News for Student Organization Officers

September 2024

Required Training

All organizations are required to participate in training sessions. These opportunities are aimed at developing organization officers as leaders as well as helping you to manage your organization. PLEASE READ CAREFULLY.

  1. All undergraduate organizations were required to send at least one officer to Student Orgs 101. Sessions ran September 9-14, 2024. (This requirement was communicated in the August Newsletter.) If you missed attending one of the six sessions offered, we will reach out to presidents with information about how to meet this requirement. Please stay tuned! 
  2. In addition to Student Orgs 101, student orgs must attend two additional trainings offered by Student Engagement. You must send at least one officer. The schedule of these will be posted mid October. Also included are the following:
    • (sponsored by the university), 9/26/24. Training led by entities not affiliated with Marquette will not count as a required training.
    • Olson Leadership Institute
  3. Organizations who are in the Club Sports category must attend Club Sports training as designated by the Department of Recreational Sports. NOTE: This counts as one of your two required trainings as noted in #2 above.
  4. Any organization who puts on a large performance event must attend the "Large Scale Event/Performance" training. This training will overview the updated Practice Space and Show Policy as well as provide helpful timelines for planning a large scale event. You must send any and all officers who are involved in the planning of your large scale event. This counts as one of your two required trainings as noted in #2 above.
  5. If you attend more trainings than what is required, you get extra credit!  This credit will be weighed when assigning closet space in spring 2025. It also bodes well in terms of criteria for student organization awards.

Policy Highlights

Eligibility to be a student organization member and officer

To be a member of an undergraduate student organization a student must:

  • Be a full-time undergraduate student.
  • Note – Graduate students and part-time undergraduate students are considered associate members of undergraduate student organizations. They may attend meetings but cannot hold an office or vote in officer elections.

To be an officer for a student organization and/or to hold an elected position in MUSG (senator, executive board member, or President/EVP) a student must:

  • Be a full-time undergraduate student.
  • Be in good standing with the university when they are elected or appointed and remain in good standing throughout their term.

View the full policy HERE.

Sponsoring a Political Candidate on Campus Grounds

Student organizations may bring a political candidate to campus for the purpose of meeting and greeting students, faculty and staff as a campaigning activity under the following conditions:

  • All such events must be sponsored and registered by a student organization.
  • The candidate must be escorted by a member of the sponsoring student organization at all times. If a candidate is campaigning on campus grounds without an escort, the candidate will be asked to leave.
  • The candidate is not permitted to walk around inside buildings with or without an escort. This includes academic buildings, residence halls, dining halls, the Alumni Memorial Union, Raynor Memorial Library, and the Helfaer Recreation Center.
  • On an election day, the candidate is not permitted to be within 100 feet of any polling location.

View the full policy HERE.

Mailboxes and Storage Space

Mailbox assignments were sent out on September 18 to all those who requested a mailbox. We still have mailboxes available so if your organization wants one, please reach out to Stephanie Dooge (stephanie.dooge@marquette.edu). Please note that we reassigned all student organization mailboxes, so if you previously had a student organization mailbox, we kindly ask that you disregard that assignment/lock combination and use what was recently sent to you.

The Student Engagement Team is working on clearing out storage lockers that belonged to orgs that are now inactive. Once this process is completed, they will start working on assigning storage lockers for those that requested it. Please note that storage closet space is extremely limited, so not everyone who requested space will get it for this academic school year.

For additional information about student organizations, please visit our website or contact the student orgs team engaged@marquette.edu.