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ACM-W Student Chapters: How to Start

How to Start an ACM-W (ACM-Women) Student Chapter

The student chapters of ACM's Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W) serve to increase recruitment and retention of women in computing fields at the university level. An ACM-W chapter on your campus offers students activities and projects that aim to improve the working and learning environments for women in computing.

1.

Form a group of at least ten (10) interested students, willing to participate in activities and carry out the chapter's mission.


2.

Find an ACM professional member to sponsor your chapter. This person could be a professor in your school.

3.

Elect four (4) officers out of your group to run chapter business. At least two of the petitioning officers must be student members of ACM.

4.

Begin the chartering process by completing the petition, bylaws, and first year activity plan.

5.

US CHAPTERS ONLY


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.

6.

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.



ACM Local Activities
2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701
New York, NY 10121





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.


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.


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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