Andrea Diaz
Staff Writer
If you are a member or president of a club here are some new rules for incentive points. Instead of a club only getting points if a certain amount of people from that club participate, the point system will now be a tiered system.
This means that the number of club members who participate in an event will determine how many points that club can get.
“Initially, a minimum of 6 members were required to get the points. With the change, if one member attends the event, the club will be incentivized certain points and if more members attend, they will qualify for more points,” said Kian Pandey, who is the Vice President of ASISU.
This new point system will hopefully encourage smaller clubs that are a part of ISU to participate in events because there is no longer a minimum requirement of members to participate for the club to get funding.
Another change is the club will get more points if they participate in homecoming events or service events. So instead of three people only counting for three points, they will now count as four points and if at least six members participate they get a full ten points.
This is opposed to when club members participate in any ASISU, ISU, or athletic events they will get one point for every member that participates and get a full five points when six members participate.
“Members are the most important body of any club because they are the ones who sign up in the events and participate. Therefore, they need to attend and participate to grab the incentive points for their respective clubs,” said Aayush Jha, who is a senator for the College of Health Professions.
If you are a club president then it is recommended that you fill out and submit the incentive point checklist. This checklist can be found on the ASISU website under Club Funding. Many clubs did not submit this form so ASISU pushed the due date back to March 27, 2020 at 5 p.m.
If you are a student that is wanting to start your own club, it is highly encouraged.
Some requirements for starting your own club include attending new officer training and club financial workshop that occurs at the beginning of every semester, submit the required incentive point checklist, meet with the Director of Student Activities Board to fill out the necessary paperwork and be approved by ASISU.
“This year, our motto is ‘Let every student Roar’. Being said so, I would strongly encourage club leaders, club members and ISU students to be a part of student activities.” said Kiran
If any student has any concerns or would like to suggest new ideas that may be beneficial to students or the university then ASISU has many members that are willing to hear your suggestions.
“ISU Student Government cares and listens to the student body. If any [ISU students] want to make any changes in the campus policy, ASISU executive and legislative is always open to those suggestions and ideas,” said Kiran.
