1953–54 Volume 78 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL of Phi Deha Theta
The Palladium Supplement
January
1954
Volume 78
No. 3, Part 2
Devoted to the private interests of the Fraternity
HAYWARD S. BIGGERS,
Editor
How the Survey Commission Operates
By JOHN J. TIGERT, P.P.G.C, Vanderbilt
HE functions of the Survey Commission are
Tclearly set out in the Constitution and General
Statutes but the methods and procedures of
the present Commission can be explained here
to the advantage of officers, alumni, members
and all who are interested in seeking charters.
As-a first step, your Commission has approved
a tentative list of more than one hundred colleges
and universities as a basis for starting our
study of desirable locations of new chapters.*
All institutions on this list are accredited by recognized
regional or national accrediting agencies.
This is not a closed list but is under constant
revision. We start with it to save useless time
and expense in investigating institutions that
have already failed to meet the usual criteria of
educational recognition.
Our next step is to evaluate institutions on
this list meeting the minimum essentials by our
own criteria, which we have established both by
the institutions and the petitioning groups when
there are such groups. We do not confine our
study of institutions to those which are seeking
charters. We wish to identify all institutions
which would seem to be desirable shelters for
chapters of * A G, regardless of whether they are
seeking charters or not.
Our endeavor is to take our ratings as far out
• See list at end of article.
'04, Chairman
of the realm of personal opinion and make
them as objective as is possible, but there are
always some intangible factors which involve
deliberation and judgment.
The present Commission of five members
covers the country by residential representation
in different sections. Visitation of an institution
or a petitioning group is usually assigned to that
member of the Commission who is most conveniently
located geographically but, in special
cases, the assignment is otherwise.
The Criteria, which have been adopted by the
Commission as a guide to its members in collecting
desirable information for the use of the
Commission in reaching decisions which will
place institutions and groups on approved lists,
are naturally of two kinds; criteria relating to
the standards and facts about the institutions
themselves, and criteria which should characterize
the best type of petitioning bodies who
would meet the ideals of # A 9.
The data upon which the Criteria are based is
as follows:
Data Needed For Criteria
in Rating Institutions
1. Date founded, location.
2. How controlled Public, private, church
3. Composition of Board of Control (Regents,
Trustees, etc.) and method of constitution.
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