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Alpha Delta Pi's program is called Total Membership Education, or TME. It started in 1990.
TME is based on aiding members to become well-balanced in all areas of their life. Led by the Membership Ed VP, the Membership Ed Team is also composed of the New Member Coordinator, Leadership Chair, Scholarship Chair, Guard (ritual/parliamentarian), and Pride Leaders.
Pride Leaders are small-group facilitators who function like a member at large for a specific set of members (their "pride," named so because our lion mascot lives in a family called a pride). They also plan special events for their pride. Prides also support the chapter as committees as necessary for events.
The MET meets regularly to support the chapter with academic resources, understanding of ritual, leadership training and opportunities for campus involvement, and new member education, which includes supporting our sponsor sister program AKA Diamond Sisters (we do not have Big Sister/Little Sister.)
TME also means member education. 3-5 times a year, in lieu of business meeting, the MEVP will hold an educational meeting, using criteria established by ADPi to educate members on such things as our standards, a resume writing workshop, health issues, etc. There is some flexibility in the program to where the MEVP can write original programming, too.
Our new members do not go through "pledging." We call this the pre-initiation period, instead. New members do not participate in ritual, but do attend chapter meetings and have the right to vote and hold offices in the chapter. Pre-initiation is a 6 week program, and no later than the 6th week, new members are initiated.
Membership is denoted as Alphas (new members), Deltas (initiated collegians) and alumnae are sometimes referred to as Pi's.
ADPi was the first GLO to institute a system of zero tolerance for hazing.
Starting in Fall 2004, we are beginning a new phase in TME. It will be called the Balanced Person Program, and will have specific programming targeted to collegiate members for each year they are in school. We hope by doing this we will give our members the necessary resources and support they need to be successful in school, the community and the sorority.
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