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Chapter Officer Webinar Recaps

by John Holloway • February 2010 • 2 Comments •

For the past two years the General Fraternity has been hosting officer town hall conference calls for High Alphas and High Pis. Based on the positive feedback that was given during these calls this semester we added an interactive webinar and more officer town hall sessions.

Adviser’s College Summit Update

On January 8, 2010 through January 10, 2010, Lambda Chi Alpha hosted its first ever Ronald A. Neville Advisers Summit. This stand-alone advisers training took place in Orlando, and consisted of the Advisers Basic and Advanced Advisers curriculums.

Master Stewards Wayne Gossard, Mike Smith (Denver), Drew Hunter (Denver), Mike Saunders, and Rick Scauzillo facilitated the programs/workshops in each of the two tracks of the summit. Thirty-two current advisers participated in the training, and were able to share best practices with their peers, the volunteer faculty, and staff.

For alumni serving as chapter advisers, housing corporation officers, alumni control board members, or alumni advisory board members, the Neville Alumni Advisers Summit is essential training.

In honor of Ron Neville’s (Drury 1969) many contributions to the Fraternity, the alumni advisers college has been named the Ronald A. Neville Alumni Advisers College.

A 2006 Order of Merit recipient, Neville has served for numerous years as the Drury University chapter adviser, an Educational Foundation board member, and has been a generous financial supporter of the Fraternity.

The webinars allow the opportunity to show the documents as they are referenced and go step by step through the Membership Documents in the Officer Portal and the new Event Planning Process.

Each webinar lasted about one hour with the last 20-30 minutes opened up for questions and answers.

The following information is a breakdown of each call including attendees and what was covered on each webinar.

High Gamma Webinar

Hosted by Tina Waldrop, operations coordinator and Thomas Roberts, compliance manager

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 @ 7:30 p.m.
45 attendees
Covered the Operations Guide/Important Dates, Spring 2010 Rosters and the Officer Portal

High Pi Webinar

Hosted by Jordan Miller, senior associate director of chapter services, alumni volunteer coordinator

Tuesday, January 19 @ 7:00 p.m.
24 attendees
Covered the Operations Guide/Important Dates, Spring 2010 Rosters, Officer Portal, Event Planning and the 2010 conclave schedule

High Iota Webinar

Hosted by Matt Roy, associate director of harm reduction

Tuesday, January 19 @ 8:30 p.m.
59 attendees
Covered Operations Guide/Important Dates, Spring Risk Management Assessment (RMA), Event Planning on the Officer Portal and other harm reduction topics

High Alpha Webinar

Hosted by John Cain, associate director of chapter services

Tuesday, January 26 @ 7:30 p.m.
28 attendees
Covered Operations Guide/Important Dates, True Brother Update and Outcomes, 2010 conclave schedule and Council of Presidents update/survey results

High Tau Webinar

Hosted by Brett Baker, associate director of business affairs

Tuesday, February 2 @ 7:30 p.m.

Issue: February 2010 | Author: John Holloway | Filed in: 2010 February, Fraternity News

2 Responses to “Chapter Officer Webinar Recaps”. (leave your response)

G Porter Shaw Says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 1:04 pm
It is interesting that such a low percentage of officers participate in these webinars. With 200 chapters and the ease of computers to have these interchanges I find it a point that needs to be investigated as to why the numbers are so low
Tom Earp Says:
February 3rd, 2010 at 1:55 pm
It may come from the chapters having to pay the way to these events? I know from the last G A, I found out that Chapters had to pay for expenses to attend.
Chapters are like we as individuals are tighting the belt.

Tom Earp
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