The Students of Objectivism Club at my university has a decent sized mailing list but we have at best six to eight members attend meetings. Usually we just have four members attend our weekly dinner meeting.
Does anyone have any ideas for how we can increase club enrollment? The main purpose is to spread Objectivism.
I think that we need to organize more events. At present, nearly all of our regularly attending members are graduate students who are expecting to graduate soon so we all have been fairly busy. Our future looks bleak.
Next week we are hosting an “Introduction to the Philosophy of Ayn Rand” event where we will air the video Introduction to Objectivism by Dr. Peikoff. I hope that this will spark interest.
to let me know you want Assistant Organizer privileges and I will oblige. This will allow you to add your events to the calendar there.
Meetup offers many lessons so I recommend studying their site in detail. Howard Dean used the service to great effect to organize his campaign years ago and only failed because of, well, because of being Howard Dean.
There are good resources on running a club at ARI’s site and the OCA’s. I can offer three short tips - use controversy to your advantage, design effective fliers (read my guide), and play the numbers game - use as many means of promotion as possible to get attention. When marketing, keep in mind that the number of people open to Objectivism is much smaller than the number of people aware of it.
The Students of Objectivism Club at my university has a decent sized mailing list but we have at best six to eight members attend meetings. Usually we just have four members attend our weekly dinner meeting.
Six to eight? Sad to say but that is a pretty big campus club. My university has about 40,000 students, in four years the biggest we got was a consistent six for one semester. Listen to Rebecca knapp’s EXCELLENT talk on how to run a campus club on the ARI club page. I asked her basically the question you are asking. You might want to also email Matt Ludin and ask him about Dr. Lewis’s upcoming phone lecture on campus clubs, as well.
FYI, Luke’s PROPEL thingy is associated with various TOC organizations, like Rebirth of Reason. That is more likely to alienate potential club members than attract them. I know I wouldn’t attend a club that had anything remotely to do with TOC, especially not after the lies their employees have told about the ARI educational programs.