Training and Service

Each semester the Office of Campus Activities hosts a series of workshops for student organizations.

For most student organizations, these sessions are mandatory. There are a few sessions that are required for certain organizations. Details can be found on the links on the right side of this page.

Updates

• The mandatory student organization training for Fall 2023 will occur Tuesday, August 29th, Wednesday, August 30th, and Thursday, August 31st.  These trainings will take place every hour on the hour from 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm in The Nest (Pryz 300). All student organizations must send at least two representatives in order to remain active -- any member is free to attend, but we highly recommend that both the President and Treasurer attend a session, even if not together. You will also have the opportunitiy to sign up for your Fall Fest table at the completion of your training. 

Additional Training Opportunities

Leading as a Cardinal Workshops

Are you interested in bringing one of our leadership workshops to your student organization, class, staff or department? You can now request a workshop from the Leading as a Cardinal Team! 

Leading as a Cardinal offers a wide variety of workshops - from communication styles to leading an organization to conflict resolution - and they also have the ability to create a workshop or training session that is specific to the needs of your group. The focus of these workshops is to discuss different relevant leadership topics in order to help groups develop key leadership skills needed to work together successfully as a group and we have workshops specific to student organizations and clubs as well. 

These workshops would be ideal for groups of student staff, student leaders, or office/department staff for an upcoming training, in service or if you want to improve the functionality of a group. The focus of these workshops is to discuss different relevant leadership topics in order to help groups develop key leadership skills needed to work together successfully as a group. 

To request a workshop, please fill out this Workshop Request Form. In this form, you can share more about your group, identify the workshop of interest for your group and share your group's availability. To help with the selection of your workshop, you can review the pre-developed workshop topics here to give you an idea of what we can offer in a workshop. If you don’t see a topic for your group, or you want a workshop with more than one of these topics, there will be a section on the form to build your own workshop using these pre-developed workshops and other leadership topics. 

If you have any questions about these workshops, reach out to oca-leadership@cua.edu!