How to Start a Student Chapter
Looking for the chapter affiliation agreement and/or model chapter bylaws? (Tip: if you're starting a student chapter, you should be!) Email Janna White if you need copies of these important documents.
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No IABC student chapter on your campus? No problem! Take the lead and start a chapter today. You can gain valuable, résumé-enhancing leadership experience; contribute to the communication profession by helping shape its future; develop a network of IABC leaders and working professionals; and make friends and have fun!
OBJECTIVES
As an IABC student chapter leader, you will strive to:
- Advance understanding, cooperation and exchange of ideas between student members.
- Promote interaction between students and professionals.
- Learn and promote the development and application of improved methods and programs of communication.
- Enhance career opportunities for prospective business communicators.
- Advance the academic and professional development of members.
- Demonstrate, within the academic and professional environment, the practical value of effective communication.
- Enhance the training and development of individual members through the collection and dissemination of information of value and interest to members.
- Exercise the highest ethical standards in carrying out these purposes.
WHERE DO I START?
Does your campus have...
- An active communication, public relations, journalism or other related department?
- A faculty or staff member who is an IABC member or willing to become one?
- Student interest in IABC?
If you answered yes, then you're already well on your way! Email
today and find out how to take the lead and bring IABC to your campus.
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