Student Organizations
For further information about any student organization, contact the Office of Student Affairs. The following clubs and organizations are available to Aquinas students:
Student Activities Board
The Student Activities Board serves as the Aquinas College student government organization. It serves as a forum for students, faculty, and administrators to communicate and consider matters of general concern to the College.
The purpose of the Student Activities Board is:
- To provide for organized student expression in college affairs and for activities appropriate to such an organization.
- To provide a means whereby the faculty may become more aware of student needs, opinions and attitudes.
- To promote cooperation between the administration, the faculty and the students.
- To promote participation by the members of the student body in the activities of the college.
Phi Beta Lambda (Business Administration)
Phi Beta Lambda is a national organization for collegiate business students. Its mission is to bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs. The Aquinas chapter sponsors student activities both on and off campus, such as tours of local businesses, guest speakers, fund-raising, volunteering and support for charity.
Association for Supervision
and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Student Chapter (Teacher Education)
The Aquinas College Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Chapter is an organization for teacher education students who are committed to their professional development as future teachers. This organization provides teacher education students with opportunities to serve in leadership roles. The Aquinas College ASCD Chapter provides students and area teachers with professional development opportunities by sponsoring two Commitment to Quality Seminars each year. Public service is an important part of the ASCD Chapter.
Association of Student Nurses (Nursing)
The Association of Student Nurses is an organization for students enrolled in the associate degree nursing program. The purpose of this group is twofold:
- organized meetings, provide students an opportunity to participate in the governance of the College and the nursing program.
- an organized method, increase awareness and opportunities to participate in community service activities and professional development opportunities.
Frassati Society
The Frassati Society, named for Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, is a student organization, open to all students, dedicated to living the Beatitudes. Religious activities are planned monthly to highlight specific Beatitudes. The Frassati Society currently sponsors a weekly Rosary, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and Stations of the Cross during Lent.
Spiritual Cafe is a weekly Friday evening meeting that features guest speakers and weekly topics for discussion. It is open to all young Catholics and others in the Nashville Diocese.
Yearly activities include group trips, hikes, and assembling a "Cemetery of the Innocents" on the campus front lawn in memory of babies killed as a result of abortion.
The Aquinas Classics Club
The Aquinas Classics Club meets on a regular basis to read and discuss classical literature. This newly initiated student-run group is open to all students interested in stimulating discussions of the great works in a relaxed atmosphere. A faculty sponsor assists the students in the selection of the readings and guides discussion during meetings.
Delta Epsilon Sigma
(Academic Honor Society)
Delta Epsilon Sigma is an academic honor society for students enrolled in Catholic colleges and universities. Candidates must have a record of outstanding academic accomplishments, show dedication to intellectual activity and accept their responsibility of service to others. Prospective members must have completed at least 60 hours of the credit requirements for their baccalaureate degrees with at least a 3.4 G.P.A. at the time of initiation. Students will be nominated by their academic departments. Faculty members and alumni are eligible for election to membership if they have graduated cum laude or have received a graduate degree, or have fulfilled the general requirements of membership in some other manner.
Sigma Beta Delta
(Business Academic Honor Society)
Sigma Beta Delta is an international honor society in business, management and administration. Its goals are to encourage and recognize scholarship and accomplishment among students of business, management and administration; and to encourage and promote aspirations toward personal and professional improvement and a life distinguished by honorable service to humankind.
Aquinas Singers
The Aquinas Singers choir performs both sacred and secular literature and is open to students, faculty, staff, alumni and the greater Nashville community. The Singers meet on Mondays from 2:30 to 4:15 p.m. in Breen Hall. The course, FAR 216, may be taken for credit or non-credit. Scholarships are available.
Aquinas Student Ambassadors
The Aquinas College Student Ambassadors are an elite organization of some of the best and brightest students at Aquinas College. Student Ambassadors are an integral part of the recruiting process. As recipients of academic scholarships at Aquinas College, these students are required to participate in various College activities through the Office of Student Affairs. These activities include but are not limited to, college fairs, registration/orientation and various campus activities. Those students who do not receive academic scholarships but would like to participate in the various events may do so on a volunteer basis. In addition to assisting the Office of Student Affairs, Aquinas College Student Ambassadors represent the College on a daily basis and should keep the Mission of the College in mind at all times.
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