Bylaws Amendment 1 Q: Do the National Panhellenic Conference Unanimous Agreements include that a woman has not broken her pledge to membership within the year? A: If, through Membership Recruitment, a potential new member accepts a bid and then has her pledge broken by an National Panhellenic Conference organization or breaks her pledge, then she is ineligible to be pledged to another NPC group on the same campus until the beginning of the next year’s Membership Recruitment. A membership recruitment acceptance binding agreement is a binding agreement.
Bylaws Amendment 2 Q: Why is Kappa Kappa Gamma considering Alumna Initiation? A: The Fraternity is always looking for ways to strengthen our sisterhood and ensure our relevance within our communities. …show more content…
Q: Why isn't Kappa considering an honorary award instead of creating a new membership status? A: The Fraternity is looking to add women of high moral character who are ready to engage in their communities now. An honorary award does not inspire the loyalty, commitment and dedication of membership, which is the ultimate goal for our members. Granting a secondary status is not the most effective way of engaging new partners. Q: Is this so that Kappa can make money? A: The intention of Alumna Initiation is create new avenues of recruitment for our Fraternity. Although alumna initiates would have to pay an initiation fee in addition to membership dues in order to join, that amount is nominal in the grand scheme of our organization's budget. Money is not the riving force behind this initiative. Adding outstanding, contributing members of our organization is. Q: Why are we doing this just because everyone else is doing it? A: It's true that all of our NPC peer groups have already implemented Alumna Initiation. However, the reasons that they have already implemented it are the same reasons we want to bring it to Kappa. We want to increase our …show more content…
The application process would be followed by a new member education period and a virtual alumna initiate group to ensure full emersion and integration into our sisterhood. Q: What is the education process for alumna initiates? A: The education process follows the collegiate model as closely as possible, providing historical and ritual education modeled after Aspirations, our keepsake book that is currently given to collegiate new members. In addition, these women would go through basic Fraternity life education courses, like learning the Greek alphabet and about different chapter experiences, so they would also have a background regarding the experience our collegiate members receive. Q: Will the standards of initiating an alumna member be similar to those for collegians (e.g., academic GPA, character, etc.)? A: Alumna initiates will be evaluated with the same Fraternity values and expectations that we encourage our collegiate chapters to use during Recruitment. However, since our process is more in depth than many Recruitments (i.e., alumna initiates must state their intent, find recommendations and a sponsor, and even submit a résumé), we anticipate that our alumna initiates will be high-quality
Bylaws Amendment 2 Q: Why is Kappa Kappa Gamma considering Alumna Initiation? A: The Fraternity is always looking for ways to strengthen our sisterhood and ensure our relevance within our communities. …show more content…
Q: Why isn't Kappa considering an honorary award instead of creating a new membership status? A: The Fraternity is looking to add women of high moral character who are ready to engage in their communities now. An honorary award does not inspire the loyalty, commitment and dedication of membership, which is the ultimate goal for our members. Granting a secondary status is not the most effective way of engaging new partners. Q: Is this so that Kappa can make money? A: The intention of Alumna Initiation is create new avenues of recruitment for our Fraternity. Although alumna initiates would have to pay an initiation fee in addition to membership dues in order to join, that amount is nominal in the grand scheme of our organization's budget. Money is not the riving force behind this initiative. Adding outstanding, contributing members of our organization is. Q: Why are we doing this just because everyone else is doing it? A: It's true that all of our NPC peer groups have already implemented Alumna Initiation. However, the reasons that they have already implemented it are the same reasons we want to bring it to Kappa. We want to increase our …show more content…
The application process would be followed by a new member education period and a virtual alumna initiate group to ensure full emersion and integration into our sisterhood. Q: What is the education process for alumna initiates? A: The education process follows the collegiate model as closely as possible, providing historical and ritual education modeled after Aspirations, our keepsake book that is currently given to collegiate new members. In addition, these women would go through basic Fraternity life education courses, like learning the Greek alphabet and about different chapter experiences, so they would also have a background regarding the experience our collegiate members receive. Q: Will the standards of initiating an alumna member be similar to those for collegians (e.g., academic GPA, character, etc.)? A: Alumna initiates will be evaluated with the same Fraternity values and expectations that we encourage our collegiate chapters to use during Recruitment. However, since our process is more in depth than many Recruitments (i.e., alumna initiates must state their intent, find recommendations and a sponsor, and even submit a résumé), we anticipate that our alumna initiates will be high-quality