2012-13 Special Interest Housing Communities
Audio Abode
EATON RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
Theme: Music Technologies
The Audio Abode is an active and engaging living-learning community for music enthusiasts! While many of the students are music majors a large population of non-music majors also bring their passion for music to the community. Events range from regular open mic nights, to off campus concerts, to faculty dinners that discuss the newest trends and technologies on the music scene. The Audio Abode seeks to create a strong, close-knit community that encourages the academic achievement of its residents. On Audio Abode homework help is next door, jam sessions are just down the hall, and a wide array of music events are always within reach.
CASTLE (‘Canes Advocating a Substance Temperate Living Environment)
PEARSON RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
Theme: Substance Free and Substance Responsible Living
CASTLE aims to provide upperclassmen students with a welcoming community that promotes the substance temperate lifestyle that they have chosen to live. The floor is focused on providing a diverse range of alternative activities for its residents that are absent of the pressure to use drugs or alcohol. CASTLE residents spend their free time forming tight knit friendships through simple on floor activities such as watching movies and by participating in educational and cultural activities in the Miami community.
HARMONY (Healthy Habits, Arts, Respect for Self, Others, & Environment, Meditation, Outdoor Activities, Natural Living, Yoga)
EATON RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
Theme: Healthy Habits for Mind, Body, and Environment
HARMONY seeks to create a positive, peaceful living environment conducive to personal and academic growth. Residents care for and support each other’s well being and inspire each other to live happy, healthy, and balanced lives. Programs will include private yoga, cooking, and meditation classes. As well as off campus activities that explore the natural environment and the arts.
U Live U Learn
EATON RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
Theme: Honor Student & Scholar Community
U Live U Learn is a living-learning community where academically driven students can live together in an environment of scholarship, community, and intellectual exploration. U Live U Learn provides residents with a supportive atmosphere of study, while offering diverse programming designed to both relax and expand the mind. By facilitating a balance of varied, intellectual stimulation and study break leisure activities, U Live U Learn creates a dynamic social and academic atmosphere for its residents.
ABC (Analysis of Black Cinema)
PEARSON RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
Theme: T.Y.L.E.R (Together You Learn Everyone’s Reality) P.E.R.R.Y. (Promoting Evolutionary Rational, Reform, and You-niqueness)
Aims to explore how Black Cinema has evolved over the years and identify the salient images the media is currently promoting. This year the community will focus primarily on the works of Tyler Perry, a filmmaker with significant influence on modern African American film and comedy. The community will look at themes such as race, class, socioeconomic status, and education with discussions that are intended to foster critical analysis.
STRIVE (Serving Together Reaching Integrity, Values, & Engagement)
PEARSON RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
Theme: Community Service & Leadership Development
STRIVE is a living-learning community where participants commit to living a lifestyle focused on community service and leadership development. Each student agrees to complete 8 hours of service, civic engagement, and leadership activities every two weeks. Residents attend weekly house meetings focused on developing leadership skills and raising awareness about various social issues. As a community STRIVE participates in a monthly group service project planned and organized by its members. Ultimately STRIVE seeks to provide its residents with the necessary skills and tools to become catalysts for social change.
The Environment & U
MAHONEY RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
Theme: Outdoor Recreation & Environmentally Conscious Living
The Environment & U is a living-learning community dedicated to promoting a greater understanding and appreciation of nature while encouraging environmentally friendly living. The community will experience the unique outdoor environments in South Florida by touring local state parks and enjoying a range of outdoor activities such as camping, hiking, and snorkeling. The community will also participate in local cleanup efforts and be devoted to recycling on the floor.
Pre-Health Science Community
MAHONY RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
Theme: Community for Students in the Pre-Health Disciplines
Community for pre-health science students interested in the fields of: Allopathic (M.D.) or Osteopathic Medicine (O.D.), Dentistry, Podiatry, Veterinary Medicine, Chiropractic, and Optometry. The community will provide guidance to residents on their academic curriculum to ensure they meet all necessary course requirements and create the most competitive application file possible during their time at UM. By living together pre-health students will provide a supportive bond for one another as they face the academic and extracurricular challenges of their intended fields.
Foundations
MAHONEY RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
Theme: Exploration of Diversity
Foundations is a living-learning community focused on the in depth exploration of diversity. Through this exploration the community aims to improve communication and foster relationships among the University's diverse student body. Foundations is an open, engaging, and motivational living environment that encourages its residents’ academic success, community involvement, and career goals. Residents will benefit from informal study groups, lectures on academic and cultural topics, and career shadowing opportunities.
Floor Member Application Process
ALL students interested in living within a Special Interest Housing community for 2012-13 should closely review the expectations below and MUST submit a brief Floor Member Application by March 6, 2012 to the Office of Academic Enhancement located in Pearson Residential College, Suite #144.
Members of the SIH Selection Committee in conjunction with the Group Coordinator will determine program participants. Students will be informed if they have been selected to join a SIH community on March 9, 2012, prior to the start of general housing signups for 2012-13 which are scheduled to begin on March 20, 2012.
For more information and/or questions during the application process, please contact Emily Vaughan (oae@miami.edu | 305-284-3187) or stop by the Office of Academic Enhancement, Pearson Residential College, Suite #144.
Floor Member Expectations – Students living on a SIH floor will be expected to:
• Attend a mandatory floor member meeting to be held between March 26 – April 13, 2012 at which the floor’s 2012–13 Executive Board will be elected.
• Attend monthly floor meetings throughout the 2012–13 academic year.
• Actively assist in the creation and implementation of programming initiatives on the floor.
• Participate in at least half of all floor programming during the 2012–13 academic year.
Failure to meet any of the above requirements could result in removal from the program.
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