Web Index SIS Student Organizations Several student-led organizations at SIS serve the student body. ALA student chapters have the right to elect one representative to work at the annual meeting, which earns that student's room and board.
Active membership gives students a great chance to begin a lifetime professional association.
Activities include participation in the ASIS mid-year and annual meetings, monthly meetings here at SIS, which include guest speakers on interesting topics, and tours of local facilities of interest, to SIS students. The goal of the organization is to foster professionalism among SIS students, rather than to serve as a social organization. Pi Chapter at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences is one of the more than 50 international chapters of Beta Phi Mu. The Doctoral Guild is the student organization for IST and LIS doctoral and Certificate of Advanced Study students. It functions as a forum for discussing and suggesting solutions for doctoral student issues, providing doctoral student representation on several SIS committees, initiating student-sponsored projects, and welcoming new doctoral and advanced study students.