<p>Does anyone know if it is possible to join a club at another college? Am I crazy for wanting to join a club at another college? I go to a college basically in a college town (there are many colleges nearby the college I attend). I go to a small liberal arts college with about 2,000 students. I get tired seeing the same faces around all the time and I feel like I practically know everyone on campus. I would really like to branch out and meet other people who have possibly the same interests as me. There is a big university nearby my liberal arts college that has a more diverse student body. If I cannot join a club at another college, how can I meet college students that attend a different college from me (keep in mind that I am not 21 and I am over 18)?</p>
<p>Student organizations at my school usually have a statement like this in their constitutions, which implies that members are supposed to be current students here.
Even so, it depends on the school. Are students from one college allowed to cross-register for classes at the other? Are the two colleges part of a consortium?</p>
<p>I’ve been allowed to attend meetings for a club at a different school, but I’m not allowed to have an officer position and their funding probably wouldn’t cover me if they went to an off-campus event. (I was involved in the club when I took dual-enrollment classes at the school, and the professor who supervises it said I could keep coming to meetings.) </p>
<p>Usually the Student Fees/Activity fees help fund campus clubs and organizations so membership is restricted to enrolled students. </p>
<p>@halcyonheather Yes, the college that I attend is in a consortium. </p>
<p>It depends. I went to a women’s college that was in consortium with a men’s college and a co-ed university. There were some organizations at each school that were only open to the students at that school. There were some organizations at each school that were primarily housed at that school, but were open to some students of others. And then there were some organizations that were jointly housed by two or three of the institutions and open to students of any of the three or even others. For example, the men’s college held their homecoming queen pageant every year and the pageant was open to college ladies of any local area college or university, although in practice the queen was usually a student at my women’s college. For another, a member of the men’s college’s color guard (flag team) was actually a student at a completely different university not in the consortium; her own university didn’t have a color guard.</p>
<p>So there many be some organizations at the colleges nearby you that are open to students from other colleges; you’d have to investigate and maybe ask the executive board directly if that is the case. The other thing that you can do is join citywide organizations that attract college-aged students - like maybe there’s a community service organization or some kind of city social org that attracts mainly 18-25-year-olds from a variety of campuses.</p>