Traveling Consultants--how many?
 

I believe Psi U only has one currently, and we actually didn't have any for at least a few years before he was hired.

Theta Phi has 2 each year and each chapter gets a TEC (Traveling Educational Consultant) every 2 years.

We have 18 this year. We call them "TLCs" Traveling Leadership Consultants. I think this year might be the most we have had. When I was a collegian we'd only have 10-12 per year. In my experience, most chapters (not sure about all) get a visit at least once a year, usually during recruitment time, unless there's something else going on or its a very new chapter.

This year Kappa has seven Leadership Consultants, which is pretty standard for us. Every chapter gets at least one visit that lasts a few days to a week. Some chapters will have the same LC visit twice if there are some things they need help with and it's a good fit.

This year Kappa also has four Chapter Consultants, who are just like LCs but are assigned to only one or two chapters. They typically live near the chapter they are assigned to and assist often throughout the year. This is usually reserved for chapters that need special assistance (like our newest chapter at Northeastern).

I believe Alpha Delta Pi has seven. I read a blog one of the LCs. I started reading her blog months before she announced she was going to be one. So It was very interesting to see how the process works/her getting prepared for it.

Alpha Phi calls them Educational Leadership Consultants or ELC's. We currently have 11 for the 2010-2011 year.

Yep, we have ELC's as well. Ours is coming to visit soon. There are 10 total.

Tri Delta calls them Field Consultants. I think usually there is around seven. Newer colonies have stationary field consultants that are there most of the year to help with everything. For the past 4 years I've been at my chapter we've had one in the spring and then usually around recruitment. This year thought we didn't get one in the spring and our FC came in October (wayy after recruitment). I guess that means we're doing good.

Kappa Delta calls them Chapter Development Consultants or CDCs. We have 7 this year. They visit chapters to help out with extension, chapter operations, recruitment and leadership development.

We call them Chapter Consultants. Back when I was a collegian, we called them Chapter Leadership Consultants (CLC). There are 9 of them. My chapter was small, but a high-need chapter, so we always had a few visits (3-4) a year.

Delta Gamma also calls them Chapter Development Consultants, but years ago, they were Field Consultants!
We currently have 9.

Delta Gamma also calls them Chapter Development Consultants, but years ago, they were Field Consultants!
We currently have 9.

We have two CDCs at my school right now getting the chapter here started. They're very nice women!

We have five Leadership Consultants. We get a visit once a year.

I think they're actually Collegiate Development Consultants. The 2010-2011 CDCs were featured on the cover of the Fall 2010 ANCHORA.

AOII has ELCs (Educational Leadership Consultants). This is a new program that started up this year. Prior to this year we had other consultant programs. When I was a collegian they were called Chapter Consultants. Way back in the day they were called Traveling Secretaries I believe. AOII has 6 ELCs this year. It is my understanding every chapter will receive a visit. Then all of the colonies will have ELC visits multiple times. I'm so excited we have this new program. The ELCs are already doing amazing things with our chapters!

Side note: My great aunt was a traveling secretary for Theta in the late 1920s!

I think we have 6-7 Leadership Consultants this year, but we also have 2nd year LC's who will stay with a new chapter. Like when my chapter recolonized 08-09 school year, they had an LC with them the whole year. I believe the chapter I currently advise had the same thing when they colonized (the same year as my chapter's recolonization).

YAY for CDCs!

And I actually just met with one of the girls in my chapter (I am the adviser) to work on her application to become a CDC!! She has a great start and I am soooo excited for her!! :)

Alpha Chi Omega has 9. We call them Chapter Consultants. They typically cover a geographic area of the states. There is also a collegiate experience team, but my understanding is that these women are used for resources and do not travel.

Our current Chapter Leadership Consultant is from the Sigma Phi Chapter at Saint Francis University.

Sigma Nu does visits once a semester. Or at least they did the last few years.

Gamma Phi Beta has 10 total Collegiate Leadership Consultants, or CLCs, as we call them. Our current group are from Oklahoma State, Idaho, Minnesota, Iowa State, Chapman, Denver, Kansas, Oklahoma City, Valparaiso, and Cal State-Fullerton.

3 of our CLCs are residents with our Grand Valley State colony and newest chapters at Florida Southern and Delaware. The other 7 travel to our other chapters, with each collegiate chapter getting at least one visit a year.

I applied to be a Leadership Consultant (the traveling kind) when I was a senior and was pretty bummed that I didn't at least get an initial interview. I'm sure tons of women apply, and the LCs are always amazing, so I guess that helped a little.

Our current LCs are from: Epsilon Delta (Arizona State), Mu (Butler), Epsilon (Illinois Wesleyan), Gamma Zeta (Arizona), Epsilon Mu (Clemson), Eta Iota (Creighton), and Delta Gamma (Michigan State).

Delta Chi currently has 5 Leadership Consultants (LCs). Our directors also occasionally travel.

Our LCs are from Tri-State (Trine University, the chapter designation remains Tri-State), Albany, Florida, Coastal Carolina, and Arizona State.

DPhiE doesn't have LC's anymore. Instead, we hired Membership Managers that work full-time for the sorority. Some of them are "just graduated" women, and others are a few years out. In any case, we have 3 full-time membership managers whose job it is to travel to chapters. Then we have a Director of Panhellenic Outreach who deals solely with colonies and new chapters.

I may not be a Kappa, but woo hoo to the two AZ schools :D

I remember at Convention they said we had the most this year out of all the NPC orgs - I thought that really showed IO's commitment to supporting the collegiate chapters.

Consultants who blog about their travels:

http://prosororitygirl.blogspot.com/ (the writer is a Tri Delt consultant)
http://travelingbilliken.blogspot.com/ (she's a ZTA)

Alpha Sigma Alpha has 6 LCs (Leadership Consultants) that travel around the country. Currently, there are 2 LCs from my chapter at CNU and we had one last year.

Alpha Sigma Tau has 4 Educational Consultants. We always had one visit our chapter once a year, but I believe you could always request more visits if your chapter needed it.

Gamma Phi Beta has info. on their Web site, too (though admittedly not as nicely designed as the Pi Phi section): http://www.gammaphibeta.org/sorority...ip-consultants and http://www.gammaphibeta.org/sorority/become-a-clc

We had one during recruitment and are having our second one come next month! Both ELC Kristen's will have visited us.

Who did you end up having?

Blogs from Kappa LCs
http://sarahroszhart.blogspot.com/
http://carolynbliss.blogspot.com/

she went to the same college my kids did(do). i believe ashlyn was the president of her chapter. how cool!

Phi Mu usually has around 10. And they are split between residential and traveling, depending on the number of colonies and new chapters (installed within the past two years.) As far as I know, there will be 10 next year. I'm very excited because I just got my official offer letter today so I'll be heading out in July to travel Phi Mu America. :)