FRATERNITY NEWS
Training & Certification The General Fraternity has created educational components to specifically train alumni volunteers, including High Pis. The Neville Advisor’s College is the backbone of all of the alumni volunteer educational programming and is subsidized in part by generous contributions from Ronald A. Neville, an alumni brother and High Pi of Theta-Sigma Zeta at Drury University. The next Advisor’s College will be from January 11-13, 2013, in Indianapolis. The alumni volunteer certification process is a one-step process that each alumni volunteer must complete if he wishes to volunteer with his local chapter. The first step in the process is to complete the Alumni Volunteer Affirmation, which is a web-based tutorial designed to ensure that the alumni volunteer is current with what Lambda Chi Alpha is doing today, and is also aware of the policies, Mandatory Resolutions in the Constitution and Statutory Code, harm reduction processes, and the educational curriculum components that are available to the chapter.
The bottom line is that if you are trained, certified, and performing your duties as outlined by our Constitution & Statutory Code, then the General Fraternity will make sure you always have all the legal support you need should a situation warrant it.
For More Information Outlined in the General Fraternity’s 2017 Strategic Plan, Alumni Identification and Training is one of the five major focal points. A trained and certified High Pi is the minimum we need from our chapters. Ideally, each chapter would also have a functioning Alumni Advisory Board, If you are interested in learning more or becoming a High Pi, please send an email to Associate Director of Chapter Services Justin Fisher at jfisher@lambdachi.org. Chapters Operating Without a High Pi
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Volunteer Protection Act To dispel any fear or concern a potential High Pi has about volunteering, I am going to provide a brief recap of the Volunteer Protection Act. People who volunteer to assist nonprofit organizations run the risk that their actions, while well-intentioned, may cause harm to another. If those actions are deemed negligent, the volunteer may face civil liability for damages caused by the negligent conduct. The Act generally eliminates the liability of an individual volunteer for damage caused by his or her simple or ordinary negligence, so long as the individual was acting within the scope of his or her responsibility to the eligible organization and was not grossly negligent or intentionally trying to cause harm. The Act provides protection to the individual volunteer only; it does not immunize or otherwise limit or affect the liability of the nonprofit organization or government entity itself. www.lambdachi.org/cross-crescent
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Bucknell (Delta) California-Los Angeles (Epsilon-Sigma) California State-Fresno (Iota-Gamma Colony) Cincinnati (Gamma-Gamma) East Tennessee State (Iota-Omicron) Eastern Illinois (Phi-Alpha) Georgetown (Kappa-Omega) Indiana State (Iota-Epsilon Colony) Lake Forest (Pi-Pi) Millersville (Delta-Tau) Montevallo (Sigma-Epsilon) Oklahoma State (Alpha-Eta) Ohio State (Gamma-Tau) Pittsburgh (Gamma-Epsilon) Rhode Island (Eta) South Dakota Mines (Colony 298) Southeastern Oklahoma (Pi-Sigma) Texas-El Paso (Zeta-Epsilon) Texas Tech (Sigma-Nu Colony) Tulsa (Epsilon-Upsilon) Western Ontario (Delta-Eta) Wichita State (Colony 296)
Cross & Crescent December 2012