Welcome to the SOC Website!

About SOC

The mission of the Student Organization Council (SOC) is to provide student organizations and their members with the support and resources needed to accomplish their goals. SOC is dedicated to building a stronger campus community by providing organization members with opportunities to grow personally, professionally, and artistically.

Visit us! You can locate the team at the Student Center, 754 S. Wabash Avenue, 2nd Floor (Open office area)

Call us: 312-369-6656 (Closed during school breaks, summer, and weekends)

socPresident@colum.edu

socFinance@colum.edu

socCommunity@colum.edu

socEvents@colum.edu

The SOC is comprised of one member of each of the recognized student organizations. The SOC's executive board consists of a President, Vice President, Community Director, Finance Director, and Programming Director.

SOC monthly meetings are held on the first Wednesday of each month at 5 pm in HIVE, 3rd floor of 618. One member of each Student Organization is required to be in attendance. Meetings are open to all Columbia College Chicago students, faculty, and staff.

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Officers

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Members

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Events

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Emails/Newsletters

Our Team

Brady German

Vice-President

Morgan Lawson

Programming Director

Ana Lara

President

Harry Danz

Finance Director

Ayla Chandola

Community Director

Allen Lucas

Advisor

How to Start a Student Organization?

Follow these steps to create a new student organization!

Find at least 5 students who want to be members of your organization and at least 3 of those students who are willing to be an executive board member. Executive board members must maintain a 3.0 GPA.

Find a Columbia faculty or a staff member to be the advisor for your organization.

Create a constitution and a list of events or activities that your group would like to do. Use the Constitution Template provided through the Student Organizations form page!

Send your President and another executive board member to Student Organization Training. Reach out to President Ana Lara -socPresident@colum.edu to schedule.

Have fun!

Please reach out to our SOC President at: socpresident@colum.edu to express your interest and get started!

Requirements for Student Organizations:

List of Requirements for Student Organization's To Be Recognized Under SOC

A monthly report must be submitted to the SOC Vice President, Brady. These have to be submitted by the 25th of each month.

You must have a semesterly 1:1 with the SOC Vice President, Brady.

An E-board member of your org must attend the SOC monthly meetings.

The organization must volunteer at two Student Organizations and Leadership Office approved event each academic year (i.e Wicked Week, Columbia Weekend, etc.).

Depending on your org's funding level, you are required to partake in a community event of your choice.

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Student Organization Council (SOC)

Chicago Illinois 60605
United States