biennial report of beth martin langford kappa delta sorority national ...

Chapter Advisory Boards (CABs) play such an important role in the success of our chapters. CAB
membership and training have been strengthened and enhanced under the leadership of the
National Director of CABs and support of headquarters staff. We are in the process of
implementing a CAB training program to be launched in August 2011. Certain trainers will be
designated geographically to train CABs in their areas. We hope to have consolidated CAB trainings
as well as individual CAB trainings, as needed.
Educational Programming
Kappa Delta will host our first National Collegiate Training Academy in February 2012 in Atlanta.
This intensive two-day training will be for each chapter’s entire council and one member of their
CAB. There will be over 1,500 Kappa Deltas taking advantage of this training opportunity. Specific
workshop tracks for each officer will be provided, along with general leadership training provided by
professional trainers. The powerful weekend is being funded by the sorority and the foundation,
and will replace the National Leadership Conference traditionally held in June every other year.
New to Kappa Delta is the implementation of webinars in 2010 to provide training in areas such as
treasury, community service, PR, new member education, and chapter choice. The response was
good, so we will continue this program. We continue to look for ways to educate our chapter
leaders in a variety of ways. In addition, the KD Leader was sent to chapter leaders monthly.
Education will always remain an important focus with a comprehensive education program for our
collegiate sector. Focus areas are CAB, risk management, treasury, new members, membership
recruitment, philanthropy, academics, and leadership development
Concerns
The trend requiring the most risk management attention is drinking on or near bid-day or initiation.
It has almost become a “right of passage activity” for members to engage in drinking activities with
new members. Often, the results cause many risk management issues (destruction of property,
hazing, alcohol poisoning, promiscuous behavior, fighting, etc) that have to be addressed by campus
administration or National KD. The newly appointed Director of Risk Management will be working
on ways to combat the risks associated with this trend.
Bullying/mean girl type behavior is becoming more prevalent in chapters. The behavior is often
discreet, but is very intimidating to other members. The result is often hazing, but members do not
perceive this behavior as hazing. In the coming year, we plan on placing more emphasis on hazing
education. At Convention, we will have a speaker address this topic too.
We continue to see inappropriate use of personal websites. This is a continuous battle. And while it
can be fun and informative, too many collegians (and CAB members!) are using these sites to share
VERY personal information and photographs. These are being brought to the attention of national
Kappa Delta because our members have KD posted throughout their sites. Chapters have created
their own disciplinary systems to deal with members who are presenting themselves on the web in
an inappropriate manner.
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