-- Posted by disabledlivewire at 2:37 pm on April 14, 2006 I'm trying to figure out how to approach a teacher to convince them to be an adviser for a UN-centered club.  Can some people give me tips? -- Posted by Laika 25 at 2:44 pm on April 14, 2006 Oh this is a great idea! Okay well first have an outline of what you want the club to be about. What are it's principals? What type of issues would you tackle and other questions like that. Give them a clear idea of what you want to do. I have started up some clubs at my school and having that will help you. It will let the teacher know that you actually are wanting to do this, and they will know that they aren't waisting their time. -- Posted by disabledlivewire at 2:46 pm on April 14, 2006 Ya time is a big issue.  A lot of teachers are already doing other clubs so I'm afraid of not finding anybody to sponsor. -- Posted by girl22 at 9:36 pm on April 29, 2006 just try ur best -- Posted by thebeekeeper at 2:19 am on June 14, 2006 Just wanted to say good luck!  Go for it!  Laika 25 gave great advice! :) -- Posted by Ciderdude at 6:15 pm on June 19, 2006 Being a president of 2 clubs and dealing with plenty of university bureacracy here are the steps. First, you have to find which organization is in charge or monitoring, financing and supporting all the clubs usually it is student union or something like that. Contact them and get all the neccessary paperwork. Second, make sure you have a statement of purpose and some kind of an outline which will show how the club will operate, who will be in charge, what kind of events will be planned, how many people you think will participate, etc. Third, a sample budget wouldn't hurt. Ask student union for help on this one or some other club officials. Fourth, you need to lay the groundwork for club constitution, which will contain a lot of things mentioned in part 2. I don't even know if you really need a professor to start a club. At my school you didn't. I hope you're not talking about a high school club? -- Posted by crfdude86 at 3:29 pm on Feb. 28, 2007 i started a sking club at my highschool fresh year -- Posted by samaside at 10:47 pm on Mar. 11, 2007 Model UN is amazing. I'm currently starting an Arabic self study club at my school. It's a small group but we've got textbooks and everything. It's fun. -- Posted by Tavis at 6:46 am on Mar. 13, 2007 Just make sure its a win-win situation for you and the school -- Posted by Astraea on my Arm at 6:20 pm on June 18, 2007 The constitution's very important. You should study a couple of constitutions from older groups, on campus, and a couple of constitutions from other Model UN groups. I founded my college's chapter of the College Republicans, and there's quite a bit of paperwork to go through, especially to aquire a room for a standing meeting. You'll also have to get an account with financing. And as far as a budget goes, we get money from our student government on an 'as need' basis, like once a semester; i.e. once a semester we get to apply for funds for a function. Other than that, it's up to us to find our own funds. lol, model U.N. It's amazing that an organization could exist that is actually more useless and fake than the real U.N. Good luck with that.