Student Organizations

Student Organizations provide opportunities for students to integrate the knowledge and skills they are acquiring in the classroom and apply them in practical ways that benefit the Trinity student body, the university, and the surrounding community.

Athletic Training Club

The Athletic Training Club is a student-managed organization that promotes and plans special events, arranges guest speakers, and organizes educational field trips for Athletic Training Education Program majors. These special events emphasize the prevention, recognition, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries. In addition, students are encouraged to integrate their faith into the daily use of their new skills as they interact with peers, faculty, and the community around Trinity International University.

Chapel Cabinet

The Chapel Cabinet serves the student body by planning biblically faithful, highly engaging worship services. This pastorally motivated group of students seeks to model Christ-centered community by planning diverse expressions of worship for the whole student body. Its goal is to design chapel services that nurture our Christian faith and stretch us toward spiritual maturity.

College Union

College Union is a student-run organization that serves the student body by providing events such as Homecoming festivities, Karaoke Night, Capture the Flag, Coffeehouse and Game Night, Square Dance, Movie Nights, and the Junior-Senior Ball. The students who serve on College Union seek to create an exciting and spirited campus by providing events and activities that foster student body unity and fellowship.

Dance Team

The Dance Team dances hip-hop, funk, and freestyle and performs at halftime of basketball and football games.

Departmental Clubs

• Education Club

• History Club

• Philosophy Club

• Psychology Club

• Science and Math Club

• Athletic Training Club

Kappa Delta Pi

Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society in education, is a network of more than 520 chapters with 60,000 members around the world. It is organized to promote scholarship and excellence in education. Its membership is intergenerational, and members include undergraduate and graduate students, university faculty and administrators, classroom teachers, school administrators, and retired educators interested in supporting and encouraging the next generation of teacher-scholars. Members receive helpful publications, are invited to attend nationally sponsored conferences, job fairs, and worldwide study tours, and have the opportunity to apply for scholarships and awards. In order to be eligible for membership, students must rank in the top 20 percent of their class, have a GPA of 3.0, and have officially declared an education major. Students are invited to become members at the annual meeting held during the spring semester.

Kappa Tau

Kappa Tau is a service organization of students who assist the Admissions Office in meeting the needs of prospective students and their parents, especially those who visit the campus. They conduct campus tours and assist with campus events arranged specifically for prospective students and their families.

Kids on Kampus

Kids on Kampus is a ministry to the children who live on the TIU campus.

Music Ensembles

The School of Music features a number of music performance organizations, each with a unique purpose and mission. Membership in any of the ensembles is determined through fall semester auditions and is not dependent on a student’s major. Of the large ensembles, the Concert Choir and Symphonic Band tour both domestically and internationally. The Orchestra, which is open by audition to members of the community, offers students a singular opportunity for interaction with area professionals—musicians by both vocation and avocation. The Handbell Choir, Jazz Ensemble, and Vocal Performance Workshop are available as small ensemble options in addition to numerous chamber groups, such as the Honors Woodwind and Brass Quintets, and the String Quartet. These ensembles perform on campus, at local churches, and for community functions. In addition, each year the School of Music mounts a musical theater production. Recent performances have included Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, The Styne/Comden/Green musical Bells Are Ringing, and the Menotti opera Amahl and the Night Visitors.

Psi Chi

Psi Chi is the National Honor Society in psychology, founded in 1929 for the purpose of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining scholarship and advancing the science of psychology. Membership is open to both undergraduate and graduate men and women who are making the study of psychology one of their major interests and who meet these minimum qualifications: completion of 9 semester hours of psychology; registration for major or minor standing in psychology; rank in the upper 35 percent of their class in general scholarship; a minimum 3.10 cumulative GPA and 3.25 GPA in psychology courses; and high standards of personal behavior. Application forms are available from the Psychology Department web page.

Student Government Association

Trinity’s Student Government Association represents student opinion to the faculty and administration and provides services and activities for the student body.

Student Ministries

• Discipleship Ministries: Students participate in a variety of discipleship relationships and groups.

• FAT: FAT (Faithful, Available, and Teachable) is a late-night praise and worship service on Thursdays.

• Mission Trips: Students serve the world in Utah, New York, Germany, and many other places during spring or summer break.

• Outreach Ministries: Students serve the local community throughout the school year.

• Trinity Men’s Ministry: Meets weekly to encourage men and meet their needs through Bible study and discussion.

• Women's Ministry Council (WMC): Encourages women in leadership and growth through events, guest speakers, and seminars.

Together Making a Difference (TMD Club)

Trinity students get together after “school hours” for social activities, including sporting events, concerts, plays, and so on with college-age students with disabilities.

The Trillium

Trinity College’s arts journal containing poetry, short stories, drawings, essays, and photos, published each semester.

TIU Gospel Choir

This group ministers through gospel music both in the Chicago metropolitan area and through international tours.

Trinity Digest

Trinity’s weekly school newspaper is a student publication. Staff writers from across majors are welcomed to contribute.

Trinity Council on Business (TCB)

TCB is the Business club for all Business majors and minors in the College. Organized on a corporate model, TCB puts classroom theory and principles into practice. It sponsors and participates in numerous spiritual, career, and social events, both departmental and campuswide. In addition, TCB coordinates the extensive mentor leadership program within the Business Department.

The Spot, an on-campus store sponsored by TCB, is located in the Lew Center and is open in the evenings.

Yearbook

There are countless ways to be a part of the yearbook staff, including writing articles and interviews, taking pictures, and editing.

Updated to 2007-08 Catalog