OFFICE OF STUDENT LIFE

INFORMATION ABOUT STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

Involvement in campus organizations is an important part of your complete educational experience at UIS.

Student organizations offer social, service, and professional opportunities for their members within the university and community. Membership can broaden acquaintances, develop leadership ability, build decision-making and problem-solving skills, and complement classroom instruction.

Interested in starting an organization, but don't know where to begin?
Planning an event or trip for your organization?
Looking for ways to recruit and keep members?

That's where the Office of Student Life can help. Our office can assist you with the following:

Program and event development
Individual and group problem solving
Leadership development, including a leadership resource library
Referrals to additional campus and community resources

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For more information, contact:

Christopher Stanley
Graduate Assistant
Student Life
Office of Student Life, SAB 20B
(217) 206-6179
Email: ga-studentlife@uis.edu

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Procedure for Student Organizations that wish to create a website:

Student Organizations are entitled to a website on the student web server. Organizations wishing to establish a website should send the following information to Jim Korte at jkort1@uis.edu:

Name of organization
Name of faculty or staff advisor
Name and netID of student who will create and maintain the website
Preferred name for website

Note: website URLs will appear as in this example:
http://students.uis.edu/globaldiversity

Your facutly/staff advisor should also be carbon copied on your email request. Once approved, the Campus Technology Services department (CTS) will create the website and notify the organization.

Approval must come from the Student Affairs Division before the Campus Technology Services department will create a website for your organization.

For more information about campus websites, see the campus Web Policy