Chartered Organizations

The Doctoral Students' Council recognizes over 30 interdisciplinary groups run by graduate students. Chartered Organizations are eligible to receive up to $300 per semester from the DSC.

How to Charter an Organization

If you would like to charter an organization there are three steps:

Submit an official petition to the Co-Chair for Student Affairs. The petition must include signatures from at least 20 students. Students must represent at least 3 different programs with no more than 10 from the same program. The official petition can be downloaded here.
Email a one page constitution and a statement of purpose (in DOC, RTF or PDF format) to the Co-Chair for Student Affairs. The constitution should detail your group's mission, proposed events, membership and how co-chairs will be selected/elected. A sample constitution can be found here. The statement of purpose should, in less than 250 words, explain how the proposed chartered organization is not redundant with the mission of the DSC or other currently-chartered groups.
Once an official petition, statement of purpose, and constitution have been submitted to, and approved by, the Co-Chair for Student Affairs, copies of the constitution and statement of purpose will be distributed and discussed at the DSC plenary and voted on at the following meeting. If the constitution and statement of purpose is approved by at least 2/3 of the members present, your organization will be chartered and can begin claiming up to $300 a semester. Office space is available only after 3 semesters of being active.

For more a detailed description of the chartering process, see Bylaw 2.3.

Maintaining a Chartered Status

All Chartered Organizations will have a status of either active or inactive for any given semester. Active organizations will be responsible for submitting a signature roster and an activities report every semester and a copy of their constitution every year.

The activities report and constitution should be submitted to the Co-Chair for Student Affairs by the end of each semester.

The roster is to be signed and submitted electronically using the DSC's eBallot system (https://eballot3.votenet.com/dsc/). The roster must include the digital signatures of at least twenty (20) members.

List of Chartered Organizations

The following list contains all organizations currently chartered by the DSC. Room numbers, phone numbers, constitutions, email addresses and links to organization web sites are provided when applicable. If you belong to one or more of the organizations listed as an "Inactive Organization" below, please contact the Co-Chair for Student Affairs ASAP.

Active Organizations

AELLA (Latino and Latin-American Students Association) Room: 5496 \| Phone: 7866 Leaders: David Caicedo Howard Caro-Lopez http://opencuny.org/aellagc/	Language Documentation and Advocacy Group (LDAG) Room: No office space \| Phone: NA Leaders: Jeremy Rafal http://opencuny.org/ldag/
Africa Research Group (ARG) Room: 5490 \| Phone: 7872 Leaders: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/rbins/index_ARG.html	Middle Eastern Studies Organization (MESO) Room: 5398 \| Phone: 7890 Leaders:
Africana Studies Group (ASG) Room: 5498 \| Phone: 7862 Leaders: Danielle Jackson Fabienne Snowden	PART (Art History Journal) Room: 5393 \| Phone: 7880 Leaders: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ArtHistory/part/part6/about_statement.html
Campus Coallition for Sexual Literacy Room: No office space \| Phone: Leaders: Christin Bowman Erica Friedman Ja'Nina Walker	Pearle Kibre Medieval Study Room: 5397 \| Phone: 7859 Leaders: Jennifer Jordan
Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) Room: 5390 \| Phone: 7850 Leaders: hongjun zheng	Postcolonial Studies Group (PSG) Room: 5395 \| Phone: 7857 Leaders: Ian Foster Fiona Lee http://opencuny.org/psg/
Cinema Studies Group (CSG) Room: 5497 \| Phone: 7863 Leaders: Kelley Kawano http://opencuny.org/csg/	Prison Studies Group Room: No office space \| Phone: Leaders: Jeffrey Broxmeyer Logan McBride
Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Group (CANES) Room: 5397 \| Phone: 7858 Leaders: Michael Broder Jared Simard http://opencuny.org/canes/	QUNY Room: 5498 \| Phone: 7862 Leaders: Jen Gieseking
Colombian Studies Group Room: No office space \| Phone: NA Leaders: Constanza Lopez Astrid Roldan	SPTSA: Social and Political Theory Students Association Room: 5492 \| Phone: 7870 Leaders: Alex Zamalin
CUNY Women In Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Room: 5389 \| Phone: 7848 Leaders: Jillian DeGezelle Annelies Kamran Lisa Offringa http://opencuny.org/cunywomeninstem	Taiwanese Students Organization (TSO) Room: 5392 \| Phone: 7852 Leaders: http://blog.roodo.com/tsa_gc
Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG) Room: No office space \| Phone: NA Leaders: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/English/pages/group_early_modern.html	The GC Poetics Group Room: No office space \| Phone: NA Leaders: Corey Frost http://opencuny.org/poetics/
Ethnobiology Study Group (ESG) Room: 5399 \| Phone: 7860 Leaders: Amy Keller	The Immigration Working Group Room: No office space \| Phone: Leaders: Bink Pok Jennifer Sloan Jessica Sperling
Feminist Studies Group (FSG) Room: 5486 \| Phone: 7876 Leaders: Pamela Burger	The Spatial Scholars Group Room: 5388 \| Phone: 7846 Leaders: Stephen Boatright Rachel Goffe David Spataro
Free CUNY Room: 5497 \| Phone: 7865 Leaders: Craig Willse	Turkish Students Association (TSA) Room: 5391 \| Phone: 7878 Leaders: Elif Akay Osman Dogan
Global Studies Collective Room: 5488 \| Phone: 7874 Leaders: Annelies Kamran http://opencuny.org/globalstudiescollective/	Twentieth Century Area Studies Group Room: No office space \| Phone: NA Leaders: Angela Francis Jason Nielsen Mark Sussman
Jewish Connection Group Room: No office space \| Phone: Leaders: Aya Shohat	Women of Color Network Room: No office space \| Phone: 7881 Leaders: Janny Llanos Christine Pinnock karen g. williams
Korean Students Association (KSA) Room: 5394 \| Phone: 7854 Leaders: Jinwon Kim

Inactive Organizations

American Studies Group (CUNY Americanists) Leaders:	Luso-Brazilian Studies Group Leaders:
Eastern European Studies Group Leaders:	L`Atelier Leaders:
Japan Study Group Leaders:	Mise en Scene Leaders:

AELLA (Latino and Latin-American Students Association) Room: 5496 \| Phone: 7866 Leaders: David Caicedo Howard Caro-Lopez http://opencuny.org/aellagc/	Language Documentation and Advocacy Group (LDAG) Room: No office space \| Phone: NA Leaders: Jeremy Rafal http://opencuny.org/ldag/
Africa Research Group (ARG) Room: 5490 \| Phone: 7872 Leaders: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/rbins/index_ARG.html	Middle Eastern Studies Organization (MESO) Room: 5398 \| Phone: 7890 Leaders:
Africana Studies Group (ASG) Room: 5498 \| Phone: 7862 Leaders: Danielle Jackson Fabienne Snowden	PART (Art History Journal) Room: 5393 \| Phone: 7880 Leaders: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ArtHistory/part/part6/about_statement.html
Campus Coallition for Sexual Literacy Room: No office space \| Phone: Leaders: Christin Bowman Erica Friedman Ja'Nina Walker	Pearle Kibre Medieval Study Room: 5397 \| Phone: 7859 Leaders: Jennifer Jordan
Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) Room: 5390 \| Phone: 7850 Leaders: hongjun zheng	Postcolonial Studies Group (PSG) Room: 5395 \| Phone: 7857 Leaders: Ian Foster Fiona Lee http://opencuny.org/psg/
Cinema Studies Group (CSG) Room: 5497 \| Phone: 7863 Leaders: Kelley Kawano http://opencuny.org/csg/	Prison Studies Group Room: No office space \| Phone: Leaders: Jeffrey Broxmeyer Logan McBride
Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Group (CANES) Room: 5397 \| Phone: 7858 Leaders: Michael Broder Jared Simard http://opencuny.org/canes/	QUNY Room: 5498 \| Phone: 7862 Leaders: Jen Gieseking
Colombian Studies Group Room: No office space \| Phone: NA Leaders: Constanza Lopez Astrid Roldan	SPTSA: Social and Political Theory Students Association Room: 5492 \| Phone: 7870 Leaders: Alex Zamalin
CUNY Women In Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Room: 5389 \| Phone: 7848 Leaders: Jillian DeGezelle Annelies Kamran Lisa Offringa http://opencuny.org/cunywomeninstem	Taiwanese Students Organization (TSO) Room: 5392 \| Phone: 7852 Leaders: http://blog.roodo.com/tsa_gc
Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group (EMIG) Room: No office space \| Phone: NA Leaders: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/English/pages/group_early_modern.html	The GC Poetics Group Room: No office space \| Phone: NA Leaders: Corey Frost http://opencuny.org/poetics/
Ethnobiology Study Group (ESG) Room: 5399 \| Phone: 7860 Leaders: Amy Keller	The Immigration Working Group Room: No office space \| Phone: Leaders: Bink Pok Jennifer Sloan Jessica Sperling
Feminist Studies Group (FSG) Room: 5486 \| Phone: 7876 Leaders: Pamela Burger	The Spatial Scholars Group Room: 5388 \| Phone: 7846 Leaders: Stephen Boatright Rachel Goffe David Spataro
Free CUNY Room: 5497 \| Phone: 7865 Leaders: Craig Willse	Turkish Students Association (TSA) Room: 5391 \| Phone: 7878 Leaders: Elif Akay Osman Dogan
Global Studies Collective Room: 5488 \| Phone: 7874 Leaders: Annelies Kamran http://opencuny.org/globalstudiescollective/	Twentieth Century Area Studies Group Room: No office space \| Phone: NA Leaders: Angela Francis Jason Nielsen Mark Sussman
Jewish Connection Group Room: No office space \| Phone: Leaders: Aya Shohat	Women of Color Network Room: No office space \| Phone: 7881 Leaders: Janny Llanos Christine Pinnock karen g. williams
Korean Students Association (KSA) Room: 5394 \| Phone: 7854 Leaders: Jinwon Kim

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