega -The National Theatre Honor Society: This organization is open to any student who wants to be involved in the Theater department’s productions as well as student created theatrical works. Students acquire points for each production they work on which enables them to be eligible for official membership in this national charter.
Fashion Forward at High Point University provides students with an opportunity to exchange creative and intellectual ideas related to the fashion industry by engaging in community service and professional development. Students are provided the opportunity to learn from guest speakers, participate in field trips to New York City, and meet with fellow students to discuss and engage in creative endeavors centered around a shared interest in fashion.
Graphic Design Club We are the daydreamers, mess makers, and creative thinkers of HPU.
Simple enough right? We are just a group of HPU students who love graphic design. Graphic Design Club offers aspiring professionals the opportunity to get involved, create community, and build leadership skills. You belong in the Graphic Design Club! From art and design fans to graphic design majors or minors, we have a place for you. Join our email list by sending an email to [email protected] Meetings: Mondays at 8PM.
HPU Dance Company: This student run organization is open to all students interested in Dance. The company is dedicated to providing exciting dance experiences for its students and the High Point community. Students will be able to sign up for weekly classes taught by students, faculty, and guest artists and get the opportunity to perform through community outreach events. Follow our Instagram!
Interior Design and Merchandising Club The club participates in service, such as the design of Leslie’s House (local shelter) and creating gift boxes for the Roy Cullen Senior Center, as well well as traveling to specific locations of interest, such as period-home tours in Charleston, SC.
Students also spend a weekend in NYC, taking the fashion Windows Tour, visiting Kleinfelds, and having audiences with the Kate Spade company, plus others. Fashion Merchandising students utilize club members for content creation for the student High Point Magazine. Student chapters of professional organizations IIDA and ASID are also housed under the IDMC umbrella.
Photography Club The purpose of the Photography Club is to foster artistic ability through the art of photography, to create opportunities for those who have an interest in photography, to educate student photographers of industry standards, to create opportunities for students to express their interest in photography.
Studio Art Club The club is designed to promote creativity in HPU students and give them an opportunity to network and express their ideas with the Triad community. Anyone interested is welcome to join. Follow us on instagram @hpuartclub
Toccatatones, Petal Points, Off-Beats The a cappella ensembles at High Point University are a favorite club for many students on campus, either as singers or enthusiastic listeners.
Each ensemble holds auditions at the beginning of the academic year and is completely run and staffed by students. They perform regularly at on and off-campus events and have a successful track record of performing at local and national a cappella competitions. All three ensembles have recordings available on all major online platforms.
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Kappa Delta Pi
The High Point University chapter, Kappa Mu, of Kappa Delta Pi , the International Honor Society in Education was established in 1965. Undergraduates with an academic record of achieving at least a 3.2 GPA are invited to apply for membership. The application includes not only the academic record but also the commitment to a career in teaching and involvement in campus activities.
The chapter recognizes the mission of KDP is to sustain an honored community of diverse educators by promoting excellence and advancing scholarship, leadership, and service.
The chapter promotes the vision of helping committed educators to become leaders in improving education for global leadership.
A major project of the chapter is a Literacy Alive event each year. In the past, a collection of photographs were taken by members, printed and placed in notebooks for teachers to use as writing prompts for their students. Books have been collected and given to children who do not have access to books at home. Other activities have included Dorm Storming for the Box Tops for Education labels, joint movies/collecting school supplies with TOT [Teachers of Tomorrow] and NCAEE [NC Association of Elementary Educators].
The 2020-2021 Officers are:
- Courtney Loux President
- Erin Cornell Vice President
- Megan Hardy treasurer
- Ashley Yoder Secretary
- Julia Weisneberg Membership chair
- Shealyn Baker SGA rep
North Carolina Association of Elementary Educators
The North Carolina Association of Elementary Educators (NCAEE), founded in fall 2005, is the only professional organization in North Carolina—and one of two in the nation—established expressly to advocate for and serve elementary educators and elementary level children.
The goals of NCAEE are to:
- promote professionalism
- provide opportunities for leadership
- provide opportunities for networking with other elementary educators
- serve as a voice/advocate for elementary educators and children
- provide resources that support elementary educators
- develop and maintain partnerships for teacher education
- promote awareness of practices based on scientific research
- promote rigor in instruction.
High Point University is fortunate to have an onsite cohort within Region 5. Undergraduate and graduate Elementary Education candidates meet together on a monthly basis to learn about new mandates, initiatives, and cutting edge best practices in the elementary educational arena. Meetings are not only informative, but FUN!
Two distinctive features of the HPU NCAEE cohort:
- Annual Regional Conference held on the campus of High Point University each spring.
HPU NCAEE cohort members play a key role in the planning and hosting of this event. Conference participants from the 11 counties in Region 5 have enjoyed wonderful keynote and break out session speakers over the years. The keynote for this year’s conference is nationally known and highly sought after Kathy Bumgartner! - Annual Outreach Project. Each fall, one elementary school is chosen to be the recipient of the outreach efforts. This year, HPU NCAEE cohort members painted stools to gift every teacher at an area partner school, Florence Elementary.
HPU NCAEE cohort members play a key role in the planning and hosting of this event. Conference participants from the 11 counties in Region 5 have enjoyed wonderful keynote and break out session speakers over the years. The keynote for this year’s conference is nationally known and highly sought after Kathy Bumgartner!Follow the HPU Chapter of NCAEE through their Blog.
Teachers of Tomorrow
Teachers of Tomorrow (TOT) is an organization started by High Point University students and fully chartered by the Student Government Association. The organization is home to those interested in education as well as majors from all areas. TOT allows future educators an opportunity to fellowship at meetings about classes and fieldwork, as well as an opportunity to gain insight about the future career in teaching.
TOT has worked in the past with tutoring at local schools, helped with Halloween and Easter carnivals for elementary students, and produced treats for teachers and students at nearby schools. During each meeting once a month, new business about upcoming service is discussed and members complete an activity related to education. TOT also brings guest speakers to talk to students about the fascinating career of Education. If you are interested in joining TOT, you may speak with any of the Education faculty or the officers listed. Teachers of Tomorrow is a fun way to meet other Education majors and share experiences- You don’t want to miss out being involved in this fun organization!
To learn more about TOT and what they are doing, follow them on Facebook.
The 2019-20 Officers are:
President- Allison Patrick
Vice President/President Elect – Sara Huguenin
Secretary – Carly Crisafulli
Treasurer – Anna Stilwell
Historian – Haley Shaw
SGA Representative – Heather Simmons
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Event Coordinator
Social Media –
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Counselor – Dr.
Heidi Summey
Student Council for Exceptional Children
The Student Council for Exceptional Children consists of majors from across campus of High Point University with a common interest in promoting awareness and providing support for individuals with disabilities. Students are provided discounted membership into the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), which allows students to network and build professional relationships outside of the university. Student members are also encouraged to attend and even present at CEC functions at the state level. Each year, this group, in conjunction with the High Point Parks and Recreation, provides entertainment for the Special Pops dances held three times per year. The members also provide support for local teachers by volunteering in the classrooms and providing materials for special projects. In addition, the student members assist with the organization and upkeep of the Red Room located at Welborn Middle School in High Point.
The Red Room provides clothes, food, and toiletries to those in need in the surrounding area.
The 2020-2021 Officers are:
President – Miranda DellaVecchio
Vice President – Fiona Petracca
Secretary – Mary Grace McCarthy
Special Pops Chairs – Katie Saunders, Colleen Coppola, Halle Devins
Autism Awareness Month Chairs – Julia Nicastro, Christina Carilli
SGA Reps – Delaney Whooley, Caroline Thomas
Counselor – Ms. Teresa Owens
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Interest clubs help to reveal the creative potential of everyone
Evgenia Mamonova
Being a student means not only going to lectures and taking exams. Student years are the happiest time when you can reveal all your talents, realize yourself in creativity, find your favorite hobby.
As students of the Financial University say, they try to devote 70-80 percent of their time to their main activity – that is, to study, and spend the rest on hobbies that energize and inspire.
“Creating a socio-cultural space for the formation of a personality with a high level of culture, a developed civic-patriotic consciousness, aesthetic taste and readiness for self-realization in the creative and professional fields is the mission that the Office of Extracurricular Work translates into real life,” says the head of the Office of Extracurricular Work Financial University Nikolay Trofimovich Shestaev.
During the academic year for students of the Financial University and with their active participation, the famous festival Urban Fest, the “Big Student Ball” and, of course, Freshman’s Day, which is traditionally celebrated in the Kremlin Palace or in Crocus City Hall, are held.
The organization of extracurricular life at the Financial University is carried out by the Student Council, which is led by the students themselves.
This makes it possible to take into account all interests: some of the guys really like to play chess, some to dance, and some to fly paragliding or go to the mountains.
“At the Financial University, you can find an occupation for every taste,” says Anastasia Voskhodova, chairman of the Student Council. won’t refuse.”
Club movement at the Financial University develops according to the principle: there is interest – there is a club. One of the most popular intellectual clubs is chess. The club is headed by FIDE Grandmaster, European Champion Ernesto Inarkiev and FIDE Grandmaster Daniil Dubov.
The University Choir is a laureate of numerous festivals, its performances were held in the Bolshoi and Rachmaninov halls of the Moscow Conservatory corporations and companies”, “Experience of Russian entrepreneurs from the first person”, “Development of soft skills of Business Club participants”. The club’s master classes are attended by managers and executives of the largest companies: Unilever, P&G, MTS, Beeline, Starbucks, KPMG, Deloitte, Ernst&Young, PWC, Henkel, Goldman Sachs, L’Oreal, Microsoft and many others.
The Financial University also has a Debate Club, Oratory Club LOGOS, Personality and Career Club, Leading Club. For intellectuals who want to prove themselves in such games as: “What? Where? When?”, “Brain-ring”, “Own game”, “Erudite-quartet”, “Club of intellectual games” was created at the university.
FinSport is the largest club with more than 2500 students. It holds competitions and sports days , collects teams to participate in city and international sports games in many sports.0003
And then there’s the Expedition Club. Last year, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Financial University, the club team climbed the highest point in Europe and Russia – Elbrus (5642 m) and hoisted the flag of the Financial University. In the new year, the club is planning new grandiose expeditions within the framework of the Russia: From Edge to Edge project.
And you can, for example, take and enroll in a choir. Moreover, the choir of the Financial University is a multiple winner of international and all-Russian festivals and competitions, its performances were held in the Grand and Rachmaninov halls of the Moscow Conservatory.
During the two years of the work of the historical-patriotic detachment, students were able to discover and ceremonially bury the remains of 26 Soviet soldiers. In 2014, the student theater “Slovo” appeared at the Financial University. A year earlier, the “Volunteer Center” was actively working. Volunteers of the Financial University supervise the Vyazma House of Mercy for orphans, as well as orphanages in the Vladimir and Ryazan regions.
The goal set by the historical-patriotic detachment, created in 2016, is to perpetuate the memory of the fallen defenders of the Motherland during the Great Patriotic War. During the two years of the detachment’s work, the students were able to discover and ceremonially bury 26 soldiers of the Red Army. In 2018, the historical-patriotic detachment received the status of an official search detachment, was registered in the register of search detachments of Russia and was named the search detachment “In Memory of the 13th Division of the People’s Militia”.
Student life does not stop even during the summer holidays. Every year, students of the Financial University have a rest in a sports and recreation camp on the Black Sea coast.
“Entering a university can open any door for a young person,” says Anastasia Voskhodova. “The Financial University has every opportunity for this. However, how to use these opportunities depends only on the student himself.”
Rossiyskaya gazeta – Special issue: Financial University No. 44 (7802)
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University clubs and communities abroad
Being in a foreign educational institution for the first time, a Russian student learns that the culture of university clubs and interest societies is very developed abroad.
Clubs and societies bring together students with similar hobbies, interests or career plans. Some universities have hundreds of clubs that allow students to discover their talents, spend their free time interestingly and meet like-minded people.
The topics of such interest societies can be very different. From sports clubs to Star Wars clubs, chess players and future lawyers, every student can find something that suits him. Even if there is no interesting community, in many universities students can create new clubs themselves.
So why should you join a student society while studying abroad?
Stand out from the crowd
Most employers today are very attentive to the details of the resume, which distinguish a potential employee from other applicants.
Membership in a student club is definitely worth mentioning in your resume, especially if you were the organizer of this club or held any responsible position in it. Based on this fact, the employer will be able to judge your social activity and other important qualities. For example, membership in a sports club develops leadership and teamwork skills, while membership in a debate club provides a person with experience in public speaking.
Meet new people
Outside of the classroom, clubs and communities are places for students to form friendships and generate new creative ideas.
By joining the club, the student gets a great opportunity to meet people who share his interests. In addition, most clubs and societies hold weekly meetings and various events, attending which, you can further expand your social circle.
Get balanced experience
No student should limit their life to studying and grades. Active extracurricular activities, new acquaintances and communication – all this diversifies the student years. Members of student clubs and societies receive the most vivid, filled and balanced experience at the university, which is remembered for a lifetime.
Stay fit
Due to fast food, stress and low level of physical activity, strenuous study results in many students being overweight and having health problems.
Do you want to avoid this?
In addition to great discounts for students abroad at swimming pools and fitness clubs, membership in a sports club gives students unlimited access to sports and fun activities. Sports students also participate in numerous sports events and competitions at various levels.
Start a future career
A student club or society is often a great place to network and make connections that will prove useful in the future.
Many universities have clubs that bring together young professionals in various fields, such as future engineers, designers, architects, etc. At the same time, musical groups and art groups are formed in creative clubs. Who knows, maybe joining one of them will make you famous in the future?
Immerse yourself in an amazing environment
Interest club is not necessarily something traditional and typical. Student societies are diverse, and there are some that you don’t even know exist!
Love Harry Potter? The College of William and Mary has a Wizards and Muggles club that even organizes Quidditch tournaments.