How Sun Devils can get involved in the spring semester

This spring, Sun Devils can explore opportunities to get involved through Passport to Spring, Virtual Involvement Fairs and SunDevilSync. 

ASU’s Student Advisory Board and professional staff are working to ensure that student organizations can collaborate with others, find new members and have access to necessary resources. 

This semester, there are more than 1,000 active student clubs and organizations looking for new members.

“People need connection now more than ever. We want to help facilitate the functioning of student organizations,” said Gregory Carnesi, a junior studying psychology and the health and wellness liaison for the Student Advisory Board.  

ASU students walk together on campus while wearing appropriate facial coverings.

The Student Advisory Board helps student organizations recruit new members and navigate online platforms.

“Basically we talk about how student orgs can better adapt to this environment using Zoom. We all know it's super hard to keep members coming and keep their attention,” said Aditi Galande, a sophomore studying medical microbiology and global health and the academic, graduate and professional liaison for the Student Advisory Board. 

“We want to help other clubs try to gain more membership in the spring,” Galande said.

Both in-person and online students benefit from the work of the Student Advisory Board and professional staff as well. 

Thanks to user-friendly online involvement fairs and socially distanced in-person fairs hosted by the Student Advisory Board, students can explore a variety of opportunities to get involved. 

Virtual and in-person involvement fairs have been planned very specifically this semester, said Joey Deignan, a first-year Sun Devil studying global studies and the culture, identity and religious liaison for the Student Advisory Board. About 1,000 students participated in the virtual event Jan. 14 to learn more about 367 participating student organizations.

The in-person fairs have been planned over a series of days. This was done so that student organizations can have the space to spread out to ensure that social distancing is practiced, said Deignan. Spreading the fair out over a course of a few days will also give students multiple opportunities to attend.

“We can not only ensure that social distancing is put into practice but we can also try to get as many students to come as possible. That way we can reach as many students as we can while still being safe,” Deignan said.  

Now is the time for Sun Devils to engage in a new form of student involvement. To collaborate with peers in both online and in-person environments and to continue ASU traditions and events like never before.

“The entire purpose of the fairs in general is to get students, specifically but not limited to freshmen, to get more comfortable with the campus and opportunities,” Deignan said. 

All ASU student clubs and organizations are accessible every day through SunDevilSync, an online campus involvement search engine. Sun Devils can merely type in a keyword or interest and hit enter to see clubs or events that relate to the topic.