[14944] in APO-L
Re: Advisors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curt Ophaug-Johansen)
Sun Sep 15 19:46:28 1996
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 17:45:37 -0600
Reply-To: Curt Ophaug-Johansen <cjohanss@RESDATA.COM>
From: Curt Ophaug-Johansen <cjohanss@RESDATA.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
New graduates wishing to become advisors can be a touchy issue.
Here are some of my ideas on the subject.
Before you do anything else, sit down and write down ideas on how you =
(as a chapter,officer, brother) view what is a good advisor. Do you =
want advisors to talk to the chapter each week. Do you want the advisor =
to participate in your Exec Board meetings. Do you want the advisor to =
give suggestion in a one on one enviroment. What is your idea Advisor? =
Next what are your current advisors doing. How do they fit with your =
ideals? If our current advisors are not fitting the bill. You may want =
to talk to them individually. Ask them out to dinner,lunch, a drink =
whatever, just get them away from the APO enviroment and talk to them to =
see what they want to get out of APO as an advisor. Find ways so that =
your advisors and you both get what you want from APO. Once you have =
address your current advisors, then you can determine what to do for new =
advisors.
Now ask the 'I want to be your advisor' person out to dinner, lunch, a =
drink whatever, again just get them totally away from the APO =
enviroment. Ask the person what they want to contribute as an advisor. =
See what image they have of advisors.
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Once you see what they want to do as an advisor you will have a better =
idea of how they will act as an advisor. Next let this person know what =
you consider a good advisor. See how they take the news. The big key =
in this is to not make this personnal. Try to keep this a discussion on =
advisors not this is what is wrong with you as an advisor. =20
After you both have explained your views on advisors, see where the =
differences are, and how big are those differences. Now suggest to this =
person maybe they should be an alumni now and in maybe a year or so see =
if they want to be an advisor. =20
I strongly believe that new grads should not advisor their old chapters =
for at least a year. People need to seperate themself from the current =
group. APO chapters need to be run by the undergrads. The alumni are =
just that alumni, the chapter has past to a new generation. An =
advisors need to be able to seperate themselves from the chapter so they =
can see the big picture. =20
I hope this helps and is not to confusing
Later
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Curt Ophaug-Johansen Go Buffs
Section 30 Chair =20
Colorado-Wyoming There is no Dark Side of the Moon
It is all Dark.
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