Setting Up Your SCI Student Chapter
To establish an SCI Student Chapter, you will need:
- A group of students with a nominated student representative (president);
- A faculty advisor/sponsor.
STEPS TO CREATING A CHAPTER
- Gather a group of interested student composers;
- Nominate a student president. This person will be the chapter “contact,” the go-between for the chapter and SCI;
- Find a faculty advisor and ask them to sponsor your group (“sponsor,” meaning general support);
- Send the name of the chapter, along with the student contact’s name (usually the president of the chapter) and the name of the faculty sponsor to the SCI Secretary. At this point, your chapter name will be added to the list of available chapters on the membership application. The SCI Student Chapters Coordinator will also be copied on this information;
- Inform your members that they may now join SCI as student chapter members. On the application page they should click on the “Student Chapter Membership” button and then select their chapter from the drop-down menu. The faculty advisor should join as a full member (or joint or lifetime member), and they must also select the chapter name from the drop-down list;
- Any of your members (including the faculty sponsor) who are already members should email the Student Chapter Coordinator to inform them that they are chapter members so their SCI accounts can be updated accordingly;
- The student contact or faculty sponsor can always check on the membership of their chapter by logging in and clicking on “MySCI Account” and then “Show Student Chapters.” After selecting their chapter, the complete membership of the chapter will be displayed along with the student contact and the faculty sponsor. If a name is missing, it is because they have not yet joined SCI or they did not check their chapter name from the chapter drop-down menu when they joined. This is a valuable tool for monitoring your chapter membership. NEEDS TO BE UPDATED