Activities

Here you will find a variety of templates related to student activities. Use the links below to jump to specific examples on this page:
 

• Internship
• Campus Leadership or RAs
• Club Participation (Multiple Clubs)
• Club Participation (Single Club)
• Community Service
• Greek Life
• Peer Mentors

The examples below provide a basic template to congratulate graduating students. You may edit, remove, or add content as desired.  Replace the text in RED with your school's info.  Text in  [Yellow]  represents personal data from your spreadsheet or list of students. 

Internships


This template is designed to accommodate all of your students performing internships in one achievement. The accompanying spreadsheet includes a column for the name of the company the student is interning with. It can also include a descriptive paragraph for each company or the students role there.

Merit Title:   [Spring 2017]  Internships Give [Merit University] Students Valuable Experience

Merit Summary:  Students are gaining beneficial experience and linking course work to their future careers by participating in [Merit University's] [Internship program].

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Campus Leadership


Please note that even though this example contains an example of a group release, most newspaper prefer not to receive press releases about resident assistants. You will most likely want to create a web-only story.

Merit Title:   [Merit University] Names [24] Students to  [2017-18]  Residence Life Staff

Merit Summary:  [Twenty four] students were welcomed as the [2017-18]  Residence Life Staff at [Merit University] . Resident Assistants serve to ensure the health and safety of students on campus and in residence halls, as well as provide educational programming for residents.

In the following example, the spreadsheet that accompanies this story includes the name of the club that students participated in. It can also include columns with a full sentence description of the club and/or the students roles with the organization.

Please note that even though this example contains an example of a group release, most newspaper prefer not to receive press releases about club participation. You will most likely want to create a web-only story.

Merit Title:  [Merit University]  Students Participate in Campus Clubs

Merit Summary: More than [800] [Merit University] students participated in campus clubs during the [2016-17] academic year.

Please note that even though this example contains an example of a group release, most newspaper prefer not to receive press releases about club participation. You will most likely want to create a web-only story.

Merit Title:  [Merit University's]  [Chess Club] Announces Membership for [Fall 2017]

Merit Summary: More than [20]  students participated in [Merit University's] [Chess Club] during the [Fall 2017] semester.

Merit Title:  [Merit University]  Students Volunteer at the [Zombie Food Bank of NYC]

Merit Summary:   More than [40] [Merit University] student volunteers [helped serve hundreds of warm meals to needy zombies in the New York City metro area.]

Please note that even though this example contains an example of a group release, most newspaper prefer not to receive press releases about Greek organizations. You will most likely want to create a web-only story.

Merit Title:  Students Inducted Into Greek Organizations in the  [Fall 2017] Semester

Merit Summary:   [Merit University]  has [ten] Greek organizations on campus. On [Nov. 16] , more than [30] students were inducted into these organizations .

Please note that even though this example contains an example of a group release, most newspaper prefer not to receive press releases about peer mentors. You will most likely want to create a web-only story.

Merit Title:   [Fall 2017]  Peer Mentors

Merit Summary:   [Merit University]  peer mentors work with students across campus to help them succeed . To qualify as a peer mentor, a student must [be a full time, matriculated undergraduate student in good disciplinary and academic standing, with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5].