It's almost time for slating!!!

[Wine&SilverBlue]

YAYYYYYYYYYY!!! I'm MO Beta's new Rush Chair!!!!

[Speechpath]

CONGRATS!!!!!! that is awesome!

[angelic1]

hhmm.. sounds interesting..

I guess I will have to go back and reread that part of my arrow... must have skimmed over that article..

[dakareng]

The article in the Arrow focused on the new International structure of Grand Council and Directors. The intent is a more regionalized approach with 8 collegiate regions (of 16-18 chapters). Instead of CPPs, there will be a Regional Director with specialists for Membership/ Programming/ Risk Management/ Finance and AAC. This team approach will provide chapters with closer and prompter attention.

Chapter officers will align more directly with the International Officers and have titles that more accurately reflect what they do.
If the legislation at Convention passes, chapter officers will be:
Chapter President
VP Fraternity Development (heritage/ceremonies/music)
VP Philanthropy
VP Finance
VP Member Development (Academics/ LWV)
VP Administration (standards/ correspondant/ reporting)
VP Membrship (New Member Coordinator/ Transition)
VP Communications (Publications/ Webmaster/ External Relations)
VP Event Planning (recruitment/ special events/ social chair)

There are committees that report to each officer.

The structure will be piloted at a number of chapters (of different sizes/ housing situation) this year and materials are being put together to facilitate this. You will be hearing more from your CPPs this year. I am very excited to see this implemented. It took a lot of hard work and thought.

[UCFPiPhiGirl]

I wish I was going to be around for the new officer structure...it looks awesome-our TGC brought it with her this past month so we've all been looking over it since then, being that I am an Event Planning major-I would've like to help the position of "VP of Special Events," that would have looked awesome on my resume!! HAHA!!

YAY PI PHI SENIORS!!!

[breathesgelatin]

Originally posted by UCFPiPhiGirl
YAY PI PHI SENIORS!!!

No doubt!!

[angelic1]

I guess then even more importance will be placed on Interest Groups... our chapter finally started using them more in the later years I was an active.

I know under the new setup VP Event Planning would be in place of two current positions we have that each in itself are very time consuming, especially recruitment chair.

I know that we already had some positions that were extra, under the new policy will each chapter have flexibility in having extra positions as well as the new ones?

[Wine&SilverBlue]

So the event planning position would combine the positions of social chair and rush chair? that sounds like too much...

[dakareng]

It's hard to put the entire structure on a message board but when you see the entire thing it will make more sense. These are the Exec positions that all chapters must elect. There are suggestions for other positions to be elected or appointed but a lot will be dependant on the chapter size/ needs. Some smaller chapters are already combining offices. The officer structure provides both a division of responsibilty and required/ suggested committees to support it.

I can readily understand the concern that combining social chair and recruitment chair will be too much at some chapters. This may not be unwieldy in all chapters. Those chapters will still have individuals in both positions who will then report to the VP Event Planning (and yes, the thought of having titles that members would want to include on resumes did cross a few minds!). If chapters want to have a separate person for formal recruitment/ COB, they can still do that but don't have to. The intent in part, is to streamline the number of people on exec who don't need to be there all the time.

[Txsurfinwaves]

I was just slated for VP Mental of the TX Epsilon Chapter...we vote on Monday!!

[PiPhiGirl2005]

Originally posted by Txsurfinwaves
I was just slated for VP Mental of the TX Epsilon Chapter...we vote on Monday!!

Congratulations!

W&SB, I was thinking the same thing! I am currently our Social Chair and my good friend Jodi is Recruitment Chair, and I cannot imagine one person trying to do both our jobs! However, if several people took care of these things and reported to the VP Event Planning, like dakareng explained, I could see that working out pretty well.

[breathesgelatin]

Originally posted by Txsurfinwaves
I was just slated for VP Mental of the TX Epsilon Chapter...we vote on Monday!!

CONGRATS!!

[Wine&SilverBlue]

my chapter already elected our new exec with no mention of the new positions... does every chapter have to enforce the new changes?

[Txsurfinwaves]

Originally posted by Wine&SilverBlue
my chapter already elected our new exec with no mention of the new positions... does every chapter have to enforce the new changes?

The new officer structure is being voted on at Convention 2005 to take effect the next officer election year. However, I believe some chapters are testing it out.

[clothesgirl]

Heya,
wow, the restructuring seems like an awesome idea, but it also kidna looks like red tape...especially since you're just gonna be having committees doing work under a VP. how is this gonna work for smaller chapters, especially where exec is nearly half the chapter to begin with?

ppl,
C.