Alpha Delta Kappa Collegiate Club

• Mission Statement: As an honors organization, the purpose of Alpha Delta Kappa Collegiate Club is to support future educators while promoting educational excellence, professionalism, altruism, and world understanding.
  • This club helps connect future educators with current and past educators in today’s society. They work together to learn more about education, share new ideas for the classroom, and help out the schools in our community! This club meets once a month for a couple hours a meeting. In the past, they have had meetings with student teachers, first-year teachers, and principals to help education majors learn more information about their future career. They have also met with the Child Protective Services to learn how to protect the students in their classrooms. This club also provides many community service opportunities as well. They have made and donated scarves and Christmas gifts to nursing homes, participated in Secret Families to help out families in need around the holidays, and much more.

Student Education Association 

• Mission Statement: The Student Education Association (SEA) is a pre-professional organization for future teachers. SEA provides opportunities for professional development and networking through guest speakers, conferences, volunteerism, and social events. SEA is a chapter of Indiana Student Education Association, the National Education Association, and the Indiana State Teachers Association. All education students are encouraged to join this association.
  • This club does many events throughout the year. They participate in Zumbathon to raise money for Outreach To Teach which is going and making over an elementary school, by painting, gardening, and cleaning up. There is a fall conference every year where all the chapters in Indiana get together and have development workshops and to see what other chapters are partaking in. They meet every other Thursday at 7:30 in Teachers College.

Education in Action

• Mission Statement: Education in Action is an organization for Education majors and minors! We participate in community events, supply education-related resources, and have a lot of fun. We strive to be more of a family rather than a group.
  • This club does many education and community-based events throughout the year. In the past, they have had meetings to help students prepare teaching resumes, learn how to study for the CASA and Pearson exams, conduct teacher and principal panels for students to ask questions, as well as community service opportunities!

College Mentors For Kids

• Mission Statement/About: College Mentors for Kids is an organization that pairs children with college students. This is a one-to-one ratio. These children are placed into buddy families by grade level. Each buddy family does a different activity each week. These activities teach the little buddies about higher education, community service, culture and diversity, and economics. We try to encourage these children to go to college without telling them they have to attend since college isn’t for everyone. We do this by providing them with fun activities to show them how fun college can be. We have activity four days a week, and each day a different elementary school comes. Monday we have Albany Elementary, Tuesday we have West View Elementary, Wednesday we have Royerton and Eaton Elementary and North View Elementary, and Thursday we have Cowan Elementary.

 

Alliance of Black and Latino Teachers

• Mission Statement/About:  Our mission is to connect students to peers, professionals, organizations, institutions, and resources that support Black and Latino students in the field of education and broadens the development, retention, and recruitment of Black and Latino teachers. This organization has events where teachers will come in and discuss what is happening in their school and around the community.

 

Social Justice in Education

• Mission Statement/About: The purpose of Social Justice in Education is to work towards exploring and addressing issues of social justice relevant to students and schools (K-12). Our mission, as future teachers, is to educate, inform and work towards enhancing the school lives of diverse populations of students. Aligned with the university mission statement, which states “As a public research university, we focus on students and high-quality, relevant educational outcomes. Disciplinary knowledge is integrated with application. We do this in a manner that fundamentally changes students, researchers, and our external partners, who look to the university for guidance. We transform information into knowledge, knowledge into judgment, and judgment into action that addresses complex problems.”