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Are there any college/student organization for TCKs?

“Is there any college organization for TCK’s so we can find and connect with each other face-to-face on sometimes huge campuses? TCK’s walk past each other constantly and may not even know they have something in common! A student organization can help them connect, especially since some areas of the world have a “mind your own business” mentality that sometimes prevent TCK’s from finding each other.” From Darren B.

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Posted by tckid at 11:27 am on May 30th, 2008. Comments
Categories: Ask Uncle, General Forum.

  • karlhideyo
    A wonderful and fulfilling way for TCK uni students to be involved in a positive force in the world today is to join AIESEC! They are in most all the major universities in the world and are active globally.
  • I know I posted before, but I'm actually thinking of starting up a student organization for TCKs/CCKs/MKs/etc. Does anybody know how I could go about reaching out to people? I don't know of many TCKs around the Madison, WI area...
  • I know that for Missonary Kids, Mu Kappa International has chapters on many college campuses see www.mukappa.org for more information
  • Marie
    Hey we're just starting on in Boston, MA (look up Third Culture Kids Boston facebook group...on my list), it's for all TCKs in the Boston area, regardles of age but most of us are college students.
  • John Doe
    Are these organizations working together? Hopefully they are! If not, they should be! "The South" definitely needs a TCK organization. Southerners travel too but are sometimes spread out so far in the "boondocks" to find like-minded people! Urban TCK's have a better chance of finding other like-minded people, unlike rural TCKs. I guess thats the way it is for now.
  • Oh wow, Brice! This is great! Thanks for the info!
  • Brice
    Yes, there are! Here's a list of groups and organizations.

    CANADA



    <ul><li>Yahoo group in Canada: 1/07: group is inactive and needs an organiser</li>
    TCKID Meetup Northwest / B.C, Canada
    </ul>

    UNITED STATES WEST COAST



    <ul><li>California, USA - Global Nomads of San Francisco</li><li>
    TCKID Meetup San Francisco    </li>
    <li>TCKID Meetup Los Angeles</li>
    <li>
    Global Nomads West US    </li></ul>

    UNITED STATES EAST COAST



    <ul><li>DC, USA - Global Nomads Washington Area</li>
    <li>TCKID Meetup Washington D.C</li>
    <li>North Carolina, USA
    </li></ul>

    Universities and student organizations





    <ul><li>American University website - Washington, DC  </li><li><a target="" href="javascript:;" rel="nofollow">Brown University website- Providence, RI </li><li>Colorado State University website - Fort Colllins, CO - link to be updated</li><li>George Mason University website and listserv - Fairfax, VA, USA </li><li>Lewis and Clark College website - Portland, OR </li><li>Syracuse University - Syracuse NY -  to be updated </li><li>University of Denver website and listserv - Denver, CO </li><li>University of the Pacific, School of International Studies website - Stockton CA </li><li>University of Virginia website </li></ul>
  • At my university, it takes $20 and a form to start a student organization. (and maybe like 3 people?) The problem for me, is that I don't know any other TCKs at my university, though I wouldn't be surprised if there were...
  • tckid, where do you live?

    As far as I know, my university does not have a student organization tailored to the TCK. Thanks to older MKs on campus, I joined them in several meet ups to pray for and help one another in the past 2-3 years. I hope to expand this meet up from MK to TCK. Where do you live, tckid? Do you attend high school? College? Maybe you can initiate a TCK group in your area and we can work on making collaboration work among different schools.
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