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Starting a Student Organization

The following is the University policy as published in the University of Connecticut Laws and By-Laws.

1. The University recognizes the right of any group of students to form a voluntary organization for any purpose not forbidden by law. If an organization composed chiefly or exclusively of students desires to hold meetings in University buildings, it is required to have an advisor who is a member of the professional staff of the University and to file with the associate dean for finance and administration such information as may be required about its purposes, officers, memberships, dues and the like, such information to be uniform for all organizations. An organization which has fulfilled these requirements is called a registered organization. The University as such assumes no responsibility for registered organizations or their programs.

2. So far as its facilities permit, the University will provide each registered organization with suitable meeting places without charge, and will endeavor to encourage and protect complete freedom of expression within the law in meetings of such organizations. The responsibility for any views expressed in such meetings is solely that of the individuals concerned; and the University is not to be held to approve or disapprove of such views, whatever their nature, but to be concerned exclusively with the discharge of its educational obligation to facilitate free expression of all points of view, to the extent guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Connecticut. The University does not pass upon the qualifications of speakers whom registered organizations invite to address them, nor, except as to the availability of space, on the number or size of meetings which may be held.

3. The name of the University shall not be used by any group not duly authorized as a part of the University, nor by any individual, without the approval of the President. Registered organizations are considered to be `not duly organized as a part of the University.' In authorizing or denying the use of the name of the University, the President will in general be guided by the need of making clear to the public the nature of the relationship of the organization in question to the University.

Requests to register as a student organization should be submitted to the assistant dean for finance and administration.

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