{"id":1410,"date":"2018-11-12T02:15:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T08:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2018-11-09T15:33:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T21:33:51","slug":"how-your-student-can-get-involved-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/2018\/11\/12\/how-your-student-can-get-involved-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"How Your Student Can Get Involved on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a variety of ways in which students can get involved on campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student Party<\/strong> is MIAD\u2019s equivalent of Student Government.\u00a0It meets weekly on Wednesdays during the Common Hour (11 \u2013 12:30 p.m.) in Room 399A.\u00a0 Student Party helps with MIAD traditions like the annual AIDS Walk WI, Blood Drives, the MIAD Halloween Party, the annual Talent Show and Health Heelers.<\/p>\n<p>There also are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miad.edu\/college-services\/student-life\/student-activities-organizations\">several active student groups<\/a> on campus:<\/p>\n<p>Adventure Club<\/p>\n<p>Ambrosia Designs<\/p>\n<p>Anime Club<\/p>\n<p>ASID (American Society of Interior Designers)<\/p>\n<p>Billiards Club<\/p>\n<p>Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/p>\n<p>Film Club<\/p>\n<p>Gradients<\/p>\n<p>GSA (Genders and Sexualities Alliance)<\/p>\n<p>IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America)<\/p>\n<p>InterVarsity<\/p>\n<p>ISO (Photography)<\/p>\n<p>Magic: The Gathering<\/p>\n<p>MIAD Print Club<\/p>\n<p>Swim Team (Curatorial)<\/p>\n<p>Video Game Club<\/p>\n<p>If a student is interested in creating a student group that doesn\u2019t currently exist, they should contact Student Party (<a href=\"mailto:studentparty@miad.edu\">studentparty@miad.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Another organization on campus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalald.org\/\">Alpha Lambda Delta (ALD)<\/a>, is open to freshmen students who met or exceeded a 3.5 GPA in their first semester at MIAD. ALD fosters academic achievement and learning through thought, design and expression, and believes every person can lead, learn and design with a purpose greater than self to change the world.<\/p>\n<p>Should your student become a member of this prestigious honors society, they will be provided the opportunity to compete for scholarships and fellowships awarded by National Alpha Lambda Delta.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage you and your student to interact with us on Monday, January 15<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018 for the National Day of Service in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Invites will be shared with your student.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there will be an ALD initiation ceremony held in Spring 2018 for new members and their families.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a variety of ways in which students can get involved on campus. Student Party is MIAD\u2019s equivalent of Student Government.\u00a0It meets weekly on Wednesdays during the Common Hour (11 \u2013 12:30 p.m.) in Room 399A.\u00a0 Student Party helps with MIAD traditions like the annual AIDS Walk WI, Blood Drives, the MIAD Halloween Party, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/2018\/11\/12\/how-your-student-can-get-involved-on-campus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Your Student Can Get Involved on Campus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5653],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supporting-your-studuent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}