Student Activities

Clubs and other student-run organizations set you up to find your people, expand your mind, help the community, or create memories you’ll want to post on your socials. When you get involved and serve as a leader in student organizations, you also build up your resume for when these college memories truly become memories and you trade your sweats for a suit, or scrubs, or your Friday business casual.

Meet Our Clubs

The college has a variety of clubs for students to join. Student clubs need to be chartered annually through the Student Government Association, so the number of clubs each year may vary depending on student interest. Clubs are open to all students regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, disability, gender, sexual orientation and/or gender identity.

For more information about our clubs, contact the Student Life Office at [email protected].

Open to all students

Mission: To encourage students to practice and promote the creative endeavors of design and become more active in the graphic industry through events, speakers, and tours.

To show students what you can do with design and to further the overall purpose of AIGA, The American Institute of Graphic Arts, which is a professional organization for design that aims to: Advance design as a professional craft, strategic advantage, and vital cultural force… to enhance the value and deepen the impact of design across all disciplines on business, society, and our collective future.”

Open to all students

Mission: To build friendships / make connections with people who share the love of baking.

Open to all students

Mission: Provide Christian fellowship for a diverse group of students and help students develop a living and growing relationship with Christ through Biblical teaching on salvation through Christ’s death and resurrection, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, prayer, worship, building a bridge to local churches, and providing a nurturing fellowship where students can exercise their faith and practice leadership skills.

Open to all students

Mission: To introduce students to the way of boxing and to teach others how it can be a great coping method.

Open to all students

Mission: To bring Caribbean culture to the campus and bringing culture awareness

Open to all students; Primary Campus – Troy

Mission: Our club’s mission is to give students the opportunity to continue their cheerleading career, or learn a new sport all while supporting athletic teams and raising school spirit.

Open to all students

Mission: Crochet club is a space to learn new, creative skills. It will also foster an open space for people to have fun, earn volunteer hours, and bond within the Sage Community.

Open to all students

Mission: To provide everyone the opportunity to come and dance regardless of skill level with an opportunity to perform in the annual spring dance show.

Open to all students

Mission: Our purpose is to promote positive mental health and educate more people on campus on what art therapy is and how it can be used.

Open to all students

Mission: To bring together future educators for shared initiatives that benefit the community at large and support our shared goal of becoming transformational educators.

Open to all students

Mission: To help students in our major be more ready for their careers after college, and to give non-majors a better look at what we do.

Open to all students

Mission: Helping others build confidence through a modern twist of burlesque dancing.

Open to all students

Mission: Facilitate extracurricular art experience and discussion for both art and extended media students and others.

Open to all students

Mission: To inform students that are in the pre-pa/pre-med track of what will need to be done to achieve their career goals and give them the tools necessary and available for their future goals.

Open to all students

Mission: To create a space where students who are passionate about psychology can explore their educational interests with one another.

Open to all students

Mission: To create a safe space for individuals who identify or are allied with the LGBTQIA+ community and to offer support to local queer-owned businesses and organizations to flourish and thrive.

Open to all students

Mission: Sage Grows is a club for all students interested in plants, gardening, and tending to their own health. It is the goal of the club to engage members in learning about plant care as a method of self-care

Limited membership. Must audition.

Mission: We sing acapella choir music and preserve years long Sage traditions through music.

Open to all students

Mission: This club is designed to be a place where people enrolled or interested in nursing or they do not have to be in nursing. It is a safe place to collaborate and share the same interests and make a connection with other students. Share ides with each other and also do something good for the community by planning some event to help some communities.

Open to all students

Mission: To raise awareness about various environmental issues at Russell Sage College and our surrounding communities.

Open to all students

Mission: We want to start a vlogging club to be able to see the different lives of students throughout the campus and also to take this as an opportunity to have a club that’s fun but relaxing at the same time.

Limited membership. Must be art and design or writing students.

Mission: To create a book of published student work. (Both writing and art submissions)

Open to all students

Mission: The Veteran’s Club is a community of like-minded individuals, whose goals are to support, and guide veterans through the transition from the military to college. Moreover, the Club aims to shape its members into proactive community members who strengthen relationships between veterans and the community through acts of service and outreach by partnering with local charities, support groups, and other colleges.

Open to all students

Mission: To build community on campus in support of our athletic teams and build a bridge between student athletes with non-student athletes.

Open to all students

Mission: Our goal is to help each other with challenges and offer encouragement and empathy. Together we can learn how to plan for our future, and most importantly how to build each other up and make each other feel less alone.

Do You Want to Start a New Club?

If you don’t find exactly what you’re into, you can bring what you’re into to the college. You can start new clubs by working with the Student Life offices in Albany and Troy. Students can charter a club and submit a budget request to the Student Government Association to gain funds to support club activities throughout the year.

For more information on clubs, contact the director or assistant director of student activities in the Student Life Office on either campus. (Find their info at the bottom of this page.)

Honors Societies for the Smarties Among Us

You can learn and have fun (see: honors societies). Russell Sage also has had several honor societies that recognize student achievements within and outside the classroom. Learn more about those below.

The Athenians is the Russell Sage Academic Honor Society. It is composed of juniors and seniors who have achieved a cumulative average of 3.4 after four terms of work.

This society of Russell Sage College recognizes student participation, leadership, and service in the college community. Members of Sage Circle are students who exemplify high standards of character, good sportsmanship, and conduct. The members are expected to continue to promote and retain interest and service in the college community. The criteria for membership include a class standing of at least a second-semester sophomore, a cumulative average of at least a 2.7, the accumulation of a required number of points as prescribed by the Sage Circle Point Sheets, and the overall recognition of high standards exhibited by the student as viewed by the current members of Sage Circle.

Many academic departments have their own nationally recognized honor societies. Students can consult with faculty department chairs to find out about what opportunities are available in their academic programs.

The Student Government Association – Your Voice at RSC

Student government is a driving force in the success of a college. And it’s another way for you to get involved! It’s also a great way to exercise your leadership skills and build your resume.

Student Government Association website:

Activities at Russell Sage. It’s Impossible to Avoid the Fun.

Outdoor carnivals. Pickleball. Scooter soccer. Movies. Board game nights. Special guest speakers. And cheering for your Sage Gators. We’re always planning activities to keep you engaged and entertained when you’re not hitting the books.

Here’s how you can keep up with the things to do and places to see on our campuses.

The Chomp Calendar

Explore Events

Russell Sage Athletics

Explore Sage Gators

Recreation & Fitness

Explore Recreation & Fitness

Women’s Institute at Russell Sage

Explore the Women’s Institute

Opalka Gallery

Explore the Opalka Gallery

Theatre Institute at Sage

Explore TIS

Service Learning

Explore Service Learning

Spirituality Center

Explore the Spirituality Center

Don’t Forget Our Two Cities Have So Much to Do

Our two campuses are located in two exciting Capital Region cities with lots of activities, including board game cafes, coffee shops, movie theaters, restaurants, shopping, parks, museums, and more.

So enjoy your time on campus, but don’t forget there’s a lot to explore just steps away.

Explore CapNY

Get in Touch

Theresa Belfance

Director of Student Activities