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Homecoming Court 2025

SIU Homecoming Royalty Competition is a long-celebrated tradition at SIU. Candidates must submit a detailed application, resume, and reference letter and then be interviewed. Once chosen for the court by a panel of judges, candidates must campaign on campus for their fellow Saluki votes. Royalty will be announced on the 50-yard line during halftime of the SIU Homecoming Football game.

Voting extends from 8:00 a.m. the Monday of Homecoming Week through 12:00 p.m. on that Friday. Visit MyCourses to vote for your favorite candidates when voting opens!

Court application

2025 Homecoming Court candidates:

APPLICATIONS WILL OPEN IN SEPTEMBER.

 In the meantime, check out our updated rules and policies including:

-2025 Homecoming Court guidelines
-Nominate a student for Homecoming Court
-RSO and department sponsorships of a candidate

Saluki Royalty Guidelines

  • 8-10 finalists will be chosen for Homecoming Court, 2 Saluki Royalty will be crowned
    • All students who apply will be considered for the 10 court finalists, regardless of gender identity
    • 2 students will be crowned as Royalty 
    • 10 finalists chosen by an interview committee
    • Royalty voted on by student body on D2L
  • Requirements
    • Undergraduate students only
    • Must be at least junior status with 56 credit hours completed
      • At least 12 of those hours must be from SIUC
    • Must have at least a 2.5 GPA
      • This includes SIUC GPA and accepted transfer credits / GPA
    • Must be in good academic and judicial standing with SIUC
    • Must complete the full application packet
    • Students are not eligible if they have previously served on the Homecoming Court
    • Students are not eligible if they are currently serving on the Student Programming Council

Candidate Sponsorship Guidelines

SPC is allows students to have sponsors during the Homecoming Court campaigns!

Each Candidate is allowed one sponsor as well as their department/college to promote them as candidates. (see below for details)

HOW SPONSORING WORKS

  • SPONSOR GUIDELINES
    • Once a candidate is a part of the Homecoming Court they can have ONE sponsoring organization.
    • It is the candidates job to obtain a sponsor.
    • Once the sponsor is approved by SPC, that sponsor can do the following:
      • Post on social media about the candidate
      • Promote the student on campus
      • Have flyers up and other advertising on campus promoting the candidate
      • The organization must follow all Court guidelines
      • The Candidate is responsible for all actions of the sponsor. 
  • WHO CAN BE A SPONSOR
    • Registered Student Organizations (excluding the list below) are the only entities that can be a sponsor.
    • Individual Greek Organizations 
    • Individual Saluki Athletics team (see below for details)
  • WHO CANNOT SPONSOR
    • SPC
    • USG
    • All umbrella RSOs (BAC, HSC, ISC, ect)
    • 4 Greek Councils (NPHC, CPA, IFC, MGC)
    • Dawg Pound
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS
  • Academic departments are seperate from other sponsors and do not count as the one sponsor from above.
  • The student must be a degree seeking student within the department/college
  • If multiple students are on the court, departmenst/colleges can do the following:
    • The department/college can promote all candidates from their area
    • OR Choose to promote no candidates.
      • Cannot support one student but not another within the department/college
SALUKI ATHLETICS
  • If a student athlete is on the court, their team can serve as the sponsor
    • But that is in place of a RSO sponsor.
    • Their college/department can still promote them.
  • The student must be a current student athlete with that program at SIU.
*Sponsors must be approved by SPC and confirmed by the candidate.*

Nominate a Candidate

We want you to nominate students you think are deserving of being on the 2025 Homecoming Court!

  • Anyone can nominate a student.
    • Fellow students
    • Faculty or staff
    • RSOs as a whole
    • Community members
  • The student will recieve an email that they were nominated but it will not say who nominated them.
    • The process is completely anonymous.
  • It is up to the student to then apply themselves after being nominated.
    • Students can apply themselves even if they are not nominated.
  • The nominations will be taken into consideration when determining who will be on the Court.
  • Nominators are not required to be a sponsor of the candidate during the campaign.

 

                         Nominate a Student                          

 

Nominations are due before court interviews to allow all nominees enough time to apply

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