The following are some important and useful resources for your student organization. Report broken links to involvement@unomaha.edu.
General Success Resources
Student Organization Handbook: Your guide for important policies and procedures governing student organizations.
Student Organization Essentials: An online training for Student Organization leaders and advisors which provides an overview of the basics of student organizations as well as the most important policies and processes.
Bylaws Template for Student Organizations: A template your organization can use to craft a new constitution. Features the required clauses highlighted.
Governing Document Approval Form: Form to submit your constitution, bylaws, or other governing documents for review to receive the approval stamp.
Operations Manual Development Guide: A healthy organization is prepared for transition. This guide can help you develop an operations manual for your organization that can be passed on across semesters.
Presence Support Website: A website for help using Presence. Comes with numerous support articles and a way to submit help tickets.
Introduction to Presence: Video introduction to Presence, the UNO community engagement system, and home to student organizations.
Advisor Resources
Advisor Agreement Form: Form for UNO faculty and staff to complete as part of the registration and renewal process indicating that they are agreeing to advise an organization and to accept the terms of that role.
Advisor Expectations Worksheet: A worksheet your organization and your advisor can complete together to make sure everyone knows what is expected out of the advising relationship.
Top Tips for Student Organization Advising: Short list of practical tips for being a good advisor for your students.
Event Planning Resources
Event Registration Form: Form to submit your organization's event for approval.
Event Submission Process Walkthrough for Student Organizations: Step-by-step guide walkthrough video for your organization to submit an event for approval.
Using Protected Media (Movies, TV Shows, etc.) for Student Organizations: Are you wanting to show a movie or other copyrighted media as part of an event? Start here.
Event Risk and Liability Waiver: If your organization is having an event where a waiver is required, this is the form to use.
Guidelines for Media Presence at Events: If you know or suspect that your event will have media attention, use this guide for assistance.
Semester Calendar Plotting Tool: A useful tool for planning your year of events.
Presence CheckPoint App Guide: Learn about how to check people into your event with the Presence CheckPoint App for Android and iOS.
Recruitment Resources
Blank Interest List: A blank list formatted to collect information about potential members for your organization. Useful for tabling and involvement fairs.
New Member Checklist: A template checklist for onboarding new members.
Financial Resources
Fundraising Guide: A guide to help provide you with the basic information and some common ideas for fundraising.
Budget and Transactions Ledger Template: A template used to create a budget and ledger to keep track of your finances and automatically update the budget.
Redeemable and Monetary Award Report Form: Use this form when you need to report that a student received a redeemable and monetary award such as a gift card or gift certificate.
Marketing Resources
Making Social Media Accessible: Social media platforms raise some access issues for individuals with disabilities. Although accessibility on social media sites is limited in a lot of ways, some features do exist in each platform.
Graphic Design Request: Recognized student organizations are able to request graphics to be developed for their use.
Student Organization Stamp and Print Request Form: Submit publications to be reviewed and printed and receive the approval stamp for distributing on campus
Student Organization Mass Email Request Form: Email to request to send a mass email to student organizations.
Safety and Risk Management
Student Organization Conduct Report Form: Online form to report concerning conduct and policy violations.
UNO Behavior Review Team Report Form: Used for reporting concerns about the health and safety of members of the UNO community. For more detailed information on reporting and the Behavioral Review Team, visit the BRT website.
Other Resources
Top Tips for Being a Good Organization Leader: Short list of practical tips for being a good leader.
Preferred Venders List: A list of vendors that Student Involvement has regularly worked with. The vendors listed have given us preferred or discounted pricing on goods and services.
Tier Appeal Form: To request a change to your organization's tier assignment, please complete this form.
Update Email Archive: An archive of past emails that have been sent out to all student organizations.
Travel Guidelines: Guidelines for planning a trip for your student organization.
UNO Student Code of Conduct: The definitive code of conduct for students including student organizations.
Student Organization Sponsorship Agreement: Agreement for Tier 2 and Tier 1 organizations to verify the relationship between their organization and their sponsoring unit.
Strategic Planning Kit for Dummies Cheat Sheet: A strategic plan can help your organization expand its horizons. This short guide provides the basic components and considerations for making a strategic plan of your own.
Shared Email and Calendar Request Form: Form to be completed by the advisor to request a student organization email. You should use Anna Berg (aberg@nebraska.edu) for the IT Contact. Questions can be directed to IT Services.