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To clarify... we call them Resident Graduate Consultants. Lize FuzzieAlum stated that AZD does, she is not a graduate student, she is a recent graduate who is there to assist and mold the new colony/ chapter. She has her own apartment, which often is where the officers meet, where the chapter keeps their archives until they have housing equivalent to the other groups on campus. Sometimes, in the second year, she might make a visit to another chapter that is fairly close, but not during the first year.
If done properly (and RGCs are well trained) it is not "taking over" but rather is a mentoring process. The RGC is also helping the chapter advisors, who often have been away from chapter operations for a number of years, to guide and advise but not run the chapter.
I'm with you 33girl... giving up after only 5 years to me means that someone dropped the ball. Either the situation was not a good fit (the campus shouldn't have expanded in the first place) or the support wasn't there.
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