Chapter Divide

[feaster11]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Does your recruitment chair really have the power to accept new members without the vote of your entire chapter? The President and the rest of executive council have no say in how your recruitment process runs? This sounds like an unfortunate situation that will continue to divide the chapter. Whether or not your chapter continues to pledge Group A type or Group B type men should be up to your entire membership. Personally, don't be too hard on the Group B type...they're usually the ones to succeed in high paying jobs after graduation and could potentially be big alumni donors to your chapter.

The recruitment team has full power to extend bids to whoever they want as long as they all agree and the recruits fit our GPA requirements. Our recruitment success has always been so poor that its become a trend to accept whatever we can get. Luckily, a miracle happened with our last pledge class, and we got about 15 great guys. Now that we have a solid group of new Group A guys to support the rest of us, we should finally be able to improve our fraternity and not recruit anyone who walks in the door.

As far as the Group B type members--they are actually the ones that are not doing well in school and are bringing down our chapter GPA. Surprisingly, its the Group A members who do well in school, are involved on campus, and have their priorities in order.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by feaster11

The recruitment team has full power to extend bids to whoever they want as long as they all agree and the recruits fit our GPA requirements.

Who has given him that power? Is that the way you are set up nationally, or is that just the way your chapter has been doing it? I know we (nationally) require the chapter as a whole to approve all bids.

If the chapter has ceded that power to the recruitment chair, maybe the chapter needs to reclaim its authority.

[feaster11]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Who has given him that power? Is that the way you are set up nationally, or is that just the way your chapter has been doing it? I know we (nationally) require the chapter as a whole to approve all bids.

If the chapter has ceded that power to the recruitment chair, maybe the chapter needs to reclaim its authority.

That's just the way we set it up. We used to do where you had to have the majority vote of the chapter, but we ran into trouble because no one was ever getting bids since the majority of the chapter didn't meet the recruit. Also, we found it helpful to trust the recruitment team with this decision because most of our recruiting is done during the summer when only the recruitment team is around. Unfortunately, our current recruitment team is clueless so it may be time to change our policies.

The larger problem is not so much WHO the bids are extended to, but which of our guys is around and visible to recruit these guys. Group B members mean well and want to be around to help recruit, but unfortunately they are hurting us more than they help us by being involved this way.