SOFC New Organizations

New Organizations

Services

The new group process for 2006-2007 is now closed. Applications received will be held until August.

The Process

You submit an 1-page interest form to sofc@duke.edu. The form is available on this page. This opens your club's file with SOFC. Please only submit this electronically.
SOFC Chair Alex Crable will assign you an SOFC Advisor, and the two of you meet with an OSAF advisor to talk about your club.
Your SOFC member will give you the formal club application to complete, including 10 signatures from interested members and a constitution.
You return this application by email to sofc@duke.edu. You will then be scheduled for a hearing before the entire SOFC committee.
You meet with SOFC, and SOFC makes a recommendation to recognize, charter, or decline your student group. We then pass this along to the DSG Senate. Bring the paper copy of your club application with signatures to this meeting!
The Senate receives your application, and you have a chance to answer any final questions. They then vote on your club.

Undergraduate student groups at Duke are eligible for two kinds of status from DSG.

Official Recognition is the more basic. It allows you to consider yourself an official student group. You can reserve space, use a fund code, do a webpage, etc. This also allows you to apply for DSG money through the Programming fund for specific on-campus events.
Chartering includes everything in recognition, but adds the ability to apply for an annual budget through the DSG annual fund.
You can choose which to apply for. SOFC will make a recommendation to the Senate, based on factors such as financial necessity and value to the campus community. The Senate has the final decision on all new group decisions.