"Initiate One More Electee"
- Membership is the MOST important function of a Tau Beta Pi chapter!! This is how we 'mark in a fitting manner ...'
- Chapters should set a goal of initiating one more electee each semester.
- You can track your chapter's progress online. Click the new 'Membership Statistics' button on the Membership Menu in the online system (password required)
For the past two years Tau Beta Pi chapters have risen to the challenge to 'Initiate One More' electee. Here are some suggestions:
- Get personal - contact each candidate and electee in person. Break up the list amongst chapter members to make it more manageable.
- Follow up - don't accept a failure to respond at face value. Mail, whether electronic or snail, doesn't always reach the intended recipient.
- Use Facebook to communicate with candidates, electees and members. Click here for info.
- Ask your dean to send a letter to candidates and/or electees. (Click here for sample).
- A letter from the dean to student's parents works as well. (Click here for sample).
- Publicize your new members! Send a news release, take out an ad in the campus or local newspaper or hang a poster.
- Don't forget to include the appropriate brochure (click here to order or here for information).