Did Tri-Delta also pay for her field research in Atlantic City? ;)

You can also add sigma kappa to that list. We have a chapter consultant live with the chapter for at least a year, and of course everything is paid for.

Alpha Phi also has resident Chapter Consultants who live with the chapter the first and sometimes the second year at the Fraternity's expense. After the Chapter Consultant leaves the chapter will get an Educational Leadership Consultant visit about 3 or 4 times a semester for the next few years to help make sure they have all of the assistance they need. These consultants are in addition to our International Staff, Extention Committee, Colony Team and and advisory board members who are there to support the colony.

LD

For those GLOs that have a resident consultant live with the colony for a year...how much is their salary roughly? I know the expenses depend on where they live (Little Rock, AR is much cheaper than parts of Virginia/DC area, etc.) but how much pocket money do they wind up getting?

And really, what do they do during the day or week when the chapter doesn't have something going on? The RC can't do everything for the chapter while they're in class (such as plan recruitment, design Tshirts, write bylaws, etc.). Other than taking graduate classes (are those paid for by the GLO?), what do they do?

I'm envious...I wish I could do that job!

PsychTau

Alpha Chi Omega has a CLC from headquarters living in town overseeing the colony for its first year, too. For my chapter's second recruitment, we had several CLCs in town for the week on standby in case any crises arose. Thankfully, none did :)

When our chapter at U Mich recolonized, they had one consultant who was there full time and another that visited from time to time throughout the year in addition to Pearl Sisters (alum who 'adopt' a new member), the advisors, and alumnae chapters in the area.
The one who was there full time did visit a couple other chapters in the region as well.

I can easily see it being a full time job to focus on educating the new members, organizing their colonization, etc.

I don't know what our Leadership Consultants or Graduate Consultants get paid. Leadership Consultants travel around to chapters to focus on leadership development and recruitment. Graduate Consultants are students at the school and live in the chapter house. The Fraternity's goal is that each chapter will receive a visit from someone on the Volunteer Services Team or a Leadership Consultant every year.

I would have loved to be an LC when I graduated but I had a boy I thought I was in love with and didn't want to leave him... hindsight is 20-20!

Dee

[I don't know what our Leadership Consultants or Graduate Consultants get paid. Leadership Consultants travel around to chapters to focus on leadership development and recruitment. Graduate Consultants are students at the school and live in the chapter house. The Fraternity's goal is that each chapter will receive a visit from someone on the Volunteer Services Team or a Leadership Consultant every year.


My LC year was 1974-75. I got $200/mo plus expenses. (To put that into perspective, the "real" job I got when the LC year ended paid $7280. My car payment was $40/mo; rent for a furnished apartment was $80/mo.)

I know for our leadership consultants they were being paid $13,000 plus expenses (about 5 years ago). When we had a Delta Upsilon Colony, they had a consultant who virtually lived here for a semester. Unfortunately though, he was about worthless and was fired by their HQ.

I agree that having an LC living with the chapter for a year can be a GREAT thing. But when does the chapter learn to function on its own with no LC? I just wonder if you ever have trouble with a group who has their hand held too much? I don't mean that offensively either...just curious.

doubleblue&gold, I'm confuddled...was this a recolonization or were the alumnae you're talking about alums of the local that went national?

No system is perfect and not all consultants are suited to being a resident. I agree that she should not be doing the work for colony officers and that doubleblue&gold was not well served by her RC. On the other hand, I have worked with two colonizations and both were blessed with excellent resident consultants. It is a challenge to take 100 strangers and facilitate them becoming a chapter or take a local with it's own structure and tradition and rework those traditions into Pi Beta Phi. It is not easy and our consultants don't sit around all day designing T-shirts or planning recruitment. She may plan and facilitate recruitment workshops, small group meetings, work one-on-one with officers (most often at night... how many of you go late into the night with meetings/ events?) but is also doing 'behind the scenes' work to plan the Installation, communicate with other officers and help train alumnae advisors. Since these alumnae are NOT from that campus, and may not have worked with chapters in the past, they may not be ready to just jump in immediately.

I don't think that you can ever support a new colony too much. As a charter member myself, I found Alpha Phi knew just how to support its chapters the right way. Yes their is a "prescription" for support (ie, live-in consultant for year one, possibly year 2) but who the consultant is, the programming skills she brings to the chapter is always decided on in a very individual way. For example, my chapter is at a big engineering school so our Year 1 consultant was from Virginia Tech so she matched our academic background but was also picked for her recruitment and chapter operations knowledge.

After the live-in year consultants are sent based on what support the chapter/colony needs. Finance, programming, etc.

Good point, Karen. I didn't even think about training the alumnae advisers, especially if they are from a local group and aren't alumnae members of Pi Phi.

AST doesn't have resident consultants, but we have Educational Consultants that travel to all the chapters. One of them is focused 99% of the time on the new colonies (and she absolutely ROCKS at that!), but she visits a few established chapters as well.

We also have colony advisers that are assigned to work with the colonies and move them toward chapter status. They are part of our volunteer staff, though.

PsychTau

Another point about groups spending that much $$ on consultants is many groups try to limit the number of colonies they have and places they choose to present because they want to provide every colony with a consultant. It just depends on what the priorities of that group are--expansion with a consultant, or more expansion.

Our national programming often dealt with new chapters. Conventions and regional conclaves often asked colonies to go to certain meetings. We were provided with phone and email help constantly. Also we had a consultant down several times - mainly for rush though.

-Rudey