Scholarship in Chapter Meetings
1. Offer a vocabulary word of the week (place on bathroom doors!).
2. Give reminders of final course drop dates, early registration, and such.
3. Make weekly announcements of cultural, educational, and career opportunities on campus and in the community.
4. Ask members to answer to roll call with the number of classes they cut the previous week.
5. Announce job offers, admission into graduate schools, Who's Who, Mortar Board, Phi Beta Kappa, honoraries.
Scholarship in Rush
1. Display your scholarship trophies.
2. Display graphs of chapter progress.
3. Display bulletin boards with scholastic information.

Graphs
1. Chart the progress of the chapter average, the associate average, and the initiated member average over the past four years.
2. Compare your chapter average to other fraternities on campus. Initiated and associate averages help here, too.
3. Show how your chapter compares with other chapters in your fraternity (in your district find out the averages).
Bulletin Board Ideas
1. Career Board (visit your Placement Office on campus for information to put on this bulletin board -- may be how to put together a resume, to majors and careers to match the major)
2. Board for national and local news
3. Board for movie and book review
4. Post a "Thought of the Week"
5. Put up an "I need help" sheet for members to sign
6. Put up an "I can help" sheet for members who want to assist members
7. List study halls and quiet hours, and proctors for both
Study Areas
1. If you do not have adequate study facilities in chapter house or residence hall, secure a room in the campus library or another academic building.
Quiet Hours
1. Have roommates rotate as quiet hour monitors
2. Have 24-hour quiet hours during mid-terms, the week before finals and the week of finals
3. Change the name of quiet hours to "courtesy hours"
"How to Study" Plans
1. Recommend THREE hours of study per class hour instead of two!
2. Present "How to Study" workshops or "Information Presentations" to the entire chapter after initiation day, or just to the associates (would have greater impact to present to the entire chapter to show that good scholarship habits do not end after the education program is completed)
3. give refresher training to associates and members below academic requirements
4. explain university academic probation
5. explain chapter grade requirements
6. teach study techniques
7. explain honor programs
8. outline your scholarship program
9. suggest members audit a class or two of a course they'll take later
10. discuss how to improve study atmosphere and chapter performance
11. have skits or slide shows showing good or bad study techniques
12. teach how to take essay vs. objective examinations
13. give members weekly study budget sheets (time management), divided into hours
14. teach a method of studying (i.e., SQ3R, etc.)
15. make "Library Use" booklets for each member (library may have already)
16. describe learning skills centers and courses available
17. alert members to counseling services
18. distribute lists of chapter members and their majors
19. give members "Class Progress Sheets" for recording their assignments, quiz grades, tests and papers
Motivations
1. Posters can show chapter creativity and can remind members of quiet hours, the need to attend classes, etc.
2. Friendly Competition
• challenge each member to raise his GPS .1 each term (minimum goal)
• have one class challenge another class each term, and the losing class serves the winning class dinner
• Have Big Brother/Little Brother competitions
3. Have a chapter fireside before finals
Useful Files and Library
1. Stock files by having "Clean Out Your Notebook" parties at the end of each term; members can contribute books, notes and tests
2. Study aids might include: Effective Study, Francis P. Robinson, Harper and Row, 4th Ed., 1970; Effective Reading , Francis P. Robinson, Harper and Row; How to Study, Thomas F. Stanton, McQuiddy Printing Co., 4th Ed. 1954: Effective College Learning, Ohmer Milton, Ph.D, Univ. of Michigan; The Adventure of Learning in College, Rober H. Garrison; Improvement of Fraternity Scholarship, Ray E. Blackwell, Oxford, OH, 1957; The Easy Way to Better Grades (A Practical Guide to the Art of Study), Otis D. Froe, Ph.D., and Otyce B. Froe, M.A., Arco Publishing Co., Inc., 2nd Ed, 1976
3. Professor/Course Evaluation Files (or Teacher Comment Files) - outline the instructor's grading procedures, attendance policy, course requirements
4. Test Files (to be used properly, as a questioning learning aid only)
5. Major and Minor Files (used for assigning tutors, study buddies, major mates -- anytime you want to find two people with similar interests)
6. Graduate School catalogues and information
7. Graduate Record examination information and review books
8. Departmental catalogues
9. Schedule of courses offered each term
Events
1. Over-the-Hump Party (after mid-terms)
2. Grumble Party (before exams)
3. Mourner's Dinner (last night before finals, short dinner to which everyone wears black to signify that all other activities must die as you honor exams)
4. Faculty Social (members invite their favorite professors and the university administration)
5. Faculty Week (instructors from different departments are invited to dinner each night and talk about their departments)
6. Scholarship Banquet (for chapter recognition, invite faculty) Note: write the GPA of each member you are honoring on his place-card.
7. Guest Speakers (invited to any event or open meeting)
• campus librarian
• placement office personnel or visiting representatives from businesses
• administration officials from the college president to the Greek advisor
• the winner of your local scholarship
• board of education officials in your community
• alumni on the faculty
• prominent and successful alumni within the community
Recognition and Awards
1. Take every opportunity to recognize your achievers in your national magazine, your community newspaper, your campus or Greek newspaper and your chapter newsletter
2. Send letters to parents of excelling members
3. Recognize Mortar Board, Phi Beta Kappa, honoraries, Dean's list
4. Recognize 4.0's and/or highest GPA in chapter, or perhaps in each class including the pledge class
5. Recognize the most improved, in the chapter and in the pledge class
6. Give each member door signs: Red - DO NOT DISTURB; Yellow - I'M STUDYING, COME BACK LATER; Green - COME ON IN.
7. Have members take an Asset Inventory at the beginning of the year; or a Skill and Problem Inventory (let them tell you their "good assets" and where they might need help)
8. Have members write Positive Mental Attitude cards at the beginning of each term (PMA); they predict performance
9. Have members sign scholarship contracts at the beginning of each term: "I promise to study ___ hours per week during ____ term. I also promise not to cut class. I will do everything I can to live up to this promise because I value my education, my fraternity, my parents, and MY future."
The Scholarship Committee (The "Academic Spirit Squad")
1. Sponsor a book sale and trade each term.
2. Develop a booster program whereby each member of the committee is directly responsible for a certain number of associate members or members below academic standards.
Scholarship for New Members
1. Have a library night once a week.
2. Take new members on a library tour (arrange for someone at the library to give)
3. Give them assignment notebooks
4. Combine new member education meetings with new member study sessions.
5. Have the new members elect an associate scholarship chair to serve as a member of the chapter scholarship committee
6. Encourage the new members to challenge another new member class on campus
7. Ask the new members to sign scholarship contracts similar to the PMA cards or study contracts for older members members
8. Give each new member a study buddy or study pal, one member especially responsible for motivating the new member to study, and to serve as a resource for academic adjustment (try to match majors, or may use the Big Brother)
IFC Ideas
1. Suggest that Panhellenic and IFC sponsor a "Learning to Learn" seminar for freshmen (not just Greeks, other classes can come also) ...campus-wide
2. Suggest that Panhellenic and IFC plan and participate in a Quiz Bowl using "It's Academic" format
3. Have your chapter challenge a sorority each term.
4. Have your chapter challenge another fraternity
5. Work for a scholarship column in the Greek or campus newspaper
6. Suggest that IFC offer workshops for scholarship chairs and scholarship advisors as they do for rush and pledge
7. Suggest that IFC trophies be given each term, highest and most improved averages, both chapter and new member.
8. Suggest that IFC host a Scholarship Banquet each term (one term invite only those men with a 4.0 or 3.5 and above...award certificates to those men receiving a 3.5 and above with special recognition to those receiving a 4.0; the next term invite all men and award certificates to 3.5 and above and the 4.0's, too) Invite members of the university administration, alumnus advisors, house mothers, Panhellenic delegates, and chapter presidents...have a theme and have a presentation pertaining to scholarship.
Miscellaneous Awards
1. Study Nut (weekly recognition of member most often seen studying)
2. Chapter Honor Society
3. Academic Improvement Award (most improved GPA)
4. Highest Big Brother/Little Brother, Most Improved Big Brother/Little Brother
5. Highest GPA over Positive Mental Attitude estimate
6. Miracle Worker (4.0's) only 99? ..ok...100. Library book donated to the campus or chapter library in the name of the senior with the highest GPA!!