GOAL
"Our focus on leadership, scholarship, friendship and service provides the framework by which we measure ourselves. By supporting chapters that are role models for our community and working with those that are still developing, we demonstrate our commitment to being an inclusive, responsible, and valued part of the campus and City community. These measures allow us to document our growth over time and allow us to gauge our shortcomings and our successes."
OUTCOME
- Create an annual “State of the Greek” report documenting the growth of our community in different areas and make it available to the public (faculty, staff, administrators, on-campus news outlets, students, parents, etc.) Chapter dues for every fraternity and sorority, Housing costs for every fraternity and sorority, disciplinary issues with university/city, chapter-level awards received form headquarters, community service hours completed, number of individuals who participated, number of community service events held, organizations the chapter worked with, total amount raised for philanthropy, number of philanthropy events, organizations benefitting from philanthropy events.
- Develop and publicize a Fraternity and Sorority Report to be used during intake/recruitment/rush to give potential new members more objective data on chapters.
- Conduct an annual satisfaction survey of individual members of the F&S community. Post data on the F&S Life webpage/CalGreeks community webpage.
- Collect demographic data on who is joining the CalGreeks community (collect info through a registration process or through the submission of potential members to F&S Life).
- Develop a comprehensive assessment program that assesses the F & S Community as to their adherence to the core values and outcomes.
What happens if a chapter doesn't adhere?? Then what?
ReplyDeleteDo not create a process that requires reporting from the Greek chapters. The school has no logical need for this information and it is both an invasion of privacy and a burden on the provider
ReplyDeleteI agree with the previous post. The only thing this report would foster would be a contrived sense of legitimacy concerning the Greek community that the university could tout to external authorities. It is wrong to place the weight of such a useless and time-consuming endeavor on the shoulders of the chapters who do no stand to benefit.
ReplyDeleteWho will be in charge of creating the report: CSL, councils, individual chapters or a combination of all three?
ReplyDeleteWhat will the Fraternity and Sorority report include and who will formulate the rubric?
I would think this could be used as a great pr tool for us to show all the good things we do. If groups don't want to submit the information they would not have to, but I know my group will since we do some great things.
ReplyDeleteWhile some of these metrics could be beneficial to recruitment and groups looking to (re)colonize, I agree collecting and publishing this info is both a burden and a breach of privacy in some cases.
ReplyDeleteDisciplinary issues should remain private. If you feel its necessary, record it as a number, otherwise its detrimental to the whole community to publicize.
A satisfaction survey is a waste of time. What does it prove, who does it benefit?
Sounds like a lot of time for someone (which probably means someone's money) to determine what's best in their random opinion of what's good for Cal Greeklife. Is hiring a consultant or strategic review really necessary on an annual level? Just collect the data to make future reviews like this easier and more thorough.
Objective data for recruitment is often the least important tool with which to make a decision on where to join. The assessment is irrelevant and would place a large, undue burden on the shoulders of chapters.
ReplyDeleteThere are typos
ReplyDeletePoint 1: The "State of the Greek" report and the information it will publicize will be an avenue for fostering unhealthy attitudes and feelings toward specific chapters. It is a very public way to ostracize and alienate chapters that may not, due to uncontrollable circumstances, perform at the same level as others.
Point 2: Will the Fraternity and Sorority Report be screend by the school prior to distribution? Is this mandatory? Is this chapter specific?
Point 5: Will individual chapters be assessed? How will the assessment be condcuted?