Category: Greek Life

“A fraternity returns: DTD gains college approval” by Ian Morse appeared on The Lafayette’s website last Friday. The article announces that the 18 member Recognition Committee decided to grant Delta Tau Delta (DTD) colony status. President of DTD Dan Lupia ’16 (Full disclosure: Lupia copyedits for us. He did not copyedit this story) said the…

The IAGGL Draft Report is out! Let’s cut to the chase. The Board of Trustees called for demonstrated progress towards four objectives for fraternities and sororities. How did we do? IAGGL assessed fraternities and sororities achieved the objectives for academics and discipline. IAGGL found fraternities and sororities met the objectives for demonstrated learning opportunities and…

Lafayette College’s VP of Campus Life Annette Diorio posted an update from the Implementation and Assessment Group on Greek Life (IAGGL). Read the full update here. Highlights include: President Byerly’s participation at the Jan 24 meeting A document for the President and Board of Trustees to be delivered in March Fall grade report demonstrates strong…

Alumni Relations recently published the results of the 2013 Alumni Attitude Survey. What is the survey? There are three groups of survey questions that rate specific items based on both importance and performance. Questions about the student experience of the alumnus/a. Questions about what alumni should do (the proper role of an alumnus/a) and how…

Read the latest update on IAGGL from the Chair at this link. Of note are some enhancements that DKE’s leadership team has requested, notably: Dan and Annette discussed the work that has been ongoing with Administrative Information Systems (ITS) to enhance the types of information being stored in Banner.  This has allowed for more accurate…

Following the recent Board of Trustees meeting, Annette Diorio, VP of Campus Life and Senior Diversity Officer, recently posted an update on IAGGL’s progress for the campus community. This update contains a link to the implementation grid, which indicates the person with primary responsibility for each implementation item to strengthen Greek Life at Lafayette College.…

In August 2012 DKE’s leadership published our thoughts on the  progress towards fulfilling the Board of Trustees directives from their October 2011 meeting. As promised, we’ve updated the dashboard to track the progress since August. With the help of the administration, the Greek community has made significant progress, often already achieving the Board’s end goals…

Lafayette College’s VP of Campus Life Annette Diorio posted a recent update from IAGGL, which includes a description of the docket from the January meeting of the Trustee Committee on Student Life. Of note are the following items: Updating COMPASS to be an annual Excellence Review and Recognition Program Updated data from the Office of…

I gave a short primer on Lafayette 360 a few weeks ago but now that we actually held our Kick-Off event, President Weiss included a summary during his Board update, The Lafayette has some information, and we briefed Alumni Council on February 2nd, its time to help alumni dig a little deeper in to this initiative,…

Lafayette College kicked off a student experience workshop on January 23rd with the help of over 60 participants including students, faculty, staff, administrators, and alumni.  This follows the Board’s approval in October of an initiative proposed by the administration to enhance the student experience at Lafayette College. The kickoff was hosted by the Dean of…