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Student groups desiring status as a Registered Student
Organization or Registered Sport Club, must first complete
the application procedures with the Campus Activities
office. Organizations desiring Sports Club status must
first be recognized as a student organization. Once this
has occurred the group may apply with the Campus Recreation
office to become a Sports Club.
- No organization or group will be granted registration
privileges which is not open to all students without respect
to race, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, class
status, national origin, or marital status or whose stated
purpose violates state, local, or federal laws and/or university
rules and regulations. Those organizations which follow
the Title IX exclusions, such as Fraternities and Sororities
and Men’s and Women’s sport clubs only retain
the right to be single-gender.
- Off-campus affiliation is granted (as appropriate) under
the authority of the Vice President for Student Affairs.
The new organization will complete an application for off-campus
affiliation, along with all other appropriate registration
forms. See “Responsibilities” on pages 6-7.
- In order to start a new Registered Student Organization;
a representative of the student group should make an appointment
with the Coordinator of Campus Activities (or
designee) to discuss the application approval
process.
- The Coordinator of Campus Activities (or
designee) will provide the student representative
with the following forms to be completed and returned:
- Student Organization Registration Form
- Sample outline for a student organization constitution
- Membership Roster (the minimum number to start an
organization will be determined case by case).
- Title IX Compliance Statement, which prohibits discrimination
- Hazing Compliance Statement which prohibits hazing
- Advisor Contract
- Application for Off-Campus Affiliation (as appropriate)
- The petitioning organization will be granted “Pending”
status once the application and paperwork is received in
the Campus Activities Office. While under pending status,
the group will be granted a sixty-day (60) permit to use
campus facilities for the purpose of holding organizational
meetings and recruiting new members. This permit does not
include the right to sponsor an all-campus event, to solicit
(raise funds on campus), apply for organizational funding,
or to use the name of the university.
- During the “Pending Status” the application
paperwork is routed through the Student Organizations Council
(SOC), Graduate Assistant for Student Organizations the
Coordinator of Campus Activities, the Associate Director
and Director of the LBJ Student Center. This process usually
takes two to six weeks.
- Applications for status as a Registered Student Organization
shall be reviewed by the Student Organizations Council (SOC),
under the guidance of the Graduate Research Assistant for
Student Organizations. The SOC will consider the following
criteria for approval or denial of the application:
- Possible duplication of other student organization efforts
on campus
- Positive attributes that the new organization may bring.
- Probability of growth for the new organization
- Activities which are consistent with university policy
and city, state and federal laws
- Once all requirements are met and approval has been granted,
the group will be classified as a “registered”
student organization. In order to maintain registered status,
the President must annually (by April 30th) register his/her
organization and maintain accurate and up-to-date records
of officers, members and programs with the Campus Activities
Office.
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