Recognition for Recognized Student Organizations for the 2025 - 2026 academic year is now open!
Regardless of your current recognition status, you are required to re-recognize with the University through our recognition process in order to retain your recognized status. Our priority deadline for recognition (no lose of benefits if you recognize before this day) is Friday, May 9th.
To start the process, please follow these steps:
- If you are a returning organization (your group had previously been recognized for the 2024 - 2025 academic year), you will navigate to your group's dashboard page and find the blue button that says "Re-Register" at the top of the screen.
- If you are a new organization (either have not been previously recognized or have not been recognized in over a year), you will navigate to the all groups page and find the blue button that best fits your classification.
We recommend a few steps before you submit your re-recognition form that will help you have a smooth experience:
- Ensure your President and Advisor are ready to complete the required checklists
- The President and Advisor will be assigned a checklist covering required trainings that must be completed to be recognized.
- Ensure your constitution is up-to-date and is compliant with University policies.
- A constitution review is done during the recognition process and will prevent your organization from being recognized if it is not compliant.
- Make sure your department head/dean/director is aware they will need to approve your group if you are a sponsored organization!
- This is the first step in the sponsored organization process, if they don't approve your group, we cannot move forward with the process until they do!
- Update your membership rosters on OrgCentral!
- Make sure you click the "end-date" button and type in the date of graduation or the date the member left the group. If you delete the member from your list, we lose record of them having been in your organization!
For your reference, here is the process for recognition that we will follow:
- Organization submits (re-)recognition form on OrgCentral.
- Sponsored group department head/dean/director's are emailed automatically asking for approval.
- SPI manually assigns checklists to the people listed as President and Advisor on the submission form.
- A manual check will be done weekly to catch who has finished their checklists. If you finish your checklist and do not notice an update in the process within a week, please reach out.
- Following completion of both checklists, SPI manually reviews each organization's constitution to ensure compliance with university policies.
- If your group needs to update your constitution, SPI will email you the list of updates needed.
- Once a constitution has been submitted that is compliant, your organization will be approved!