What is Model United Nations?
Model United Nations is a simulation of the United Nations in which students role play the diplomats and ambassadors to the United Nations from a particular country. Each student team represents an assigned country and represents that country’s interests in committee meetings on topics such as non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, climate change, global development, refugee policy, or global health. The goal of Model UN is to serve as strong representatives of the assigned country and work as a team to advance that country’s agenda in each simulated UN committee.
MSU Texas students attend the National Model United Nations conference in New York City each spring, which attracts over 5000 college students from around the world. Model UN is a hands on, experiential learning experience that fosters leadership skills and prepares students for post-graduate careers by learning to compete at the highest levels against some of the best students in the world.
The MSU Texas Team
The MSU Texas Model UN Team is highly competitive and selective. There are currently 19 team members, representing all 6 colleges at MSU with majors ranging from Accounting and Pre-med to Respiratory Therapy and Music. Team members are high achieving students at MSU. The team GPA average is currently 3.9. They are also outstanding campus leaders, regularly winning multiple campus outstanding student awards, as well as holding leadership positions campus organizations and student government. Preparing the Model UN team requires support from across campus and the community. Please help support Model UN by donating today.
Model UN Team Awards
The MSU Texas Model UN Team has won multiple delegation and individual awards in its history. The program began in 2014 and has earned multiple distinctions at both the regional and national level. The MSU Texas Model UN team has earned three Outstanding, three Distinguished and one Honorable Mention Delegation awards and five individual Best Delegate and 20 individual Outstanding Position Paper Awards at the national level and an Outstanding Delegation Award at the regional level.
Interested in Joining the MSU Texas Model UN team?
Are you interested in participating in Model UN? Are you ready to challenge yourself against the best students from around the globe? Do you want to sharpen your leadership skills?
If so we want you on the team. The team is open to all students on campus with a GPA of 3.25 or higher. We encourage students from across all majors to apply as the the topics we approach each year vary broadly ranging from issues as diverse as the storage of radioactive waste, financing for disaster recovery, to protection of persecuted religious minorities. Each spring we hold interviews of applicants interested in joining the team. Following these interviews we will select our team members and begin meeting in the fall with the start of school. Team members work every week during the fall and spring semester to create their position papers and prepare for the conference. If you are up to the challenge and would like to join the team begin the process by filling out an application.