In this issue:
· Get involved in New York City!
· Women’s Senate Network Welcomes AIA
· Save the Dates for AIA New York State
· AIA Releases More Online Contract Documents
· Diagrams Look at Licensure
· NCARB Releases Stats on the States

Get involved in New York City!
AIANY is encouraging members to join their local community boards, and it’s offering resources to help. The deadline for applications for the 2010 Community Boards is fast approaching — 01.15 in Manhattan — and applicants are required to attend a community board meeting before applying. Click here to see when and where the last meetings of 2009 will be held in Manhattan, or find community boards in the other boroughs here . Stay tuned to the AIANY Advocacy Page to learn details of a December info session with Shaan Khan, Director of Community Affairs from Borough President Scott Stringer’s Office. To read more about how to join a community board in Manhattan, click here.

Women’s Senate Network Welcomes AIA
Female politicians of the U.S. Senate met on 10.18.09 in NYC for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s (DSCC) Women’s Senate Network policy forum. Leaders from the business and nonprofit sectors met with senators, including Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). AIA brought a delegation to the forum, led by AIA EVP/CEO Christine McEntee. Along with AIA Vice President Pam Loeffelman, FAIA; Beverly Willis, FAIA; Marnique Heath, AIA; Frances Halsband, FAIA; and Shirine Boulos, AIA, the group spoke about energy and design issues. Read more about the conference here.

Save the Dates for AIA New York State
AIA New York State (AIANYS) has announced that the 2010 Lobby Day will be 04.20.10, and the annual AIANYS convention will be 10.14-16.10. AIA Buffalo/Western New York will host. Read more at www.aianys.org.

AIA Releases More Online Contract Documents
In the last issue of Around the AIA, we announced Contract Documents on Demand, digital versions of 16 of the most popular AIA contract documents. On 11.03.09, AIA released three new software documents:

· C191-2009 Standard Form Multi-Party Agreement for Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)
· B108™-2009, Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and Architect for a Federally Funded or Federally Insured Project
· Standard Form of Architect’s Services: Programming

Read more about the important releases here.

Diagrams Look at Licensure
Stairway to Architecture is a new website graphically representing the architectural profession in diagrams by Matthew Arnold, AIA. A profile of the country’s architecture schools — with number of applicants, class size, and accreditation rate — is based on National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) and National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) statistics. Data from AIA New York State’s 15,000+ active, licensed architects shows the rate of licensure and trends in accreditation. For example, statistics show that in 2009, the average amount of time between graduation and licensure was over 11 years — quite a jump from 1983, when the Architect Registration Exam (ARE) was introduced and the “average” test-taker had been out school for less than five years.

NCARB Releases Stats on the States
Another set of numbers was recently released from NCARB. Its 2009 survey of state architectural registration boards counted 101,673 architects in the U.S (not including the close to 118,000 reciprocal architects, or architects with licenses in more than one state). California leads the pack with more than 20,000 registered architects (15,816 residents); New York follows at a distant second with 15,023 — 8,780 are New Yorkers. Read more about the NCARB survey here.