In an effort to help prepare undergraduate leaders as they return to campus this fall we’ve renewed our online Summer Leadership Series Program. Chapter Services staff identified 8 programs to focus on – each session will have specific officers and chairs invited and encourage to attend, so as to not overwhelm leaders, and offering advice specific to their roles. Outside of the Summer Leadership Series we’re also offering a Thesauristes Academy for Chapter Treasurers and an overview of our chapter management tool, Asana. These sessions are focused around several educational topics identified and asked for by our chapter leaders and advisors: Recruitment and Marketing, Alumni Engagement, New Member Education, Ritual and more. The topics and times can be found below, you can click on a session for a better description as well as the intended audience and Zoom information, all times are Eastern:
In recent years we’ve substantially redesigned our Chapter Leadership Program, driven both by necessity and by what we’ve learned about supporting chapters more effectively with modern resources. The result is a program that reaches more members, more often, than ever before — built around consistent, year-round contact rather than travel alone.
Our online education has grown considerably. We moved to the Tightrope Risk Management Program, introduced the Inclusive Practices Cultural Competency Program for New Members, adopted the Phired Up Recruitment Certification Program, and added Aboveboard for Chapter Officers, which covers running meetings, committee work, and goal setting. We also launched the Psi U Cares Program to encourage chapter members to look out for one another’s mental wellness, and created the Thesauristes Academy for Chapter Treasurers to complement the Archons Academy.
Just as important is how we stay in contact. In-person visits now work alongside regular virtual programming: monthly Town Hall meetings that connect Chapter Archons, Alumni Presidents, and Advisors to one another; Spring Roundtables devoted to the chair positions our traditional programming sometimes overlooked; and the Summer Leadership Series. We’ve also brought the project management tool Asana to our chapters, helping officers delegate and track their work, and we continue to build out those projects with resources like Summer Leadership Series recordings and Officer Introductions so chapter leaders can train on their own schedules.
That work continues this summer, as we redevelop and refresh our educational materials and manuals from the ground up and are exploring new ways to engage with these materials. Our goal is simple: every chapter officer, advisor, and alumni volunteer should have the training and support they need, when they need it — and we’ll keep building until that’s true.
