Studying Abroad and in charge of recruitment?

[thetygerlily]

Originally Posted by lauralaylin

I advised a chapter that had this happen. She was a great VP, did a ton of communication from afar, and her BFF in the chapter basically took over the role for that semester. It was pretty smooth actually, and it ended up a fantastic recruitment where the chapter more than doubled their size. So, it's definitely possible. I wouldn't recommend it unless all those involved are not only fully committed but also very very good at their roles.

We also did this once. However: we had deferred recruitment in a small system, the chapter was struggling with only about 20 members, and this person was a very strong leader who was passionate about recruitment. She was gone third term (we were on trimesters) and was able to start some of prep from abroad while someone stood in for her locally for COB events. Then we all had an entire trimester together to plan before recruitment in January. Realistically given the size of our system & chapter, we wouldn't have done much in the spring anyway.

With that said, I agree with everyone else that if there is another option, choose that. Unless you have a very small chapter and literally there is no other option, hold a smaller office where a proxy can fill in for you with less churn. Whomever is considering this should let another sister who is motivated, capable, and logistically available handle that.