Junior Slump

[amanda6035]

I'm a colony member, and my chapter (which is 4 1/2 years old now) "almost" went through something similar to what you're describing. We were a very very small chapter at the time and we were gettig burnt out on official meetings, and things we had to do, while trying to throw in some fun stuff as well. As small as we were, if you didnt show up to something, for whatever reason, it was inevitable that someone was going to look down on you for not being at whatever event.

So what we did to try to change things up a it, was instead of having official chapter meetings every single week, we changed our monthly schedule to look like this:
1st weekly meeting: Official chapter meeting. Ritual, etc.
2nd meeting: Sisterhood - something fun, dinner, movie, paper minutes with upcoming reminders.
3rd meeting: Program. Our FHQ required 3 programs per semester, and 85% of the chapter had to be present, so rather than scheduling a different day for the program, we did it during chapter time so nobody would have an excuse to not be there. Paper minutes with reminders.
4th meeting: Sisterhood or social/mixer. Paper minutes with reminders.
5th meeting (if it was a month that a 5th week fell on our meeting nights. Off week, paper minutes emailed out and available at chapter office.

By doing this, it made it where we didnt have to schedule so many additional things, and people were more enthusiastic about our weekly events because it was official formal chapter ever single week.


Do you guys have an attendance policy? Does it need to be revamped? Maybe the older members dont come because they are being forced to come to so many other things, or there are no consequences for not maintaining what events they SHOULD be at?

PM me if you want. I have some ideas you may be interested in.