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Student SIG Chapters: How to Start
How to Start
an
ACM Student SIG (Special Interest Group)
Chapter
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ACM Special Interest Groups (SIGs) address the varied needs
of today’s IT professionals and students, including computer graphics, human
interfaces, artificial intelligence, data mining, mobile communications, and
programming languages. Each SIG is organized around activities that best serve
its practitioner and research-based constituencies. Many SIGS sponsor leading
conferences and workshops, produce newsletters and publications, and support
e-mail forums for information exchange.
Students join ACM-SIG chapters as
a way of connecting to the study and practice of these special interests.
Chapter members collaborate with fellow students and with distinguished faculty
in research, conferences, and outreach. Student SIG chapters are particularly
appropriate for graduate and PhD students.
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1.
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Form a group of at least ten (10)
interested students, willing to participate in activities and carry out the
chapter's mission.
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2.
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Find an ACM professional member who is
also a member of the relevant SIG to serve as the chapter's
sponsor.
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Elect four (4) interim officers to run
chapter business. All of the petitioning officers must be student members of ACM and
members of the relevant
ACM
SIG.
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4.
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Begin the chartering process by
completing petition, bylaws, and first year activity plan:
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First Year Activity
Plan
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US CHAPTERS
ONLY
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The IRS requires that all U.S. ACM Chapters obtain
an Employer Identification Number (EIN). In order to obtain an EIN, the chapter
sponsor signature is required on the IRS Form
2848.
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6.
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Please email the bylaws and activity plan
to Local Activities, and mail the petition with signatures, signed form 2848,
and hard copies of the bylaws and activity plan to the address
below.
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ACM Local Activities
2 Penn Plaza, Suite
701
New York NY 10121-0701
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The materials you submit will be
reviewed for completeness and then presented to the ACM Chief Operating Officer
for charter approval.Please note that failing to include any one
of these items will result in a delay in chartering. Incomplete petitions will
be held for one month after initial notice of
receipt.
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Please note that you are required by the
ACM Constitution to adopt the
sample bylaws exactly as they are shown, unless you receive in
advance specific permission to change them from the Local Activities
Coordinator.
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Any major chapter activities such as
conferences or multiple-day events must be approved through the ACM Local
Activities Coordinator before they are scheduled.
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