Clubs & Organizations

The Campus Activities Board sponsors a spring formal each year, usually held in downtown Chattanooga.
We strive to glorify God in all that we do, and clubs and organizations are no exception. The majority of a student’s time at Covenant College will be spent outside of the classroom, so it is important to take advantage of all the wonderful co-curricular opportunities and activities one will find at Covenant. This includes opportunities for growth, opportunities for friendship, and opportunities for leadership. Campus clubs and organizations are vital to Covenant and help further growth and fellowship here on campus. Students with new ideas and passions are regularly adding new clubs and may contact Student Senate to join an existing club or to express an interest in starting a new club.
List of Student Clubs & Organizations
President: Molly Holleran
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Toni Chiarelli
The Bagpipe is Covenant's weekly newspaper that exists to report news and events happening at Covenant and around the area. It provides students with valuable journalistic experience, and gives them an outlet to express their thoughts and serve their peers through their writing.
Editor-in-chief: Grace Humbles
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Cliff Foreman
Ballroom club provides students with fun, safe opportunities to dance in such a way that glorifies God and enhances our community through the promotion of an artistic form of expression. Club is broken up into beginners' and intermediate sections allowing everyone, even those without previous dancing experience, an appropriate level of instruction. The dances taught range from swing to rumba, waltz to salsa, and foxtrot to cha-cha - with something for everyone.
President: Melanie Terpstra
Staff Advisor: Meredith Hall
The Tri-Beta club of Covenant College works to increase the students' understanding of creation in the context of a Creator God. We desire to stimulate interest and investigation into the biological sciences via guest speakers and biological conferences so that students are introduced to vocational opportunities. Written publications of the life sciences are used to promote discussion of new information and interpretations among students and their peers so as to grow in knowledge.
President: Mae Mae Johnson
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Richard Nelson
The Business club serves students by providing them with the opportunity to engage with business leaders that have built their careers around Christ, giving students an idea of how to integrate their faith with their profession. In addition, the Business club strives to enhances the image of Covenant College within the business world, for the benefit of current and future members while allowing students to network through the meeting with alum.
President: Lindsay Hoffman
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Scott Quatro
President: Hannah Copeland
Staff Advisor: Jessica Anderson
The Campus Stewardship Committee serves to lead efforts on campus to reduce inefficient energy waste, educate the Covenant community on the importance of stewardship, and motivate students to have personal responsibilty for the physical resources of the Covenant community. The main areas of focus are food conservation, energy conservation, recycling and global mindedness.
Student Chair: Tyler Scharf
President: Peter Bradshaw
Staff Advisor: Anne McNutt
President: Sarah Swygard
Staff Advisor: Tim Mahla
President: Zach Smith
Staff Advisor: Adam Porcella
The Drama Association is a club designed to get the general student body involved in the Theatre Department here at Covenant. We hope to give students opportunities to learn more about art and theatre as well as participate in opportunities we have here on campus.
President: Ann Jones
Faculty Advisor: Prof. Camille Hallstrom
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The Economics Club and Honor Society seeks to serve as a unifying and academically stimulating body that promotes academic scholarship in economics and provides a cohesive network for economic majors and minors to more fully engage in their discipline. It offers opportunities to establish closer ties with faculty on other campuses and Covenant College alumni to better understand the use of economics in various vocations. It also seeks to give recognition to members for scholastic achievement in economics.
President: Josiah Menighini
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lance Wescher
President: Catherine Mullins
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Brandon Kreuze
Covenant College Film Club gives students opportunities to learn about film, by watching movies, bringing in guest lecturers and making movies.
President: Cornelius Hegeman
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Cliff Foreman
The purpose of the French Club is to create opportunities for students to speak in French and enjoy food and fellowship with other proficient French speakers.
President: Claire Meznar
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tom Neiles
President: Peter Bradshaw
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tom Neiles
President: Rebekah Taft
Advisor: Dr. Jerome Wenger
President: Pieter DeGroot
Advisor: Dr. Scott Quatro
International Justice Mission campus chapter seeks to bring awareness to the student body about human trafficking and modern day slavery around the world. Along with raising awareness we plan events to raise funds for International Justice Mission and pray for their ongoing work.
President: Joy Schmidt
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Richard Follett
The Math Club meets weekly to wrestle with interesting and elegant problems, discover the lives of famous mathematicians, and foster out-of-class interaction between mathematically-minded students of all levels.
President: Tim Ahrenholz
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Heunggi Park
Mu Kappa exists to provide opportunities for students at Covenant who grew up outside their home culture to come together and share their experiences. We hope to help foster growth and friendships among MKs through the different events we have during the year.
President: Marianna Codington
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Herb Ward
The Outdoors Club wants to take you caving, climbing, canoeing, hiking, skiing, and backpacking. If you explore on your own terms, we want to provide you with any gear or information you might need. Be not afraid. This is your destiny.
President: Graham LePage
Staff Advisor: Justin Jose
President: Grady Dickinson
Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Wingard
The goal of Covenant’s Pre-Law Society is to help prepare students for law school, assist in the admissions process, and provide an education that will help students succeed once they have entered the practice of law. A pre-law student is best supported by preparation for the LSAT and through encouragement to maintain a high GPA. To that end, the Department of History sponsors the Pre-Law Society, a student–led organization advised by Dr. Follett, which assists in preparation through study groups, application assistance, speakers and advisors, and encouragement of internships and networking.
President: April Kent
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Richard Follett
"Psi Chi is the International Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. " (Taken from Psi Chi's website) Psi Chi's two major goals are to give academic recognition to its members and to provide an environment that is conducive to creative development in the field of Psychology.
President: Kelsey Smoke
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kevin Eames
WKLT serves the student body by providing a venue for them to record music in a professional environment. It also records live events throughout the year and broadcasts them online.
President: Paul Walters
Staff Advisor: Matt Wright
The Covenant College Rugby Club offers a competitive environment to play, and learn, the sport of rugby. The club was established in 2010 by alumnus Scott McKeon, with our first game, and subsequent victory, coming in the spring of 2011 against the Chattanooga Rugby Football Club B-team by a score of 7-0. The club joined the Dixie Rugby League Conference in 2012, and will begin division play in November against opponents like Bryan College, and Lee University. Practice is twice a week.
President: Erik Vitolins
Staff Advisor: Aaron Messner
The purpose of the running club is to allow runners to run together in a safe environment and to continue to expand their running ability to the glory of God.
President: Lydia Boone
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Lance Wescher
President: David Vilches
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Sandy Shaw
President: Joey Hausler
Staff Advisor: Jessica Anderson
The Tartan is the Covenant College student year book. It records aspects of student life at Covenant in creative and memorable ways that can be passed down to future generations.
Editor: Bryony Macintyre
Staff Advisor: Jen Allen
The mission of the Tech club is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every individual member has the opportunity to participate in a Christ-centered community focused on fellowship and the development of the knowledge and skills thorough which technology is applied to various fields.
President: John Holland
Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Hunt
The Thorn is Covenant College's annual literary publication. It provides an outlet for students to publish their work and express themselves artistically to the community at large.
Editor: Erin Brinkman
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Cliff Foreman
President: Mary Kathryn Kuehnert
Faculty Advisor: Lance Wescher
Our purpose is to glorify God in three specific areas: 1) as we fellowship with one another and with widows in our community; 2) as we serve these widows in tangible ways; and 3) as we encourage the widows with reminders of God's love and faithfulness. We students meet for prayer, visit the widows at their weekly Bible study, send monthly letters to widows in the area, do monthly work projects for them, and invite the widows to campus for a student-hosted brunch each semester.
President: Molly Peel
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Gwen Macallister
President: Jacob Davis
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Cliff Foreman
President: Brittany Farmer
Staff Advisor: Meredith Hall
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