| Friday Findings: Summer Edition
semester end reminders for chapter presidents, delegates, recruiters and advisors |
| Friday Findings is produced bi-weekly over the summer months (May, June, July and August) and sent directly to the email inbox of chapter presidents, delegates, recruitment chairwomen, and primary chapter advisors. |
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FMR Update...on track to reach out goal!
It's very exciting in the Greek Affairs office. We're preparing for Orientation and Enrollment...K-State Greeks will be all over the orientation schedule. We're mailing the be magazine, our marketing publication, to all incoming students. We're one track to meet the goal of over 600 PNMs...to date 150 participants have registered for Formal Membership Recruitment!
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ATO missing irreplaceable memorabilia
On Saturday night after finals Alpha Tau Omega (ATO )was the victim of theft and vandalism.
The ATO and US flags were cut down from the Chapter flagpole.
The Chapter House was entered and irreplaceable items were stolen from the Chapter Room. These included 6 initiation paddles, an Anniversary plaque and a lighted ATO Badge given to the Chapter by its Housemother in 1954!
ATO wishes to have everything back -- no questions asked.
Colin Cummings, the Summer House Manager, can be reached at 816-810-7995.
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Grade reports out...PHC Board achieves high marks
Last week preliminary grade reports were emailed to all chapter presidents and primary chapter advisors. Chapters are asked to review the preliminary report. As noted in the May 8 issue of Friday Findings, Chapters have two weeks from the date the scholarship reports are prepared in preliminary format to report any changes or updates. At the end of these two weeks, reports are ran in final form and made public. Anyone receiving a copy of a preliminary report will automatically receive a copy of the final report. In addition, final reports are offered to university administration as well as to headquarters staff persons.
All changes to this report must be made no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, June 12, 2009. A final report will be generated and published no later than Wednesday, June 17, 2009.
As a reminder, all rosters were to be updated by 5:00 p.m., Friday, May 15, 2009. Roster corrections will be allowed via the chapter's ICS account; however roster corrections will not be reflected on the chapter's academic report. Instructions on updating chapter membership rosters may be found at
http://www.k-state.edu/greek/ics/rosterupdate.htm.
A full report of the community's achievement will be offered with the final report.
Our preliminary report offers the following:
All-Community, New Members/Associates (50 students): 3.089
All-Community, Members (1497 students): 3.303
All-Community, All-Chapter (1547 students): 3.296
On a related note, the Panhellenic Council Board of Directors achieved and outstanding mark as a group. As a council, Panhellenic leaders earned a 3.525 GPA. Four members earned 4.00s, all members achieved above a 3.00. |
Become a University Experience Instructor
Dr. Judy Lynch, Director of the Academic Assistance Center, is looking for students who are interested in completing a practicum as an instructor for a section of the University Experience course during the Fall 2009 semester.
Teaching this course would provide a great opportunity to both (a) develop teaching skills, and gain college level teaching experience, and (b) learn to facilitate students' development of skills necessary for success in college, such as communication, critical thinking, academic and career planning, goal setting, and navigating other issues relevant to college life.
If you are interested in this opportunity, then contact Dr. Lynch asap to learn more: judylync@ksu.edu, 532-6492, 101 Holton Hall. |
Brandon Cutler names Association of Fraternity Advisors (AFA) volunteer of the month!
Brandon Cutler, Assistant Director for Greek Affairs at Kansas State University, serves AFA as a member of the Annual Meeting Planning Team's Educational Programs Committee. His nominator, Jennifer Leung, states "Brandon developed and distributed a survey to seasoned professionals in the Association so that, as a committee, we could better understand the programming needs of the dedicated, seasoned professionals in the field. The results of this survey will be used this year, (and for years to come in the future, I'm sure) to help provide outstanding professional development for seasoned members of the Association. Brandon is an outstanding member of our committee." Congratulations Brandon! |
Molly Hamm, Delta Delta Delta, selected as a recipient of the Frank Newman Award for Outstanding Civic Leadership
Molly Hamm, Delta Delta Delta, has been selected as one of the two recipients of this year's Frank Newman Award for Outstanding Civic Leadership by the national office of Campus Compact. This is an enormous honor and the first time Kansas has had a winner of this prestigious award. Ms. Hamm is studying education and non-profit leadership. She has been actively involved in civic engagement throughout her studies, believing that being in college "required much more than membership - it required a conscious and active effort to always improve anything that you touched." Among her many accomplishments to-date, she founded Greeks Going Green, a nonprofit that educates fraternities and sororities on minimizing their environmental impact. Since its inception in 2008, Greeks Going Green has enlisted 14 university hosts around the country. Campus Compact and the Newman family established the Frank Newman Leadership Award in honor of Campus Compact co-founder Frank Newman, a scholar who exemplified a life of public service and educational leadership. The award is designed to support and recognize students with financial need who have demonstrated civic leadership through service and scholastic achievement.
Part of the award is the implementation of a mentoring program with her college president, something that incoming K-State President Kirk Schulz has been highly supportive of. He has provided an opportunity for Molly to gain valuable civic leadership skills during an exciting time at the university.
Congratulations to Molly and Kansas State and thank you for demonstrating to all of us - students, faculty, and me - how to find time to be an active participant in our communities.
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Sigma Kappa chapter highlighted in the "Sigma Kappa Triangle"
Grab a Spring 2009 issue of Sigma Kappa's national magazine and one two pages, you'll see familiar faces. The K-State chapter is pictured in a special recruitment section (on page 10)of the magazine - dressed in all shades of pink. On page 22, the chapter shares about their recent successes in recruitment. |
Lisa Erbe, Delta Delta Delta, helps others through the University Life Cafe
Thanks to Delta Delta's Lisa Erbe's award worthy performance as "Suzy," K-State will be able to help hundreds if not thousands of students in succeeding as a student at K-State. Super K-Stater actress Ms. Erbe plays the role of "Suzy," a student who dispenses good scholastic advice as well as comical situations in the upcoming online video series entitled "Suzy's Strategies," presented by the University Life Café of Counseling Services. Ms. Erbe selflessly contributed about 40 hours of her time in the creation of the video series. Additionally Ms. Erbe was able to get several of her Delta Delta Delta sorority sisters to make guest appearances in the video series for added impact and university wide benefit. The 12 episode video series was written and produced by the Office of Mediated Education at KSU and will be released online through the www.universitylifecafe.org website in early fall, 2009. | |
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issue 15
spring/fall 2009
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