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Home Design Professionals Install New Leadership for 2010

Lakeland, Florida (November 2009) – Florida’s largest organized group of home design professionals, the Florida Society of the American Institute of Building Design (A.I.B.D.), held it’s year-end convention November 13th and 14th on the campus of Florida Southern College, home to the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright designs on a single property. During the two-day event, they installed their new leadership of David Pillsbury, President of the Society, Tony Weremeichik as Vice President, Tic Childers as Treasurer and Susan Berry as Secretary.  Committees within the A.I.B.D. developed plans to position themselves to continue to effectively lead housing design during the upcoming economic recovery and to further increase benefits to its members.

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Since 1950, the American Institute of Building Design (AIBD), the nationally recognized association of Professional Building Designers, has provided its members professional and educational resources, and has developed nationwide design standards and a code of ethics for the building design profession. Today, the AIBD represents professional and associate members in 46 states and throughout Canada and abroad. Its chartered societies are active in their respective legislative arenas and work to promote public awareness of the building design profession.

 

UCF to Start Architecture Program

UCF will partner with Valencia Community College and the University of Florida to launch a new Bachelor of Design program in Architecture starting in fall 2010.

Approved Thursday by the Board of Trustees, the program will prepare students for a variety of careers, including professional architecture, construction management and industrial design. The median annual salary for design professionals is about $72,000, according to Workforce Florida.

Students will take two years of classes as Valencia students and two years as UCF students. They then can move on to obtain their master’s degree, potentially by staying in Orlando and enrolling in a University of Florida College of Design program based in UCF’s Center for Emerging Media in downtown Orlando.

The Valencia and UCF classes will be taught at the new University Center building shared by the two schools at Valencia’s West Campus. The local chapter of the American Institute of Architects has worked closely with Valencia, UCF and UF to develop the program.

For more information, visit www.architecture.ucf.edu.

In other action Thursday, the Board of Trustees:

-- Held the second public hearing on UCF’s 2010-2020 Campus Master Plan Update and approved the plan. The master plan involves proposed construction and land use for the main campus and follows UCF’s strategic plan, which looks at the academic and activities needs of the campus. For more information on the master plan, visit www.fp.ucf.edu/mp2010.

-- Thanked outgoing trustees Pat Christiansen, Al Weiss and Alan Florez for their service to the university. Christiansen, a charter member of the board, has served nearly nine years. Weiss and Florez each has served about four years.

-- Approved the conferral of about 4,000 degrees during UCF’s fall commencement ceremonies, which will be held Dec. 18 and 19 at the UCF Arena. (link commencement to registrar’s Web site)

-- Applauded Glenn Lambie, a professor in the College of Education, for receiving a distinguished mentor award from the Association for Counselor Education. He was recognized for his longstanding commitment to the success of graduate students and his research accomplishments.

-- Recognized Marshall Schminke, a College of Business Administration professor, for his selection to the Society for Organizational Behavior, a group of prominent management scholars.

-- Lauded UCF’s MBA program for being ranked by the Princeton Review as one of the ten best-administered MBA programs in the country.

-- Recognized recent USPS employees of the month Darlene Bouley, Lillian Ramos and Rita Simpson.