Collegiate Chapter Best Practices
The following are Best Practices utilized by previous Outstanding Chapters or noted by successful faculty officers at recent chapter workshops. These practices may be helpful to your chapter in making sure an acceptance rate is achieved which qualifies your chapter for scholarship matching funds (70% overall or 85% at undergraduate or graduate level).
- Name a Chapter Honoree annually – could even be awarded to the person for whom the school is named (2006 Gold Chapter)
- Promote BGS on campus during Founders’ Week (BGS Awareness Week) with information and a giveaway drawing (2006 Silver Chapter)
- Allow BGS student members to select a Professor of the Year (2006 Bronze Chapter)
- Co-sponsor a Business Leadership Forum on campus with training on “effective networking” and “dining etiquette” (2006 Gold Chapter)
- Faculty wear regalia and process in during the induction ceremony (2006 Silver Chapter)
- Co-sponsor with the School of Business a “Dean’s Reception” for all students making the Chancellor’s and/or Dean’s List (2006 Bronze Chapter)
- Faculty members send personal notes/emails to their students congratulating them on invitation to BGS (2006 Gold Chapter)
- Display all BGS chapter plaques prominently in School of Business building (chapter charter, Outstanding Chapter, Exemplary or Premier Chapter, Scholarship Program Awards) (2006 Bronze Chapter)
- College/University’s promotions department sends press releases to hometown newspapers announcing the student’s invitation/induction into Beta Gamma Sigma
- Faculty Advisor sends list of those qualifying for membership to all business school faculty asking them to recognize the students in class, in person, or by way of a note
- Faculty and current student members wear BGS
keys, t-shirts or other BGS apparel during the week that invitations
are sent or delivered; faculty members display their membership
certificates (available for purchase at the BGS
Store)
- Participate in Beta Gamma Sigma Founders'
Day/Week encouraging greater recognition on campus
- Offer invitation to Beta Gamma Sigma membership
to students in an in-class tapping
ceremony
- List Beta Gamma Sigma in College/University catalog as the business honor society for the school’s AACSB International accredited business program
- List or designate Beta Gamma Sigma members in commencement program
- Provide honor stoles or cords for student/faculty members at commencement
- Announce Beta Gamma Sigma scholarship
recipients in School of Business and/or Foundation
publications (for qualifying chapters)
- Include article about the Beta Gamma Sigma chapter’s induction (or other activities) in School of Business publications
- Follow-up email notes to those invited to membership and not yet responded; answer questions about membership
- Utilize complete membership invitation packet when inviting students to membership
- Include the BGS Information Card and a comment from the Dean in Dean’s List letter to underclassmen – encouraging the student to set BGS membership invitation as a goal
- Maintain creative/informative BGS bulletin board/display case in prominent locations in business school building
- Consider accepting into membership those students who missed the deadline for membership acceptance
- Purchase and install Beta
Gamma Sigma bronze key in or near School of Business building
to increase recognition of the Society on campus
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