Student Clubs

Academic Clubs

Christian Health Professionals of Tomorrow (CHPT)
Christian Health Professionals of Tomorrow aims to help members explore the health profession field and to serve the surrounding community. We host speakers who share their own experiences in the medical field, sponsor visits to professional schools, and partner with Community Blood Center of the Ozarks for on-campus blood drives.
Contact: CHPT@jbu.edu

Collegiate Chapter of Music Educators National Conference (CMENC)
The Music Service Organization seeks to provide services for the music department and learning opportunities for music education students specifically. Among its many services, MSO provides ushers, reception-workers, and stage managers for recitals, performances, and lyceums. It co-sponsors the Music Department Banquet each spring and hosts a solo/ensemble competition for area middle and high school students. Anyone in any way involved in the music department is welcome to join!
Contact: brandonw@jbu.edu

Construction Management Club
The construction management club is designed to encourage and aid all CM majors in the pursuit of future job opportunities and their understanding of how building systems function. We achieve this by enabling all JBU students to visit job sites, interact with personnel from many construction companies, and by providing events on campus to encourage students in the development of their skills.
Contact: gledoux@jbu.edu

Engineers Club
JBU Engineering Club is an establishment that is totally and completely focused on you, the engineer. EC is designed so that we can foster community among the engineering students, broaden their view of what it means to be an engineer, and keep relevant information concerning engineering activities available. Engineers are a select few, and so our goal is to help you be the engineer God wanted you to be.
Contact: kmetzj@jbu.edu

French Club
The purpose of the JBU French Club is to encourage the study of the French language and culture through a variety of exciting activities. Most importantly, the French Club understands the priceless benefits of learning a new language and culture. Learning a new language well will allow you to gain a more global perspective, reinforce your own identity and self-confidence, and provide you with the ability to exchange ideas with people all over the world that you would otherwise not have the chance to. Language-learning success is essential in order to secure a successful career in this increasingly connected world.
Contact: ShriftD@jbu.edu

History Society
The purpose of the society is to promote the study and appreciation of history among JBU students, to facilitate discussions and conversations regarding faculty and student research, to promote community among JBU students, and to promote campus-wide discussions regarding topics of historical importance.

Honors Scholars
The JBU Honors Club strives to enrich students in different ways both in and outside of the classroom. Through exclusive and campus-wide events, the Honors Club aims to edify the JBU Community.

Philosophy Club
The John Brown University Philosophy Club is an organization that seeks to unite a body of students under the common goal of the pursuit of truth and wisdom. We hope to bring this idea into fruition through the study, lecture, and discussion of ancient and modern philosophy from a Christian perspective. So please cast aside any preconceived notions you have of the discipline of philosophy, and join us on this journey to excellence.

Psychology Club
The Psychology Club is open to all Psychology majors and minors. Throughout the year, we host different events and activities such as movie nights, star gazing, dinners, and attend seminars from various psychologists and more. It is a great and fun way to be involved in our department and to meet fellow psychology students.
Contact: Perezj@jbu.edu

SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise)
Students In Free Enterprise seeks to change lives around the world through education and service that equips people, builds communities, and inspires hearts. JBU SIFE is students with ideas to meet needs, organizing into teams, and implementing projects to raise the standard of living for others.
Contact: canderson@jbu.edu

Sigma Tau Delta
The International English Honor Society seeks to promote literacy as well as interest in the cultural arts across the JBU campus and throughout the Siloam Springs Community.

Speech and Debate Club
The JBU Speech and Debate club trains students to be more effective speakers and debaters through local, regional, and national forensics competitions. We represent the mission of JBU in such competitions through excellent public speaking, oral interpretation, and debate performances. We also strive to serve the community through hosting and judging tournaments, service, advocacy, and other worthy endeavors.
Contact: eroebuck@jbu.edu

Teacher Education Club
The Education Club is a resource for all teacher candidates in the Education Department. We seek to provide opportunities for professional development and a community of encouragement for the candidates.
Contact: TLamborn@jbu.edu

The Visual Art Foundry
The Visual Art Foundry is--simply put--a community for the art students of John Brown University. We aim to provide a place that encourages and inspire graphic designers, illustrators, animators, photographers, and cinematographers to think critically and creatively. Through workshops, show-n-tell times and events, COAST seeks innovative ways to connect art students while enriching their art education experience. It is a place to "be cool."

Sports Clubs

Men's Rugby
At JBU, our Rugby Club pursues the head-heart-hand philosophy of John Brown University. We seek to combine the hard hitting game of rugby with Christ-like attitudes and actions. Our team desires not only to improve our skills in the sport of rugby, but also to be a positive Christian witness on and off the field. Our team finishes each practice and each match with prayer and a united singing of the "Doxology". This serves to remind all who look on the true reason for the club and to whom we give all glory and honor for the team, Jesus Christ.
Contact: Youngn@jbu.edu

Men's Volleyball
Two phrases sum up the JBU Men's Club volleyball team: We love the game of volleyball, and we love using sports as a way to Glorify God. As a young team, we teach many of the fundamentals of volleyball to compete against local schools and attend the occasional tournament.
Contact: engebretsenh@jbu.edu

Men's Ultimate Frisbee
JBU Ironfist is a competitive collegiate ultimate frisbee team that seeks to provide JBU students the opportunity to play competitive Ultimate Frisbee against other college level clubs and organizations, to provide an example of Christian athletes to a largely non-Christian community, and to represent JBU to other colleges.
Contact: Ultimate@jbu.edu

Women's Ultimate Frisbee
The Women's Ultimate Frisbee Team provides the opportunity to play competitive Ultimate Frisbee against other college level clubs and organizations. We strive to provide an example of Christian athletes to a largely non-Christian community, and to represent John Brown University to other colleges.
Contact: Ultimate@jbu.edu

Special Interest Clubs

American Sign Language Club
The Sign Club exists to give students the opportunity to learn American Sign Language and to practice communicating through ASL. The club also serves to increase the general knowledge about the deaf community and culture and to increase interaction between the deaf and hearing communities.

Anime Club
The JBU Anime Club is oriented around showing members of the JBU community engaging Anime. We screen different types and genres of anime to broaden and enrich the experiences of our club members, having a good deal of fun laughing at some of the comedy inherent in anime.
Contact: neiblings@jbu.edu

Council for International Friendship (CIF)
CIF serves the link between International students and domestic students.

GOAL
GOAL is dedicated to providing innovative education to the student body with the tools and skills to succeed in college, and to ease the transition from backpack to briefcase. We nourish strategic leadership and are passionate about furthering the Human Resources Profession.
Contact: goal@jbu.edu

Golden Eagle Productions
Golden Eagle Productions (GEP) is a club composed of students from various majors who share a common interest in production work. Students in GEP can participate in several production projects including live JBU basketball coverage, webisodes, newscasts, and more! No experience is required. GEP is a great way to get experience in different forms of media and production work. If you are working on a project and need help, this club is also a way to find crew members.
Contact: Anna Wierman wiermana@jbu.edu or Dr. Kara Gould kgould@jbu.edu

Mu Kappa
Mukappa is a club organized by MK's with the goal of supporting MK's in their transition from their home overseas into the college experience here at JBU. Our experiences overseas make us very unique individuals. Mukappa organizes events in order to encourage relationships with other fellow MK's on campus to support and encourage each other in our unique situations and experiences. Beyond this we hope that having this support system will give us confidence to make relationships with other students on campus. Events include but are not limited to: camping, weekly dinners with the missionary-in-residence family, annual goat roast, movie nights, and supporting the rugby team at home games.

ROTC
The ROTC club exists to help any student enrolled in Army or Air Force ROTC with the added classes and struggles that could arise from ROTC. We also try to do events to bring awareness to ROTC and to the military as a whole.