Student Organizations

Art Forum

The Art Forum exists to give art students opportunity to gain broader understanding of their field of study outside the classroom. Professional artists, gallery curators, retail art dealers, and graphic designers present practical information about their work experiences. The format includes panel discussions, question and answer sessions, video or slide presentations, and lectures. Subjects vary and may include art philosophies, artwork pricing, art techniques, minority artists, job opportunities, artist demonstrations, and critiques. Five sessions are scheduled throughout the school year.

Association of Christian Teachers

The Association of Christian Teachers is an integral part of the Education Department. The programs and activities are correlated very closely to the emphasis of teacher education majors. This organization provides opportunities for all education students to secure leadership training and professional contacts. Each of the professional education departments elects representatives to serve as officers, and some of the departmental meetings are a part of the A.C.T. programming. Prospective teachers are urged to become members of A.C.T.

Bands

Concert Band
This organization of approximately seventy players performs literature from the standard concert band repertoire and performs at least two major concerts each year.

Symphonic Wind Band
This organization of approximately fifty players is devoted to performance of the finest concert literature, both secular and sacred, for winds and percussion. The Wind Band performs at least four concerts each year, in addition to recording, touring regularly, and performing in Vespers.

Membership in both bands is open through audition to all students.

Choral Program

ChoraleThe choral program at BJU exists to support the growth of the Christian student into the image of God and to equip him to use music for the service of God. The developmental program is comprised of multiple-graded choirs. All students are welcome to audition and are placed according to their classification and abilities. Singers are re-auditioned periodically to determine proper placement. The program consists of eight choirs: University Singers, Conductor’s Chorus, Collegiate Choir, Concert Choir, Lyric Choir, Men's Glee Club, University Chorale, and University Chamber Singers. Performance venues include concerts of standard choral literature and church music, Vespers and Sunday morning worship services, and the annual opera, oratorio, and Commencement Concert performances. Each participant will have the opportunity to reach his individual technical and artistic choral potential within a program that strives for the highest level of musical excellence.

Class Organizations

Each of the various class groups of the University—Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior—has a separate class organization with its own student leadership. These groups hold periodic meetings.

Classic Players

Cyrano de BergeracThe Classic Players is one of the outstanding college Shakespearean repertoire groups in the world. Membership is open to students who show the requisite ability in public tryouts. Two major productions are presented each year, including such great plays as Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and other plays covering the great majority of the Shakespearean repertoire.

The Collegian, University newspaper

Bob Jones University's student newspaper, The Collegian, was founded in 1987 as a journalism lab, offering students hands-on experience in producing a weekly publication. Students write and edit articles, design the layout, and take photographs for the paper. Stories in The Collegian focus on campus personalities and student life, helping to unify the large and diverse student body. The paper is distributed free on campus.

Community Relations Council

Community Relations Council is an organization made up of students who volunteer their time to various service projects in the community. In the past years they have been engaged in cleaning up area parks and the Greenville Zoo, collecting funds for the Heart Fund and other charitable organizations, as well as sponsoring an on-campus blood drive. The CRC has received local, state, and national recognition for its volunteer efforts in contribution to the City of Greenville.

Criminal Justice Association

The Criminal Justice Association exposes interested students of all majors to the many facets of the American criminal justice system. Positional perspectives, items of current interest, as well as emerging trends and other topics, are addressed during regularly scheduled forums by working criminal justice practitioners. Contact with active career professionals also provides greater insight into the possibilities for Christian ministry offered by the varied occupational specialties within law enforcement, the courts, and corrections.

Family & Consumer Sciences Forum

The Family and Consumer Sciences Forum is the official organization for students within the FCS Division (Family and Consumer Science, Clothing and Textiles Design, Foods and Nutrition, Interior Decorating). The forum leadership strives to promote the scriptural qualities of the virtuous woman and educate students to a myriad of family and professional opportunities within FCS. Noted FCS professionals and BJU graduates are brought to the Forum to enhance students' understanding of their future roles as godly women, wives, mothers, and/or members in the FCS profession.

Instrumental Ensembles

Tuba Euphonium ChoirSeveral permanent chamber ensembles provide opportunity for specialized performance by qualified instrumental students. These include a woodwind choir, flute choir, trombone choir, horn choir, tuba-euphonium choir, trumpet choir, handbell choir, concert band, and percussion ensemble. In addition, a number of smaller chamber groups are formed during the year.

Inter-Society Council

The Inter-Society Council is composed of the president and vice-president of each society. The purpose of the Council is to supervise societies, relay and implement university policies, coordinate inter-society functions, promote university morale, and exalt the Lord Jesus Christ in everything the societies do. The council meets bimonthly for ideas, seminars, discussions, fellowship, and refreshment. The purpose of societies is to develop productive, cooperative, and godly relationships.

Ministerial Class

This association is composed of University men students preparing for a full-time Christian ministry. The ministerial class is under the direction of the Director of Ministerial Training and meets each week for instruction. The President and other leading fundamental religious leaders of the world address this class. Besides specified reading and class work, each student engages in practical ministerial work during the school year and in the summer months.

Ministry Teams

Several student groups, carefully selected for their vocal, instrumental, or speech abilities, tour throughout the United States for several months each year representing the University through unique presentations of sacred music and Christian drama.

Mission Prayer Band

Bob Jones University is known throughout the Christian world for its missionary emphasis. Each year a large number of students from various majors express interest in participating in some aspect of world evangelism. Mission Prayer Band is a natural result of this interest. The purpose of Mission Prayer Band is to stimulate missionary zeal and vision on the campus. The principle way that students accomplish this is by holding collective prayer meetings four times a week to pray for specific needs of the missionaries. They also involve every residence hall prayer group on campus by providing each one information about a missionary family and encouraging interaction with them throughout the semester.

Mission Teams

Each year students have the opportunity to minister in other regions of the world by participating in one of BJU's mission teams. Students prepare throughout the year and raise their own financial support. Teams go to various countries spanning the globe using trade skills, aviation ministry, music, and preaching/teaching to reach the lost with the Gospel and to challenge the team members to consider their lifelong level of involvement concerning the Great Commission. Each fall one chapel service is set aside for the promotion of summer mission teams.

Mock Trial Team

Through intercollegiate competition, BJU's Mock Trial team introduces students to the drama of the courtroom. Each fall, upon receiving new case materials from the American Mock Trial Association, members begin preparing two cases, one for the state and one for the defense. Lawyers analyze witness statements and prepare questions for direct and cross examination, while witnesses immerse themselves in the characters they will represent. Whether as lawyers or witnesses, team members sharpen their ability to think critically and communicate with conviction. In so doing, they equip themselves not merely for the courtroom but for Christian life.

Modern Language Club

The Modern Language Club is an organization composed of students taking courses in French, German, and Spanish. It is the purpose of the club to stimulate an increased interest in the foreign languages and culture. In an informal atmosphere of entertainment, discussion, games, and reports, the student gains valuable information and insight in the furthering of his knowledge and language skills.

Opera Association

La CenerentolaOpera productions are presented each year, often with guest artists featured in the principal roles along with student and faculty soloists. Supporting roles and chorus parts are taken by students who show requisite ability.

Orchestra

OrchestraThe University orchestra presents a concert each semester as well as oratorio and opera performances and appearances in the vesper programs. In addition to the standard symphonic repertoire, the orchestra often performs such special assignments as recording for films. Membership is open to all students through audition.

Premed Forum

The Premed Forum exists for the benefit of all students who plan to go to medical school after completing their undergraduate education. At the semimonthly meetings, current medical students, admission officials, practicing physicians, and administrators present valuable information and advice about the medical profession and preparation for it.

Societies

Every student is eligible for membership in one of these groups. Officers are elected each semester within each society. Societies meet weekly for entertainment and fellowship. Society officers plan special activities for the society, including weekly prayer meetings, a dating outing, and an outing for members only.

Student Body

The University Student Body organization sponsors several campus-wide activities throughout the school year, including film festivals, a musical comedy, talent contest, snow-skiing, and white water rafting. It also sponsors the Freshman Class party. It puts on special student programs for prospective students visiting during Opportunity Days and for incoming freshmen at the beginning of the school year. The University student body elects officers for the Student Body organization each year.

Student Legislature

Bob Jones University participates in the South Carolina Student Legislature, an intercollegiate organization to improve understanding of the legislative process. Delegates prepare legislation and guide it through committee, the House of Representatives, and the Senate in a mock legislative session held at the state capitol every fall semester.

Student Legislature affords students the opportunity to hone political skills while establishing, with their peers from other colleges and universities, a testimony for Christ. Membership in the Bob Jones University delegation is open to students of all academic majors and is determined through competitive interviews conducted during the spring semester.

University Business Association

The primary purpose of the University Business Association (UBA) is to bring before the students successful Christian business people who have used their business opportunities to have a ministry and a testimony for Jesus Christ. A group of UBA student members comprise the Executive Council that provides these business students with many leadership opportunities. The Executive Council directs a fundraiser each year specifically targeted for the Bible Conference offering. The UBA provides fertile ground for the development of Christian men and women who are called to the Ministry of Business.

University Nursing Association

nursesThe UNA is an organization of nursing students that exists to provide fellowship among nursing students of various academic classifications, to organize activities, to promote the University and Christian nursing in the community, to serve the community, to provide educational and occupational opportunity information to its members, to provide a means of recognition for fellow students and faculty members, to promote unity within the Nursing Division, to provide both academic and spiritual encouragement, and above all, to glorify God in all of its activities.

Vintage Staff

The Vintage, "a season's produce" by definition, is BJU's yearbook. The staff, whose responsibility it is to produce this annual publication, is composed of students from varied academic divisions and classifications within the University. Colorful, uniquely photographed and beautifully bound, the annual mirrors not only classes and activities but also the student body's worthy goals and Christian philosophy of life.

WBJU

wbju WBJU-FM is BJU's student-staffed radio station. The station broadcasts seven days a week to provide the student body with a variety of sacred, classical and easy-listening music; as well as informative news and sports talk programming. The station is mainly staffed by students who have an interest in broadcasting. They are responsible for producing, scheduling, announcing, and marketing the station's content.

WBJU-TV is the student-staffed television station. The station provides the campus with national, local, and campus news plus sports highlights, weather, and campus announcements throughout the day. The station provides students with opportunities to be anchors, reporters, producers, and technical crew members on a variety of television programming produced in the studios of the Department of Radio and Television Broadcasting. Students may watch WBJU-TV at the Snack Shop and residence hall viewing areas.

Writers Forum

The purpose of the Writers Forum is to acquaint students majoring in Professional Writing and Publication with career opportunities in the field. Professionals from newspapers, magazines, public relations departments, radio and television stations, and creative and technical writing fields are invited to speak to the students six times a year. This also gives students a chance to ask questions about their field of interest.