Club Offered for Ad/PR Students!!!

The Ad/PR Club is a club that is offered to Ad/PR majors and to recruit members every year the club has pizza and just meets to discuss what the club is and who is interested. The club meets about once a month on Thursdays during chapel towards the beginning of  each month. To become a member of the club you must pay $50 for either the Advertising side or just the Public Relations side, AAF or PRSA/PRSSA. Or you can pay $100 to be a part of both of them. Every meeting the officers bring in someone in the professional field to speak on their chosen profession or a certain topic. In the past the officers have brought in people who head up the PR program at ACU, work at businesses such as the Grace Museum, Texas Tech school and Neiman Marcus. This year the Advertising President is Melanie Langston. She has put in many hours with her fellow Public Relations President, Holly Tittle as well as the other officers, preparing for each chapel meeting, the events that are planned for members of the Ad/PR Club, luncheons, and a budget that is given to them each year from SA.

One of the events that is offered to members of the Ad/PR Club is Pro Am Day. This day is held in Fort Worth, Texas and entails several events. This year the students were all in a board room together and listened to a speaker about how to interview and get a job in the current economy. The students then broke up to meet with different professionals who looked at their resume and fixed it, according to them. Usually 3 or 4 different professionals get to look at your resume and critique it. It is great to get this kind of feedback from current professionals and to see what the workplace is looking for. If the professional has their business card with them as well it is always a good foot in the door to ask for it and email your resume to the company later. Everyone is then invited to a lunch, which is always high class and the students who participated in the days events usually have a topic to discuss. This year ACU presented on the Ipad and how ACU’s student run newspaper is the first to be available on there. After lunch, the students were then invited to take part in a tour of a real life agency. This year it was GCG Agency. The students learned all sorts of things including how an agency ran/worked and how to apply for a position at an agency.

The club also offers luncheons that the students can participate in. You can go to those and learn from the guest speakers, all about what they do and how they do it, not to mention while enjoying some great food. These are usually hosted at the Hardin Simmons Campus. Another important event that the Ad/PR club lets students know about and covers is the event over Social Media usually held in Round Rock, Texas hosted by the University there. The event is good for first timers learning about social media, because in the event they bring in lots of guest speakers who all cover the topic in a different way. The event is all day and a person walks away knowing a lot about social media and gaining professional knowledge in the situation. Also professionals are there to help look over your resume and portfolio and to give advice where needed.

Although this club may sound like its not very interesting or you feel you don’t have the time to join up any clubs, this is a very good club to join on campus. You meet a wide variety of people and it looks great on your resume especially if you were an officer in the club and can put that down on your resume for the future. Many people are unaware that there is such a club available to students in this chosen major/profession, but there is and the quicker you get involved and the more things you get involved with, the better.

E-mail Teaser- Resume reviewing, portfolio help, learning from professionals and student officers. What is this, you may ask? Ad/PR Club at Abilene Christian University offers a wide variety of events for students. A club like this on campus for students looks great on your resume for future employers. It is also great to get involved in some way and this club does it.

Sidebar- Officer positions include: President for Public Relations, Vice President for Public Relations, President for Advertising, Vice President for Advertising, Secretary, and Treasurer. Sponsers include Dave Hogan for Public Relations and Joyce Haley for Advertising.

Tweet- At ACU a wide variety of clubs are offered, one not so commonly known as the Ad/PR Club. The Ad/PR Club offers many different events for students to enjoy.

Ashley and Becky

Holly and Laken

Laura presenting the Ipad innnovation at ACU

Holly and Becky at the PRO Luncheon

Setting up the P.P. on Ipad innovation at ACU

Ad/PR club member at ACU; Pro AM Day

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