[AOII Angel]

I think you should contact DPhiE headquarters or your chapter's HQ representative and ask these questions. Are you sure that you don't have national guidelines that deal specifically with these issues? Maybe you should make gradual changes....a lot of people become defensive when standards are raised so quickly that they would have been eliminated if held to those standards. Increase your GPA for sophomores first. Then increase for freshmen a tiny bit. Then raise it a tiny bit more. After about five years, your grade risks will be out of the chapter and you can put in whatever standard you want. This, of course, depends on having a dedicated alumnae adviser that can keep the issue at the forefront over this period of time.