Chapter Requirements

  • Active chapters can:

    • Apply for funding from the UAEM North America’s Empowerment Fund, a financial resource to assist chapters in holding events or funding their efforts  

    • Receive organizing support from the UAEM North America Network and the Coordinating Committee for campus initiatives and campaign strategy

    • Be recognized on the UAEM website as an active chapter

    • Be automatically considered for annual chapter and student awards

    • Be considered for financial support for travel to UAEM North America’s Annual Conference

  • If you do not fulfill the requirements to remain an active chapter, you will be required to meet with the CC to come up with a plan for either reactivating the chapter or placing the chapter on hiatus. If you choose the latter, your chapter will be identified on the UAEM website as inactive. If you are not an active chapter, you are not permitted to use UAEM’s name and branding, apply for financial resources, or receive support for conference travel.

To remain an active chapter, you must meet the following requirements each academic year:

  1. Make sure all your chapter members sign up as a UAEM member.

  2. Make sure all your chapter execs are on the UAEM North America Slack Workspace.

  3. Check in with your North American Coordinating Committee Mentor (if you’re unsure about who this is, reach out by emailing chapters@uaem.org).

    • You are expected to meet with your CC Mentor 4 times per academic year.

    • You are encouraged to meet with your CC Mentor more frequently if you need, but the above bullet points are the minimum.

    • During these meetings, your CC Mentor will provide assistance and insight on a wide variety of topics that you will need to consider when running a chapter. Such topics include setting short and long-term goals for your chapter, troubleshooting issues you have with running your chapter, and planning UAEM-related or local campaigns.

  4. Have your chapter’s executive board/team attend both the Fall and Spring UAEM All-Chapters Call.

  5. Participate in UAEM’s annual end of year fundraising campaign.

  6. Participate in UAEM’s annual Access to Medicines Week.

  7. Have plans for succession & training of new eboard members.

  8. Host one workshop or teach-in about a UAEM North America campaign or organizing tool  (see the Chapter Handbook for more details and feel free to reach out to the Coordinating Committee for support).

  9. Accomplish two tangible goals per academic year for promotion within UAEM’s network. Tangible means something that the UAEM Comms team can promote within the UAEM network. This is flexible based on your chapter and your goals set with your Coordinating Committee mentor. We strongly encourage you to utilize UAEM tools (e.g., Report Card, Equitable Technology Access Framework (ETAF), The Chapter Handbook) to help plan your tangible goals. Some examples of tangible goals are: 

    • Campus mobilizing event (e.g., social media campaign, petition/open letter that is sent to the Technology Transfer Office of your school, creative action, protest, sit-in, etc.)

    • Meeting with the Technology Transfer Office

    • Collaborate with other campus organizations to teach them about UAEM tools 

    • An op-ed in the school newspaper

    • Meeting with a state or national legislator

    • Publication of a white paper or policy brief