Student clubs and organizations

We encourage you to get involved in an HRM student organization. Involvement in student activities is a great way to network with other students and industry leaders, build valuable leadership experience, and have fun! Participating as a leader in one of these HRM clubs is another way to differentiate yourself from your HRM peers.

Join us for Club Night at the beginning of each semester, when you can learn more about each organization.

Organizations

Club Managers Association of America

CMAA is designed for students with an interest in the club industry. Networking and continuing education are the focus of this organization. Members get involved in fund-raising activities, attend the national conference and senior chapter meetings, host club manager speakers, volunteer at a major PGA golf tournament, as well as go on tours of clubs. This is a great way to obtain internships and quality F & B training. If you are interested in learning about the club industry, this organization will help you open doors.

Delta Sigma Pi

Delta Sigma Pi is a professional business fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities; to encourage scholarship, social activity, and the association of students for their mutual advancement by research and practice; to promote closer affiliation between the commercial world and students of commerce and further a higher standard of commercial ethics and culture and the civic and commercial welfare of the community.

Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP)

Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®), established in 1952, is an international nonprofit association headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with offices in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Dubai. HFTP is recognized as the spokesgroup for the finance and technology segments of the hospitality industry with members and stakeholders spanning the globe. HFTP uniquely understands the industry’s pressing issues and assists its stakeholders in finding solutions to their challenges more efficiently than any organization. It does this via its expert networks, research, certification programs, information resources, and conferences/events such as HITEC. HFTP also owns the world’s only hospitality-specific search engine, PineappleSearch.com®

Hospitality Entrepreneurs

HE is an organization designed to give its members the opportunity to be exposed to the many aspects of the hospitality industry from an entrepreneurial perspective. Some of the activities include tours and visits to properties, as well as hosting guest speakers who are successful entrepreneurs.

Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International

HSMAI is an organization designed for HRM students focused or beginning to focus upon a hospitality career to either market to or service the $75 billion group and meetings industry. The aim of HSMAI is to enhance career and leadership growth by offering “sponsored” networking opportunities with industry contacts, one-on-one mentoring opportunities, students and industry practitioners, industry speakers and programs at CMSA meetings, and scholarships provided by the industry open only to HSMAI members.

The National Association for Catering and Events

The National Association for Catering and Events (NACE) serves its members by enhancing their knowledge of the catering and events industry and providing access to hands-on educational programming. The organization also serves the catering and events industry by creating and developing highly qualified, well-prepared professionals.

National Society of Minorities in Hospitality

NSMH addresses diversity, multiculturalism, and career development for its student members. We provide events and programs that facilitate building relationships between students, industry professionals, other hospitality organizations, and each other.