Student Organizations
Student Organizations provide opportunities for students to integrate the knowledge and skills they are acquiring in the classroom and apply them in practical ways that benefit the Trinity student body, the university, and the surrounding community.
Athletic Training Club
The Athletic Training Club is a student-managed organization that promotes and plans special events, arranges guest speakers, and organizes educational field trips for Athletic Training Education Program majors. These special events emphasize the prevention, recognition, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries. In addition, students are encouraged to integrate their faith into the daily use of their new skills as they interact with peers, faculty, and the community around Trinity International University.
Chapel Cabinet
The Chapel Cabinet serves the student body by planning biblically faithful, highly engaging worship services. This pastorally motivated group of students seeks to model Christ-centered community by planning diverse expressions of worship for the whole student body. Its goal is to design chapel services that nurture our Christian faith and stretch us toward spiritual maturity.
College Union
College Union (CU) serves the Trinity student body by providing events and activities that entertain, energize, and add excitement to Trinity’s campus. College Union strives to enhance the campus community with events and activities that foster an environment that gives students the opportunity to build relationships with other students while cultivating school pride and loyalty. Memories make up a large part of the college experience, and College Union provides perfect opportunities for memories to be made!
Some of CUs events and activities during the school year include Movie Nights, Capture the Flag, Homecoming Dance, Coffeehouse and Game Night, Cosmic Bowling, Karaoke Night, Laser Tag, and Junior-Senior Ball, as well as many other on- and off campus activities.
Dance Team
The Dance Team dances hip-hop, funk, and freestyle and performs at halftime of basketball and football games.
Departmental Clubs
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Athletic Training Club
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Business Club
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Education Club
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History Club
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Philosophy Club
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Psychology Club
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Science and Math Club
Kappa Delta Pi
Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society in education, is a network of more than 520 chapters with 60,000 members around the world. It is organized to promote scholarship and excellence in education. Its membership is intergenerational, and members include undergraduate and graduate students, university faculty and administrators, classroom teachers, school administrators, and retired educators interested in supporting and encouraging the next generation of teacher-scholars. Members receive helpful publications, are invited to attend nationally sponsored conferences, job fairs, and worldwide study tours, and have the opportunity to apply for scholarship awards. Membership is by invitation only upon recommendation by the School of Education. In order to be eligible for membership, candidates must have passed Gate 1: Admission to the School of Education, declared a major in education, have a cumulative GPA of 3.50 after 30 hours, have an ED GPA of 3.75 after 12 hours of ED-prefix course work, and have no dispositional concerns or notifications.
Kappa Tau
Kappa Tau is a service organization of students who assist the Admissions Office in meeting the needs of prospective students and their parents, especially those who visit the campus. They conduct campus tours and assist with campus events arranged specifically for prospective students and their families.
Kids on Kampus
Kids on Kampus is a ministry to the Trinity community that seeks to disciple the children of Trinity students and encourage their families. There are more than seventy children from all around the world who live on our campus and many other Trinity families who live in the surrounding communities. Our vision is to help them with the adjustment to living in a new place, help them enjoy their time here, and to help them grow in the Lord as their family prepares for ministry. We have activities for children four to seven years old on Thursday evenings and for children eight and older on Saturdays. There are also a number of trips and outings. Field Education opportunities are available for students to gain experience with cross-cultural children’s ministry. For more information, please contact Mike Phillips at 847.317.4068 or at mphillip@tiu.edu.
Music Ensembles
The School of Music features a number of music performance organizations, each with a unique purpose and mission. Membership in any of the ensembles is determined through fall semester auditions and is not dependent on a student’s major. Of the large ensembles, the Concert Choir and Symphonic Band tour both domestically and internationally. The Orchestra, which is open by audition to members of the community, offers students a singular opportunity for interaction with area professionals—musicians by both vocation and avocation. The Handbell Choir, Jazz Ensemble, and Vocal Performance Workshop are available as small ensemble options in addition to numerous chamber groups, such as the Honors Woodwind and Brass Quintets, and the String Quartet. These ensembles perform on campus, at local churches, and for community functions. In addition, each year the School of Music mounts a musical theater production. Recent performances have included Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, The Styne/Comden/Green musical Bells Are Ringing, and the Menotti opera Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Psi Chi
Psi Chi is the National Honor Society in psychology, founded in 1929 for the purpose of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining scholarship and advancing the science of psychology. Membership is open to both undergraduate and graduate men and women who are making the study of psychology one of their major interests and who meet these minimum qualifications: completion of 9 semester hours of psychology; registration for major or minor standing in psychology; rank in the upper 35 percent of their class in general scholarship; a minimum 3.10 cumulative GPA and 3.25 GPA in psychology courses; and high standards of personal behavior. Application forms are available from the Psychology Department webpage.
Student Government Association
Trinity’s Student Government Association represents student opinion to the faculty and administration and provides services and activities for the student body.
Student Ministries
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Discipleship Cabinet: Students providing leadership for various discipleship initiatives and the dp3’s
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dp3 (Discipleship Presence, Promoter, and Partner): Students working alongside RAs to facilitate opportunities for spiritual growth among the students in the dorms
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Community Impact Cabinet: Students leading weekly outreach/service teams in the local community
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Mission Cabinet: Student leadership team working to promote the Student Ministries Short-term Mission Program
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FAT (Faithful, Available, Teachable): A weekly student led worship service meeting on Thursday nights at 9:30 p.m. in the Chapel
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AOA (Acting on AIDS): A student group advocating on behalf of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
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WMC (Women’s Ministry Council): A student leadership team that encourages women in leadership and growth through events, guest speakers, and seminars
Together Making a Difference (TMD Club)
Trinity students get together after “school hours” for social activities, including sporting events, concerts, plays, and so on with college-age students with disabilities.
The Trillium
Trinity College’s arts journal containing poetry, short stories, drawings, essays, and photos, published each semester.
TIU Gospel Choir
This group ministers through gospel music both in the Chicago metropolitan area and through international tours.
Trinity Digest
Trinity’s weekly school newspaper is a student publication. Staff writers from across majors are welcome to contribute.
Trinity Council on Business (TCB)
TCB is the Business club for all Business majors and minors in the College. Organized on a corporate model, TCB puts classroom theory and principles into practice. It sponsors and participates in numerous spiritual, career, and social events, both departmental and campuswide. In addition, TCB coordinates the extensive mentor leadership program within the Business Department.
Yearbook
The yearbook staff is an outlet for creative students to learn more about their university, gain leadership skills, and further their technical, business and creative writing skills. The countless ways to participate include interviewing, researching and writing articles, proofreading, taking and editing photos, creating layouts, selling ads and fundraising, and maintaining the photo database and yearbook website.
