The governing body of º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University’s Greek sororities has been nationally recognized for academic achievement.
º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½â€™s Panhellenic Council has received the Academic Achievement Award from the Association of Fraternal Leadership and Values. The council received its award during a special ceremony on February 12.
Panhellenic Council is composed of two delegates from each º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ sorority chapter along with officers responsible for governing the sororities.
The Academic Achievement Award is presented to councils that:
- Sponsor programs that promote outstanding individual and chapter academic achievement;
- Recognize outstanding performance and improvement in members and chapters;
- Assist chapter scholarship chairpersons in improving the chapter’s scholarship programs;
- Provide relevant resources to be utilized by chapters and individual members.
º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½â€™s Panhellenic Council was recognized for several academic success initiatives, including:
- Use of scholarship roundtables, which are used to discuss ways to improve academics within individual chapters and ways new members can be academically successful;
- Utilizing the university’s new academic achievement specialist;
- Implementing an action plan to suspend women from sorority activities who do not meet GPA requirements and work with them to return to academic good standing;
- Requiring executive officers to meet GPA requirements;
- Establishing faculty advisors for each Greek chapter;
- Discouraging chapters from hosting social activities on weeknights and during Culmination Week.
- Maintaining an all-sorority cumulative GPA of 3.45 during the spring 2010 semester.