9 Student Orgs to Check Out Immediately
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By NATHAN WITT/Editor-in-Chief
Whether you’ve got one semester left or eight, as long as you’re a student this is your home. Don’t wait to find your place. UT Systems identified “belonging” as one of the three most important factors in student success. Sign up for any of these organizations or search for even more on the Patriots Engage website. This story was originally written for our Patriot Pulse magazine. To read more like it, pick up a copy of your own at any orange newsstand on campus.
1 National Society of Leadership & Success
“Building Leaders Who Make a Better World.” The NSLS is an organization that helps people discover and achieve their goals. The NSLS offers life-changing lectures from the nation’s leading presenters and a community where like-minded, success-oriented individuals help one another succeed.
2 Studio Art and Art History Association
SAAHA is a community-based organization that works to ensure solidarity in the UT Tyler art department and develop professional skills of artists and art historians alike. SAAHA aims to provide opportunities to expand students’ art beyond the art department’s borders. SAAHA allows a professional environment for Studio Practices and Art Historians who wish to hone their work and CV while at UT Tyler.
3 Social Work Club
The Social Work Club at UT Tyler is a place to make a difference—and to have fun doing it. Whether it’s raising donations for a holiday food drive, holding a bake sale, or participating in a club picnic, the students in the Social Work Club truly work to make a difference in the lives of individuals and families living in East Texas.
4 Talon Student Media
“We are the Voice of The Student Body.” Our goal is to inform, entertain, educate and heighten awareness of students, faculty, and administrators at UT Tyler. We made this magazine. TSM encourages and provides an avenue for the free flow of student expressions and opinions.
5 Student Government Association
Comprised of all students enrolled at UT Tyler, SGA assists the university in identifying — and communicating to the university community — the interests, programs and goals of the majority of students. The association also assists in providing students with programs to meet their needs. The student body elects SGA officers and representatives annually.
6 Creative Writing Club
Whether you are an experienced writer, or someone who wants to get into writing, there is a place for you in our club. At our meetings, we play writing games and listen to podcasts that help to enhance your skills, plus so many more fun activities that will help you with writing for class and creatively!
7 UT Tyler Esports
UT Tyler Esports welcomes all gamers of any skill level. Housing UT Tyler’s gaming community as well as its varsity level esports teams. This program has a place for everyone whether that be in its award winning esports teams, ECMT, recreational esports teams, gameHERs social chapter, events team, or content team. Visit the Esports Lab in SCOB rm 158 to learn more.
8 UT Tyler Women’s Network
Women with diverse experiences will share their unique career trajectories, successes, and challenges. We will hear stories about overcoming obstacles, attaining higher positions, seeking work-life balance, and overcoming the impact of social and media stereotypes.
9 Student Veterans of America
To utilize the University student organization network to provide student veterans and their families with the advocacy and resources to support their successful transition into and through the University of Texas at Tyler.