Required Study Hours?

[FuzzieAlum]

Study hours for folks on ac pro are very common. And there's a reason it's called probation - it wouldn't be probation if you had all the rights and privileges of a sister in good standing. The sorority's stand is, education is first. They don't demand a 4.0, after all, usually more like a 2.5, which ought to be achievable with work for most college students. Some of these rules are set at the national level, so there's not much your chapter can do to change them (unless you're local).

However, how they are enforced is a different matter. If everyone lived in a house, mandatory studying at the house would be one thing. On a commuter campus, that simply isn't practical. I know if it were me, I'd forget a book I needed or something, and I'd much rather be at home with everything I needed, without other people to distract me. If I'm writing a paper, and I don't have a laptop, what good will being away from my Mac do me? And fines - I'm not much of a believer in them. It seems to me that perhaps a better system should be in place, one more suited to your chapter's particular needs.

So I agree that your academic chair's heart is in the right place, I think a different system of carrots and sticks would be better for your chapter. After all, a system that angers people and doesn't produce results isn't a good one, no matter how nobly conceived. Perhaps a better system should be devised by the chapter as a whole.