Hey everyone!
So, I am the Chapter President of a chapter that was recently colonized. Our Exec board is very diverse when it comes to opinions and priorities, which is good when trying to encompass different perspectives, but difficult when trying to compromise. Additionally, we have an officer from our national office who has been with us from the beginning that is still actively involved in our chapter, too much recently in my opinion. She makes one-on-one decisions for the chapter, schedules meetings with our new members without telling anyone, randomly appoints people to positions, and does not let us do things our chapter wants to do (i.e. new member exec positions, have a service event on our day of service, etc.) This has posed a real issue for me as the President. Half of the executive board goes along with whatever she says because she is the 'expert' while the other half is continuously questioning her ideas. Additionally, in a recent survey sent out to our chapter, there is a lot of distrust towards the executive board because of 'last minute and random decisions' that we aren't making, but she is. I, personally, feel like she is way out of line. We have approached her countless times and nothing has gotten better. I just feel like I am fighting everyone and everyone dislikes me as President so I just don't know what to do anymore. I need some general advice to figure out if I'm overreacting or not.
Being new to sororities and being a new president, I guess I'm just confused as to what my position is. For example, our bylaws have been drafted and sent for approval, yet I haven't even seen them yet or know what is in them, nor did I have any input (nor did the rest of the chapter, just a few members and one Exec position). Is that normal?
Also, one of our new members recently dropped after talking through e-mail with our national chapter officer. Our membership office was notified of it, but our national chapter officer never informed me (the only reason I know is because of my close friendship with the membership officer). Is that also normal?
What am I doing wrong?
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