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Yes, we talk, educated and try to impress upon new members that joining a GLO is a lifetime experience and that they are expected to be members of the collegiate chapter during their entire undergraduate career. As many of you have stated and as research has shown, an undergraduate in their senior year has different needs. They've reached a point in their lives that learning financial planning is NOT how to pay tuition, rent and dues... it's looking at investments, mortgages, paying back those student loans. Keeping those women active in your chapter as mentors, leaders-by-example (if not in elected positions) may take rethinking our position on attendance of mandatory events, including educational programs.
Pi Beta Phi has restructured our senior transitional program to make it more appealing to those women and hopefully more meaningful. If we still provide something of value, something unique, perhaps we won't see the seniors all disappear by December.
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