Student organizations develop leaders. Involvement in student organizations will teach you how to coordinate programs, develop communication skills, set goals and objectives, manage your time, make decisions, solve problems, and motivate and manage people. Academic and Intellectual Functions. Student organizations reinforce classroom instruction and supplement academic learning. The work of the classroom is guided and directed by the teacher.
Student organizations are primarily student directed and operated.
Student organizations allow for an understanding of social and cultural forces that exert pressures on the attitudes, values, and actions of individuals and groups in the college community. Student organizations offer students an opportunity for group interactions. Group interactions teach students to organize groups, to conduct meetings, to get along with people, and to exercise responsibility as a member of a group. Student Development Functions. Student organizations facilitate the achievement of key developmental tasks.