Student Funding

Notices

Important notice regarding student organization funding!

This year, we have seen an unprecedented number of financial requests through the Student Development Funding Committee (SDFC). This is an exciting time for our students and organizations as this proves an increased amount of student programs and levels of engagement. Due to this increased activity, the Student Organization Grant (SOG) and Educational Enhancement Grant (EEG) have been nearly fully allocated.

As of Tuesday, January 27, 2009 the online funding proposal system of Student Link was suspended and will not receive any additional proposals. At this point, all proposals that were submitted beginning January 15 and after will not be reviewed. It has not been determined if these proposals can be funded. We will contact those of you who submitted proposals after January 15 about any possible next steps, as soon as we know more information.

Putting forth our best effort to continue to support our student organizations throughout the remainder of the semester, Student Life will do the following and ask you to do the same:

• The SDFC and Student Life will look for any remaining funds from past allocations that have been unspent.
• Ask for student organizations to (re)examine their budgets to assess their true funding needs from the SDFC or from other sources.
• Explore other sources of funding, campus and community partners, and co-sponsors for your events/programs; including academic and administrative units on campus.
• If you need assistance in reviewing your current budgets and/ or guidance on how to make your events possible, please contact any of our Campus and Community Life staff, your advisor, or other resources to help.

Please see the e-mail below from Assistant Vice Chancellor, Dr. Frank Ross for more details. Also, you can find more information in the upcoming weeks at funding.iupui.edu and life.iupui.edu. In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact Dr. Ross, Patty Alvarez, Interim Director of Campus and Community Life, Diana Sims-Harris, Coordinator of Student Organizations, or myself.

Thank you for your continued contributions towards building community and increasing student engagement at IUPUI.

Tina Samuel Powellson
Associate Director for Leadership Development

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Letter from the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Life and Learning

Colleagues,

Signs of increased student engagement and community building are evident at IUPUI!

We have seen a significant increase in the number of student organizations applying for student organization grants (SOG) through the Student Development Funding Committee (SDFC).

This growth has occurred across the entire campus, both in graduate/ professional student organizations and undergraduate organizations applying for funding.

By the end of fall semester, this funding had already supported a record number of student-organized programs.

As a result of this tremendous increase in activity, the amount of student activity dollars available through the SDFC process has been nearly depleted.

This was completely unforeseen and something that could not have been anticipated.

• At the end of the fall 2008 semester, only 65% of the total annual SOG funding had been allocated.
• At this point during the 2007-2008 academic year, only 32% of the total SOG funding had been allocated.
• During the 2007-2008 academic year, only 92% of the total SOG funds were allocated by the end of the year.

The SDFC resumed their good work in reviewing student organization proposals at the start of the spring semester. By the end of the first week the total number of funded proposals nearly exceeded the funds available.

Additionally, due to record numbers of IUPUI students applying for Educational Enhancement Grants (EEG) to support their academic/career interests, EEG funding for the academic year has also been exhausted.

We are so pleased to see this significant increase in student engagement and community at IUPUI. As you can imagine this poses a challenge as we have a number of student organizations with active funding proposals, and we anticipate more will be submitted for review.

• As of today, Student Link (the online funding proposal system) will be suspended and will not receive additional proposals.
• Campus & Community Life staff will be contacting student organizations and their advisors to ask them to review budgets for upcoming events and explore alternate funding sources, including co-sponsorship of events with academic and administrative units on campus.
• Representatives from Student Life will continue conversations with campus partners, encouraging them to support student organization activity as appropriate.
• Funding for student organizations will be the major topic for discussion at the upcoming Student Life Services Council meeting.

We wanted to provide you this important information as soon as possible. We will ensure to maintain communication as we explore all possible options. During this time, please feel free to forward questions to me directly, and members of the Student Life team will respond given the information we have.

This increase in student engagement and community at IUPUI is positive, with implications that will require us to work together as a campus community.

Thank you for your good work in supporting student organizations at IUPUI.

Frank E. Ross III, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Life and Learning