Activities Fair a One-Stop Shop for Student Involvement
The annual fall Activities Fair took place on the Barone Campus Center (BCC) Green last Friday afternoon, September 5. The goal of the Activities Fair, hosted by Student Involvement, is to give first-year students a convenient opportunity to learn more about and register for one or more of Fairfield’s clubs and activities. The Fair is also helpful to the upperclass students, as it provides them a chance to recruit new members for their organizations.
With over 100 clubs and departments on display, beautiful early fall weather, and a delicious barbeque served right at the Green, close to 1,000 students from all four class years were drawn to the Fair.
“This is always one of my favorite events of the year, as you get to see students from every corner of campus all in one place,” said Fred J. Kuo, director of student involvement. “The energy was certainly non-stop this year as the BCC Green was crowded for the full two hours. Although adding OrgSync this year will help keep club recruitment going all year long, there is nothing like the Activities Fair.”
OrgSync is the new platform for Students411. It is a web-hosted, online community that provides a "one-stop-shopping" portal for students to manage their activities and involvement. To access Students 411 or submit an announcement, click on the "Current Students" tab of the home page.
Janice Hebert ’15, chair of the Council of Student Organizations (COSO), reports about 130 organization and clubs were represented at the Fair this year, including 12 campus departments. “This year the Fair was definitely a huge success! We had more organizations present than in years past and the weather could not have been more perfect. It felt like it was an energized atmosphere and OrgSync will hopefully help keep that enthusiasm up year round.”
Student Involvement is planning to hold another Activities Fair at the end of January.
Activities Fair Participants
(*department)
Accounting Club | Alliance | Alpha Epsilon Delta | Alpha Mu Gamma |
Anime Club | Archery Club | Asian Student Association | Ballroom Dance |
Baseball | Business Plan Competition* | Campus Garden* | Campus Ministry* |
Career Planning* | Chess Club | Club Field Hockey | Club Tennis Team |
College Democrats | College Republicans | Colleges Against Cancer | Community Service Programs |
Commuter Student Association | Council of Student Organizations (COSO) | Dance Ensemble | Dance Fusion |
Debate Team | Distinguished Gentlemen | DSB Professional Development Series* | Elegant Ladies |
Engineering Student Society | Eucharistic Ministers |
Fairfield at Night |
Fairfield Athletics |
Fairfield Christian Fellowship | Fairfield Equestrian Team | Fairfield Student Ambassadors | Fairfield U Orchestra |
Dining Services* | FUSA | Fairfield Volunteer Corps | French Club |
FYE /NSL/OST | Gender, Sex and Sexuality Commons | German Club | Glee Club |
Golf Club | Helping Hands | Her Campus | History Club |
Immersion Trips | Interfaith Club | Investment Associations | IRHA |
Italian Club | JTB Heart Club | JUHAN* | Kadima |
Knights of Columbus | Leadership Development* | LEAF | Lean In |
Lectors | Lord’s Chords | Management Club | Marketing Club |
Martial Arts Club | Math Club | Men Club Soccer | Men’s and Women’s Rowing |
Men’s Club Volleyball | Men’s Ice Hockey | Men’s Rugby | Men's Club Lacrosse |
Model UN | Muslim Student Association | NAMI | National Honor Society of Collegiate Scholars |
NRHH | Office of International Programs* | Office of Student Diversity Programs* | Operation Smile |
Outdoors Club | Peer Mediation | Pep Band | Performing for Change |
Pi Mu Epsilon | Pre-Dental Club | Project Dental All | Project Excel* |
Psychology Club | Relay for Life | Remixx | Retreats |
Rotaract | Running Club | Sailing Club | Shadow a Stag |
Ski and Snowboard Team | South Asian Student Association | Spanish American Latino Student Association | Spanish Language Club |
Special Olympics | Spirit Groups | Sports & Recreation* | Spring Break Trips |
St. Robert Bellarmine Pre-Law Society | Stags Give Back | Stags in the Stands | Stags TV |
Student Alumni Association | Student Nurses Association | Student United Way | Students 4 Social Justice |
Students for Life | The Compass Fellowship | The Inkwell | The Mirror |
The Sounds | Theatre Fairfield* | Ultimate Frisbee | UMOJA |
Weeeepa! | Women’s Club Lacrosse | Women’s Club Soccer | Women’s Club Volleyball |
Women’s Rugby | WVOF | Young Life | Your Mom Does Improv |