[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Frankly I know a number of volunteer leaders (not advisors in this case) who didn't have a clue (some still don't) what they were doing when they started and those are women who joined as collegians.....

Besides, as has already been said, things are MUCH different now than they were when I was a collegian so my collegiate experience would be irrelevant to advising a chapter.

You don't have to have all of the answers, you just need to know where to get the answers to the ones you don't know.........

But I don't know how everyone else works, but our NEW collegiate chapters get special leaders from the international level that help out for at least the first year. They get a ton of help from people who aren't the advisors.