{"id":331,"date":"2021-03-22T14:55:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T19:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/college\/field-ops\/?page_id=331"},"modified":"2024-10-30T12:23:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:23:12","slug":"campus-charter-constitution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/college\/field-ops\/resources\/campus-charter-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Charter & Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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If you are either launching a new Chapter of Cru or re-registering your current Cru Chapter for this next school year, you are in the right place. What you will find here to help you is:<\/p>

  1. A Charter application<\/strong> so you can register with Cru for this year. We have an annual Chartering process to help your new student leadership team understand what it means to be Cru or one of our Cru ministries.<\/li>
  2. Model constitutions<\/strong> to choose from and download so that you can adjust it and use it to register with your campus. We have different models for our different Cru ministries. We want to make sure our mission is clear and our expectations for our Chapters and student leaders are consistent.<\/li><\/ol>

    Please feel free to contact us<\/a><\/strong> with questions or concerns about the process.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Cru Chapters all over the world share the vision of building movements of spiritual multiplication; they want to be caring communities of students who are transformed by Jesus Christ, who are speaking the good news to others, and who are passionately living out the purposes of God in the world.<\/p>\n

    Our Cru Charter is the document that establishes that a certain group is officially a chapter of one of the ministries of the Campus Ministry of Cru. It serves as a contract between Cru and our chapters, confirming that a chapter has committed to pursue, live out and teach the organization\u2019s mission and purpose, and granting rights and privileges to use Cru\u2019s name and resources to the chapter. It details expectations for chapters, including some specific theological and ethical beliefs Cru holds to and expects its chapters to teach.<\/p>\n

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    1. Apply here<\/strong><\/a> for a Campus Charter. You will receive your customized charter by email.<\/li>\n
    2. When you ge the document in your email, please review the provisions in the Charter. Note that there are some legal details about what is expected of a chartered chapter of Cru. There are also some theological and practice-based expectations that your fellow student leaders need to know about. Top chapter leadership should either review portions of the Charter together to ensure agreement, or plan to discuss and ask your key leaders to agree with the Cru leadership covenant (see model leadership covenant in Step 3).
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    3. If you are not currently using Cru’s Model Constitution, go on to Step 2: Using Cru’s Model Constitution. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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      In order to register your Chartered Cru chapter (or other Cru ministry chapter) on a campus, you will need to use one of our model constitutions. The climate on many campuses is getting more challenging, with religious groups finding themselves not as welcome. Our model constitutions are intended to strongly articulate our mission and purpose as well as to ensure that we have common standards for student leadership that will protect us as an organization and allow us to love and serve each campus while preserving our teachings and messages.<\/p>

      In summary, we want to register our student clubs on our various campuses with club constitutions that have many things in common: 1) they acknowledge a connection to Cru (or the ministry of Cru involved), 2) they articulate Cru\u2019s purpose, 3) they reference our Statement of Faith, and 4) they hold to common standards for the leadership and direction of the group.<\/p>

      1. DOWNLOAD A CONSTITUTION<\/strong><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>