Syracuse University

Engagement

Student Engagement

The Office of Student Life (OSL) includes fraternity and sorority affairs, student engagement, and student events. OSL program experts stand ready to engage you in leadership building, event planning, service projects, and much more. Its staff advocates for student involvement and strives to maximize its value in your personal and scholarly success. Join your fellow students by participating in a recognized student organization; volunteering to be part of a traditional University event; sharing your talent on stage; or even landing your own student group. Make a difference - live it!

In addition to the new knowledge and expertise you'll acquire at SU, you will have an array of choices when it comes to becoming an active participant in campus life. With performance groups, fraternities and sororities, student government, and more than 300 other recognized student organizations, you can supplement your academic pursuits while making valuable connections on campus.

126 Schine Student Center
Syracuse, NY 13244
315-443-2718

Student Organizations

Student Organizations offer many opportunities to become an active member of the Syracuse community while filling your college years with valuable experience on and off campus.  Taking advantage of these wide variety of programs, services and resources can not only help you to become a successful student leader at Syracuse University, but can also help you stand out in your professional career down the road.  The Student Organizations office supports and advises approximately 300 recognized student organizations.

OrangeSeeds

OrangeSeeds is a first-year empowerment and mentoring program initiated and designed to develop Syracuse University's leaders of tomorrow by enhancing their integrity, motivation and confidence and providing a positive forum for the cultivation of leadership and social skills necessary to maximizing their collegiate potential. For more information about the OrangeSeeds program or to apply, go to orangeseeds.syr.edu.

Class Councils and Class Alliance

Syracuse University Class Councils are comprised of a team of student leaders, joined together to promote class unity, school spirit, and civic engagement. The Class Alliance provides a method of communication between each class council, opportunities for collaboration with class events, and continuous mentorship between current class council members as well as incoming members.

Center for Public and Community Service

Opened in 1994 with support from our Founding Partner, the Carrier Corporation, the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service (CPCS) is the centerpiece of the University's community engagement initiative encouraging students, faculty and staff to work together for intellectual, ethical, professional and personal development through reciprocal learning in partnership with the community.

CPCS reflects the University's heritage and guiding values of Quality, Caring, Diversity, Innovation and Service. Through CPCS endeavors, these values spill over into every aspect of campus culture, thereby enhancing our tradition of service and social responsibility in keeping with the University's mission to learn through teaching, research, scholarship and creative accomplishment.  Visit the CPCS at 237 Schine Student Center, call us at 315-443-3051.

The R.A.P.E. Center

Sexual violence occurs in all societies and in both heterosexual and same-sex relationships. The Syracuse  University R.A.P.E. Center has many opportunities for students, staff and faculty to work toward decreasing the incidence of sexual violence on the S.U. campus as well as in society in general.

The R.A.P.E. Center welcomes students as volunteers in many capacities.

  • Join e5m, a peer theater troupe
  • Become a member of Sex-Esteem, a peer sexuality group
  • Staff information tables at various events on campus
  • Promote prevention programming and outreach
  • Participate in planning Take Back the Night, a week of events to raise awareness about sexual and relationship violence and the role each individual can play in reducing violence.
  • Gett involved with AMI (A Men's Issue)

  For more information about these and other volunteer opportunities, call 315-443-7273 or visit the R.A.P.E. Center website.

SU Event Calendar

The Syracuse University Event Calendar offers a comprehensive listing of major campus events, with detailed information about each event.