Conclaves - Back to the Future

[Bilski]

Personally, I'd love to see more regional conclaves. Simply put, few brothers can afford to fly out to Texas in the middle of the first month of the spring semester. The same goes for most GA/LS's which span more days than many can take off from their summer jobs. I'm not sure how these conferences were losing money, but they sound like a great investment to me.

Regional conferences seem to be the best solution to dispersing new programs as well. The TBI could be much more effectively spread if I could send 8 or more brothers to a regional conference instead of trying to get the 1 or 2 that attend GA to tell us all about it. I believe there was a push to have regional alumni trained in the program for a similar purpose and it seems to me like they'd have that much less work to do if they didn't have to travel to all the chapters!

Lastly, one of the biggest challenges facing my zeta is the lack of officer training. Since most GA/LS's focus on recruitment, IMPACT leadership, and this new TBI there's no use for me to send an Theta, Iota, Gamma, Epsilon, or Tau. As a chapter that is still recovering from a drastic membership crisis, the continuity of officer training has been interrupted, only to be replaced with the shell of an officer manual those old PDFs on fraternitymanuals.com can offer. I look forward to the new manuals IHQ is writing, but I wish there was something more hands-on available in the interim and for the future.