“University Groups Should Run Socials” by Avik Garg, Noah Birnbaum

This post is for university group student organizers. We start with the big reason you should run a social, three tips we’re highly certain of, and some additional thoughts.

We think ~40% of the value of this post is in a tentative answer to the question of how university groups can best provide value to members post intro fellowship; this is a question almost all university group organizers should think more deeply about. Another ~50% is in the “Big intro fellowship” section (tip 1), which is sufficient to run a fairly successful weekly meeting, and we are highly confident that almost all university groups should adopt the “Big intro fellowship” even if you do not choose to run a social.

We both co-lead the University of Chicago group and all data comes from the UChicago group unless otherwise noted.

If this post makes you consider a change at [...]

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Outline:

(01:48) Why a Social

(04:27) Doing a Social Well

(08:29) Some additional thoughts

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First published:

April 28th, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cCquf3RaTYuadFneL/university-groups-should-run-socials

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.