Student organizations
With more than 400 organizations, it’s easy to meet people who share your interests at VCU. Whether it's social change, anime, fashion or volunteer opportunities, VCU has a little bit of everything.
Graduate Student Association
The Graduate Student Association serves as an advocate for graduate students at VCU. It sponsors events such as the annual Graduate Research Symposium, meet-and-greets, and monthly socials, which are designed to enhance academic skills, provide professional development opportunities and facilitate an active social environment.
The GSA and the Graduate School work together to assist students with travel costs for academic conferences. The GSA places students on campuswide committees to ensure that the concerns of graduate students are heard.
The GSA Executive Committee advocates for the graduate student population by addressing student concerns, promoting events and encouraging involvement in the graduate community. The GSA Executive Committee can be contacted at gsa@vcu.edu.
The GSA is responsible for appropriating program funds for all VCU graduate student organizations. Each organization is required to submit a proposed budget in the spring for the following academic year. The GSA appropriations committee is charged with receiving, hearing arguments for and deciding on the actual amount that each organization will be given and for what purpose.
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Managed by the Division of Student Affairs, RamsConnect is THE student engagement platform for campus life activities at VCU for all members of the campus community. Students engage with clubs and organizations, departments, teams, and more on RamsConnect.
On RamsConnect users can:
- Search VCU Student Orgs and Department groups
- View, search, and register for events via the VCU Calendar of Student Activities
- Connect with peers, faculty, and staff with shared interests
RamsConnect is at ramsconnect.vcu.edu and the RamsConnect App is available in the VCU Mobile App or on the iOS Store and Google Play Store.
If your group or department would like to request a RamsConnect group, please log-in to RamsConnect and complete this form.
Registered student organizations should contact The Underground at studentorgs@vcu.edu with questions about their RamsConnect group.
For questions or concerns about RamsConnect, please email ramsconnect@vcu.edu.
VCU is committed to information privacy. VCU has a contract with RamsConnect that designates RamsConnect as a university official and authorizes RamsConnect to use the student information provided by VCU only for the purpose of fulfilling its contractual obligations to VCU. VCU provides student VCU email addresses to RamsConnect.
RamsConnect users can customize their user profile and change their privacy settings in RamsConnect, by clicking on their profile settings.
As a RamsConnect user, students will receive email communications about student organizations, campus activities, and other involvement-related information, such as newsletters, notifications, and event marketing information. However, RamsConnect users may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications by following the unsubscribe instructions on this link or using the link provided in emails received through RamsConnect.
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