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What kind of academic policies do you have in place at ZZ?
For Alpha Tau, Our pledge program requires 12 hours per week of documented study hours. We had study hours from 6-9 on tuesday and wednesday nights as a pledge class in the library supervised by our scholarship chairman. Another three were supposed to be with our pledge fathers, and the final three were individual (this was decided by my pledge class not the active chapter).
We also give out a lot of cash as incentive. For the first semester a pledge is in the house if they get a 4.0 GPA they recieve $500 cash and a 14k Gold Beta ring.
For each active member that gets a 4.0 they recieve $50, and further the scholarship chairman creates groups of three or four members (we call them Triads) and if everyone in the Triad makes grades above a 3.33 then each person gets $100. I think the triad program is good b/c it not only puts a goal out there for each individual to meet, it puts a little brotherly pressure for everyone to do well because everyone wants the cash at the end of the semester.
For anyone who doesn't achieve a 2.5 there are a wide variety of things that could be done. Kai commitee and the brother make the decision so that the plan is followed. Often it's supervised study hours (this past semester the few brothers under a 2.5 were in charge of taking our hold over pledges to study hours).
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