[James]

The difficulty with advisors is that there usually doesn't exist a hard and fast criteria to judge their performance.

Plus their job descriptions are generally vague and not behavior directed.

This makes it hard to prove they are good or bad. Usually people work off impressions, so there can be wide ranging feelings for the same advisor. Plus people develop personal relationships with the advisor that can color their perceptions. Don't we usually defend our friends and give them the benefit of the doubt?

We should also start by saying that Greek Advisors are human with all the whims and foibles of basic humanity. Meaning there are people that are just better than others, more knowledable, have superior perspective and/or better meaning.

So when dealing with the Greek System the advisor is likely to be very concerned with individual Greeks he/she likes or dislikes, and then more or less concerned with the health of the system itself depending upon their inclination.

That being said it should be realized that at the core of any system that truly promotes Greek Life is an empire building Greek Advisor or other really pro-Greek administrator.

Although sometimes it was an older one that set the system up and the newer ones that are running it.

And the core of any passive or destructive system is likewise the Greek Advisor.

Greek advisors are the ones that set up the structure and training of the various intergreek councils. Inferior training and structure means an inferior council that is easily manipulated.

Further the Greek Advisor wields an imense influence over Officers and Greeks that deal with him/her through personal influence, and a lot of people will respond to that influence. So if the advice is good or knowledgable it helps, bad or inferior and it hurts.


The Greek Advisor provides a lot of the leadership resources from which Greek Officers draw. If he/she has a lot of good knowledge and an effective system to dissemintate and teach that knowledge widely it is good, if not its bad.

Another thing the Greek advisor that wants to be effective should do, is make sure that the campus Greeks know what other campus systems are like. That way the Greeks can compare their performance to others and learn what others are doing correctly.

It also allows the Greek advisor to look at the systems that other Greek Advisors have set up or run to promote Greek Life on their campuses . . . That way they can compare their own effectiveness. . . .

Edited for spelling