Re: Student Athletes and Redefining Greek Life

From: Barry Gregory (bgregory@FAU.EDU)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2000 - 09:30:23 EST

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    Dear Chris,
    Thanks for the information I look forward to receiving the accredition
    information. We are also starting a task force and hope it serves as a
    proactive way to support and improve Greek life.

    At 06:16 PM 1/30/00 -0600, you wrote:
    >Barry,
    >
    >At the University of Nebraska, we are looking into reviving our Greek Task
    >Force. Ours is actually looking at reviving the Greek Accreditation process.
    >It was piloted in 1997-98, but was composed of community and campus
    >volunteer leaders who soon grew worn from dealing with resistance from the
    >National Offices and the reluctance of chapters to participate in the
    >accreditation process. It was not required by the University, so there was
    >no sanctions for not completing the accreditation process, and little
    >recognition for completing it. The other problem that we ran into was that
    >the only chapters participating in the accreditation process were the ones
    >who easily met the requirements, so we were not helping the chapters who
    >actually needed the help.
    >
    >With recent attempts by many national chapters to improve the standards of
    >campus chapters, we thought that there might be a need for a campus
    >accreditation process. We are putting together a committee to review the
    >original work that was done. The committee will consist of Greek Affairs
    >staff members, student members of Greek chapters, and alum from both the
    >Lincoln community and the NU campus. The committee will review the
    >accreditation process as it was before, then make a recommendation to the
    >Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. The University is also looking to
    >review the approved housing status policy for our Greek chapters, so our
    >timing may work out very nicely.
    >
    >I will send you a copy of the original accreditation plan developed by the
    >committee in 1995. Good luck!
    >
    >Chris Linder
    >Graduate Assistant
    >
    >Greek Affairs/Student Affairs
    >University of Nebraska
    >332 Nebraska Union
    >Lincoln, NE 68588
    >clinder@unlserve.unl.edu
    >(402) 472-2582
    >
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