I need ideas to get chapter GPA up, any help welcome!

[ASTalumna06]

When I was active, we also had a jar for skipped classes - at $1 each. I'm sure there were people who didn't put their money in every week, but oh well.. there were a lot of people who were honest about it. We also allowed girls to write "IOU"s on a slip of paper with their name if they didn't have any cash on them, and they would be reminded before the next meeting that they owed a dollar.

Our Scholarship Chair also recorded any As that people received each week (for major tests, papers and projects) and the sister with the most As at the end of the semester received the money in the jar.

With 10-20 sisters in the chapter, I usually saw the jar at about $30-$60.. and sometimes, a little more than that. I think the highest that I ever saw it at was $80. As a college student, that's a great thing to receive going into the last couple weeks of school when the food plan is running low and you need gas money to get home for summer break!

[angels&angles]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

When I was active, we also had a jar for skipped classes - at $1 each. I'm sure there were people who didn't put their money in every week, but oh well.. there were a lot of people who were honest about it. We also allowed girls to write "IOU"s on a slip of paper with their name if they didn't have any cash on them, and they would be reminded before the next meeting that they owed a dollar.

Our Scholarship Chair also recorded any As that people received each week (for major tests, papers and projects) and the sister with the most As at the end of the semester received the money in the jar.

With 10-20 sisters in the chapter, I usually saw the jar at about $30-$60.. and sometimes, a little more than that. I think the highest that I ever saw it at was $80. As a college student, that's a great thing to receive going into the last couple weeks of school when the food plan is running low and you need gas money to get home for summer break!

It's not a bad idea, but it's sort of rewarding one sister for another's bad behavior. I think giving the money to the chapter's philanthropy might be less problematic.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by angels&angles

It's not a bad idea, but it's sort of rewarding one sister for another's bad behavior. I think giving the money to the chapter's philanthropy might be less problematic.

You're not really rewarding a sister for everyone else's bad behavior... you're rewarding them for doing well in school. The fact that the money comes from other sisters not going to class is irrelevant.

I don't know.. it was never seen as problematic in my chapter.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

You're not really rewarding a sister for everyone else's bad behavior... you're rewarding them for doing well in school. The fact that the money comes from other sisters not going to class is irrelevant.

I don't know.. it was never seen as problematic in my chapter.

If we knew our jar $$ was going to go to another sister (and there were sisters who had CAKE semesters and therefore many As) we would have told the scholarship chair to eff off.