General Club Information - Student Organization Handbook

Club Membership

Only current SOM students (MBA, MMS, MAM, and EMBA, including joint degrees) and their partners are eligible for Club membership. Clubs at SOM are intended for SOM students only as they are funded by the Student Activity Fees built into tuition.
Students or Student Partners can join clubs using CampusGroups. Some clubs charge membership dues or equipment fees (examples include Wine Class and Hockey Club). Partners do not have the same access to recruiting or related activities through Yale SOM.
MAM/MMS/Silver Scholar students should stay particularly connected to the CDO to make the most of their unique recruiting timelines. As a Club Leader of a Professional Club, please encourage all students to work with the CDO and connect with your CDO Liaison with any questions.

Every Club is provided an email account that students, speakers, alumni, and all external stakeholders can use get in touch with your Club.

Regularly monitoring this inbox is important to do; otherwise, you could be missing out on that new company relationship(s), exciting guest speaker(s), or a future student member. We advise you to check the inbox at least twice a week.

If you require assistance or are having trouble accessing your inbox, email us at SOMClubs@yale.edu.

To Access your Club Email:

Log into your personal yale.edu email on a web browser.
Log into your personal yale.edu email on a web browser.
Click "open another mailbox".
Type in the name of your club email address. This should open the account within another tab on your screen.

Please contact the facilities team at somfacitlies@yale.edu for long-term storage for annual conference materials, or oversized items, and/or if you need your club's locker assignment.
Club lockers do not need to be renewed every year. Incoming club leaders should retrieve the locker combination from the club's outgoing leadership.

Clubs are able to maintain their own websites through CampusGroups. It is the responsibility of club leaders to update and maintain their own pages from year to year.
Clubs can choose to have an external website that is paid for by the club's external funding. Any website must be first cleared with som.comms@yale.edu before launch. Additionally, any external site must have the following language displayed on the footer of their homepage:
- "Yale" and "Yale University" are registered trademarks of Yale University. This website is a student run website and is maintained, hosted, and operated independently of Yale University. The activities on this website are not supervised or endorsed by Yale and information contained on this website does not necessarily reflect the opinions or official positions of the University".

Yale Trademark Licensing webpage has guidelines for the use of Yale name and logo designs for student organizations.
Clubs interested in using the Yale name, creating a club logo, or trademarks for any purpose must contact SOM Communications for prior approval.