STUDENT ORGANIZATION NAME
Date Prepared / Amended: / /
Date Approved (Center for Student Leadership staff): / /
Approved by (Center for Student Leadership staff): _______________________
ARTICLE I – Name
What is the exact title and any group acronym that will be used in addressing your organization?
NAME RESTRICTIONS:
- The following names and terms CANNOT BE USED in any part of your student organization name unless your organization has received proper authorization from the Center for Student Leadership and/or the Office of Marketing & Business Outreach: Cal, California, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Campus.
- The name “Berkeley” can be used only at the end your student group name in reference to geographical location, i.e., “at Berkeley” or “of Berkeley.” You may not begin your student group name with the name “Berkeley.”
ARTICLE II – What is your group’s purpose?
Briefly describe the purpose and objectives of your organization
ARTICLE III – Membership
Describe who is eligible for membership?
Are there any restrictions on University students (e.g., grade point average, class standing, etc.)?
[REQUIRED MEMBERSHIP LANGUAGE]
| Only currently registered students, faculty and staff may be active members in a registered student organization. Only active members may vote or hold office. |
If your organization will be recognizing off-campus participants, including your group’s alumni, you are required to include a statement about these “non-active” members in this section.
[REQUIRED ANTI-HAZING STATEMENT]
| We will not haze according to California State Law; we will not restrict membership based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sex, physical and mental disability, medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics), ancestry, marital status, age, sexual orientation, citizenship or status as a covered veteran (special disabled veteran, Vietnam-era veteran or any other veteran who served on active duty during a war or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized). |
ARTICLE IV - Officers/Elections
List the officers by title (e.g., President) or define the leadership structure if another system is used (e.g., spokesperson by consensus).
What officers constitute an executive committee?
Describe the process and required majority of votes by your active, voting membership by which officers will be elected or selected.
What time of year will selection occur?
How long do officers serve?
Which officer serves as the primary signatory?
How will officers be removed or replaced?
ARTICLE V - Meetings
How often will the group meet?
Who will call the meetings?
What is quorum?
Will there be a call for special emergency meetings?
How will you notify people of emergency meetings?
ARTICLE VI - Constitutional Amendments
Who can propose an amendment?
How are they proposed?
What is the required period of time between the proposed amendment and a final vote?
How will you notify active members that an amendment is going to be voted upon?
Incorporate into your constitution that an amendment will need a 2/3 majority vote from your active membership in order to pass.
Amendments change the structure of the group and it is important to have that 2/3 approval from the members at large.
[REQUIRED AMENDMENT CLAUSE]
| All amendments, additions or deletions must be filed with the Center for Student Leadership, 102 Sproul Hall. |
[REQUIRED ASUC AMENDMENT STATEMENT]
| All amendments, additions or deletions must be filed with the ASUC Office of Student Affairs, 400 Eshleman Hall within one week of adoption. |
ARTICLE VII – Dissolution – (Address each point, please!)
How will dissolution be decided?
What is the required majority of votes to dissolve the group?
What will you do with the unspent funds?
[REQUIRED ASUC FUNDS STATEMENT]
| All unspent ASUC funds shall remain the property of ASUC, all Graduate Assembly funds shall remain the property of the Graduate Assembly. Remaining privately-obtained funds may be donated to another nonprofit organization with prior approval of the ASUC Senate Finance Committee. |
Optional Additions:
We encourage organizations to include an article in the constitution, citing the parliamentary authority to be used for points not covered in the constitution. Many organizations cite Robert's Rules of Order, latest edition. This often helps guide groups in times of conflict.
You may add articles or bylaws, but additions must adhere to campus regulations as stated in the Berkeley Campus Regulations (BCR).
Click here for addditional constitution article guidelines.
Reviewed 2/13/08
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