Eastern Michigan University Greek Life Annual Report 2016-2017 Meet the Staff! Campus Life Leadership Greek Life Staff ● Calvin Phillips - Associate ● Melissa Chapman - Vice President of Student Graduate Assistant, Greek Affairs Life and Leadership ● Lucas Langdon - Director, ● Jordan Wilshaw - Graphic Campus Life Designer ● Alex Bakhaus - Coordinator, Greek Life and Leadership 2 Council Executive Boards 3 Interfraternity Council ● President - Nate Pyle ● Executive Vice President - Jacob Reed ● Vice President of Internal Affairs - Benjamin Bentley ● Vice President of External Affairs - Thomas Hernandez ● Vice President of Membership - Oleksandr Vetoshko ● Vice President of Scholarship -Gavin Foy ● Member at Large - Khader Abu-Sara 4 College Panhellenic Council ● President - Emily Jannaro ● Executive Vice President - Morgan Ziegelhofer ● Vice President of Internal Affairs - Sam Maynard ● Vice President of External Affairs - Aidan Munn ● Vice President of Membership - Paige Trantowski ● Vice President of Education - Kelly McDonald ● Member at Large - Clair Rickert 5 National Pan-Hellenic Council ● President - Wen’Zell Franklin ● VP for Standards & Scholarship - Desiree McClendon ● VP for Internal Affairs - Jasmine Tillman ● VP for Service and Programming - Basia Mack ● Member at Large - KeVaughn Price 6 Social Media Presence EMU College Panhellenic EMU Sorority Recruitment 2016 @EMUPanhellenic @emuFraternities @emurecruitment @nphc.emu @emucollegepanhellenic 7 Chapter Representation 8 Interfraternity Council ● Alpha Kappa Lambda ● Alpha Sigma Phi ● Delta Sigma Phi ● Delta Tau Delta ● Phi Sigma Kappa ● Phi Sigma Phi ● Sigma Nu ● Tau Kappa Epsilon ● Theta Chi (Re-Colonizing) 9 College Panhellenic Council ● Alpha Gamma Delta ● Alpha Sigma Tau ● Alpha Xi Delta ● Delta Zeta ● Sigma Delta Tau ● Sigma Kappa ● Sigma Nu Phi ● Sigma Sigma Sigma 10 National Pan-Hellenic Council ● Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. ● Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. ● Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. ● Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. ● Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. ● Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. ● Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. ● Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. ● Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. (Re-Colonized WI 17) 11 Multicultural Greek Council ● Sigma Lambda Gamma Multicultural Sorority ● Sigma Lambda Beta Multicultural Fraternity (Colonizing) ● Zeta Sigma Chi Multicultural Sorority 12 Community Size Data 13 Average Chapter Size CPC Fall 2016 Winter 2017 NPHC MGC 49.5 47 Fall 2016 Winter 2017 Fall 2016 Winter 2017 10 12 N/A 7 IFC Fall 2016 Winter 2017 35.6 30 14 Community Academics Data 15 Interfraternity Council Fall 16 ● Average Chapter GPA: 2.79 ● Range from 2.54 - 3.15 Winter 17 ● Average Chapter GPA: 2.81 ● Range from 2.42 - 3.19 16 Interfraternity Council 17 College Panhellenic Council Fall 16 ● Average Chapter GPA: 3.12 ● Range from 2.68 - 3.46 Winter 17 ● Average Chapter GPA: 3.13 ● Range from 2.60 - 3.37 18 College Panhellenic Council 19 National Pan-Hellenic Council Fall 16 ● Average Chapter GPA: 2.30 ● Range from 1.46 - 2.91 Winter 17 ● Average Chapter GPA: 2.09 ● Range from 1.47 - 3.04 20 National Pan-Hellenic Council 21 Multicultural Greek Council Winter 17 ● Average Chapter GPA: 3.21 ● Range from 3.09 - 3.41 22 Yearly Events 23 Retreats 24 Fall Presidents’ Retreat Date: July 7 & 8, 2016 Cost: $1,711.41 Presidents from all 3 councils came together to represent their chapters and prepare for the upcoming school year. Saturday morning was spent at the UofM Challenge program, where presidents worked together on group activities to understand their leadership styles. They came back to EMU in the afternoon to speak amongst each other to understand what values our Greek community is actually displaying in their day to day actions. Sunday morning, presidents met to review feedback from community wide surveys to define areas of improvement within their own chapters and within the community. The afternoon was spent goal setting and announcing community updates, upcoming events, and important information for the fall. 25 Council Retreat Date: July 20th - July 22nd, 2016 Cost: $3,282.04 Members from the council executive boards met for three days in Three Oaks, MI to spend time working together to prepare for the upcoming school year. Wednesday evening they worked together to diagnose problems in the community and got to know each other’s leadership skills. Thursday was spent going over expectations of the semester with AFLV and proper meeting etiquette along with developing action plans for each individual on the e-boards. Sunday they presented solutions to case studies they were given the night before. Throughout the weekend, each council worked together to cook a meal for the rest of the attendees as a team bonding exercise. 26 Winter Presidents’ Retreat Date: January 14th, 2017 Cost: $849.76 Presidents gathered to meet for the first time since most were elected into the position. They began the afternoon with teambuilders and going over beginning of the semester duties for presidents. The coordinator of Greek Life and GA spent time explaining GSAP and FastForWard is detail, allowing presidents to ask questions along the way. After lunch, presidents split into groups with their fellow council presidents to discuss policies related to their specific councils. These discussions were led by council presidents and GL Staff. Next they discussed what SMART goals are and were asked to develop three goals for the upcoming semester related to their position as president. 27 Recruitment and Intake 28 Gamma Rho Chi Dissociation Ceremony Date: August 19th, 2016 Cost: $0 Gamma Rho Chi’s are women who are chosen to assist potential new members through CPC’s formal recruitment process. During the ceremony, they symbolically “disaffiliate” in order to remove bias toward their own chapter during the recruitment process and encourage parity and unity throughout the Panhellenic community. After the ceremony, GRCs went through a diversity training to learn how to be more inclusive throughout the recruitment process and were trained on the ICS program. 29 Move-In Magic Date: September 2nd, 2016 Revenue: $5,380 269 Greek life students from all three councils participated in the annual Move-In Magic event. This event takes place on the first day of First Four. Chapter Members participate by assisting incoming freshman while they move into their residence halls. The councils hosted a parents tent where coffee, water, and donuts were passed out to families along with information brochures about Greek Life. They also collected contact information from students interested in going Greek. 30 Explore EMyoU Date: September 4th, 2016 Cost: $0 VP of Memberships from IFC and CPC presented five sessions to new students about the Greek community and how to join. Alex Bakhaus shared information on NPHC. New students were able to ask questions about time commitment, financial obligations, and more to understand the responsibilities of joining Greek life. Recruitment chairs also collected contact information of interested attendees to forward them further information regarding recruitment events. 31 CPC Sorority Recruitment Date: September 22nd - This year, CPC participated in a September 25th, 2016 fully structured recruitment process for the 3rd year in a row Cost: $0 (all costs covered by using Release Figure CPC) Methodology. Quota: 13 Thursday - Kickoff Signed Up: 332 Friday AM - Philanthropy Showed Up: 174 Friday PM - Sisterhood Received Bids: 119 (69%) Saturday - Preference Sunday - Bid Day 32 CPC Sorority Recruitment Marketing 33 NPHC Intake Fall 2016: ● Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. - 5 members ● Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. - 5 members ● Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. - 8 members Winter 2017: ● Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. - Re-Colonized with 16 members ● Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. - 10 members ● Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. - 6 members ● Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. - 7 members 34 IFC Recruitment This year, IFC hosted several fraternity recruitment events as a council. No bids were extended after these events, as they were just informal meetings for potential members to see all of the chapters in one location prior to the chapter’s individual recruitment events beginning. Q&A: September 9th, 2016 Mixer: September 16th, 2016 IFC Recruitment Rounds: September 30th and October 1st, 2016 Cost: 35 MGC Establishing and Intake The Multicultural Greek Council was established at Eastern Michigan University during the Winter 2017 school year. Their intake as a council will begin being recorded in the next school year. The founding organizations of the council are: Zeta Sigma Chi Multicultural Sorority Sigma Lambda Gamma Sorority, Inc. Sigma Lambda Beta Fraternity, Inc. 36 NPHC Icebreaker Date: October 20th, 2016 Cost: $375 Members of the NPHC came together to host an event for the student body to celebrate the beginning of the Fall semester and enjoy a night of music and dancing. EMU students were required to show their ID at the door and were asked to donate non-perishable items that would be sent to Haiti after the destruction left by Hurricane Matthew. DPS and members from IFC and CPC were present to monitor the doors and assist with crowd control. Overall, 377 students attended the event. 37 Educational Programs 38 New Member Institute Date: November 7th, 2016 - November 13th, 2016 Cost: $0 New members of the IFC and CPC attend the new member institute to learn about the Greek community at EMU. NMI gives the members an introduction to what it means to be Greek, including a values clarification exercise and conversations around risk management. This is a two hour program which members must sign up for. The program is planned by the Vice Presidents of Educations on both IFC and CPC who then train peer facilitators from within the Greek community to lead the sessions. 130 new members participated in the event this Fall. 39 Greek Convocation Date: October 10th, 2016 Cost: Jeremy Poincenot gave a presentation on how to overcome adversity and find new ways to achieve. He shared his own experience of going blind due to an incurable disease while in college and how his fraternity brothers helped him get through the difficulties of this drastic change in his life.