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).
- Promote and highlight the BGS Centennial. We are celebrating 100 years! Utilize the BGS Centennial Resource Kit items.
- Participate in the BGS Centennial Programs – BGS Gives Back, BGS is Everywhere and Meet the Leaders of Business.
- Incorporate “Professor Elwell”, our Centennial mascot, into your ceremony and celebration. Then send in photos to Central Office so that we can share these on our website and social media with our members.
- Utilize the NEW Centennial video to explain to your students the long and rich history of Beta Gamma Sigma. Here is the link: http://betagammasigma.org/centennial/timelinevid.htm
- Offer and “Ethics in Business” program with real life examples of business dilemmas, or role-plays.
- Hold a spring Academic Excellence Reception for outstanding students.
- Host a Founders’ Day luncheon – co-sponsored with the Dean of the college or school of business. Invite BGS members and those from the President’s List (students with a 4.0 GPA) and Dean’s List.
- Have students who will be inducted into BGS identify a “Favorite Professor” and invite this professor to attend the induction ceremony and award them the BGS Professor of the Year Medallion.
- Send a letter to students’ parents and employers.
- Sponsor an Executive Lecture series. BGS members may host the events.
- Make the BGS invitation process highly visible. Extend the Tapping Ceremony out over four days during Founders’ Week. Tap student remotely.
- Utilize technology and have students not able to attend the ceremony, maybe due to studying abroad for the semester, participate in the ceremony via SKYPE.
- Have eligible students sport BGS stickers (or BGS has buttons available) and carry congratulatory balloons.
- Show your BGS pride – ask faculty and administrators to wear their BGS pins during the month of February. BGS was founded February 19, 1913.
- Increase the recognition of BGS with students in their first and second year. Send BGS information cards to the top half of second-semester first-year students with their pre-registration materials. Continue with the next two semesters’ pre-registration materials. A similar distribution of information cards can be done at the MBA level.
- Name a BGS Chapter Honoree annually.
- Faculty members send personal notes/emails to their students congratulating them on their invitation to BGS.
- Display all BGS chapter plaques prominently in School of Business building (chapter charter, Outstanding Chapter, Exemplary or Premier Chapter, Scholarship Program Awards)
- List or designate Beta Gamma Sigma members in commencement program.
- Provide BGS 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 or website.
- Follow-up email notes to those invited to membership and not yet responded; answer questions about membership.
- Utilize complete membership invitation booklet when inviting students to membership.
- 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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