Support Committee Recommendations - 10/18/09

GOAL
"Supporting fraternities and sororities preserves these organizations for future generations of UC Berkeley CalGreeks"

OUTCOME

• Create a UC Berkeley Fraternity and Sorority Advisory Board to provide advice, guidance and development of the community. Members could include chapter advisors, house corporations, council officers, community members, parents, faculty and staff.
• Create a fund from a one-time fee from new members to be used to support the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life.
• Each chapter should have an engaged set of volunteers that support, challenge, and mentor their chapter officers and members. These volunteers can be comprised of Berkeley alumni, alumni from other chapters, parents, and other volunteers, and would work closely with the chapter to develop their members. Ideally there would be one advisor for every 10 members.
• In order to support the engaged volunteers, annually Fraternity and Sorority Life should sponsor a Greek Volunteer Training Day in which workshops and roundtables are held on various topics that will appeal to all types of groups in the Berkeley Fraternity & Sorority Community and that will develop these volunteers and give them the tools in order to be successful.
• At the yearly Greek Volunteer Training different organizations will be teamed together (example - 1 NPC group, 2 IFC groups, 1-2 MC groups) that can share ideas, co-sponsor more workshops, and generally support each other throughout the year.
• A communications mechanism should be established that allows the engaged Greek Volunteers a forum to share tips, best practices, challenges, and resources. This could be accomplished through rotating coffee hours, a bi-semesterly dinner or regular workshops between the annual training day.
• Create a UC Berkeley Greek Alumni council comprised of all fraternities and sororities that will provide advice and guidance to the undergraduate governing councils.
• Open office hours in the Center for Student Leadership at which FSL staff, Cal Corps staff, a senate representative, community centers and other people/organizations serving students are all in one place for an hour every two weeks.
• FSL hosted micro sites including an email for each chapter.
• Ensure that the BFD, BPD and UCPD are all present at each semester's Risk Management/Event Planning workshop or roundtable.
• Create a relationship between our Greek leadership, House Boards, and our appointed Berkeley City Council member. Have the city council member that represents the neighborhood in which most of our Greeks live attend a yearly meeting of house board members, advisors, and student representatives in order to discuss and educate both sides about the neighborhood and the needs to its residents.
• In order to provide support to chapters, there should be at least one full time FSL staff person for every 15 Greek groups (or 500 students??).
• Establish a partnership between FSL and the Development Office which will include identifying a Development staff person to work with the Fraternity and Sorority alumni on communication and fundraising projects that will support the Fraternity and Sorority Community, including securing major gifts to create a Greek Endowment and to help host Greek reunions.
• Establish secured space on campus for un-housed Greek groups for storage of chapter items (i.e. composites, Ritual equipment, chapter files, etc.) as well as space to display awards.
• Compile materials and orchestrate an information session for Greek groups interested in forming parent clubs.