[16116] in APO-L
Re: Advisor's Role - please respond
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Dwiggins)
Wed Jan 29 13:03:37 1997
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 13:01:10 -0500
Reply-To: David Dwiggins <dmdwiggi@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU>
From: David Dwiggins <dmdwiggi@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199701291346.IAA08720@mailbox.syr.edu>
>1. Advisors serve on your chapters "Advisory Committee." You and your
>advisors should determine how often this committee meets, but they
>should meet regularly, especially during ths school year. The Chair
>of the Advisory Committee (which doesn't have to be a faculty advisor,
>but does have to be an advisor registered with the National Office) is
>the only advisor with voting priviledges in your chapter (This is in
>the National Bylaws) and should be attending your Exec Board
>Meetings. The president of the chapter should be an ex officio member
>of the Advisory committee.
While I think it is fine if an advisor wants to attend e-board meetings, I
certainly don't think it is necesary. Our advisor attends e-board meetings
once in a great while, and usually drops in on chapter meetings for a few
minutes 1-2 times per month. Now if there is some sort of organizational
crisis or major issue that he feels we are not handling well, he will step
in. But if he feels things are running OK, he will usually step back.
This is not to say that he is not involved. He is always in touch with the
president, and monitors the chapter listserv. But his role is to serve as a
backup resource, not to make decisions. And because he steps in so rarely,
when he does, people give his opinion a great deal of respect.
We are in the process now of recruiting more advisors, and I am sure that
their roles will vary. But I do believe that advisors ( in most cases)
should really become deeply involved in decisionmaking within the chapter
only when they believe that something is going on that threatens the
existence of the chapter as a whole.
-David Dwiggins
Phi Chapter
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