Academic Workshop

[AOII Angel]

LOL...I skipped class all the time, but I completely see where you are coming from Kevin. For a lot of students, forcing them to study hall when they haven't even bothered to go to class isn't going to help since they won't know what to study. If class attendance is a problem, one of the chapters I advised had sisters on academic probation get their profs to sign that they were in class every day. This did two things. It made them go to class and it brought them to their professors attention so they were known. They spoke to them every class period, clarified issues of confusion, could ask for help if needed, etc. Hopefully if they were still in danger, the professor would let them know early enough that they could get additional help.

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[Kevin]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

LOL...I skipped class all the time, but I completely see where you are coming from Kevin.

Me too, but you're probably a lot smarter than your run-of-the-mill chapter member. When I approach these issues, I'm looking at what's going to work for everyone, i.e., the lowest common denominator.

--and it certainly wouldn't have hurt you or I to have attended a few more undergraduate courses.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Me too, but you're probably a lot smarter than your run-of-the-mill chapter member. When I approach these issues, I'm looking at what's going to work for everyone, i.e., the lowest common denominator.

--and it certainly wouldn't have hurt you or I to have attended a few more undergraduate courses.

I agree completely. I skipped a lot of med school classes as well. It may have helped to go, but then again, I daydreamed through most of them. The same goes for study hall. You have to go AND do some work. No playing on your phone or watching a movie. A little motivation is needed. I think that giving members concrete expectations for how they should treat their classes and school work from the first day they pledge is a great way to get them in the mode of putting school first. Make new members see that skipping class is not acceptable to the chapter and have older members model that to them from day one. This makes it a chapter culture. My chapter was much like yours. We were always top in grades, and we never had study hours for anyone. Didn't need them. We all knew what we had to do to keep up our end of the bargain. At one point we had over a 3.0 GPA at a school that had less than a 2.5 all women GPA.