These affiliations can provide social, intellectual, political, cultural, spiritual, recreational, and professional growth to individual students. For the 2000-2001 academic year, there are nearly sixty registered student groups at Whittier College. Recognition vs. Registration Recognition is the one-time process of applying to be a student group. Any group of students that wishes to become an official Whittier College organization must become a recognized group. The recognition process can occur at any time in the academic year.
Registration is the ongoing, annual process of updating club information.
This ensures the inclusion of organizations in publications such as the Whittier College Student Handbook and new student mailings. However, there is open registration throughout the year. Ice Cream Club was officially recognized in the 1982-83 academic year. It registered for the next five years and discontinued when students found that they no longer held this interest. If a current student wished to revive this club, he or she would not need to go through the recognition process, but only the registration process.