Register or Re-Register Your Student Organization

Advising

• Professional event-planning assistance
• Student organization advisors who can talk with you about goal setting, strategic planning, problem solving, and opportunities for organizational and personal growth
• Drop-in advising

Facilities

• Access to facilities for student organization tabling, meetings, and events
• Access to the Associated Students and Center for Student Involvement poster-making room
• A chance to apply for office space in the University Centers

Funds

• Eligible to request university funding for events and activities
• Eligible to host student org fundraisers
• Fund managers to oversee your on-campus student organization accounts

Tools

• One Stop website, a comprehensive student organizations online toolkit where you’ll find the information you need to complete organization transactions
• Ability to create a student organization website or a club e-mail address (once your organization is registered, request your Web or e-mail address)
• Opportunities to publicize your organization’s activities and events

Insurance

• The University of California has purchased an insurance program to cover Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) for most on-campus events. 
• The university pays for the insurance costs for covered events but RSOs are still responsible for making sure their on-campus event is registered with the insurance carrier.
• Click here to learn more.

Other resources

• A student organization mailbox and daily mail delivery during non-COVID times
• Access to the One Stop Desk (Price Center East, Level 3) for space reservations, event-planning questions, consultations, and advisor appointments
• Student organization leader trainings and leadership resources

Graduate student organizations

• Learn about opportunities for funding beyond the Graduate Student Association

• Start your student organization registration by selecting one Principal Member to initiate the online registration process for your student organization.

• The Principal Member who starts the student organization registration will also be listed as the President/Chair in the student organization registration portal.

  • To change the Principal Member listed as the President/Chair, email your CSI Student Organization Advisor to complete the change for you.

• Only students who are currently registered UCSD students may be Principal Members. If signing up as a Principal Member before Fall classes begin, you must enroll in Fall quarter classes before the registration system will allow you to complete the student organization registration process and/or enroll in a Tritons Together-Art of Inclusive Communication workshop.  

• Enroll in a Tritons Together – ART of Inclusive Communication , a three-hour workshop. Workshops will be offered both virtually and in-person. Please check the calendar carefully to note which workshops are held in person.

• Only students who are currently registered UCSD students may be Principal Members. If signing up as a Principal Member before Fall classes begin, you must enroll in Fall quarter classes before the registration system will allow you to complete the student organization registration process and/or enroll in a Tritons Together-Art of Inclusive Communication workshop.  

• The workshop is required for all undergraduate student Principal Members to complete

• Graduate student Principal Members are NOT required to take the workshop

• If you previously completed the workshop, you do not need to take it again, even if the requirement was completed for a different student organization

Complete the following steps in the student organization registration portal to register or re-register your student organization:

• Name

  • If re-registering a student organization, choose your student organization’s name from the drop-down in the re-registration portal. Only student organizations who ended the previous academic year in “Current” status will appear in the drop-down and will be able to choose the re-registration option.
  • If registering a new student organization, choose your name
  • Review more information about using the University’s name in your student organization name and duplicate student organization names

• Student Organization Category

  • Determine the purpose of your student organization and select a student organization category
  • Some student organization categories have additional registration requirements that could include:
    • Specific affiliations, acquiring a Community Advisor, turning in rosters, waivers, and insurance forms, and other documents or special requirements
  • To change your Student Organization Category, email your CSI Student Organization Advisor to complete the change for you

• Student Organization Type

  • Your Principal Members determine your student organization type. The different types are:
    • Undergraduate
    • Graduate
    • Combined
  • Review more information about the different types of student organizations to help you decide
  • To change your Student Organization Type, email your CSI Student Organization Advisor to complete the change for you

• Principal Members

  • The Principal Member who started the student organization registration will also send the email invitations via the registration portal to the other Principal Members
  • Select a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 8 currently registered and enrolled UC San Diego students to be your fellow Principal Members
  • Send the Principal Member invite to their UC San Diego email address
  • Each Principal Member must:
    • Complete the online CSI Registration Quiz
    • Electronically sign the Principal Member agreement
    • Attend the ART of Inclusive Communication workshop. If you previously completed the workshop, you do not need to take it again, even if the requirement was completed for a different student organization. Graduate student Principal Members are NOT required to take the workshop.

• Constitution

  • Upload your student organization’s current constitution
  • Ensure your constitution includes all required sections and language which is outlined in the Constitutional Guidelines document. Otherwise, this will delay your approval process.

• Community Advisor

  • Community Advisors are not required for ALL student organizations but are highly encouraged.
  • The following Student Organization Categories DO require a Community Advisor.
    
    • Academic Department Affiliated
    • Health Profession
    • Interfraternity Council (IFC)
    • Multicultural Greek Council (MGC)
    • National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC)
    • Panhellenic Association (PHC)
    • Pre-Professional
  • A Community Advisor is a UC San Diego staff or faculty OR a member of the San Diego community that is familiar with the focus and purpose of your organization. Community Advisor should be able to attend general body meetings and events and provide support/resources.
  • Your CSI Advisor is different from a Community Advisor. A CSI advisor cannot serve as a Community Advisor.
  • Community Advisors are encouraged for all student organization categories
  • Community Advisors must review the Community Advisor Resources Training and complete the Community Advisor Signature Page. Please find the organization you advise in order to sign the Signature Page. If you do not find their name, they have not registered their organization for this academic year.

Review the steps to have a currently registered student organization:

• All student organization information is entered, and your constitution is uploaded

• All Principal Members have accepted their email invitations and entered all required information online

• All Principal Members have taken the registration quiz, electronically signed the Principal Member Agreement, and attended the ART of Inclusive Communication workshop

• Your Community Advisor signature page has been submitted electronically

• All required rosters, evidence of insurance, and additional forms have been submitted (if applicable)

• You receive a confirmation e-mail from your CSI Student Organization Advisor indicating that your student organization has received “current” status