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The office and future members should understand in one read what this group is and why it exists. Write the mission the way you would explain it to a friend. Pillars are optional: the two or three themes everything you do hangs on.
Say who can join, in your own words. Most groups are open to any enrolled student; a group built around a shared heritage or craft may scope membership to it, as approved RCU groups do. The active-member rule decides who votes, and attendance tracked on this site is the easiest measure.
Officers are how the group keeps running after its founders graduate, and they must be in good academic and social standing. Give each seat a real duty, not just a title. President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer are the usual pattern.
Decide now how leadership changes hands, while nobody is arguing about it. A spring election among active members is the common pattern, and it hands the fall semester a ready team.
Pick a meeting rhythm you will actually keep; one to three times a month is typical. The quorum rule keeps three people at a quiet meeting from deciding for forty, and the event commitment says what the group owes the wider campus.
Every chartered group has at least one sponsor who is an RCU employee. Sponsors mentor the officers, help with events, and are how the group's budget and expenses run through the university. If you have sponsors, name them; if not, the constitution commits you to finding one.
Most groups charge no dues. If yours does, say how much, and remember that money the group handles runs through the university's processes with your sponsor, not a personal account.
Rules need a way to change that is deliberate but not impossible. RCU groups commonly amend by a majority of the officers with a sponsor's approval; stricter is fine. The dissolution clause says where anything left over goes.