Training and Service
Each semester the Center for Student Engagement hosts a series of workshops for student organizations.
For most student organizations, these sessions are mandatory. There are a few sessions that are required for certain organizations. Details can be found on the links on the right side of this page.
Updates
- The mandatory student organization training for Fall 2025 will occur Tuesday, August 26th through Friday, August 29th. There will be 4 different trainings offered this year:
- General Policies/ Procedures
- President is required to attend, but all are encouraged
- Finance Training
- Treasurer is required to attend, but all are encouraged
- Travel Training
- Optional, but required if your organization wishes to travel this year
- Only offered in person
- Fundraising Training
- Optional, but required if your organization wishes to fundraise this year
- Only offered in person
- General Policies/ Procedures
- For those who are new to their executive board position, they will need to attend an in person training. Specific training times can be found on the Student Org Training calendar. You will be able to sign up for the date/time that works best for you.
- For those that are returning to their executive board position, they will complete training through Brightspace. Returning members will be personally invited to the page to complete their training. If you believe you should have received an invitation and have not, please contact Anna Borges.
- You will also have the opportunity to sign up for your Fall Fest table at the completion of your training.
Additional Training Opportunities
Leading as a Cardinal Workshops
Are you interested in bringing one of our leadership workshops to your student organization, class, staff or department? You can now request a workshop from the Leading as a Cardinal Team!
Leading as a Cardinal offers a wide variety of workshops - from communication styles to leading an organization to conflict resolution - and they also have the ability to create a workshop or training session that is specific to the needs of your group. The focus of these workshops is to discuss different relevant leadership topics in order to help groups develop key leadership skills needed to work together successfully as a group and we have workshops specific to student organizations and clubs as well.
These workshops would be ideal for groups of student staff, student leaders, or office/department staff for an upcoming training, in service or if you want to improve the functionality of a group. The focus of these workshops is to discuss different relevant leadership topics in order to help groups develop key leadership skills needed to work together successfully as a group.
To request a workshop, please fill out this Workshop Request Form. In this form, you can share more about your group, identify the workshop of interest for your group and share your group's availability. To help with the selection of your workshop, you can review the pre-developed workshop topics here to give you an idea of what we can offer in a workshop. If you don’t see a topic for your group, or you want a workshop with more than one of these topics, there will be a section on the form to build your own workshop using these pre-developed workshops and other leadership topics.
If you have any questions about these workshops, reach out to cse-leadership@cua.edu!