Lt. Gov. Tim Murray, Mass. Veterans’ Services Secretary Tom Kelley Expected to Attend

A bridge in the town of Westminster, Mass. will be named in memory of 1st Lt. Ryan Patrick Jones, a 2005 Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) graduate killed in action on May 2, 2007, in Iraq. The WPI community is invited to attend a ceremony on Monday, Sept. 13, at 3:30 p.m. to unveil the permanent marker on the bridge to honor Jones for his life and service. The ceremony will be held at Westminster Town Hall, 11 South St. Lt. Gov. Tim Murray and state Veterans’ Services Secretary Tom Kelley are expected to attend… (read more)

Registration details

Academy Goals:
This year represents the seventh year of the IFC Academy. The NIC believes that part of our commitment to our member fraternities lies in Advocating on behalf of the fraternity movement, Collaborating with our partners; including other umbrella groups, higher education associations, and industry leaders, and Educating our members about trends, norms, and best-practices throughout the Greek world.

We believe that IFC’s can benefit by hearing from fraternity executives, NIC professional staff, attorneys, and other industry leaders about how they can be a values-based organization that is truly advocating for the needs of fraternity life on their campus. The outcomes of attendance at Academy:

• An understanding of the NIC Standards and how they influence IFC operations
• Benchmarks to measure your successes on campus
• Tools to assess how you should be responding to the needs of your member chapters.
• A renewed enthusiasm for advocating for the needs of the fraternity community on your campus.

Who Should Attend?
In working with the undergraduate leaders and campus advisors who have attended the program in the past, we know that the Academy experience provides valuable information and lessons that can be easily implemented on campus. We have intentionally kept the registration fee to the minimum in order to allow for more participation from councils. We encourage you to send as many IFC leaders as you can, since past graduates have indicated that the change process is easier when more people have heard the message and bought into the change initiative.

• IFC Presidents – For any IFC President who has ever wondered what their role is truly supposed to be, the Academy answers that question fully.
• IFC Public Relations/Recruitment/Marketing Chair – You have an invaluable job. The marketing of fraternity life and the benefits of joining a Greek organization is one area that Academy will focus on in a way completely unlike anything attempted in past years. This focus on marketing and public relations help in many areas across our 800 campuses.
• IFC Judicial Officers – The Academy helps you define the council’s role for holding member fraternities accountable to community standards.
• Chapter Presidents/Delegates – The IFC exists to serve the needs of its members.  As chapter leaders, you should have a clear understanding of what your IFC can and should be providing
• Campus Advisors – You’ve wanted to created positive change with your council. You work tirelessly to advance the fraternity community. IFC Academy is your ally and we appreciate and encourage your involvement.

Timing and Location
The timing of the Academy is designed to reach the most people at the beginning of their terms. Our research indicates that 65% of councils elect officers in the fall term. The late January date was selected based on feedback from past graduates. They say the timing allows the council to return to campus and have enough time to start the conversations and implement changes.

Indianapolis will allow us to use the resources of the many Inter/National Headquarters and staff that are located here. We intend to include many executive directors in our programming. This may be the first time that many of the officers have the opportunity to visit their headquarters and talk with the staff. Councils could arrange to visit headquarters on either Friday or Sunday.

While councils are at the Academy, your attention and focus will be fully on the important issues facing your community. However, the downtown location offers you the opportunity to explore within walking distance of the hotel some of the unique characteristics of our great city, such as the NCAA Hall of Champions, Circle Center, and other cultural outlets.

Questions
Please contact Ben Pendry at 317-872-1112, or pendry@nicindy.org.

It is with great excitement that we welcome our collegiate members back for the fall 2010 academic term!

Whether your summer months have been used to travel to new places, to return home to friends and family, or even to stay on campus to continue your intellectual development, we are looking forward now to engaging all our members in furthering Phi Kappa Theta’s Mission.

This summer’s Leadership Institute drew record attendance: more than 120 collegiate members – representing 47 of our 48 collegiate chapters – participated in our development workshops and programs. Phi Kappa Theta continues to increase its ability to provide a consistent level of opportunity for development to its membership.

While we celebrate the fact that 98% of our collegiate chapters were represented, the total number of collegiate attendees accounts for less than 10% of our current collegiate membership!  If the active development of our members is at the core of our Mission, this percentage is simply unacceptable.

For this reason, Phi Kappa Theta has focused on the following goals for the 2010-2011 development year:

1. To increase the number of alumni volunteers serving in mentoring roles to our collegiate members.  Resources have been allocated to recruit, train, and support key volunteers, who are essential to the success of Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity.
2. To increase the developmental opportunities provided to our collegiate members throughout the year.  This means Phi Kappa Theta will create a balanced development plan that will include regionally based conferences, chapter-specific workshops, and web-based seminars and training.  These tactics will all be utilized to deliver on the strategy of ensuring that active development truly is Phi Kappa Theta’s culture.

These two goals have been set for 2010-2011.  Throughout the year, we will share in The Kappa Quarterly how Phi Kappa Theta how we are performing relative to these goals, and also how we are performing within each of the five areas of development.

We embrace the challenge we have set for ourselves in the next phase of our journey – one that will lead us to become a premier human development organization inspiring confidence in our men through real-world experience.

Yours in Service,

Robert Riggs
Executive Vice President

There will be two webinars that will be held for any member who wishes to preview the system before it opens.  Dates and times of the webinars in addition to the Achieve system re-opening are listed below. Please follow the link below each webinar to register to attend. Additional webinars will be scheduled as more components are added to the system.

• Webinar #1: Monday, September 6, 2010 – 8:00pm EST
• Webinar #2: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 – 3:30pm EST
• Achieve Reopens: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 – 5:00pm EST

Phase two of Achieve, which includes the membership management side of the system, should be ready by the end of October. What does this mean to you? Most significantly, it means online reporting. The new phase means that your individual and chapter profiles will store more data than you currently see. Chapter officers will be able to report new members, update their rosters and officer lists, and report status changes at any time. As October grows nearer, you will be notified of webinars that we will be holding to educate members about the system and how to use it before phase two is launched.

As a reminder, your username is your last name followed by your member id and your password is the word “pass” followed by your member id. If, last year, you changed your password to something different, it has been reset.  If you have any questions regarding Achieve or accreditation, please contact Anita Kerlin, Director of Member Development at anita@phikaps.org. If you need to request your member id, please e-mail executiveoffices@phikaps.org.

For the second year in a row, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has been nationally recognized for its innovative approach to Greek Life, bringing home several awards – including the highest honor – this month at a national fraternal organization’s conference that lauds its chapters for excellence in academic performance, community service, and leadership, among other areas.

Out of more than 50 chapters across the United States, WPI’s Phi Kappa Theta chapter was the sole recipient of the Founder’s Cup at this month’s annual Phi Kappa Theta Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. The award – the highest honor a Phi Kappa Theta chapter can receive… Read More

• Download the PKT Order of Omega 2010 list of initiated Phi Kaps.

Not Yet Registered:

• St. Francis

Registered

• Belmont Abbey College
• Buffalo
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Case Western
• Cincinnati
• Detroit Mercy
• Duquesne
• Eastern Illinois
• Georgia
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• George Mason University
• Iowa State University
• Kansas State University
• Lehigh University
• Lewis University
• Louisiana @ Lafayette
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Merrimack College
• Michigan Technological University
• Missouri University of Science and Technology
• Nicholls State
• Northern Illinois University
• Ohio University
• Ohio State University
• Pennsylvania State University
• Pittsburgh
• Purdue University
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Saint Louis University
• San Diego State University
• Seton Hall University
• Syracuse University
• Temple University
• Texas A&M University
• Texas Pan Am
• Trine University
• Truman State University
• University of Cincinnati
• University of Georgia
• University of Massachusetts at Darmouth
• University of Missouri at Columbia
• University of Nebraska at Lincoln
• University of New Hampshire
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of San Diego
• University of South Dakota
• Washington
• Washington State University
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Allyson’s primary role will be to work with Phi Kappa Theta’s Leadership to manage the National Foundation’s Annual Fund efforts.  In addition, Allyson will work closely to grow the engagement of alumni and collegiate members by supporting Phi Kappa Theta’s communication efforts and regionally based groups throughout the year.

“Phi Kappa Theta continues to invest resources into further developing our national and regionally based networks.” said Executive Vice President, Robert Riggs.  ”By bringing on Allyson full time, we will now have the support staff that we’ve needed to assist us in building those networks successfully.  We look forward to continuing to serve our members to the best of our abilities.”

Allyson graduated in May of 2001 from Centre College with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. As a charter member of the Gamma Psi chapter of the Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity, she remains active in music through her church’s music program, both with voice and flute.

Phi Kappa Theta actively develops men to effectively lead and passionately serve their society, fraternity and God. Phi Kappa Theta recently celebrated the 120th anniversary of its founding and the 50th anniversary of the merger of two fraternities – Theta Kappa Phi and Phi Kappa. The United Fraternity has nearly 1,500 collegiate members and more than 30,000 living alumni.

For more information, contact Robert Riggs, Executive Vice President, Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity, at 317-872-9934 or rriggs@phikaps.org.

We are looking forward to planning the 2nd Annual Golf Tournament next year, and we encourage brothers in the D.C. Metro area who would like to attend, or help with the planning to become involved with the association. We can be reached through out website, www.PKTDC.org, or by email at: cfmessina@hotmail.com. We look forward to seeing you all again at next year’s tournament, and hope those of you who were not able to participate this year will come out next Spring.

Fraternally,

Chris Messina
President
Washington DC Area Phi Kappa Theta Alumni Association

• Visit the LI2010 page