After conducting internal and external research, the Alumni Affairs Committee recommended that the fraternity explore the concept known as team advising. In short, team advising would allow chapters to have another advisor known as the alumni advisor. The alumni advisor would be the fraternity’s representative to the chapter and vice-versa. He would concentrate on fraternal issues such as meeting procedure and decorum, the probationary membership program and province, regional and national events. The faculty advisor would become the school’s representative to the chapter and vice-versa. His focus would center on keeping abreast of school policies for student organizations as well as monitoring and providing support to the academic careers of the chapter members. Rather than attempt to force this idea on every chapter, the committee is recommending that individual chapters, in consultation with their Province Governors, experiment with this program and tailor it to meet their own needs. For more information, contact a National Staff member for the idea paper upon which this program is based.

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