Elevating Local Chapter Excellence

Local Chapter Excellence has been the life-breath of Alpha Gamma Rho for over a year and the team at the Home O ce continues to elevate the experience. Amanda Horvat, Ph.D., Director of Leadership & Education, has spent several months planning upcoming enhanced programs.

These enhancements include updated resources on AGRconnect with new training modules for all chapter o cers and on relevant chapter development topics ranging from Fraternity-based issues to overall member well-being.

“Brothers coming into Alpha Gamma Rho or even those just wanting to learn more about the brotherhood can utilize these programs,” Horvat said. “As we continue To Make Better Men, we want our brothers to grow and develop life skills during their collegiate experience.”

The latest developments include the Top Leaders Institute going nationwide consisting of eight locations in 2024. Throughout the months of January and February, AGR will host two events per weekend from January 12 through February 3. The program itself will see some changes including, pre-Institute work, more involvement from national and local alumni as facilitators, moving from entire-group work to small group work and integrating other programming like the Standards of Chapter Excellence, OmegaFi and AGRconnect.

The 2023 Top Leaders Institute refl ects the need for these elevations in programming. These past sessions had an overall attendance of 257 collegiates, 52 alumni, Housemothers/Directors, and Facilitators; and out of 40 invited chapters, 34 were represented overall.

Local Chapter Excellence isn’t just programming for collegiate members. The Fraternity is excited to be creating new and improved training for Advisers and Housemothers/Directors. Advisers will have a training module on AGRconnect as well as a new program called Adviser Academy along with the two Adviser Forums hosted every year by the AGR Home O ce. An Adviser/Chapter Operations Manual is also in the works as well as enhanced training and resources for Housemothers/Directors. All these new programs will become tools for Alpha Gamma Rho’s Advisers and Housemothers/Directors to have at their disposal to aid our collegiates in becoming the best chapter they can be.

”This has been the largest educational e ort that Alpha Gamma Rho has ever developed and implemented,” stated Rex Martin, CEO. “We know that if collegiates, alumni, Advisers and Housemothers/ Directors are working together then our chapters will become stronger. Local Chapter Excellence gives them the tools to make that happen.”

Alpha Gamma Rho is excited to see these new and updated programs installed into the Local Chapter Excellence curriculum and hopes that it elevates the experience of all members.