Our involvement platform is Redbird Life, so we push everyone to the website. Last year we had our student designer create a new campaign with consistent branding. I’m attaching one piece, but we have this in a variety of print and digital formats. We also brand our merch as Redbird Life – laptop stickers, wristlet keychains, pens,…

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At Illinois State, we have two classifications of RSOs – sponsored and independent. Sponsored RSOs are covered by university liability insurance. Independent RSOs are not. The university may require an independent RSO to purchase special event insurance, which I’m pretty sure the RSO can request through our event funding process. We also…

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Hi Kristi & others.

As someone who hosts large-scale high-cost outdoor events, it would be an irresponsible use of university resources not to have a rain location as a backup. We’re all in this together. Please don’t forget about your campus partners who depend on having a rain location in order to accomplish what they’ve been tasked to do.

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Hi Paul.

At Illinois State we now have the Demonstration Safety Team and also the University Event Review Committee. You can reach out to the staff in Emergency Management for more information. For RSOs, that’s an area we need to expand. We do have brief risk management information on our RSO event planning resource webpage.

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Jeanni,

All organizations have to follow the university non-discrimination clause, even our faith-based organizations. Information can be found on our student organization registration webpage and our constitution guidelines webpage.

A few of our relevant policies.

All members agree to follow the Nondiscrimination in Membership…

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Hi Brigid,

Illinois State University – Policy on Sale/Distribution of Food on Campus

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Caleb,

For our Welcome Week social media student, I typically ask them to create a 1-2 page “portfolio” that showcases their work. I would not want to put extra work on a student when they’re interviewing, but I do think it’s appropriate to ask them to showcase what they’ve done that relates to the position.…

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Kathleen,

Our Division of Student Affairs at Illinois State University hosts a new staff orientation twice a semester. The linked page has basic information and you can reach out to Angell Howard, Associate Director of Professional Development and Staff Recognition, for more information.

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Hank,

We worked through a similar situation with our org awards, and ultimately we disbanded the formal ceremony in favor of a general involvement celebration at the end of the semester. If you do want to keep the formal ceremony, one suggestion is to highlight RSOs and incorporate them into the celebration – performance groups, etc. – a…

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Jen,

We encourage RSOs to use our office as their mailing address. Each org doesn’t have their own box/slot, but we have a drawer with file folders. When mail comes in the RSO president gets an email, then the item gets categorized alphabetically in the?file folders. Packages are handled similarly, except they’re kept in a cabinet. Everything…

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Hi Laura,

We do this as part of our annual re-registration process, which is open July 1 – Sept 30. Students can also register a new RSO at any point in the year, so we’ll review constitutions at that point of initial registration as well. We have 400+ RSOs, so this is very time-consuming to do annually. We provide the students with a …

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At Illinois State, our?Center for Civic Engagement hosts a Destination Uptown event during our Welcome Week. They utilize the Goosechase app to add an interactive scavenger hunt component to the event. We also have an “explore campus and community” tab on our Welcome Week webpage.

3-6 p.m. Destination Uptown, Center for Civic Engagement &…

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Hi Denesha,

Our Student Access and Accommodation Services office has information on their website about event accommodations. You may find some of that information useful.

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Hi Sam,

Here are our constitution guidelines at Illinois State University.

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Hi Aubrey,

Here’s our official wording that we have RSOs add to their constitutions,

• One hundred percent of members are Illinois State University students. Non-students and alumni may participate, but are not considered members and cannot act on behalf of or represent the RSO when conducting business. When participating in events,…

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Hi Candice,

For Illinois State University our Welcome Week 2021 schedule is still live on our website. We’ll switch to 2022 information sometime in late May. I’m also attaching our Welcome Week 2019 print schedule.

We have recap videos from Welcome Week 2021 & Welcome Week 2019.

And, we have Flickr photo albums as well:
Welcome Week 2021
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Here’s some inspiration from Illinois State.

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