Student Organizations
Each student organization and activity must be registered in the Office of Student Life & Development with a copy of the charter and a list of the names of the current officers on file. Permission must be obtained for the administration of the College to start a new organization on campus. Each organization must have at least two advisors, and at least one advisor must be employed by Voorhees College.

General Organizations
Clubs, activities and organizations without restricted membership are considered general organizations. Participation is voluntary. The Student Government Association (SGA) is the student governing body in matters pertaining to the common interests of the students.

Major Area Clubs
Major area clubs are organizations designed to give students an opportunity to help interpret the broader educational implications in a given field of study and to gain professional perspectives. Some of these clubs are affiliated with national organizations. Currently organized and recognized clubs include Mass Communications Club, Math, Science & Computer Science Club (MACS), Pre-Law Club, and Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources & Related Sciences Club (MANRRS).

Student Government Association (SGA)  (webpage)
Your SGA is the official voice of the student body. Our mission is to protect the rights and privileges of the Voorhees College student body.

Our goals are:

1. To work effectively as a group in making decisions and solving problems.
2. To reach out to our constituents in order to determine the issues that concern them.
3. To properly represent our constituency.
4. To have an active SGA, where every member is working, making a difference and accomplishing goals for the betterment of Voorhees College.
5. To plan, design, implement and evaluate activities for our constituency that will be informational, entertaining and educational.

Pre-Alumni Council (PAC)
The PAC was created to stimulate interest and participation of students in the programs of the United Negro College Fund, to preserve and to further loyalty and fellowship between Voorhees and the UNCF member colleges and universities, to assist in raising funds during the annual UNCF campaign and help students become better alumni while in school and upon graduation. Any student currently enrolled at Voorhees College may be a member of the council.

Residence Hall Councils
Each of our five campus residence halls elects a Hall Council to represent the interests of the entire dorm with enthusiasm and dedication. These students participate actively in the community around them and engage others in the residence halls as well.

Honor Societies **
Honor societies are those whose memberships are determined on the basis of merit and scholastic achievement.

Delta Mu Delta**
Delta Mu Delta (DMD) is a business honor society that recognizes and encourages academic excellence of students at qualifying colleges and universities to create a DMD community that fosters the well-being of its individual members and the business community through life-time membership.

Phi Beta Lambda**
Phi Beta Lambda is an education association of students preparing for careers in business and business related fields. The mission is to bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs.

Alpha Kappa Mu**
Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society is a general scholarship honor society open to junior and senior men and women in all academic areas and who meet the requirements of the society. The purpose is to promote high scholarship to encourage sincere and zealous endeavor in all fields of knowledge and service; to cultivate a high order of personal living; and to develop an appreciation for scholarship and scholarly endeavor in others.

Alpha Psi Omega**
Alpha Psi Omega is a fraternity for students with a developing interest in the field of dramatics. Students are honored for their involvement in areas of dramatic production, both on and off stage.

Alpha Sigma Lambda**
Alpha Sigma Lambda’s aim is to recognize the special achievements of adults who accomplish academic excellence while facing competing interests of home and work. Alpha Sigma Lambda is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship and recognizes high scholastic achievement in an adult student’s career.By so doing, this Society encourages many students to earn associate and baccalaureate degrees. Through leadership born of effort, both scholastically and fraternally, Alpha Sigma Lambda inspires its candidates to give of their strengths to their fellow students and communities through their academic achievements. To the newcomer in higher education, Alpha Sigma Lambda stands as an inspiration to scholastic growth and an invitation to associate with similarly motivated students.

VC Poetic
VC Poetic was created so that members of the Voorhees College Community could freely share their poetry, music, short stories or other creative expressions. Meetings are held throughout the year and are open to all students

EE Wright Theatre Guild
The EE Wright Theatre Guild is the student theatre organization on campus. Members of the Guild work with the Mass Communications Department to sponsor performances for students who are interested in theatre.

Tiger Paws Dance Team
The Dance Team is a modern based dance organization. They focus on student choreography and performances. Though they hold auditions, students are simply involved because they love to dance and want to learn more about modern dancing.

Concert Choir
The Voorhees College Concert Choir has been an important part of campus life since its founding. Numbering between 50 and 60 students, voices are selected by audition held at the beginning of the academic year. Choir members represent from a wide range of academic disciplines and cultural backgrounds and present numerous concerts on and off campus.

Cheerleaders (webpage)
During basketball season, they take great pride in cheering at home and away games, and greatly enjoy supporting the basketball team and getting the crowd involved in the games. Tryouts are held in the fall in the Dawson Center Arena. Though prior cheerleading and/or gymnastic experience is preferred, it is not required. During tryouts, you will be expected to perform a short dance and two chants along with your two best jumps. The College does not offer cheerleading scholarships, but it does provide excellent scholarships based on academics and need. Please contact the Admissions Office for more information.

International Student Association (ISA)
The ISA is a multicultural organization promoting awareness of various cultures on campus. The ISA is a student run organization formed with the aim of encouraging a greater understanding among cultures through personal association and cooperative endeavors. They also strive to address the needs and concerns of Voorhees College’s international students. ISA’s goal is to enhance learning about these cultures and ways of the world, thereby fostering appreciation for diversity.

Mass Communications Club
The Mass Communications Club shows movies on Fridays and Saturdays to the Voorhees College Community. Its goal is to build appreciation for films and expose the community to a wide variety of films.

Math & Computer Science Club (MACS)
MACS strives to provide activities both academic and social where students interested in math and computer science may come together to share their common interest.

Pre-Law Club (PLC)
The Pre-Law Club is a group of students interested in legal issues and/or thinking about pursuing a legal career. PLC sponsors panel discussions concerning legal issues and serves as a peer resource for pre-law students.

VISTA Newspaper
VISTA is the College’s student newspaper. The office is located on the second floor of Massachusetts Hall. Run by students, VISTA covers both on and off campus activities. VISTA is open to all members of the Voorhees College community and welcomes letters to the editor, op/ed pieces, advertisements, and story ideas.

Pan-Hellenic Council
The campus Pan-Hellenic Council is the governing body for Greek letter organizations and it is a financial member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. This Council provides within its constitution rules and regulations that all of its membership organizations are expected to follow.

The mission of the Pan-Hellenic Council is to encourage unity of thought and action as far as possible in the conduct of Greek letter collegiate fraternities and sororities, and to consider problems of mutual interest to its member organizations. This purpose encourages and fosters team building and group cohesion while striving for academic excellence. Each organization represented contributes to the quality of student life by providing a mechanism for students to develop leadership skills through involvement in a variety of programs and activities.

The Pan-Hellenic Council is composed of the president, secretary, and advisor of each fraternity and sorority. An advisor shall be elected by the Pan-Hellenic Council.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Alpha Kappa Alpha is a sisterhood composed of women who have consciously chosen this affiliation as a means of self-fulfillment through volunteer service. Alpha Kappa Alpha cultivates and encourages high scholastic and ethical standards; promotes unity and friendship among college women; alleviates problems concerning girls and women; maintains a progressive interest in college life; and serves all mankind through a nucleus of more than 170,000 women in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa.

Candidacy for membership into Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is open to women of high ethical and scholastic standards who are pursuing or have completed courses leading to a degree in an accredited college or university. The official headquarters is in Chicago, Illinois.

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
The founders of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. were no ordinary achievers. Given racial attitudes in 1906, their accomplishments were monumental. As founder Henry Arthur Callis euphemistically stated—because the half-dozen African American students at Cornell University during the school year 1904-05 did not return to campus the following year, the incoming students in 1905-06, in founding Alpha Phi Alpha, were determined to bind themselves together to ensure that each would survive in the racially hostile environment. In coming together with this simple act, they preceded by decades the emergence of such on-campus programs as affirmative action, upward bound and remedial assistance. The students set outstanding examples of scholarship, leadership and success—preceding the efforts even of the NAACP and similar civil rights organizations.

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was founded on January 13, 1913 by twenty-two collegiate women at Howard University. These students wanted to use their collective strength to promote academic excellence and to provide assistance to persons in need. The first public act performed by the Delta Founders involved their participation in the Women’s Suffrage March in Washington D.C., March 1913. Delta Sigma Theta was incorporated in 1930.

The major programs of the Sorority are based upon the organization’s Five-Point Programmatic Thrust:

1. Economic and Educational Development,
2. International Awareness and Involvement,
3. Physical and Mental Health,
4. Political Awareness and
5. Involvement.

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Kappa Alpha Psi, a college Fraternity, now comprised of functioning Undergraduate and Alumni Chapters on major campuses and in cities throughout the country, is the crystallization of a dream. It is the beautiful realization of a vision shared commonly by the ten founders. It was the vision of these astute men that enabled them on the night of January 5, 1911, on the campus of Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana, to sow the seed of a fraternal tree whose fruit is available to, and now enjoyed by, college men everywhere, regardless of their color, religion or national origin. It is a fact of which KAPPA ALPHA PSI is justly proud that the Constitution has never contained any clause which either excluded or suggested the exclusion of a man from membership merely because of his color, creed, or national origin. The Constitution of KAPPA ALPHA PSI is predicated upon, and dedicated to, the principles of achievement through a truly democratic Fraternity.

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. was organized on November 12, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana. These founding members are the “Seven Pearls” of Sigma Gamma Rho. The group became an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter was granted to the Alpha chapter at Butler University.

“Greater Service, Greater Progress” was to become the slogan and call of the organization that made November 12, 1922, a significant date in the history of the Black Greek system, for this date would mark the establishment of the first sorority of Black women on a predominantly white campus, Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
On Friday evening, November 17, 1911, three Howard University undergraduate students, with the assistance of their faculty adviser, gave birth to the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. From the initials of the Greek phrase meaning “friendship is essential to the soul,” the name Omega Psi Phi was derived. The phrase was selected as the motto. Manhood, scholarship, perseverance and uplift were adopted as cardinal principles.

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. continues to flourish, largely because founders Love, Cooper, Coleman and Just were men of the very highest ideals and intellect. The Founders selected and attracted men of similar ideals and characteristics. It is not by accident that many of America’s great black men are/were Omega Men. To this date, there are very few Americans whose lives have not been touched by a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Omega has a rich heritage to be protected, celebrated and enhanced!

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority was founded on the simple belief that sorority elitism and socializing should not overshadow the real mission for progressive organizations- to address societal mores, ills, prejudices, poverty, and health concerns of the day. Founded January 16, 1920, Zeta began as an idea conceived by five coeds at Howard University in Washington D.C. These five women, also known as the Five Pearls, dared to depart from the traditional coalitions for black women and sought to establish a new organization predicated on the precepts of Scholarship, Service, Sisterly Love and Finer Womanhood. It was the ideal of the founders that the Sorority would reach college women in all parts of the country who were sorority minded and desired to follow the founding principles of the organization. Since its inception, the Sorority has chronicled a number of firsts. Zeta Phi Beta was the first Greek-letter organization to charter a chapter in Africa (1948); to form adult and youth auxiliary groups; to centralize its operations in a national headquarters; and to be constitutionally bound to a fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated.

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students. The founders wanted to organize a Greek letter fraternity that would truly exemplify the ideals of brotherhood, scholarship, and service. The founders deeply wished to create an organization that viewed itself as “a part of” the general community rather than “apart from” the general community. They believed that each potential member should be judged by his own merits rather than his family background or affluence...without regard of race, nationality, skin tone or texture of hair. They wished and wanted their fraternity to exist as part of even a greater brotherhood which would be devoted to the “inclusive we” rather than the “exclusive we”. From its inception, the Founders also conceived Phi Beta Sigma as a mechanism to deliver services to the general community. Rather than gaining skills to be utilized exclusively for themselves and their immediate families, the founders of Phi Beta Sigma held a deep conviction that they should return their newly acquired skills to the communities from which they had come. This deep conviction was mirrored in the Fraternity’s motto, “Culture For
Service and Service For Humanity”.

Christian Fellowship
Christian Fellowship is a campus fellowship group. They are a community of Christians committed to the Lord Jesus Christ and to each other. Their goal is for others to come to know the love of God that they share. The mission is to encourage Christian students to grow in their walk with the Lord and to reach out to friends and community with the love and truth of Christ.

Sisterhood Celebration
Through shared experience and community service, the Sisterhood Celebration encourages young women at Voorhees College to become responsible citizens and campus leaders who set a positive and gracious example. The members are committed to the ideals of peace, justice, understanding and cooperation, and to demonstrating these ideals throughout the campus and the community.

Other Student Organizations
Voorhees College recognizes other student organizations that are performing groups (choirs, cheerleaders, dance team), social, service (Sisterhood), and/or religious (Men’s Fellowship, God’s True Praise). As with any recognized and approved student organization, each organization and activity must be registered in the Office of Student Activities with a copy of the charter and a list of the names of the current officers on file.

Any student who seeks to participate in performance, social, service and religious student organizations must meet the scholastic standards of the College before approval and admission into such organizations. Additionally, students must:

1. Be a currently registered student at Voorhees College;
2. Have a semester grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.0. Freshmen are allowed to participate based on their admission to the College. However, in order to remain active in following semesters, a GPA of at least 2.0 must be maintained.

Intramurals
The intramurals program at Voorhees College is designed to offer each individual (not participating in intercollegiate athletics) the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities that will contribute to wholesome personality development, stimulate an interest in recreational athletic activities, and create a spirit of good sportsmanship through healthy and fun competition. The following intramural sports are offered: flag football, volleyball, tennis, soccer, basketball, and aquatics. Intramural dates and team registration information are available in the Office of Student Activities located in Wilkinson Hall.