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1 | Timestamp | Name of Alumni Chapter | Name of person submitting survey | How does your chapter invite TBP alumni to join your chapter? (check all that apply) | How does your chapter communicate with its members? (check all that apply) | Does your chapter hold regular officer meetings? | If yes, how often? | Does your chapter hold formal officer elections? | Do you have enough candidates for the required officer positions according to your chapter's bylaws? | Does your chapter submit nominations for Association Awards (Distinguished Alumnus or McDonald Mentor)? | Does your chapter conduct an officer transition for incoming leadership? | If yes, what does the transition consist of? | How does your chapter approach new members to recruit or encourage them for officer/chair positions? | What makes a chapter member "active" in your chapter? | How many "active" members does your chapter have? | How many TBP alumni does your chapter email regularly? | Does your chapter have an annual event or activity that you consider to be its signature event/activity? | If yes, please describe your event | Did your chapter celebrate Tau Beta Pi Day this year? | If yes, please describe your Tau Beta Pi Day event | Did a chapter officer attend the 2023 district conference? | Did your chapter send a voting delegate to the 2022 Convention? | Are you planning to send a voting delegate to the 2023 Convention? | How many activities has your chapter held this year? | What area(s) did your chapter struggle with this year? | More specifically, what issue(s) did your chapter struggle most with this year? How are you trying to overcome these struggles? | What would be an improvement for the chapter to make over the next year? | What recommendations do you have for TBP to improve your chapter and your experience as an officer? | What was the chapter's greatest achievement this year? | What is the chapter's vision/goal for next year? | What practices do you have that you may want to share that could benefit other chapters? | Any other comments or items to share? |
2 | 5/15/2023 14:20:46 | Great Smoky Mountains Alumni Chapter | Bob Edlund | Personal emails from an officer | Emails, USPS | Yes | Twice per semester per bylaws but does vary up or down | Yes | No | No | No | Minimal turnover | Call or email solicitation | We have always defined active as the number of members who vote on a given topic or matter under consideration. As such, it varies from topic to topic. | For the most recent vote on the ratification ballot we had 31 active members. | 81 | Yes | Pi Day celebration this year. Fall picnic in previous years. | Yes | Plant tour and pizza party. | No | Yes | Yes | Participated in 6 different events. | Member Participation, Leadership/Officers | Officer recruitment. This year we elected a fifth director in lieu of having no President or VP. | Identify people willing to serve in officer positions. | People do get confused by the TBP HQ solicitations and those of the alumni chapter. This is especially confusing to newbies not familiar with the org structure - the two brands tend to get blurred. | Supporting the 2022 annual convention in Knoxville. | From our bylaws: This Chapter supports the goal of lifelong alumnus member involvement through hosting networking events and tours; sending a voting delegate to the Tau Beta Pi annual convention; assisting nearby collegiate chapters with their programs to stimulate better student-alumni relations; aiding nearby collegiate chapters with recommendations of suitable alumni and eminent engineers for election to membership in the Association; and providing opportunities for members to meet and discuss common interests. | Zoom officer meetings are much easier to arrange vs meeting in person. We have found that meeting virtually on a Sunday evening is optimal from a scheduling perspective. | None. |
3 | 5/19/2023 12:22:06 | Charlotte Alumni Chapter | Bob Bonner, MI A, Secretary, Charlotte Chapter | Welcome emails from the chapter | Emails, Chapter meetings | Yes | quarterly | Yes | Yes | No | No | In person at Chapter Meetings/events | Attendencee to meetings and events | 8 | 620 | Yes | Pi day. We are also working to establish a fall event with the UNCC Student Chapter in the Fall | Yes | We met at a local brewery for casual drinks and conversation | Yes | No | Yes | 2 | Member Participation, Officer Participation | Participation. 8 participants out of 620 area alumni seems like a low percentage of interest | Double our participation rate | Even more attention to Alumni Chapters in The Bent to drive awareness/participation | Establishing a viable Alumni Chapter | Establish Fall Student/Alumni Event to provide career networking. | Make it fun, make it convenient. "Pay your own way" rather than charging dues, managing chapter finances, etc. | Tricia has been GREAT to work with! | |
4 | 6/5/2023 20:19:41 | MilAC | Teresa Hutton | Welcome emails from the chapter, In person contact (at work, at school, etc.) | Emails, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Website, Virtual meetings such as Zoom | Yes | Once per month | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Meetings to explain roles. | We bring it up at the end of the year to the members (our election is in January). | Dues paid. | ~9 | 100 | No | Yes | Pizza! | Yes | Yes | Yes | 12 | Member Participation, Image/Recruitment | Getting more people at events. Using exit surveys after each event to get feedback on event and how to engage more members. | Have more graduating seniors join the alumni chapter. | Communication to collegiate chapters about alumni chapters - help with encouraging graduating seniors to join alumni chapter (pitch value, inform them of how to find an alumni chapter, etc.) | We had two :) A tour of a cheese aging factory and a tour of a local coffee roastery. Good participation in each. | Higher engagement, continuing to build TBP Alumni community. | Monthly officer meetings where we choose an event for the month. Distributing work evenly across officers. | Can we see the results of all the surveys? | |
5 | 6/12/2023 15:15:00 | Greater Boston Alumni | Tuhina Bhattacharya | Welcome emails from the chapter | Emails, Virtual meetings such as Zoom | Yes | Once every 2 months | Yes | No | No | Yes | Virtual Zoom meetings and detailed emails for handover | Email, LinkedIn | Responds to chapter survey and/or email at least once in the last 3 years. | 6 Exec members, and 100-300 members as potentially active in the last 3 years | Over 300 | No | No | No | No | Maybe | 2 | Member Participation, Officer Participation | In 2022, we had a very large exec/officer team, so it was hard to find a time to meet that worked for all of us. In 2023, we have a small exec/officer team, so it is easier to find a regular time to meet (we agreed on once every 2 months for this year) as well as get responses to emails amongst each other between meetings. | Perhaps hold an in-person event - we haven't had an in-person event since 2019. | N/A | We were asked by a collegiate chapter to hold a "repeat event" based on how much the students appreciated and found it useful the first time around. | Have additional alumni interested in participating in events, being active members, and perhaps also run for exec/officer. | N/A, we are still trying to improve upon our performance last year and I think we are. | N/A | ||
6 | 6/13/2023 21:10:16 | San Francisco Bay Area Alumni | Elson Liu | Welcome emails from the chapter, Connect on LinkedIn or other social media | Emails, LinkedIn, Facebook, Website | Yes | Monthly | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Transition meetings | Email, meet-the-officer happy hour | Voting in an officer election or national/chapter constitution/bylaws vote | 16 | 803 | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 6 | Member Participation, Officer Participation, Quantity/quality/variety of events, Collaboration with Collegiate Chapters | Issue: Member participation How are we trying to overcome these struggles: - Keep hosting events and see what seems to get participation. - Reassess what is our value proposition. | Goal 1: Host at least 6 events in the next year. Goal 2: Host at least 1 event with at least 10 alumni members in attendance in the next year. | We don't think our chapter's issue is lack of support from HQ. | Hosting 6 events this past year. | See above. | Regular outreach to collegiate chapters to seek out collaboration opportunities. | It would be nice if we could preview all of the survey questions before completing the survey. | ||
7 | 6/17/2023 14:16:53 | Puget Sound Alumni Chapter | Nancy Chang | Welcome emails from the chapter, Personal emails from an officer, Connect on LinkedIn or other social media | Emails, LinkedIn, Facebook, Virtual meetings such as Zoom | Yes | Once a quarter | Yes | No | No | Yes | Virtual meeting(s) reviewing responsibilities | Solicit recommendations from Tricia and then send personalized emails. | If they asked to join our LinkedIn Group. | 439 | 670 | Yes | Pi Day | No | No | Yes | No | 0 | Member Participation, Officer Participation, Communication with Members, Leadership/Officers, Image/Recruitment, Quantity/quality/variety of events, Collaboration with Collegiate Chapters | Officer participation. | Filling officer vacancies and gaining active members. | Would it be possible to receive a grant of $200 to sponsor activities? | Keeping the chapter active. | Gaining new leadership and keeping the chapter active. | Behind-the-scenes tours (e.g. Ballard Locks, Boeing) have had the most engagement. | Would welcome ideas on recruiting officers and engaging members. | |
8 | 6/28/2023 11:12:49 | Indy AC | Steve Meyer | Welcome emails from the chapter, Personal emails from an officer, Connect on LinkedIn or other social media | Emails, Newsletters, LinkedIn, Facebook | Yes | Monthly | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Getting together to review items and Google docs | In person asking | Pay dues and declare consent | 23 | 500 | Yes | January annual kick-off! | Yes | Pizza dinner at iconic Italian restaurant | Yes | Yes | Yes | 5 | Member Participation, Collaboration with Collegiate Chapters, Collegiate advisor support | Getting collegiate chapters including Advisors more involved | More College events and more Colleges on general | Better establish links & expectations to Chapter Advisors, who have institutional history | So far the Kiss the Bricks IMS tour but we’ve got great events planned coming up too! | Continue to increase members & collegiate events ! | Use free Mail Chimp & Canva for marketing! Plan fun & interesting events! | Year 1 has been fun being reinvigorated but much more to do! Gotta keep it awesome since people have competing demands & a lot of time TBP collegiate membership is a check - the-box thing. |
9 | 7/1/2023 19:06:50 | Portland Alumni Chapter | Leonard Weitman | Welcome emails from the chapter | Emails | No | NA | No | No | No | No | NA | Unfortunately, I am the only semi-active member | Unfortunately, I am the only semi-active member | No regular email takes place any longer | No | NA | No | NA | No | No | No | None | Member Participation, Officer Participation, Leadership/Officers, Image/Recruitment, Quantity/quality/variety of events | We have not been able to recruit any officers besides me. No one in the chapter has expressed any interest in being an officer or had suggestions regarding events in which they would like to participate. | Find people who would be interested in devoting a lot of time as officers to rebuild the chapter. | NA | Staying connected with the student chapters. | Find people who would be interested in devoting a lot of time as officers to rebuild the chapter. | NA | NA | |
10 | 7/4/2023 17:25:08 | Pittsburgh Alumni Chapter | Greg Nesbitt | Welcome emails from the chapter, Personal emails from an officer | Emails, Newsletters, Website | Yes | Monthly | Yes | No | No | Yes | Old officers have a zoom call with the new officers, and show them how to use chapter resources (alumni email address, mailchimp, etc). | Newsletter, personal contact at events | Paid dues | 23 | 23 | Yes | Pi Day at a local pizza place, summer picnic | Yes | Pizza at a local pizza place. Had the cook arrange the pepperoni on the pizza in the shape of Pi. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 5 | Member Participation, Image/Recruitment | Trying to get people to show up for events. We've had a decent variety of events to join, and there seems to be some excitement involved in selecting them, but when a date is set and we ask for RSVPs - crickets. And few people come. We tried sending a survey to membership to see what types of activities would be of interest, but only received 3 responses, one of which was from the current VP and one from last year's President. We'll keep trying. | Need to reach out more to folks we have on our mailing list who are not active members. Maybe if we can get them interested in activities and such they will choose to become members and participate more. The list is there, email just needs to be crafted and sent. | More opportunities to network and get involved at the national level. The Alumni Officer afternoon and chapter chat panel were both awesome and I got a lot of ideas from both. Both were also highly encouraging because I realized that many of the other alumni chapters are struggling with the same issues that we are. | Re-establishing a good relationship with the Penn State student chapter. I think they were ignored for a long time because they are a distance from Pittsburgh. Prakit made the effort to drive up and attend their December initiation and that made a huge difference. | Get more people involved. I think we have a core group who don't mind taking the responsibility for keeping the chapter running, but it would be more encouraging if more people were attending events. Continue to stay involved with the student chapters. Try some new ideas to get people involved and participating. | I think we've formed good relationships with our student chapters by making ourselves available and making collaboration with them a priority. Some officers are more interested in collaborative activities than others, but we put the offer out there and make sure they have a point of contact they can reach and see what happens. We try to check in with them every couple of months at a minimum. | |
11 | 7/13/2023 15:09:30 | Central Texas | William Hamm | Welcome emails from the chapter, Personal emails from an officer | Emails | Yes | monthly | Yes | No | No | No | e mails | by laws require dues, which were suspended during Covid and will resume next year | four | around 1600 | No | No | No | No | No | Two- We supported the Austin Energy Science fair and held a carrer night with Texas Alpha | Member Participation, Finances, Leadership/Officers, Quantity/quality/variety of events | Member participation. We only had three signups for the huge (~3,000 student) Science Fair and four for the Texas Alpha career night. We are working on better events, such as a Tesla Gigafactory tour as well as considering purely social events. We are also trying to team up with the local MIT and Harvard Clubs. | More appealing events | Headquarters has done quite a bit. Publication of events like the Gigafactory tour will be helpful | The Texas Alpha career night- about 25 students showed up and we had good discussions and an engineering building tour | Better events, more lead time between announcement and event, teaming with other organizations | One thing we are thinking of is having events where rival schools compete, such as Texas A&M against Texas alumni in Top Golf or some other activity. I think part of the issue is identifying with TBP. I belong to the Penn Club and events are well attended. The last one was purely social (Drinks and Tappas at a restraurant) and had about 25 attendees from several Penn schools, including nursing, Wharton, and engineering. | No | |||
12 | 7/14/2023 15:18:37 | Mid-South | Gene McGinnis, President | Personal emails from an officer | Emails | No | No | No | No | No | emails from President and emails from Tricia | We only have two active members | 2 | 30 | Yes | Tau Beta Pi Day 3/14 | Yes | Had pizza with local university chapters. 3 members from alumni group attended. | Yes | Yes | Maybe | 1 | Member Participation, Officer Participation, Communication with Members, Finances, Leadership/Officers, Image/Recruitment, Collaboration with Collegiate Chapters | We only have two officers. No one else would step up as an officer. | Have a full slate of officers and collect dues. | Tricia has been very helpful. | Tau Beta Pi Day. | Unknown | None | |||
13 | 7/16/2023 20:06:59 | The Central Florida Alumni Chapter of The Tau Beta Pi Association | Andre Childs, William H. Lee, Chris Z. Liu | Welcome emails from the chapter, Personal emails from an officer, Connect on LinkedIn or other social media | Emails, LinkedIn, Facebook, Texts, Telegram | Yes | We have tried to make meeting with the officers; however only Chris Z. Liu, William Lee, Andre Childs and Benjamin Sites show up regularly to the meetings. | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | The transition consists of meeting the fellow officers two weeks after the election. The new officers will be introduced to existing officers in the executive board. | We will try to rely on the word of mouth or just their own desire to be officers. | "Active members" are those who a) are elected officers, or b) attended our events, or c) emailed us to show interests, or d) emailed us to vote, or e) paid dues. | As of May 19th, 2023, we have about 27 active members. | About 70-100 on average. | Yes | Environmental protection event held together with Orange County Environmental Protection Division (EPD) & Parks and Recreation in Orlando. | Yes | Orlando Science Center Pi Day Trivia event | Yes | No | Yes | 4 | Member Participation, Officer Participation, Not many members paid dues (only about 10 members paid dues) | For member participation issue, we are trying to increase the variety of activities such as social nights. We planned for a July 4th event, but was canceled due to weather. | We wanted to have more officers be involved. Six people were elected as officers but only four have actively participated. | It would be nice for new starting chapters: It would be nice to have access to the previous officers as we were not able to meet with them. We started on our own with Tricia’s help. Some of our officers believe that if we were also given money to start the chapter that would be nice to rather than having to restart a chapter using our own money. | We had a very successful Pi day with the Orlando Science Museum in Florida. There were about 3,000 people in attendance at the museum on the day. We had math games and math tournament, and Pi-day trivia with kids who were able to win science prizes, such as chemistry sets. | Our goals for Central Florida Alumni Chapter remain as: 1. Expand the alumni network 2. Provide mentorship to students and young professionals 3. Create positive impact on our community We will try to hold more social events, try to plan events with longer notice, to have a survey on event preferences. We plan on having another great Pi Day and a large social summer event. | Members began returning messages once they saw in pictures that we had fun at our social outings. It made people want to be a part of the activities. | |
14 | 7/17/2023 9:08:29 | Southwest Florida | David Day | Welcome emails from the chapter | Emails, Virtual meetings such as Zoom | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | All members that agreed to the petition are considered active at this time. | 17 | 17 | No | No | No | No | Yes | Planning to have 2 in 2023 | Member Participation | We need more participation. Hope to improve thru good activities | Hold the two planned events and get good participation. | None at this time | Do not have one yet as we are new | More activities. | None | None | |||||
15 | 7/17/2023 20:51:37 | Baltimore Alumni | Shelby Coppolino | Welcome emails from the chapter | Emails, Instagram, Virtual meetings such as Zoom | Yes | Every other Monday | Yes | No | No | Yes | Explaining the google drive organization and mailing lists | Email and meetings | They pay a $5 due for the year | 25 | 25 | No | Yes | Went to a pizza place for pizza "pi" | No | No | No | 4 | Member Participation, Quantity/quality/variety of events | We need to make having events a priority | Plan seasonal social events for alumni | Maybe a talk on how to properly use social media | We talked to collegiate chapters and went to events with them | Continue being involved with students. Do a volunteer event | We have a mailing list for active members and another for all members. | ||
16 | 7/18/2023 10:06:54 | ATLA | John Pederson | Welcome emails from the chapter | Emails, LinkedIn, Facebook | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | A meeting, handing over access to the chapter google drive | We include solicitations for the open positions in emails to the chapter | Payment of yearly dues | 11 | 129 | No | Yes | Meetup for pizza | No | Yes | Yes | 2 | Member Participation, Communication with Members, Image/Recruitment | Member engagement; we are trying to overcome this difficulty by hosting online meet-and-greets with chapter members | Host more events with the Georgia collegiate chapters | N/A | The virtual meet-and-greet | Increase the number of events which provide value to our membership and to the local collegiate chapters | Keeping the website up-to-date helps with the image of the chapter | |||
17 | 7/18/2023 19:45:04 | Southeastern Michigan Alumni Chapter (SEMIAC) | Melissa Wrobel | Welcome emails from the chapter, Personal emails from an officer, Connect on LinkedIn or other social media, In person contact (at work, at school, etc.) | Emails, LinkedIn, Facebook, Website, Virtual meetings such as Zoom | Yes | Monthly | Yes | Yes | No | No | During events and email invitations. | We have no official requirement for active membership in the bylaws, however, we consider members who have voted in our election and/or attended at least one event to be active. | Events average ~8 alumni members. Voting averages ~30 alumni members annually. | Our mailchimp list includes ~1800 alumni. | No | Yes | We meet for pizza pi(e) each year during Pi Day. During COVID we did a virtual game night instead. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Six (6) | Member Participation, Image/Recruitment, Collaboration with Collegiate Chapters | Participation outside of the officers, both with other alumni members and student chapters. We plan to diversify our types of events. Utilize District Directors to help advertise our events to the student chapters. | Try to send officers to visit more student chapter general body meetings and/or initiations. Host an inter-chapter initiation banquet again (consider making this our signature event?) | Keep up the good work, Tricia! We'd like more connections between alumni and advisors or even just encouragement of advisors to become active in their local alumni chapters, if possible. | Launching our website and participating in District 7 conference. | Recruit new officers. Develop a vision and mission statement for the chapter and an elevator pitch for when we're recruiting new alumni members. | We recommend mailchimp for managing the email list. We have a paypal account which has been useful for members to pay for events or make donations. Even if you can't host events regularly, we strongly recommend having consistent officer meetings! | |||
18 | 7/24/2023 10:01:39 | Front Range Alumni Chapter | Regan Wess | Welcome emails from the chapter, Personal emails from an officer | Emails, LinkedIn, Virtual meetings such as Zoom | Yes | Quarterly | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Going over documents, sharing passwords and login information, rundown of the chapter's goals and plans for the upcoming year. | Most events, especially events that have new members and student chapters. | We have a $10 yearly fee that must be paid to be considered active. | 20 | 150+ | No | Yes | We celebrated Pi day at a pizza place in Denver and also used this as an officer meeting opportunity. | Yes | Yes | Yes | 5 | Member Participation, Officer Participation, Leadership/Officers | Member participation has been our number one issue. We are trying to reach out to officers and gather input on what activities the members would like to see to encourage participation. We are offering zoom options more often for members that would prefer to stay at home, but would like to remain active. | My goal is to have an event where 10+ members show up. | I think making newly graduated students more aware of the alumni chapters that exist and how to get in touch with the chapters may boost participation and awareness. | The Zome Tool tour - we had great participation and it was a very technically informative event. | I would like to schedule several technical tours because this seems to peak the interest of most members. We also have a goal of having alumni members present at all of the Front Range collegiate chapter initiations. | We try to offer social events, technical events, and events with collegiate chapters to make ourselves present in more than one category. | Looking forward to convention! -Regan | |
19 | 7/26/2023 19:12:51 | Rocket City Alumni Chapter | Ethan Hoben | Welcome emails from the chapter, Personal emails from an officer | Emails, Virtual meetings such as Zoom | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | We currently have a limited approach, I would like to improve it as the new president | We do not track that at this time | Unsure | 20-30 | No | No | Yes | No | Maybe | 2 | Member Participation, Officer Participation, Communication with Members, Leadership/Officers, Image/Recruitment, Quantity/quality/variety of events, Collaboration with Collegiate Chapters | Collaborations with collegiate chapters | Collaboration with collegiate chapter | More Structure to the alumni chapters, similar to collegiate chapters | N/a | Improve on all fronts | N/a | N/a | ||||
20 | 7/26/2023 21:14:48 | Richmond Alumni Chapter | Inzamamdeen Kassim | Welcome emails from the chapter | Emails, Virtual meetings such as Zoom | Yes | 1 meeting per month | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | This is the first year for our chapter we plan on conducting a transition meeting at the next election | We have emailed members asking if they are interested | Paying yearly dues, attending chapter activities and chapter meetings | 10 | 14 | No | No | No | No | Yes | 0 | Member Participation, Finances, Image/Recruitment, Quantity/quality/variety of events, Collaboration with Collegiate Chapters | Getting members involved with reactiving the chapter. We are currently planning events we would like to execute before the end of the year and hopefully increase member involvement | Getting more communication out to members and starting a social media presence | No recommendations at this time. Tricia has been super helpful with providing guidance and information as work on getting our chapter reactivated and off the ground. | Reactivating the Richmond Alumni Chapter | Building a relationship with our local collegiate chapter and collaborating with an event together. | N/A | |||
21 | 7/26/2023 21:39:17 | Dayton Alumni | Leah Hill | Welcome emails from the chapter | Emails | Yes | Roughly quarterly | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Knowledge transfer of duties | Organically or through email announcement of upcoming elections | Response | Maybe 20? | I’m guessing ballpark 100-250 | Yes | Pi Day | Yes | Pizza Pi(e) at Pies and Pints | Yes | Yes | Yes | 2 | Member Participation, Collaboration with Collegiate Chapters | We never know if an event will be a hit. Pi Day was great, but a Young’s Jersey Dairy social only had officers. Asking for RSVP would at least give us a heads up. | Newsletter and events planned further in advance. RSVPs to make sure we have adequate space when we get a surprise great turnout. | Keep reminding us if there are examples of best practices for communication, event planning, etc. | Pie day! | Have a full cohort of officers and meaningful events with good attendance | Variety of event types can appeal to a broader audience | |
22 | 7/31/2023 14:42:56 | Kansas City Alumni chapter | Brent J Barcus | Welcome emails from the chapter, Personal emails from an officer, Connect on LinkedIn or other social media, In person contact (at work, at school, etc.) | Emails, Website | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Attendance at event | 10 | Once a year | Yes | Member drive | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 3 | Member Participation, Officer Participation, Communication with Members, Image/Recruitment | Events | Events | None | None | Hold meetings | None | None | ||||
23 | 7/31/2023 18:11:07 | Pioneer Alumni Chapter | Kurt Rouser | Personal emails from an officer | Emails | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Email to all alumni in the area and targeted emails to candidates with strong potential. | Pays dues. | 9 | 626 | Yes | Back to School Ice Cream Social | Yes | Joint with OK Gamma, including Pi Day Trivia | Yes | Yes | Yes | 3 | Member Participation, Leadership/Officers | Increasing member participation is the biggest challenge. The plan is to organize officer efforts better with more regular officer meetings. | Regular officer meetings. | We need to attract more involvement from recent graduates. | We always consider our attendance at student chapter initiations to be the greatest thing we do. | Organize officer efforts and increase member involvment. | Back to School Ice Cream Social with student chapters. | Our progress stalled while our President (me, Kurt Rouser) focused on completing tenure package. Now that we're over that, we are setting our sites this fall on revitalizing our alumni chapter, starting with involvement with the OK Beta and Gamma student chapters and making an effort to attract recent graduates to participate in the alumni chapter. | ||
24 | 7/31/2023 19:20:57 | Ohio North Coast Alumni Chapter | Shelton Caruthers | Welcome emails from the chapter, Personal emails from an officer, Connect on LinkedIn or other social media, In Person Invitation (to graduating seniors) at local TBP Initiations | Emails, LinkedIn, Virtual meetings such as Zoom | Yes | Monthly except during Summer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | One-to-One or Multiple-to-One instruction of expectations, tools, and 'procedures' | Usually from one to one conversations with actively participating members | Payment of annual dues | 9 | 60 | Yes | Tau Beta Pi Day celebration last two years at Top Golf | Yes | Outing at Top Golf entertainment center, inviting local collegiate chapters to join | Yes | Yes | Yes | 5 (plus 3 collegiate initiations) | Member Participation, Officer Participation, Communication with Members, Image/Recruitment, Quantity/quality/variety of events, Collaboration with Collegiate Chapters | Perhaps greatest is member participation. This year we attempted to have more frequent and less "demanding" activities. We also added variety (like just attending the play as a group). | To have even more and more varied activities. Increase communications between events (instead of just to announce a quarterly event). | Stick to our monthly leaders' meeting (even in Summer), even if not everyone can attend. We all have busy schedules, so to wait until all can attend causes delays and cancellations. This goes for the president, too! We should empower all leaders to drive meetings as needed. | Pi Day Event, though not as good as the year before, when students from 3 different chapters also attended. | ONCAC's official vision is the same as the national vision, "Providing a community for Tau Bates for Life" with the mission to "connect TBP members through networking & outreach and to inspire integrity and excellence in engineering." Specifically for next year, we aim to continue growing our member participation, improving communications (esp via LinkedIn Group), and engaging with Collegiate Chapters more. | Invite alumni members (not just Alumni Leaders) to attend Collegiate Initiations. It is a great "reminder" of your own initiation which, in some cases, is decades ago and long forgotten. | This was my first time to attend District Conference in person. I highly recommend it to Alumni to engage with other alumni on a more regional, dedicated basis (vs., eg, Nat'l Conv) AND to engage with the students from multiple chapters. |
25 | 7/31/2023 19:26:31 | TBP - North Texas Alumni Chapter | Mark J. Vajdos | Personal emails from an officer, Connect on LinkedIn or other social media, In person contact (at work, at school, etc.) | Emails, LinkedIn, Website, Texts, Phone calls | No | Yes | No | No | No | LinkedIn / Email / Phone | Officers responsive to each other. | 5 | LinkedIn posting 80+. | No | No | No | No | Yes | None - Collegiate initiations did not happen. | Member Participation, Finances, Image/Recruitment, Quantity/quality/variety of events | Activities / events that make people WANT to participate. Geography / schedules are an issue. Continue reaching out. | Gain more "active" members. Quality not quantity. | Put some funding interest to alumni chapters. If I could schedule a free luncheon / supper as an example...with a volunteer speaker. People are more likely to show for a free meal as a start coupled with an interesting topic. Sprinkling in human interest topics here and there has been a successful recipe for success. | Keeping the chapter still active. | We WILL add PARTICIPATING type members. | More frequent personal engagements have yielded positive results. Zooms get you so far but the new crop of grads would serve themselves well with direct interaction outside of technology. | God bless Tricia for chasing all of those alumni chapters across the country. :) | ||||
26 | 7/31/2023 19:57:37 | Greater San Diego Alumni | Corinne Allen | Welcome emails from the chapter | Emails, Facebook, Virtual meetings such as Zoom | Yes | once a month | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Goal recap and planning with all incoming and outgoing officers. One on one officer position transitions | Emails or personal recruitment | Paying annual dues | 13 | 125 | Yes | BBQ in the park - just after local schools graduation | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 12 | Member Participation, Officer Participation, Image/Recruitment | Participation - We are rotating between virtual and in person events. Trying to rebuild our recruitment and recover missing opportunities from COVID | Active recruitment. We haven't reached out to the new graduates as effectively very effectively this year. | Not sure | We consistently held monthly events. | Rebuild. This year we have focused on maintaining consistency and regaining our footing. Now we would like to start working to rebuild to where we were 4 -5 years ago. | Our annual BBQ is usually a big hit. We try to hold it near the colleges and use it to recruit the recent graduates with the help of the college board members. | ||
27 | 8/1/2023 3:43:26 | Tucson Alumni Chapter | Christopher Stemple | Welcome emails from the chapter, Personal emails from an officer, In person contact (at work, at school, etc.) | Emails | No | No | No | No | No | Most recent officer transitions have been unexpected/due to external influences so a formal transition process has not been established. Only connective tissue between officer transitions has been members who have been around since the chapter was established (Chris/Melody) | Word of mouth, leveraging Direct of Alumni Affairs (Tricia) for new alumni who have moved to town | Given generally low number of events held, participation in any event constitutes "active" status for us | 4-5 | 30 | No | No | Previously have done mixers with Arizona Alpha chapter but not in recent memory | No | Yes | Maybe | 0 | Member Participation, Officer Participation, Finances, Leadership/Officers, Quantity/quality/variety of events | Unexpected officer transitions - blind solicitation for new officers Lack of events as a result of leadership breakdown - trying to get new officers and members to rebuild chapter base | Holding events. Any kind of event | Automated reports to chapter officers with new alumni who are in the area so we can reach out to them (vs doing manual pulls) | Finding a new president | Re-establish the chapter and get it into what we consider to be an "active" status | Strong ties to local student chapter benefit both students and members by way of networking/mentoring opportunities | |||
28 | 8/29/2023 0:33:00 | Central Jersey | Abhiram Karuppur | Welcome emails from the chapter | Emails, Facebook | Yes | Once every few months | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Tasks that need to be completed - tax filing, email PW | Presence on email distribution list | 58 | 58 | Yes | Pi Day Event | Yes | Went to local pizzeria | No | No | No | 4 | Member Participation, Collaboration with Collegiate Chapters | Partnerships with colleges - reaching out this year | Reaching out to college chapters | N/A | Bringing new members to our events | Increase # of events and member participation | Surveys to gauge locations that are most convenient | ||
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