AVC Meetings

1. Brotherhood Development
   
2. 2009 Conclave - Orlando, Aug 12-16
   
• Co Gamma attendees - Chapter, AVC
  
• Delegate and Alternate registration deadline April 30th, else $50 late fee
  
• NHC will pay airfare and shared hotel room for an AVC member to attend the property management program. Registration ($400) is the responsibility of the attendee.
  
3. Resident Scholar Search Update
   
• Thanks to Loren for putting together the Collegian Ad Copy, Ad ran Mon Apr 13 through Fri Apr 17
  
• Response to Collegian Ad? (Joe)
  
• Candidates currently under consideration?
  
4. Spring '09 SPECAT Scholarships
   
• Check for Spring '09 awards received/deposited by Cameron.
  
• Chapter will/have vote(d) on winners and SPECAT scholarships will be awarded at Flower Dance
  
• Great thanks/appreciation to TJ, Marco, and Joe for their scholarship fundraising efforts at SPECAT and visiting the chapter on April 13
  
• Check sent to Co Gamma General Scholarship endowment at SPE Educational Foundation yet to be confirmed
  
5. Update on 121 E Lake Summer Improvement Project Bids
   
6. Financials
   
• Urgent Cash Flow problem
  
• A/R virtually all past due, $12K outstanding
  
• $1K mismatch between budgeted revenue and A/R
  
• $2K (2% of semester revenue) spent on buses for one party. No recovery of this any part of this cost has realized- full burden on Co Gamma.
  
• Finalize Fall '09 Budget
  
7. The Spear
   
• Spring '09 Spear mailed on Mon, April 20th from Richmond
  
• Fall '09 Spear content collection status? (deadline: May 4, '09)
  
8. 2008 Greek Night Out awards ceremony, congrats on ...
   
• Chapter: Academic Excellence
  
• Andrew Dibala: Living the Ritual
  

Executive Summary:

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On March 1st, 2009 Co Gamma AVC members joined with Colorado Alpha (Colorado University), Colorado Delta (School of Mines), and Wyoming Alpha (University of Wyoming) for an AVC Training event on the CU campus. The event was hosted by Sig Ep Regional Director Ryan Dressler, and Ryan Blank Director of Health and Wellness.

The group conducted activities and discussions related to Cross-Generational Communication, Identifying and defining SigEp’s Five Core Areas of Operation, Evaluating today’s undergraduate brothers and the Balanced Man Program (BMP), Discussing the differences between mentoring/coaching vs. parenting, and then creating a chapter specific mentoring game plan. A special thanks to Todd Donavan, Austin Martineau, Ross Hendrix, Loren Shepherd, and Tony Mauro for Attending. The AVC looks to implement the 30 and 90 day plans out of the meeting here in months ahead.

More photos from the AVC training event on Flikr

CO Gamma Evaluation:

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The AVC Ranked the 5 core areas of operation in order of importance, scored how we are currently performing on a scale of 1-10, and identified key areas of improvement. The AVC believes that everything starts with a solid development program, which in turn, drives strong recruitment programming and strong recuits.

1. Development
Performance Assessment: 6
Improvement Areas:

• Seniors – networking/career development
  
• Core values that founded SigEp
  
• 2 yr plan – develop (changing priorities of freshman vs. jr/sr)
  
• Integration to alumni
  

2. Recruitment
Performance Assessment: 6
Improvement Areas:

• Realistic high goals
  
• Education of potential members and public perception
  
• Broaden perspective of recruitment pool/venues
  
• Quality members
  

3. Finance
Performance Assessment: 8
Improvement Areas:

• Educate members where money is/goes
  
• Open books
  
• Members roles & responsibilities
  

4. Volunteers
Performance Assessment: 6.5
Improvement Areas:

• Roles, expectations & time
  
• Expanding/increasing AVC
  
• Bring alumni back to engagement
  

5. Academics
Performance Assessment: 8
Improvement Areas:

• Comes with quality recruitment and development
  
• 3.00+ GPA
  
• Resident scholar
  

Mentoring Game Plan (CO Gamma)

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30 day plan

• Communicate more with this group
  
• Roles & Responsibilities of AVC and filling them
  

90 day plan

• Building relationships – work with VP of Development for consistent, fun mentoring programs/classes (i.e. resume/cigar smoking)
  
• Alumni connect – Establish common roles/pairs between alumni & active members
  
• Long term capital strategy – relook house plan (2002/2003); short term vs. long term goals/cost benefits