Guidelines for a Successful Student Chapter

Abstract

Many professional organizations have local student chapters that allow students to become involved in varying aspects of professional and academic life. While many schools have successful student chapters that field the needs of students successfully, other student chapters have struggled to accommodate their students to the best of their ability. In this paper, I present a series of anecdotal guidelines for the leadership of student chapters to consider in order to get the most out of each and every year. Although the focus of these guidelines are for improving existing student chapters, these guidelines can be used in the creation of new student chapters and in reviving student chapters that have become less active.