The Enterprise workplace of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs concepts to instate the Reside-In Graduate Assistant Program in on-campus Greek Houses commencing within the slide of 2022.
“The Reside-In Graduate Assistants are a part of Ric Corridor’s ten level system for fraternities and sororities to supply some added steerage over the lived working expertise that a lot of our fraternity and sorority prospects are in as a piece of residing of their chapter facilities,” defined Sara Diem, affiliate director of fraternity and sorority affairs.
The Reside-In Graduate Assistant Utility was at first ready to start out in fall 2020, nonetheless, it was placed on preserve owing to the closing of the Greek houses in the middle of COVID-19, Diem defined. Now, the OFSA and Lehigh administration are assured in transferring forward with the tactic.
Diem said it’s vital that equally faculty figures and chapter leaders are related to the assortment means of who will probably be residing within the Greek facilities.
The strategy will pair only one graduate assistant with every Greek facility. Candidates are to put up packages by March 8, which will probably be reviewed by the OFSA to ensure each particular fulfills their abilities.
The candidates will then be interviewed by OFSA, Housing Services, as much as 3 undergraduate associates from the chapter and an advisor or workers members member from the chapter’s nationwide office, Diem mentioned. Diem said anybody positioned within the Lehigh Valley pursuing a graduate diploma is eligible to make use of.
1 of the sorority homes on Lehigh’s campus. The Reside-In Graduate Assistant Utility is facet of Ric Corridor’s 10-position plan. (Sarah Binday/B&W Group)
Kevin Yang, ‘24, Theta Chi president mentioned he has combined ideas in regards to the plan.
“It’s a good suggestion in observe, however I think about myself and a ton of different chapters really feel it’s worrisome on the similar time,” Yang mentioned. “If we have now an advisor who is supposed to dwell within the chapter home, how significantly of a say have they got when it arrives to telling us what we will do or not?”
Yang mentioned he was additionally dissatisfied to grasp the stay-in graduate assistant will occupy the president’s suite, as dwelling within the suite was simply one of many components he most appeared forward to as a president.
Karis Jang, ‘23, Kappa Delta president, claimed she finds it weird that the are living-in assistant will probably be a graduate scholar taking into account very often sophomores and juniors occupy the job of Gryphons in different campus housing.
“We now have different figures within the family too, like our chef, people from housing, individuals who seem in and take a look at in on us and make sure all of the issues is improbable,” Jang defined. “It’s form of coming into our territory, (despite the fact that) I perceive their concern.”
Jang reported Greek properties even have ritual actions which can be distinctive for purchasers of the chapter. She claimed she is anxious that possessing a graduate assistant within the property will partially scale back that ingredient of exclusivity that’s very important to Greek companies in all places.
Diem said the first idea for the assistants is to offer a peer mentor exterior the home of their group who residents can really feel relaxed approaching with considerations, worries and help.
“As persons are shifting into this a bit way more unbiased development of dwelling, than residing in a residence hall, they nonetheless have a stable relationship to Lehigh and Lehigh’s means,” Diem mentioned.
