IFC breakout session Erin Andersen– IFC Advisor, OFSA Matt Tracy– IFC President, Alpha Epsilon Pi Jacob Anderson– IFC VP of Judicial Affairs, Delta Upsilon
Agenda Mission and Vision Recruitment New Member Education Unrecognized groups Social Climate
Mission and Vision
“Identify challenges, create solutions, build community” Mission Statement “Identify challenges, create solutions, build community”
Explicit Vision: IFC in 2025 Community Engagement Campus Presence Social Culture Member Development New Member Education Recruitment
Core Four: Areas of Focus Community Service Meaningful Collaboration Inclusivity Branding
Recruitment
2017-2018 Academic Year What worked? What didn’t? One less weekend during formal recruitment Hard alcohol ban Community-wide event What didn’t? Carnival was less than successful Lower numbers than previous years -
2018-2019 Academic Year Chapter buy-in with community-wide events Community-wide recruitment Recruitment Handbook Encouraging one on one recruitment Community wide event: discuss the Nov. 8th Thursday night football event, and also mention that we are looking to plan a non-sports focused community wide event. Emphasize here that we are trying to practice what we preach in that we are challenging the community to try different recruitment tactics to combat the low numbers from last year. For the 1:1 recruitment: offer specific examples: grabbing coffee or a meal together. Intentional 1:1 time where the focus is truly on getting to know the PNM, not WOWing them with expensive/fancy events. Touch on the fact that the focus this year is more of a “we come to you” not a “you come to us” mentality
New Member Education
New Member Education Explicit Vision Last year’s NME Session Last year’s violations and repercussions November 29th Session OFSA OFSA is working with IFC and Panhel to do a NM Orientation, schedule a time with each chapter to come and speak at a NM meeting, and to also do follow up meetings with Presidents and NM Educators throughout the process. (Erin can speak to this)
Unrecognized groups / closures
Unrecognized groups / closures 3 Fraternities closed last year Repeated behavior not isolated incidents Continued Presence Mergers and cohosting After discussing the points above-try to end on a more positive note. It will serve as a good transition to the next slide. The community morale is high. Men are engaged, willing to host more socials on the hill, working with the university to hopefully have an updated social policy soon, etc. We don’t see a strong victim mentality nor do we see any anger towards admin/each other. Everyone wants the community to be a better place and seems to genuinely be trying to do just that.
Social climate
Social climate Fall semester successful so far Risk Management Registereds Hard Alcohol Policies and Dry Chapters
What You can do Then vs now Be the voice of reason Accountability Ash and Erin will be coming straight from a “Partnerships” presentation-so some advisors will have just gotten some information on resources, best practices, etc. Either way, if needed Erin can always follow up with some additional points.
Questions?