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I think there are two challenges for senior members that you probably face:
1) Expectations we have of fraternity/sorority chapters rarely take new or senior members into account. So your school or national has certain requirements (attend this # of programs or do this session as a chapter). When senior members de-prioritize their chapter, this causes friction.
2) Senior members sometimes see the experience as a college experience, and aren't as pro-active about something they're stepping out of.
I think you can do a couple things to re-invent what it means to be a senior:
- Come up with some standards you and some other senior friends will live up to outside of what's already expected (maybe you meet once a week as a group to talk about job/grad applications, etc.)
- Talk about committing to something once you graduate (return for certain alumni weekend anniversaries, contribute back to the chapter or visit 1x per year, etc.)
If what's going on doesn't interest you, try and find a way to make something that interests you. Otherwise you just let every freshman, sophomore & junior know that it's cool to fall off as a senior (and most of us remember that the seniors were the ones we wanted to know most when we joined).
Those thoughts were all over the place haha.
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