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NGLA is proud to recognize and celebrate NGLA Treasurer, Dave Conner, who was recently announced as a recipient of the Sue Kraft Fussell Distinguished Service Award. Every year the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors (AFA) Awards & Recognition Committee recognizes outstanding contributions by their members and colleagues. Specifically, the Sue Kraft Fussell Distinguished Service Award is presented to individuals who exhibit outstanding achievements in one or more areas: service to AFA, service beyond their campus/organization, development/research, service to the college and fraternity/sorority communities.
Dave Conner currently serves as the Director for Student Involvement at The College of New Jersey. In this role, he facilitated a 378% growth of the fraternity/sorority community over eleven years as the sole professional advisor, advocate, and resource to more than 1,800 students involved in 32 fraternities and sororities; one local, ten NIC, nine NPC, four NPHC, four NALFO, one NMGC, and three PFA organizations. He has been an active volunteer in AFA and NGLA, and he helped support the formation of a Local Greek Leadership Conference for the mid-Atlantic region to better support the myriad of local organizations in the northeast. Dave also has a passion for technology and sharing best practices with others to streamline communications and engagement.
Emily Perlow, NGLA board chairman, says of Dave, “This award is so well earned. Dave is a systems-thinker. He is adept at identifying unintended effects caused by process, policies, and norms and works across silos to address them. He has encouraged NGLA to think bigger, to find efficiencies, and to do a better job serving diverse populations. I’m not sure I could have filled the role of volunteer Executive Director without Dave by my side as a friend, thinker, and roll-up-his-sleeves doer.”
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Is Your Community Innovative?
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NGLA offers an Innovation Grant for fraternity and sorority communities to come together to creatively and collaboratively solve problems and challenges. The purpose of the Innovation Grant is to provide campuses or organizations with the resources to employ creative, new approaches to problems or issues faced within your community and whose solution may also benefit other fraternal communities in the Northeast. The committee is looking for proposals that make an impact on those students who participate.
The grant eligibility criteria and application form are available on the NGLA Innovation Grant webpage. NGLA looks forward to supporting your innovative ideas that strengthen your community and further NGLA’s mission to “educate leaders from a variety of fraternal experiences to transform and empower their community and align actions with values.”
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Share your Success – Be in the NGLA Spotlight!
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Did your campus just win an award? Is your community engaged in an amazing philanthropy or community service initiative? Have some news that you just need to share with the NGLA community? We want to know!
Share your news by nominating a chapter, council, community, or individual to be in the NGLA Spotlight. The NGLA Spotlight is in addition to the annual NGLA Awards.
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Yvonne Pitts serves as the NGLA Scholarship Chair. In this brand-new role, she is responsible for helping identify scholarship partners, and facilitate the advertisement and selection of scholarship recipients. While only in her role for a few months, Yvonne has already created a rubric for evaluating scholarships, oriented her volunteer team, reached out to potential partners about funding scholarships, and worked to approve a project plan for the scholarship area. Yvonne is Assistant Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Columbia University in the City of New York. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. NGLA is so glad to have her as a volunteer!
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Students portray themselves in ways that many others consider insensitive, racist and xenophobic. Photos are posted. Photos end up on the front page, print or virtual. Reaction from those offended is swift and critical. Reaction from the chapter(s) follows a distinct pattern--“We apologize…not our values…didn’t realize…didn’t understand…now we know.”
This is a tough topic. But David Westol, of Limberlost Consulting, challenges that we’re not going to advance by assumptions andusing our traditional ways of approaching the topic.
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NGLA is always accepting articles for our monthly newsletter. Submissions can be made by anyone in the community, and we welcome the opportunity to feature different ideas and material each month. Articles and detailed content submissions can be made using the Article Submission Form.
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Don’t miss important announcements, recognition, and more! Like our Facebook page and follow our Twitter profile.
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Mark November 1 on your calendar – Early Bird registration, the hotel block, student staff application, award applications, and scholarship applications opens!
Be sure to check the NGLA newsletter each month for important conference updates.
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NGLA educates leaders from a variety of fraternal experiences to transform and empower their community and align actions with values.
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