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DELTA UPSILON
INTERNATIONAL FRATERNITY
PROPOSAL
FOR
PARTNERSHIP
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
OUR FRATERNITY
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DELTA UPSILON HISTORY
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THE OATH OF INITIATION
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CHAPTERS AND COLONIES 8
FRATERNITY HEADQUARTERS STAFF
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LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
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UNIVERSITY LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT 11
CARBONDALE AREA ALUMNI 13
MEMBERSHIP EDUCATION 14
RISK MANAGEMENT AN LOSS PREVENTION 16
LOSS PREVENTION POLICIES 17
OUR PARTNERSHIPS 19
COLONY TO CHAPTER 20
MINIMUM CHAPTER STANDARDS 21
PARTNERSHIP STRATEGY 22
PARTNERSHIP COMMITMENT 23
CHAPTER SERVICING PHILOSOPHY 24
FRATERNITY STRUCTURE 25
OFFICER RESPONSIBILITIES 26
CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS 29
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a staple of the initiation ceremony.
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Delta Upsilon Partnership Proposal
The Cornerstone
Delta Upsilon’s Guide
to College and Beyond
bit.ly/thecornerstone
The Ritual Book
The rites and history of
the Delta Upsilon Ritual
bit.ly/ritualbook
DU Quarterly,
the official magazine of
Delta Upsilon Fraternity
bit.ly/thequarterly
Blake Bradley
Coordinator, Fraternity and Sorority Life
Southern Illinois University
Student Center Room 305 - MC 4425
1255 Lincoln Dr.
Carbondale, IL 61790
Dear Mr. Bradley,
Delta Upsilon International Fraternity is interested in establishing Delta Upsilon at Southern Illinois University. We would welcome the
opportunity to partner with your fine academic institution and help strengthen the fraternity/sorority community.
Delta Upsilon, the men’s premier non-secret Fraternity, is an international fraternity with a history that is rich in tradition and deep in
pride. The oldest non-secret general fraternity, Delta Upsilon was founded on November 4, 1834 on the Williams College campus
in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Our Founders selected Four Founding Principles as they established an association upon the
ideal of Justice, Our Foundation:
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The Promotion of Friendship
The Development of Character
The Diffusion of Liberal Culture
The Advancement of Justice
Reflecting high aspirations, our Four Founding Principles serve a continuing challenge and as an inspiration to achieve greater
excellence. Today’s Delta Upsilon is committed to advancing social justice, promoting civic engagement, fostering diversity and aligning
with the academic missions of our host institutions.
Delta Upsilon and Southern Illinois align in mission and purpose in several aspects. Service is a key focus of every new chapter of Delta
Upsilon both in the local community as well as participation in the Global Service Initiative. Delta Upsilon is creating global leaders who
are connected by the same fraternal oath. Like Southern Illinois, this dedication towards civic engagement is present throughout our
chapters and educational programs. We are confident, that membership in our fraternity will enhance the mission of Southern Illinois
University as well as the undergraduate experience of each student.
We would like to thank you for this opportunity to express our interest in starting a chapter at Southern Illinois. By choosing Delta
Upsilon, you will give Southern Illinois men the opportunity to join a progressive organization committed to building men for a global
society.
If you would like more information about Delta Upsilon International Fraternity, please contact me at (317) 875-8900 ext. 213 or [email protected].
Interfraternally,
Justin J. Kirk
Executive Director
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HISTORY
OUR FRATERNITY
VISION STATEMENT
Delta Upsilon is the premier men’s
fraternity committed to Building
Better Men for a global society
through service, leadership
development and lifelong personal
growth of our diverse membership.
FRATERNITY
PROFILE
DELTA UPSILON MISSION
Building Better Men
74 CHAPTERS / 6 COLONIES
FOUNDED
82,000
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November 4, 1834 at Williams College,
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Founded as the first non-secret fraternity
Sixth-oldest general men’s college
fraternity (Fourth oldest still in existence)
LIVING ALUMNI
129,159 TOTAL INITIATES
1,412
Undergraduate
4,204 members
initiates during
2014-2015
53 MEMBERS
Average chapter size
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HISTORY
DELTA UPSILON HISTORY
On the evening of November 4, 1834, 30
students - ten men from each of three
classes (freshmen, sophomores, and
juniors) at Williams College - “all good
men and true,” met in the Freshman
Recitation Room in West College and
formed the Social Fraternity known today
as Delta Upsilon International Fraternity.
A new era had begun.
The first 30 years were trying for the
Social Fraternity, which adopted the
name “Anti-Secret Confederation” (ASC)
once an alliance was formed with other
non-secret groups from Union College,
Middlebury College, and Amherst College.
The formation of the ASC led up to the
Convention of 1864, which was critical
for the young Fraternity. Delegates
from three of its seven chapters were in
attendance, but a fourth delegate was
needed to establish quorum and enact
legislation. Just as the group was about
to discuss the formal disbanding of the
ASC the delegate from the Rutgers
Chapter arrived, completing the quorum.
The Convention moved forward with
its important discussion and legislation
and officially adopted the name “Delta
Upsilon,” which had already been in use
by several of the chapters.
The Convention of 1879 saw another
important change for Delta Upsilon. The
Fraternity had always been anti-secret,
actively opposing the secret societies
on college campuses. Though this was
a hotly debated subject, the delegates
felt that it was an outdated principle and
chose to adopt a principle of non-secrecy,
working in harmony with the secret
societies while keeping the key elements
of the organization’s founding.
By the following year, DU had grown to
15 chapters in the northeast. In 1898,
DU became an International Fraternity,
installing its first Canadian chapter at
McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
After a strong period of growth around
the turn of the century, the Fraternity
was incorporated in the State of New
York in 1909.
The chapters which had been established
were consistently solid. Due to this
strength the Fraternity did not lose any
chapters through World War I or the Great
Depression. In 1949, through the vision
and generosity of Hugh E. Nesbitt, an
alumnus from the Ohio State Chapter,
the Delta Upsilon Educational Foundation
(DUEF) was founded to provide
educational scholarships to DU members.
Over time, the DUEF expanded its
purpose to include funding for educational
programs such as the Leadership Institute
and the Presidents Academy.
The late 1960s meant social upheaval
and fraternities were among the
institutions questioned about their
relevancy. DU strongly emphasized the
personal aspect of fraternity, rather than
just its rituals and formalities. This was a
strong argument for starting so many new
chapters, with 18 chapters chartered from
1968 to 1971.
Until 1969 Delta Upsilon rented office
space in New York City to serve as the
organization’s headquarters. In 1969,
Delta Upsilon moved to Indianapolis,
Indiana to service the Fraternity’s
membership more efficiently. With a gift
from an alumnus from the Pennsylvania
Chapter, Lester E. Cox, the Fraternity
Headquarters was built in the College
Park area of Indianapolis, Indiana.
During the 1970s and through the 1990s,
issues such as drug use, alcohol abuse,
sexism, racism, hazing, and other social
issues came out into the open and were
discussed, and actively attacked. While
these are problems throughout society,
Delta Upsilon has attempted to combat
these issues in our chapters.
The new millennium is presenting
new challenges, which must be faced.
Membership recruitment and education
are a continued focus. Delta Upsilon
continues to address tough social issues,
risk management and loss prevention,
and embrace more diverse demographics
in an ever-changing college environment.
Delta Upsilon has more than 175 years
of experience in the fraternity world and
is planning its strategies for the years
and decades to come. Delta Upsilon has
always been a leader and will continue as
it builds the 21st century fraternity.
The Colony Badge is given only to founding fathers of
a Delta Upsilon Colony. These are men who join during
the colony period and take the oath of initiation together
to receive a Delta Upsilon Charter.
DU IN BRIEF
Delta Upsilon International Fraternity
remains steadfast in striving to be
the premier non-secret fraternity for
undergraduate men. When we enter into
partnerships with academic institutions
we highlight DU’s strong commitment to
developing our student leaders holistically
into global citizens. Our student leaders
will develop and grow personally as well
as professionally and add value back
to their fraternity/sorority and university
communities through the combined efforts
of university advisors, volunteers, alumni,
and headquarters staff. Members of
Delta Upsilon will cultivate a full range of
human capabilities and an appreciation of
higher education as a means to engage
cultural, social, ethical and our fraternal
values in service to others. It is with this
collaborative attitude that we present Delta
Upsilon’s partnership proposal. You will
find included supplementary information
that we see as advantageous to consider
in distinguishing DU from any other
fraternal organizations.
RICH FRATERNITY HERITAGE
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More than 180 years of brotherhood
First non-secret, non-hazing
international fraternity
A ritual that has traditionally been
and continues to be completely open
Prominent DU alumni who have
spanned various fields and proven
to be a cornerstone in North
America’s history.
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DIKAIA
UPOTHEKE:
JUSTICE,
OUR FOUNDATION
DELTA UPSILON MOTTO
OATH OF INITIATION
I, of my own free will and accord, in
the presence of God and of these
witnesses, do hereby solemnly
declare that the principles of this
Fraternity as they have been
explained to me accord entirely
with my own views; and I solemnly
promise that as a member of this
Fraternity I will faithfully adhere to
those principles endeavoring in
every way to perfect myself morally,
intellectually, and socially, and
endeavoring also to act towards
others according to that high standard
of conduct required by the Fraternity.
I solemnly promise that I will be loyal
to the Delta Upsilon Fraternity and
to this chapter, abiding by their rules,
discharging my obligations to them
faithfully, and using all honorable
means to promote their interests.
I solemnly promise that I will
share with my brothers the duties
of my chapter; that I will uphold
and encourage them in all that is
honorable and right; that I will ever
extend to each brother the right
hand of sympathy; and that at all
times and in all circumstances I
will endeavor to cultivate those
sentiments which should ever exist
between brothers.
All this I solemnly promise upon my
honor, without any equivocation,
mental reservation, or secret evasion
of mind whatsoever.
CHAPTERS & COLONIES
ON THE MAP
Each active chapter and colony
has an associated alumni chapter
to support the needs and interests
of both undergraduate and alumni
members who attend or attended
the academic institution at which
the chapter is established as well as
alumni from varying chapters who
also live in the area. Currently there
are 74 undergraduate chapters and
six colonies.
The list to the right shows where
current chapters and colonies reside
with those adjacent to Southern
Illinois University highlighted.
PARTNER REFERENCES
Jason Bergeron
Director of the Center for Fraternity and Sorority Life
University of Houston
[email protected]
Monica Miranda
Director of the Center of Student Involvement
University of South Florida
(Formerly University of Rochester)
[email protected]
Jeremiah Shinn
Assistant Vice President
for Student Life
Boise State University
[email protected]
Steve Veldkamp
Assistant Dean of Students and
Director of Student Life and Learning
Executive Director, Center for the
Study of the College Fraternity
Indiana University
[email protected]
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Alberta, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Arlington, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
Boise State, Boise State University, Boise, ID
Bradley, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Cal Poly, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
California, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Carnegie, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Carthage, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
Central Florida, University of Central Florida, Orlando,FL
Chattanooga, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
Chicago, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Christopher Newport, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA
Clarkson, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
Colgate, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Cornell, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Culver-Stockton, Culver-Stockton College, Canton, MO
DePauw, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
Elon, Elon University, Elon, NC
Embry-Riddle, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL
Florida, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL
Georgia Tech, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Grand Valley, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
Guelph, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
Hamilton, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Houston, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Illinois, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Indiana, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Iona, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY
Iowa, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Iowa State, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
James Madison, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Kansas, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Kansas State, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Kent State, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Kentucky (Colony), University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Lafayette, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Lehigh, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Louisville, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Manitoba, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
Miami, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Michigan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Michigan Tech, Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI
Minnesota, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Missouri, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Nebraska, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
North Carolina, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
North Carolina State, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
North Dakota, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
North Dakota State, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
North Florida, Universty of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Northern Illinois, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Ohio, University of Ohio, Athens, OH
Ohio State, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Oklahoma, Oklahoma University,
Norman, OK
Oregon (Colony), University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Oregon State, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania State, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Purdue, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, IN
Quinnipiac (Colony), Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT
Rochester, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Rutgers, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Sacred Heart (Colony), Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
San Diego State, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
San José, San José State University, San Jose, CA
South Carolina, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
St. Norbert, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI
Swarthmore, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Toronto, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Tufts, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Vermont (Colony), University of Vermont,
Burlington, VM
Virginia, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Washington, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Washington State, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Western Illinois, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
Western Ontario, University of Western Ontario, London, ON
Western Reserve, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Wichita, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
FRATERNITY HEADQUARTERS STAFF
FRATERNITY HEADQUARTERS
STAFF
THE DELTA UPSILON TEAM
Our professional team consists of over 20 staff
members, ten of whom have advanced degrees,
FRATERNITY & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
and two staff members with a doctorate. The staff
has more than 130 years of professional experience
Executive Director: Justin Kirk, Boise State ’00
working with students in a higher education or
[email protected]
fraternity setting. The senior leadership team owns
Executive Assistant: Jana McClees-Anderson
such skill sets as, curriculum development, program
[email protected]
coordination and development and small and large
Senior Staff Accountant: Mary Ellen Watts
group facilitation. Team members are frequent
[email protected]
presenters at higher education conferences, and have
Director of Program Development: Michelle Marchand, M.A. served on national boards. In addition, each have won
[email protected]
individual recognition among a variety of organizations
and associations, are published authors in association
FRATERNITY
newsletters and magazines and are considered by
Associate Executive Director: Karl Grindel
others as thought leaders within the field of fraternity/
[email protected]
sorority affairs.
Senior Director of Educational Programs: Noah Borton, M.A.
[email protected]
Director of Global Initiatives: Kaye Schendel, M.S.
[email protected]
Director of Alumni Development: Colin Finn, Iowa State ’05
[email protected]
We have a strong team of dedicated professionals that
are prepared to support and advance the mission and
membership of Delta Upsilon.
Chapter Development Director: Kyle Martin
[email protected]
Chapter Development Director: Kelsey Morrissey
[email protected]
Expansion Consultant: Derek Dauel, Nebraska ’15
[email protected]
Expansion Consultant: Cale Kaiser, Nebraska ’15
[email protected]
Chapter Services Coordinator: Meghan Bender
[email protected]
Chapter Development Coordinator: Dominic Greene, M.A.
Oregon ‘99
New Media Coordinator: Kaylyn Easton
[email protected]
FOUNDATION
Associate Executive Director: Michael McRee, Ph.D.
[email protected]
Development Assistant: Natasha Dow, M.P.A
[email protected]
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EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAMS
Visit deltau.org/programs for more
information on how DU is building
leaders for the 21st century.
PRESIDENTS ACADEMY
The Presidents Academy trains and
inspires 80 Presidents annually.
Presidents from each chapter
participate in an institute style program
with a curriculum that emphasizes
the mission and principles of Delta
Upsilon as a foundation for effective
chapter leadership. Together, chapter
presidents are exposed to new ideas
and possibilities and are encouraged to
apply what they learn to their leadership
role and responsibility. They learn from
each other, stretch their boundaries,
discover strengths, and envision a more
successful version of their chapter.
ADVISORS ACADEMY
The Advisors Academy is a training
program for primary chapter advisors,
providing education on advising,
facilitation techniques, and strategies
for working effectively with university
students. The academy is held in
conjunction with the Presidents
Academy, which offers the advisors the
chance to join new chapter presidents in
certain areas of programming and build
relationships.
REGIONAL LEADERSHIP
ACADEMY
Each February, Delta Upsilon facilitates
five Regional Leadership Academies
(RLA) throughout the United States.
These Academies serve as a unique
opportunity for chapter officers in a
specific geographic region to attend
sessions that span a wide range of topics
affecting fraternity life today. RLA serves
as the largest undergraduate educational
program of the year. It is intentionally
designed as an officer training platform
to provide tangible skills needed for
success as defined by the Delta Upsilon
Officer Core Competencies. Chapter
officers engage in an interactive training
and education process that helps them
explore their role as a part of a highly
effective leadership team for the chapter.
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RECRUITMENT SYMPOSIUM
The Recruitment Symposium is a training
program for chapter and colony Vice
Presidents of Membership Recruitment.
This multi-day training teaches the
officers the necessary skills to lead the
chapter in a successful values-based
membership recruitment and selection.
GLOBAL SERVICE INITIATIVE
The Delta Upsilon Global Service
Initiative offers members a unique
opportunity to work with global and
local communities, while uniting Delta
Upsilon competencies and principles with
substantive volunteer service. Students
travel to, study in, and work with
communities where social and economic
conditions are substandard. During the
global experience, students engage in
service-learning to make a meaningful
impact in our global society to address
the issues plaguing urban societies;
these members will roll-up their sleeves
to create or rebuild areas of need.
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
The Leadership Institute is our annual
leadership conference/ fraternity
convention. More than 400 undergraduate
students participate in defined tracks
focusing on leadership development and
chapter operations. During the institute,
students meet in the Undergraduate
Convention/ Business Meeting to discuss
the matters of legislation that affect the
fraternity, and the Fraternity recognizes its
top chapters and individuals.
EMERGING LEADERS
EXPERIENCE
The Delta Upsilon Emerging Leaders
Experience (DUEL) is a highly interactive
program that encourages newly initiated
members to go deeper and broader in their
definition of who they are and where they
can have an impact. Participants develop
a better understanding of their personal
leadership by analyzing their talents
through the StrengthsQuest Inventory.
In addition, this experience provides an
opportunity to visit Williams College and
connect with the history and founding of
Delta Upsilon. A visit to the Fraternity’s
founding location provides an opportunity
for the most intensive Ritual education
offered in DU Educational Programs.
Through developing confidence in their
talents and clarifying their personal values,
Participants take ownership for creating
their ideal Delta Upsilon experience.
BUILDING BETTER MEN
RETREATS
Building Better Men Retreats are
intensive retreats customized to meet the
needs of a chapter. Senior fraternity staff
facilitate the retreats, which focus on
creating chapter buy-in to a shared plan
of action.
UNDERGRADUATE
INTERFRATERNITY INSTITUTE
The Undergraduate Interfraternity
Institute® (UIFI®) brings together
fraternity men and sorority women
from across North America to create
opportunities to explore, define, and
enhance their leadsership skills, and
grow to expect values-based action from
themselves and others. Delta Upsilon
provides a number of UIFI scholarships
available for students.
G reek L ife E du
This online training program educates
members on the facts of alcohol abuse,
hazing and sexual assault. This program
helps to empower students to make
informed decisions and provides simple
strategies to help keep themselves and
their friends safe.
UNIVERSITY
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
ASSESSMENT
The University Learning Outcomes
Assessment (UniLOA) is a reliable,
“dashboard indicator” assessment
instrument designed to measure student
behaviors in seven domains regarded
as critical by employers, academicians,
managers, researchers, accrediting
agencies, and a host of others. The
UniLOA serves both diagnostic and
prescriptive functions, allowing institutions
to not only measure student behaviors
but to guide in the planning, development,
and introduction of programming designed
to increase behaviors that complement
students’ overall growth, learning, and
development along the UniLOA’s seven
broad domains.
Delta Upsilon has made student-learning
outcomes a top priority. By accurately
understanding and measuring current
levels of student behaviors Delta Upsilon
can develop programs and interventions
designed to overcome weaknesses. As
a result, members are better prepared
to succeed after graduation and to make
significant contributions to the world
around them.
ASSESSMENT DOMAINS
The items included in the UniLOA are
written using a foundation of material
collected through focus groups,
individual structured interviews, webbased surveys, liberal arts and general
education outcomes, and student
development theory. In many cases,
verbatim quotes about student learning
outcomes were used to fashion the
UniLOA’s items. Using these methods
the authors contend that the UniLOA is
strongly supported by existing research
and practice, and presents a high degree
of construct validity. Concurrent, criterion
related, and discriminant validity studies
will be conducted over time.
CRITICAL THINKING
The UniLOA’s authors consider critical
thinking to be an active process where
students use skills of evaluating,
analyzing, assessing, interpreting,
Eric Alonzo, Washington State ‘13 and Alex Parker DePauw ‘14 engage in an assessment activity during
the Presidents Academy.
questioning and restating a problem or
challenge. Effective problem-solving
is bolstered by the individual’s skill
in applying critical thinking skills to
their academic lives and their lived
experience.
A skilled critical thinker should be
able to examine and understand the
fundamental qualities of problems,
collect and analyze critical data,
draw appropriate interpretations
and conclusions, examine broadbased problem-solving options and
effectively communicate and implement
appropriate solutions. COMMUNICATIONS
In academic circles, there are
many definitions of the construct
“communication.” Yet, most
contemporary definitions share
common themes within them, including:
• An active process where one
person conveys a message to
another through a variety of forms,
including speaking, writing, or other
non verbal cues.
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Communication may be intentional
or unintentional
That different levels of
communication exist depending on
the relationship between the sender
and the receiver
That it provides a means by which
needs can be expressed from one
person to another
That communication attempts to in
some way impact the behavior of
the “other”
Our effectiveness in communicating
with others requires an
understanding of the environment,
relationship to the other and how
effective the symbols chosen for
the expression of needs, wants,
or perspective are in affecting
behaviors.
SELF-AWARENESS
Self awareness as a construct can be
defined in multiple ways, but when
those definitions are examined to
identify common elements, consistency
among the many definitions emerges.
Self-awareness deals with awareness
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from the both internal and external
perspectives. Those dual perspectives
allow individuals to understand their
place within the environment and to
express behaviors and cognitions that
compliment harmony between self
and other. Self awareness is not a
skill that is inherent within the human
condition. To be sure, active self
awareness comes only after conscious
self-reflection comes to be a part of the
lived experience.
Indeed, moving beyond simple
tolerance allows individual members
of a social group the capacity to
appreciate the positive contribution
different people can make to the
collective good of that social group,
whether limited to small groups of
individuals or on a global scale.
Citizenship entails an understanding
of one’s membership in a variety of
“groups,” from the campus community
to the global level, and a demonstrated
commitment through behaviors that
reflect active participation within those
groups. Knowledge of the various
rights, privileges and associated duties
of citizenship allow our members to
contribute to the societal, economic,
cultural and ethical quality of life within
each respective community and beyond.
Maximum UNILOA Item & Domain score = 100
Diversity is an area of interest within
higher education as it reflects an
individual’s understanding and
appreciation of “differences.” Those
differences include such things as
the recognition of values held by
different people, cultures, ethnicity,
politics, religion, gender, age, sexual
orientation and a host of others. The
understanding and appreciation of
difference is necessary to establish
and maintain pluralism in a way that
will be complimentary to such things
as social responsibility, cohesion and
advancement of social structures, the
bolstering of individual and group identity,
equality and respect.
But diversity goes beyond mere
acceptance of difference, which in
many cases may be mere tolerance.
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An understanding of the various
types of relationships a student will
experience is necessary as they
identify with groups, whether those
groups are formal or informal. Within
formal groups, individuals should
recognize how they can contribute
and be active in their participation,
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Interacting with others can be on
a variety of levels including social,
professional, intimate or others. An
individual’s ability to influence others,
to contribute to the meeting of self
needs as well as the needs of others
and to form individual identity as a
result requires active management.
The ability to effectively manage
the “connectedness” between self
and others allows individuals to be
more productive to their own internal
growth and development as well as to
positively contribute to the growth and
development of others.
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AREA ALUMNI
IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL
ADVISORS
Delta Upsilon and the more than 103
alumni within a 60 mile radius, are
committed to supporting a new chapter
at Southern Illinois University.
An email or mailing will be sent to all
alumni living in the area of the expansion
project to measure their interest in
assisting a new colony and our efforts
to screen interested individuals would
begin. In order to provide adequate
advisory support to the colony, Fraternity
staff will work with the Greek Life staff
to identify local campus and community
persons who would be interested in
helping develop the fraternity experience
for these men.
RECRUITING POTENTIAL
ADVISORS
Peter V. Ueberroth, San Jose ’59, presented to members and alumni at the 2013 Leadership Institute.
PAST SUCCESS
Within three weeks of the start of
the advisor recruitment period at the
University of Iowa, all nine positions
were filled with unique individuals. The
diverse board includes three nonmembers, two women, and brothers
from six different chapters.
Meetings with potential advisors starts as
soon as the project begins. By utilizing
the Delta Upsilon Advisor’s Handbook
the roles and expectations of a Chapter
Advisory Board will be clearly outlined. It
is the goal of the fraternity to ensure that
each position of the nine member Chapter
Advisory Board be filled by the time of
Chartering.
Similar success was had at James
Madison University as well. All nine
positions were filled with unique
individuals. The board consists of
brothers from six different chapters and
three non-members who are current
James Madison University faculty and
staff members.
Delta Upsilon’s Alumni Initiate Program
provides a perfect opportunity to introduce
non-affiliated men to the vision and
values that have guided our Fraternity
for over 175 years. Many represent the
qualities and talents we look for in chapter
advisors. In many cases they may be
recruited to serve the colony as valuable,
confident, and knowledgeable resources.
Our colony at the University of Oregon
once again filled the nine person
advisory board. Campus administrators
joined DU brothers in the Eugene
community. Two advisors from other
fraternities rallied to DU because of
their actions on campus. These local
advisors were trained on site and
received continuous training through
webinars from fraternity staff.
TRAINING CHAPTER
ADVISORY BOARD
Training will be provided by Fraternity
staff and will include materials and
educational programs such as; the Delta
Upsilon Advisor’s Handbook, attendance
at the Advisors Academy, attendance
at the Regional Leadership Academy,
and regular colony and chapter visits
provided by staff. The Fraternity’s staff
will work with the Chapter Advisory
Board to measure the progress of the
colony and identify their needs for
additional assistance.
PROMINENT DU
ALUMNI
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James A. Garfield, Williams 1856
President of the United States
Charles Evans Hughes, Colgate
and Brown 1881
Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court
Lester B. Pearson, Toronto ’19
Prime Minister of Canada,
President of the United Nations
General Assembly, Nobel Prize
winner
Linus Pauling, Oregon St. ’22
Winner of two Nobel Peace Prizes
Kurt Vonnegut, Cornell ’45
American novelist
Louis L. Holtz, Kent State ’58 head football coach, Notre Dame,
ESPN analyst
Peter V. Ueberroth, San Jose ’59
1984 Olympics organizer and
former Commissioner of Major
League Baseball
Michael D. Eisner, Denison ’64
CEO of Walt Disney, Inc.
Charles Kettering, Ohio State ’04
Inventor
Thomas Vilsack, Hamilton’ 72
Current Secretary of Agriculture
Juan Miguel Santos, Kansas’ 73
Current President of Colombia
Robert Cade, Florida ’45
Inventor of Gatorade
Dan Nye, Hamilton ’88
Founder of LinkedIn
Edward Prescott, Swarthmore ’62
Nobel Prize winner in economics
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ALUMNI
MEMBERSHIP
EDUCATION
Throughout each member’s
undergraduate experience in Delta
Upsilon, opportunities for ongoing
education are strongly encouraged
and offered by both the chapter and
the International Fraternity. Regular
and annual workshops, as well as
conferences and academies facilitated
by the Fraternity further supplement the
learning opportunities offered to all of
our members.
All new and current members are
responsible for knowing the chapter’s
organizational structure. All members
are also encouraged to participate and
develop skills by holding a secondary
position overseen by a member of
the executive board. To ensure the
executive officers are aware of their
responsibilities, Delta Upsilon has
employed the Chapter Excellence
Plan (CEP). The CEP is an online tool
that allows Delta Upsilon staff to track
the progress of our chapters and give
quick feedback to chapter submissions.
The CEP contains operational criteria
specific to each executive position,
and the officer must submit proof the
criteria has been met. If the officer
has questions regarding his duties,
he can immediately refer to a number
of online resources available at www.
deltau.org, including examples of
submissions for each criterion, and
soon, newly revised chapter officer
manuals. Diversity, time management,
and a wide array of other topics are
all contained within The Cornerstone,
Delta Upsilon’s handbook for all
topics relating to the college man’s
experience. A copy of The Cornerstone
is provided to each new member when
a chapter reports new members to
Headquarters. All information included
in The Cornerstone is aimed to be in
conjunction with Delta Upsilon’s mission
of Building Better Men.
ASSOCIATE MEMBER
EDUCATION
Delta Upsilon uses a big brother
program, in which each associate
member is assigned an undergraduate
member as a personal mentor. The big
brother will ensure the new member
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maintains an academic focus through
the new member education period,
as well as ensure the new member
adheres to the signed honor code. The
big brother will also assist in teaching
the new member about the Fraternity’s
history and the Four Founding
Principles while fostering a healthy
relationship for the duration of his
undergraduate membership.
All new and current members are also
responsible for knowing the history
of Delta Upsilon. The organization’s
history is found in new member
and colony manuals, as well as
The Cornerstone. Current and new
members are encouraged to run for
executive board positions. Delta
Upsilon also requires attendance from
each chapter at each of our leadership
training academies: Leadership Institute
in the summer; Winter Educational
Conference in the winter; and Regional
Leadership Academies in the spring.
All new and current members are
responsible for being aware of and
paying all dues and fees in a timely
manner. A sample of a fraternity budget
and its explanation are included in new
member and colony manuals. Each
chapter of Delta Upsilon must send out
a minimum of two alumni newsletters
each school year (one per semester),
and are responsible for keeping an
up-to-date alumni list with e-mail and
mailing addresses.
ALUMNI RELATIONS
Alumni are often the most valuable
resource that a chapter possesses.
For every successful chapter, there is
likely active an alumni group to match.
This is not to say that a chapter cannot
prosper for a few years without alumni
involvement, but to consistently succeed
year in and year out, an involved group
of dedicated alumni is necessary.
There are three basic roles that our
alumni play: organizing the alumni
chapter to provide networking benefits
beyond graduation; managing chapter
property as the housing corporation
and advising the chapter through the
alumni advisory board; and providing
financial support to the undergraduate
chapter. Regardless of how the alumni
group is structured, most alumni
groups encompass all of these roles
in some fashion. Additionally, each
undergraduate officer is paired with
a mentor (usually, alumnus from that
chapter) to serve as an advisor to the
undergraduate in his role as a chapter
officer. There are numerous ways that
alumni may become involved with
their local chapter and they have the
opportunity to be one of the chapter’s
greatest assets. If and when Delta
Upsilon is chosen, we will recruit, train
and provide resources to an advisory
board of 6 to 10 alumni and campus
faculty advisors.
COLONY PLAN FOR
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
Being a top academic preforming colony
and chapter takes planning, preparation,
support, and practice. o that end, having
an effective and functional scholarship
plan is essential. Here are a few things
that are important in any academic plan:
ACADEMIC STANDARDS
The colony’s minimum cumulative GPA
requirement is 2.5/4.0 and all officers
must hold at least a 2.75/4.0 in order to
hold office. In order to become a chapter,
A colony is required to have a cumulative
GPA above the campus all-men’s average
and over half of all Delta Upsilon chartered
chapters continue to achieve this. Other
standards and requirements are outlined
in the colony by-laws.
ESTABLISH STUDY HOURS
The Academic Excellence Plan should
also establish colony study hours.
“Study hours” are a time for all colony
members to gather and prepare for
upcoming class deadlines, write papers,
review important course materials, etc.
This environment provides support
for members who are struggling in
a particular area and gives them an
opportunity to work with those who do
well in that subject.
OUTLINE FOR THE VICE
PRESIDENT OF ACADEMIC
EXCELLENCE POSITION
DESCRIPTION
As outlined in the colony’s bylaws, the
vice president’s position should be
reviewed within the plan. In addition,
if the colony has an active scholarship
committee, a committee overview and
member selection should be outlined.
EDUCATION
DISCUSS THE PROCEDURES
IF A MEMBER DOES
NOT MEET ACADEMIC
STANDARDS
The colony must outline what steps will
be taken if any particular member falls
below the minimum grade requirement.
The procedures should provide
accountability consequences for the
individual and provide him with the time
and resources necessary to improve
his GPA and remain a member of the
chapter.
OUTLINE WHAT
EDUCATIONAL TRAINING THE
COLONY WILL RECEIVE ON
SCHOLARSHIP
The plan should also include a tentative
outline of what kind of scholarship and
academic training will be provided to
the membership. This can include,
but is not limited to, workshops with
professors and other campus officials
on proper study methods, university
requirements, etc.
INVOLVEMENT
WITH THE NIC
Delta Upsilon is a member in good
standing with the NIC, of which it was
a founding member in 1909. Delta
Upsilon continues to remain committed
to the ideals of interfraternalism and has
many of its members involved in several
capacities, including past NIC chairmen
and board members.
Delta Upsilon staff and volunteers have
also continued to serve in a variety of
volunteer roles with the Association
of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors (vice
president of administration & finance),
Fraternity’s Executives Association
(Interfraternity Institute co-chair), Center
for the Study of the College Fraternity
(board member and past secretary) and
Fraternity Communications Association
(past president, vice president and
board members).
Educaton is at the forefront of discussions during group sessions at the Leadership Institute.Members
collaborate, share, and work together to build strong chapters.
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LOSS PREVENTION
RISK
MANAGEMENT
AND STANDARDS
In addition to a full time staff member
responsible for loss prevention, the
Fraternity employs trained consultants
to assist our chapters and colonies.
Staff are trained in many areas
including membership recruitment,
finances, membership education, and
risk management. They spend the
academic year visiting chapters and
colonies to assist them in all areas of
chapter operations.
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Member of FRMT, Ltd. (Fraternity
Risk Management Trust, Ltd.)
Loss Prevention Policy sets
expectations for issues including
alcohol and drug use; hazing;
sexual abuse; physical abuse; fire,
health, and safety; and education
Each chapter and colony is
required to elect a vice president
of loss prevention
Fraternity employs a full time
staff-member, whose primary
focus is loss prevention and risk
management
$1 million liability insurance policy
with a $10 million umbrella for
a total of $11 million of liability
insurance coverage per incident
Chapters are given incentives
to complete GreekLifeEDU, an
online educational program that
empowers students to make wellinformed decisions and provides
simple strategies to help keep
them and their friends safe
Fraternity produces several
resources, which focus on loss
prevention and risk management
All infractions of the Fraternity’s
Loss Prevention Policy are
investigated, and dealt with in a
timely manner.
The Alcohol-Free Housing Policy
shall prohibit any alcoholic
beverages on the property and
premises in which a participating
undergraduate chapter is housed
whether owned, rented, or leased
by that chapter, or any alumni
organization affiliated with or
related to that chapter
LOSS PREVENTION POLICIES
Delta Upsilon is a non-secret, non-hazing
fraternity. All members are responsible
for ensuring all activities occurring with
or sponsored by the chapter are within
the anti-hazing policies of Delta Upsilon.
Delta Upsilon’s anti-hazing policies are
found in the new member and colony
manuals, as well as The Cornerstone.
POLICY COMPLIANCE
Delta Upsilon strives to assist our
campus partners with membership
experiences. Our staff will help a colony
comply with Delta Upsilon, the University
as well and departmental policies and
procedures and all local and state
laws through the utilization of proactive
coaching and standards accountability.
These areas will be enhanced through
ongoing training and to create a
standards board at the onset of the
colony’s inception.
EDUCATION
ON RISK
MANAGEMENT
AND HAZING
GreekLifeEdu
This online training program educates
members on the facts of alcohol abuse,
hazing and sexual assault. This program
helps to empower students to make
informed decisions and provides simple
strategies to help keep themselves and
their friends safe.The course includes:
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Four modules of content featuring
videos, discussion boards, blogs,
interactive activities and more
Helpful tools, like a BAC calculator
and map of US laws
Safe partying strategies and tips for
helping a friend
Answers to students’ most common
questions about hazing and sexual
assault
RESPONSEABILITY
PROGRAM
ResponseAbility is a program which
addresses bystander behavior: when we
see something happening that we know
is not right and we say or do nothing.
The training focus discusses several
behaviors relatable to college campus
such as hazing, drug/alcohol abuse,
racism, homophobia, eating disorders,
sexual assaults, and other inappropriate
and unhealthy behaviors.
The program uses actual undergraduates
with real examples to help members
relate to bystander intervention. This
program is designed to empower and
train students on ways to transform
values into action by intervening when
others exhibit these behaviors. Each
chapter should have the ResponseAbility
program within their library.
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCES
All international programming curriculum
includes an educational session on
accountability and explanation of loss
prevention policies. Depending on
the program, it includes: interactive
case studies, large and small group
discussions on policy implementation,
presentation on insurance policies,
and training on appropriate response/
reporting techniques. The educational
programming mentioned above
(GreekLifeEDU and ResponseAbility)
is also integrated into the curriculum.
This allows the men to understand the
resources more clearly and effectively
implement them to the chapter.
REQUIRED COLONY LOSS
PREVENTION PLAN
Each colony and chapter is required
to create and implement a sound Loss
Prevention Plan. This includes: risk
management practices, loss prevention
policies, educational programming, and
a crisis management plan. The chapter
is to submit it to the Chapter Excellence
Plan annually and evaluated by a
professional staff member. Delta Upsilon
also provides an insurance and crisis
management plan for each chapter to
adapt to their campus-specific resources.
LOSS PREVENTION
REPORTING AN INCIDENT
AND INTERNATIONAL
STANDARDS COMMITTEE
If an incident occurs, the men should
refer to the Loss Prevention Plan on
communication and report the incident
immediately. Reporting mechanisms
include: online (http://www.deltau.
org/membersresources/reporting/
incidentreportform), direct call to
International Headquarters, email or
fax. It is Delta Upsilon’s policy that we
respond to all reported incidents within
48 hours.
In the event that an incident violates
Delta Upsilon’s Loss Prevention
policies, the chapter will meet (or
conference call) with the Standards
Committee to determine the status of
the chapter, identify the support and
needs of the men, and provide both
punitive and educational sanctions to
help them succeed.
LOSS
PREVENTION
POLICIES
Delta Upsilon Fraternity is a member
of the FRMT, Ltd., a captive insurance
company representing 26 men’s
fraternities. The Loss Prevention
Policy of Delta Upsilon includes the
following provisions and shall apply to
all fraternity entities and all levels of
fraternity membership. All activities of
all Delta Upsilon chapters and colonies
must be in compliance with all Federal,
state, and local laws at all times.
ALCOHOL AND DRUGS
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The possession, sale, use or
consumption of ALCOHOLIC
BEVERAGES, while on chapter
premises, during a fraternity
event, in any situation sponsored
or endorsed by the chapter, or
at any event an observer would
associate with the Fraternity,
must be in compliance with any
and all applicable laws of the
state, province, county, city and
institution of higher education, and
must comply with either the BYOB
or Third Party Vendor Guidelines.
Current brothers place a blue and gold ribbon with a membership badge fastened to it to signify entry
into Delta Upsilon Fraternity. Along with a commitment to the fraternity comes a responsibility to uphold
standards of conduct and abide by the four principles.
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No alcoholic beverages may be
purchased through or with chapter
funds nor may the purchase of
same for members or guests be
undertaken or coordinated by any
member in the name of, or on behalf
of, the chapter. The purchase or
use of a bulk quantity or common
source(s) of alcoholic beverage, i.e.
kegs or cases, is prohibited.
OPEN PARTIES, meaning those
with unrestricted access by nonmembers of the Fraternity, without
specific invitation, where alcohol is
present, are prohibited.
No members, collectively or
individually, shall purchase for,
serve to, or sell alcoholic beverages
to any minor (i.e., those under legal
“drinking age”).
The possession, sale or use of any
ILLEGAL DRUGS or CONTROLLED
SUBSTANCES while on chapter
premises or during a fraternity event
or at any event that an observer
would associate with the fraternity is
strictly prohibited.
No chapter may cosponsor an
event with an alcohol distributor,
charitable organization or tavern
(tavern defined as an establishment
generating more than half of
annual gross sales from alcohol)
where alcohol is given away, sold
or otherwise provided to those
present. This includes any event
held in, at or on property of a tavern
as defined above for the purposes
of fundraising. A chapter may rent
or use a room or area in a tavern
as defined above for an event held
within the provisions of this policy,
including the use of a third party
vendor and guest list.
No chapter may cosponsor or
cofinance or attend or participate
in a function where alcohol is
purchased by any of the host
chapters, groups or organizations.
All recruitment or rush activities
associated with any chapter will
be non-alcoholic. No recruitment
or rush activities associated with
any chapter may be held at or
in conjunction with an alcohol
distributor or tavern as defined in
this policy.
No member or pledge / associate /
new member / novice, shall permit,
tolerate, encourage or participate in
“drinking games.”
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No alcohol shall be present at any
pledge/ associate / new member /
novice program, activity or ritual of
the chapter. This includes, but is not
limited to activities associated with
“bid night,” “big brother / big sister
night” and initiation.
FIRE, HEALTH AND SAFETY
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No chapter, associate member, student,
alumnus, or employee of the Fraternity
shall conduct nor condone hazing
activities. Hazing activities are defined
as: “Any action taken or situation
created, intentionally, whether on or off
Fraternity premises, to produce mental
or physical discomfort, embarrassment,
harassment, or ridicule. Such activities
may include but are not limited to the
following: use of alcohol; paddling in
any form; creation of excessive fatigue;
physical and psychological shocks;
quests, treasure hunts, scavenger hunts,
road trips or any other such activities
carried on outside or inside of the
confines of the chapter house; wearing
of public apparel which is conspicuous
and not normally in good taste; engaging
in public stunts and buffoonery; morally
degrading or humiliating games and
activities; and any other activities
which are not consistent with academic
achievement, fraternal law, ritual or
policy or the regulations and policies of
the educational institution, or applicable
state/provincial law.”
SEXUAL ABUSE AND
HARASSMENT
The Fraternity will not tolerate or
condone any form of sexist or sexually
abusive behavior on the part of its
members, whether physical, mental or
emotional. This is to include any actions
which are demeaning to women or
men, such as verbal harassment. The
Fraternity will not tolerate sexual assault
in any form.
PHYSICAL ABUSE
No member shall resort to or engage in
any physical acts of violence of any kind
against another individual or any acts of
vandalism of any kind against another
person’s property for any reason,
except for the purpose of the defense
of one’s self, or one’s own property and
to the limited extent that the law would
otherwise permit.
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All chapter houses should meet
all local fire and health codes and
standards.
All chapters should have posted
by common phones and in other
locations, emergency numbers for
fire, police and ambulance and
should have posted evacuation
routes on the back of the door of
each sleeping room.
All chapters should comply with
engineering recommendations as
reported by the insurance company
or municipal authorities.
The possession and/or use
of weapons of any kind within
the confines and premises of
the chapter house is expressly
forbidden. The term “weapon”
means any object, substance or
chemical designed or intended
to inflict a wound, cause injury
or incapacitate, including but not
limited to, all firearms, pellet guns,
switchblades, knives and knives
with blades five or more inches in
length or dangerous chemicals.
EDUCATION
All student and alumni members shall
annually receive a copy of said Risk
Management / Loss Prevention Policy.
A copy of said Risk Management / Loss
Prevention Policy is available on the
Fraternity’s website.
REPORTING
Each chapter shall report promptly
each failure to adhere to any of these
policies to the Fraternity. Self-reporting
of loss prevention violations and the
steps taken to address the violation
will be considered positive factors in
the deliberations of the Fraternity when
reacting to violations of these policies.
PARTNERSHIPS
PARTNERSHIP
HISTORY
COLONIZATION EFFORTS: PAST FIVE YEARS
2010: Grand Valley State (chartered 2010);
Chattanooga (chartered 2010); Boise State
(chartered 2011)
2011: Elon (chartered 2012); Iowa State (chartered
2013); Carnegie (chartered 2014)
2012: Christopher Newport (chartered 2015); Iowa
(chartered 2015); James Madison (chartered 2015)
Spring 2013: Quinnipiac University, Sacred Heart
University
Fall 2013: University of Kentucky,
Clarkson University (chartered 2015)
Spring 2014: University of Oregon
Fall 2014: University of Vermont
Spring 2015: University of Maryland
CURRENT AND FUTURE EXPANSIONS
Fall 2015: University of Maine
Spring 2016: Northwestern University
Fall 2016: Florida International University
Spring 2017: Syracuse University
CHAPTER CLOSURES
2010-2011: Fresno (November 2010); Oregon
(November 2011); Pacific (May 2011); Pan American (April 2011)
2011-2012: Webster (August 2011);
Massachusetts (May 2012); Pace (May 2012)
2012-2013: Virginia Tech (April 2013)
2013-2014: Technology (April 2014)
2014-2015: Arizona State (August 2015);
Bucknell (April 2015)
OUR PARTNERSHIPS
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Each colony member is eligible to apply for our
Delta Upsilon Educational Foundation (DUEF)
Oak Circle scholarship for undergraduates,
McQuaid Fellowship which provides
undergraduate and graduate members
fellowships, and Leadership Institute and
Emerging Leaders Experience scholarships
which cover the cost of attendance at the
Fraternity’s premier educational programs.
Additionally, the colony is advised on promoting
positive relations with local area alumni and
establishing fundraising opportunities as well.
Dr. Bernard Franklin, Kansas State ’75 leads a session at the 2013 Leadership Institute,
educating undergraduate members on the importance of being a global citizen.
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PARTNERSHIPS
and dues system which covers the
Fraternity’s insurance and fees.
MEMBERSHIP SELECTION
CRITERIA
Since its inception, Delta Upsilon has held
only one qualification for membership:
merit. Such criterion is blind to difference
of race, creed, religion, sexual orientation,
physical attributes, socioeconomic status,
and national origin. The Constitution and
By-Laws of Delta Upsilon Fraternity further
specify the following membership criteria:
Any male undergraduate enrolled in
a college or university at which an
Undergraduate Chapter of the Fraternity is
chartered or a Colony of the Fraternity is
established, who is in good standing with
that college or university, may be invited
by the Members of that Undergraduate
Chapter, the members of that Colony
or by an organizing committee in the
establishment of a new Colony, to pledge
to membership in the Fraternity. Anyone
so pledged shall be an Associate Member,
but shall not be a Member of the Fraternity
nor have the rights of Membership in the
Fraternity until he is initiated by taking the
Oath of Initiation in accordance with the
Fraternity’s ritual.
COLONIZATION
REQUIREMENTS
When Delta Upsilon is invited to establish
a colony on a campus we charge our new
members first with establishing a colony. It
is Delta Upsilon’s goal to colonize a group
three to four weeks after the initial oncampus recruitment effort. Delta Upsilon’s
colonization requirements are as follows:
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The petitioning group must have a
minimum of 20 members, and should
have the realistic potential to be at
or above the all-fraternity average in
membership size within two years.
The group shall have a list of goals
and objectives developed with the
Fraternity’s principles and philosophy
in mind.
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The group is encouraged to apply for
university recognition with the intent
of affiliating with Delta Upsilon.
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The group shall have an advisor
and meet with this person on a
regular basis.
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meeting on a weekly basis and
should be developing a budget
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Members should be familiar
with Delta Upsilon’s foundation,
philosophy, and history.
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The group should have a positive
working relationship with the
fraternity/sorority advisor.
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If allowed, the group shall be
encouraged to meet and participate
in IFC meetings and activities and
should uphold all standards and
regulations prescribed by the IFC.
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The group should establish a positive
relationship with a nearby chapter
selected by the Fraternity to serve as
a mentor chapter.
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the Colony Application supplied by
the Fraternity.
EARLY CHAPTER
PERFORMANCE
As a colony transitions to a chapter, it is
expected that the colony quickly transform
into a high performing part of the Fraternity.
This is accomplished through regular
attendance at our annual educational
programs, high academic standards, and
regular fundraising for our international
philanthropy. Additionally, we expect
members from colonies to consistently
participate in the Global Service Initiative
as well as apply to have representation
at the Delta Upsilon Emerging Leaders
experience. Regular attendance at these
programs will allow them to celebrate their
successes with brothers from the United
States and Canada, as well as learn about
new initiatives their chapter can implement.
INSTALLATION OBJECTIVES
After colonization, Delta Upsilon will
implement an aggressive plan to
establish the colony as a chapter. Below
are the requirements which must be met
for the colony to become fully recognized
as a chapter.
• Colony GPA must be at or above
the campus’ all-men’s average
and a written comprehensive
scholarship program must be
implemented. The colony shall
also have established minimum
GPA requirements for membership,
initiation, and to hold office.
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Colony membership number must
remain at a sustainable level, at or
above the campus average, and
will be carefully tracked throughout
the expansion/colonization process.
Factors to be considered will include
the median fraternity size on campus,
past recruitment results of the colony,
alumni support and strength, and
cohesiveness of the colony. The
colony is expected to implement a
year-round written recruitment plan
that includes dates, events, and
objectives for recruitment activities.
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Colony must implement sound
fiscal practices and remain current
on all financial obligations to the
university, IFC, the Fraternity, and
all local vendors. A budget must
also be submitted to Delta Upsilon
International Headquarters.
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Must strictly observe the Fraternity’s
loss prevention policies and
implement a written loss prevention
program.
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Must attend all regional and
international leadership programs
including Leadership Institute, Winter
Educational Conference, and their
Regional Leadership Academy.
Campus and IFC programs are also
strongly encouraged.
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Must complete all necessary
administrative requirements for Delta
Upsilon International Headquarters
and the university. This includes
biographical reports from members,
membership rosters, conference
registrations and officer updates.
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Must conduct regular officer and
colony retreats to establish goals and
strategies.
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Colony must have at least two alumni/
faculty advisors who meet regularly
with the group.
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Colony must develop and implement
a sound new member and
membership education program that
meets the vital needs of its members
and supports the Fraternity’s
principles.
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Must organize at least two alumni
and/or parent events each year and
shall distribute at least two alumni/
parent newsletters.
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Colony must sponsor or be involved
in at least two service/philanthropic
projects each year, with one being
sponsored solely by the colony.
PARTNERSHIPS
MINIMUM CHAPTER
STANDARDS
Each academic term, the
chapter must complete
necessary administrative
requirements for the Fraternity.
These include annual and
semester financial reports,
membership records and other
critical information and data.
The chapter’s membership
size (initiates and associate
members) must be equal to or
above the average fraternity
size on campus. To help groups
achieve this membership level,
chapters will receive assistance
from local alumni and the
International Fraternity.
The chapter must plan and
execute at least two alumni/
parents events each academic
year and produce and distribute
at least two alumni/parents
newsletters each academic year.
The chapter must sponsor and/or
be actively involved in at least two
service/philanthropic projects each
academic year.
The chapter’s executive council
shall conduct at least one retreat
each academic year. The function
of the retreat is to facilitate the
chapter/officer goal-setting
process.
The chapter GPA must be
at or above the campus’ allmen’s average and a written
comprehensive scholarship
program must be implemented
to aid the chapter members in
their academic endeavors. The
minimum GPA is as follows:
• Chapter Officers (DU: 2.75)
• Chapter Members (DU: 2.5
membership)
• New Members (DU: 2.7)
The chapter must have at least
two alumni/faculty advisors. The
chapter must meet once a month
with the alumni/faculty advisors.
Members of the Bradley Chapter work together to develop an action plan for their chapter during the Chicago RLA.
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PARTNERSHIPS
PARTNERSHIP
STRATEGY
PHASE ONE: 6 MONTHS PRIOR
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Contact local alumni
Meet with fraternity/sorority advisor,
IFC, student activities office and
other appropriate parties
Expectations agreement with student
activities office
Develop code of conduct for colony
Request recommendations/
referrals (from faculty, staff, student
activities, etc.)
Outline founding father repository
Develop contact lists (clubs and
organizations, student leaders, etc.)
Secure on-campus workspace and
resources, lodging and location for
colonization ceremony
Secure meeting space for info
sessions, tabling, events, etc.
Begin marketing (listserv, newspaper,
advertising, etc.)
Identify potential alumni advisors/
faculty advisor/academic advisor
Prepare an interest group website
and Facebook group
Outline day-to-day goals and tasks
Customize the founding father packet
Gather informational session and
tabling materials
Submit press release to campus
media
PHASE TWO: 5 WEEKS
WEEK 1
• Meet with 10+ student organizations
• Host 2-3 recruitment tables
• Host one principle-related activity
• Build names list to 250+
• Meet with 2-3 students per day
• Recruit 10 members
WEEK 2
• Meet with 5+ student organizations
• Host 2-3 recruitment tables
• Host two informational sessions
• Build names list to 500+
• Recruit 10 members
WEEK 3
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Host one principle-related activity
Reduce names list to around 300
Meet with 3-5 students per day
Recruit 10-15 members
Invite friends, family, staff, etc., to
Colonization
WEEK 4
• Host two informational sessions
• Reduce names list to around 150
• Recruit 10-15 members
WEEK 5
• Host an alumni meet-and-greet
• Recruit 10-15 members
• Hold first group meeting
• Exit meeting with student activities office
PHASE THREE: 6-12 MONTHS
COLONIZATION
• Public ceremony on campus
TRANSITION (1 WEEK)
• IHQ recruiters depart; chapter
development coordinator arrives
• New colony begins to develop
• Goals are established
• Installation (chartering) time line is set
• Colony retreat held
• Officer elections and installations held
COLONY EDUCATION (8 WEEKS)
• First official advisory board meeting
• Colony officers and advisors
implement associate member
education program
COLONY SUCCESS (4-10 MONTHS)
• Colony development plan
implemented by headquarters staff,
advisors, and officers
• Colony achieves installation
requirements
• Public Installation Ceremony,
including member Initiation, is held
• Members attend Leadership
Institute to receive charter in front of
hundreds of DUs
• Anticipated growth should rise to
25% over campus average.
COLONY FEE SUMMARY
Delta Upsilon’s fee structure is one of
the most competitive amongst men’s
college fraternities. For a glimpse of
the fees assessed to a colony and its
members, please review the information
provided below.
Individual colony members are
responsible for the following fees:
• Initial Colony Member Fee - $150
(one-time fee due at the time one
becomes a colony member).
• Colony Member Fee - $85.00 per
term (due two academic terms after
colonization).
• Initiation Fee - $235 (one time fee
due at time of Initiation after colony
has become a chapter).
The colony, as a group, is responsible for
the following fees detailed above:
• Insurance Assessment (due two
academic terms after colonization).
• Educational Conferences
Assessment (due two academic
terms after colonization).
• Chapter Installation Fee of $750 (due
at the Installation ceremony).
In addition to these fees, Delta Upsilon
colony members set their own local
dues structure to cover costs such as
Interfraternity or Greek Council dues,
intramural sports fees, social function
costs, educational costs, and office
supplies needs.
Dues assessed to each member of a
Delta Upsilon colony vary from group to
group depending on what other money
the colony wishes to collect for its own
operations. Typically, dues range from
$300-$400 per member for one semester.
Generally, this money is more than
enough to cover the fees detailed above
and any monetary needs the colony may
have locally.
Each colony is also placed on a colony
assistance program provided by Omega
Financial until chartered. The program
helps the colony maintain an easilymanaged, reliable structure for collections
while also allowing review and feedback
by Headquarters’ staff. Delta Upsilon’s
partnership with Omega Financial offers a
valued service at a reduced cost.
PARTNERSHIPS
PARTNERSHIP COMMITMENT
Delta Upsilon recognizes the foremost
importance of developing an ongoing
relationship with Southern Illinois University
and the Normal community. The Fraternity
is committed to perpetuating student
growth through leadership development
and personal enrichment to benefit the
entire Southern Illinois community.
COLONY DEVELOPMENT
The Fraternity is committed to providing
the following resources and staff support
during the colony period:
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Provide staff on location prior to and
during the colonization period
Develop a specific time line of the
expansion process while on campus
Select and train an alumni advisory
board
Recruit a minimum of 20 men before
colonization; or campus average
chartering
Assist colony members in setting
up financial plan, such as their bank
account and colony budget
Coach colony members on recruitment
strategies, and assist in future planning
Train new officers and provide
continued support throughout and
following the colony period
Provide ongoing communication
between the campus and fraternity/
sorority community, the colony and the
Fraternity
COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT
As part of Delta Upsilon’s commitment to
Southern Illinois University, the Fraternity
understands the equal importance of
recruiting leaders within the community
and developing leaders for the community
in return. Members are encouraged to
extend their involvement through campus
activities. Each DU chapter is required to
participate in fraternity/sorority, campus
and local service events, provide faculty
and alumni programming and offer
educational experiences that are open to
the public as well.
PARTNERSHIP BUDGET
Delta Upsilon will spend approximately
14 weeks on-site with at least two staff
members and will have an estimated budget
of $30,000.
Greg Nance, Chicago ‘11 speaking for the Ignite Series at the Leadership Institute. The Ignite Series
gives members the opportunity to share their beliefs and passions with an audience of over 400 DU’s.
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CHAPTER SERVICING
CHAPTER SERVICING
PHILOSOPHY
Delta Upsilon recognizes that not all
chapters need the same type of support,
and that the type of support a given
chapter needs in a given year is not
necessarily what it needed in the past,
or what it will need in the future. With
this recognition, the headquarters does
not participate in the traditional chapterservicing model of providing every chapter
with one three-day visitation by a recently
graduated leadership consultant each
semester/year.
Rather, our approach contains the
following facets:
• Each chapter is assigned a primary
staff liaison at the headquarters. The
liaison proactively communicates
with that chapter’s undergraduate
and alumni leaders and advisors on
all issues pertinent to all chapters,
as well as specific areas of
relevance to that particular chapter.
Most of the education, guidance,
and support provided by the
liaison is via phone and electronic
communication.
• When electronic and phone support
are insufficient to adequately address
the needs of the chapter, pertinent
headquarters staff (often including
the executive director) collaborate
and decide which staff and/or
volunteers are best suited to travel to
the chapter and address its specific
needs. Sometimes, exactly what a
chapter needs is a “traditional” threeday visit by a leadership consultant;
sometimes, it’s a set of weekend
workshops conducted by one of
the headquarters’ full- or part-time,
masters-level staff; sometimes, one
chapter meeting led by a director
or the executive director is what is
most helpful; occasionally, a 7 or 10
day trip by a leadership consultant
is required to make a significant
impact.
• Partnership with the key
constituents, campus professionals
and local alumni advisors, is the
cornerstone of our approach to
servicing our chapters. When
we work together to create and
achieve a shared vision, almost
anything is possible. In cases
where we do not, very little
meaningful change can happen.
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CHAPTER EXCELLENCE PLAN
The Chapter Excellence Plan (CEP) is
Delta Upsilon’s way of ensuring each
chapter is both operationally sound
and firmly rooted in the Four Founding
Principles. Each chapter officer is
responsible for documenting chapter
activity relative to his office by submitting
information to the CEP website, a public
site located at http://deltau.org/cep. The
key elements of the CEP include:
OPERATIONS-BASED
STANDARDS
Efficiency in certain operations is
generally understood to be required for
overall chapter success. Such areas
include: academic performance, chapter
management, membership education,
membership recruitment, and financial
management.
PRINCIPLES-BASED
STANDARDS
Delta Upsilon remains committed
to upholding the Fraternity’s Four
Founding Principles: the Promotion
of Friendship, the Development of
Character, the Diffusion of Liberal
Culture, and the Advancement of
Justice. For each principle, there are
a number of activities which, when
completed by the chapter, demonstrate
a commitment to upholding that
principle. The activities range from
relevant workshops and seminars to
organization of and participation in
philanthropic events.
BALANCE
Exactly half the CEP points a chapter
can earn during the academic year
are tied to chapter operations and
half are tied to our Four Founding
Principles. This is a clear expression
of the International Fraternity’s
belief that without sound operational
management, the very existence of
a chapter is threatened, and without
activities firmly rooted in our Four
Founding Principles, the existence
of a chapter is not worthwhile. The
International Fraternity recognizes that
many of our undergraduate members
are “over-programmed” on their
campuses, leaving precious little time
to focus on academics, work, healthy
relationships, and other pursuits that
lead and individuals to be well-rounded
members of society. With that in mind,
a fundamental concept behind the CEP
is that chapters will not be rewarded
for “overdoing” it. A limited number of
points are available for each standard;
chapters are not able to accumulate
points towards the overall goal by
repeating one or two favorite activities
again and again.
ONLINE REPORTING
As each chapter activity is planned, the
appropriate officer uploads the agenda
and other materials related to the activity
to the CEP website, for review by a fulltime staff member who DU Headquarters
employs to review each submission and
offer immediate feedback. Chapters
receive points for planning the activity
ahead of time, and then additional points
for completing the activity. This realtime, online reporting system allows
Headquarters additional insight into the
activities, opportunities, and needs of
each chapter.
TRANSPARENCY
In keeping with the Fraternity’s endeavor
to remain transparent, the online
CEP is open to anyone. All chapter
members, alumni, advisors, and other
interested parties can view the progress
and submissions of any Delta Upsilon
chapter. This allows other chapters
to view some of the best practices in
given areas, as well as exchange and
share programs and philanthropic ideas.
Additionally, the CEP home page allows
anyone a real-time “snapshot” view of
where a particular DU chapter ranks in
comparison to all other DU chapters.
THE AWARDS PROGRAM
At the end of the academic year,
the Fraternity’s Awards Committee
considers the CEP and other criteria and
determines the chapters who achieved
excellence in each of the 12 major
operational areas. From these, seven
chapters are chosen as finalists for the
Sweepstakes Award, the highest honor
a chapter can achieve. Of these seven,
one is chosen as the Sweepstakes
Award winner. Also presented is the
Most Improved Chapter award, given
to the chapter whose CEP score has
improved most.
ORGANIZATION
APPENDIX A: FRATERNITY AND CHAPTER STRUCTURE
INTERNAL
STANDARDS BOARD
CHAPTER
PRESIDENT
VP MEMBERSHIP
EDUCATION
VP LOSS
PREVENTION
VP EXTERNAL
RELATIONS
VP MEMBERSHIP
RECRUITMENT
VP ACADEMIC
EXCELLENCE
ASSOCIATE
MEMBER
EDUCATOR
HOUSE
MANAGER
ALUMNI
DEVELOPMENT
CHAIRMAN
RECRUITMENT
CHAIRMAN
BROTHERHOOD
CHAIRMEN
KITCHEN
STEWARD
HUMAN SERVICES
CHAIRMAN
INTRAMURALS
CHAIRMAN
FAMILY RELATIONS
CHAIRMAN
PROGRAMMING
CHAIRMAN
SOCIAL
CHAIRMAN
VP FINANCES
ACADEMIC
REVIEW BOARD
VP ADMINISTRATION
ASSISTANT TO
THE VP FIANCES
HISTORIAN
RECRUITMENT
COMMITTEE
FUNDRAISING
CHAIRMAN
LIBRARIAN
SUMMER
RECRUITMENT
CHAIRMAN
FINANCIAL
REVIEW BOARD
WEBSITE
CHAIRMAN
SPECIAL EVENTS
CHAIRMAN
UNDERGRADUATE
CONVENTION
ASSEMBLY OF TRUSTEES
CONSTITUTION AND
BY-LAWS
UNDERGRADUATE ADVISORY
BOARD (UGAB)
INTERNATIONAL FRATERNITY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PROVINCE GOVERNORS
FRATERNITY COMMITTEES
IHQ EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
HEADQUARTERS STAFF
UNDERGRADUATE CHAPTER/
COLONY
ALUMNI CHAPTER
CHAPTER/COLONY
OFFICERS
UNIVERSITY FRATERNITY/
SORORITY PROFESSIONAL
CHAPTER MEMBERS
FACULTY/STAFF ADVISOR
ADVISORY BOARD
HOUSE CORPORATION
ALUMNI VOLUNTEERS
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CHAPTER OFFICER RESPONSIBILITIES
APPENDIX B:
CHAPTER OFFICER
RESPONSIBILITIES
CHAPTER PRESIDENT
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Serve as an Executive Council
officer within the colony. Attend
Executive Council meetings
and contribute input as to the
advancement of the Fraternity.
• Lead executive council and colony
meetings.
• Oversee all officers; ensure
accountability and responsibility in
all members.
• Coordinate the goal setting process
of the colony and executive council.
• Ensure all goals are actively
pursued and achieved.
• Approve major financial
expenditures.
• Serve as a positive role model
by adhering to Fraternity, FIPG,
university, city, county, and state
laws and guidelines.
• Recruit and cultivate new leaders.
• Keep in contact with Delta Upsilon
International Headquarters and
return completed paperwork in a
timely manner.
• Keep in contact with alumni,
chapter advisory board, chapter
house corporation board, and
alumni volunteers.
• Keep in contact with province
governor and undergraduate
advisory board representative for
your province.
• Meet with the university officials/
fraternity-sorority professional on a
regular basis.
• Serve as the chapter spokesperson.
• Develop and maintain a detailed
account of presidential activities
and compile an officer notebook
to educate future officers and
committee members.
• Develop position goals and budget.
• Properly and adequately train all
executive board members and
replacements.
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VICE PRESIDENT OF FINANCE
officer within the chapter. Attend
• Develop and execute the colony’s
fiscal policies to guarantee a sound
financial future.
• Work with the Alumni Treasurer
and IHQ staff to prepare an annual
balanced budget to be submitted
and approved by the membership
at large.
• Prepare and disseminate on a
timely basis accurate monthly
financial statements with
comparisons to budget and prior
year activity.
• Communicate all significant
financial activity and results to
undergraduates, alumni officers,
and the International Fraternity.
• Responsible for the collection of
all fees and past due accounts
receivable in accordance with the
chapter’s approved collection policy.
• Distribute organized monthly bills to
each chapter member.
• Prepare all required regulatory
reports as needed.
• Submit payment to the chapter’s
suppliers and vendors on a timely
basis.
account of treasury activities and
compile an officer notebook to
educate future officers.
assistants and replacements
VICE PRESIDENT OF
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
• Ensure that the chapter’s GPA is
above the All Men’s Average on
campus.
• Develop and implement a written
scholarship program which
minimally includes:
• An academic resource list
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Study skills information
Chapter tutorial programming
A personal study hours schedule for
members
Enforce the academic eligibility
requirement to vote at chapter
meetings, hold chapter offices, for
membership, and to initiate.
Utilize campus resources related
to academics such as tutorials,
workshops/seminars, and library
tours.
Maintain a recognition program to
reward scholastic achievement.
Develop and maintain a detailed
account of scholarship activities
committee members.
Develop position goals and budget.
Properly and adequately train all
assistants and replacements.
VICE PRESIDENT OF
EXTERNAL RELATIONS
• Develop and implement a written
plan for alumni, parents, Greek, and
campus and community relations
outlining newsletters, events,
and other related programming
designed to keep these audiences
up to date on Fraternity activities.
• Sponsor a minimum of two alumni
and/or parents events per year
such as Founders Day, Initiation,
Parent’s Day, or Homecoming.
• Publish an alumni and/or parents
newsletter a minimum of two times
per year.
• Invite parents, faculty, and alumni
to colonization and installation by
written correspondence.
• Ensure that all chapter publications,
T-shirts, and events are in
accordance with Delta Upsilon’s
image as “The Gentlemen’s
Fraternity.” Avoid using tasteless,
insensitive, socially demeaning, or
offensive themes.
• Actively pursue positive relations
with the campus and surrounding
community.
CHAPTER OFFICER RESPONSIBILITIES
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involved in a minimum of two
service/philanthropic projects each
academic year.
account of public relations activities
committee members.
VICE PRESIDENT OF
MEMBERSHIP EDUCATION
• Develop a written membership
education program which includes a
monthly agenda of activities.
• Schedule a minimum of one guest
speaker per month to speak on
topics of educational value to the
membership.
• Sponsor two workshops per year
with another fraternity, sorority, or
campus organization.
• Sponsor or attend cultural events
twice a year.
• Create a chapter activity directory,
where members’ activities and
honorary memberships are posted
and updated regularly.
• Ensure that the colony is an active
part of the Greek community and
attends all IFC meetings.
account of membership education
activities and compile an officer
notebook to educate future officers.
• Vice President of Recruitment
Principle Responsibilities:
• Develop and chair the Membership
Recruitment Committee. In
conjunction with the committee,
and through the efforts of the
entire chapter, coordinate, plan,
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recruitment program.
In conjunction with the Membership
Recruitment Committee set a
recruitment goal for the chapter.
Develop a written calendar of yearround recruitment events. With the
committee, plan and implement
events which utilize the chapter
membership.
Train chapter members on effective
recruitment techniques through
regular recruitment workshops.
Compile and maintain a list of
prospective members using all
available resources including
undergraduate and alumni
members, university admissions and
Greek affairs offices, International
Headquarters, non-Greeks and
other campus organizations.
Track the progress made on each
recruitment contact and follow
up regularly with the prospective
member or ensure that regular
follow up is being made by the
membership.
Present candidates for membership
to the chapter and determine
strategy for delivering bids.
Coordinate and oversee the bidding
process.
Work with the New Member
Educator to ensure that all paper
work and fees have been sent to
Fraternity Headquarters for each
new member.
Develop recruitment materials and
utilize available resources designed
to educate potential members and
their families about the benefits of
membership in Delta Upsilon.
account of recruitment activities
committee members.
VICE PRESIDENT OF LOSS PREVENTION
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Review and educate on FIPG,
Fraternity, and university loss
prevention policies with the entire
membership annually.
Ensure that guidelines and laws of
the Fraternity, FIPG, university, city,
county, and state are adhered to by
the chapter.
Schedule three speakers per year
dealing with issues concerning Loss
Prevention such as alcohol/drug
abuse, hazing, sexual abuse, AIDS/
STD’s, legal liability, etc.
Develop and enforce a written code
of conduct for all members. This
code will at a minimum include:
Policies concerning the treatment
of women
Prohibitive measures concerning
the use of illegal drugs
A statement concerning the abuse
of alcohol and underage drinking
Develop and enforce the chapter’s
loss prevention policy.
account of loss prevention
activities and compile an officer
notebook to educate future officers.
VICE PRESIDENT OF
ADMINISTRATION
• Create a chapter member phone list
and roster at the beginning of each
semester.
• Prepare outline form agendas for
chapter and executive council
meetings detailing all agenda items.
• Record minutes from chapter and
executive council meetings.
• Responsible for all mailings
to the International Fraternity
Headquarters including the Colony
Officer List, Leadership Institute
Registration, Summer Officer
Address Form, and chapter meeting
minutes.
• Produce a master chapter calendar
for planning and coordinating
events.
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account of secretarial activities
and compile an officer notebook to
educate future officers.
VICE PRESIDENT OF
RECRUITMENT
• Serve as an executive council
executive council meetings
• Develop and chair the recruitment
committee. In conjunction with the
committee, and through the efforts
of the entire chapter, coordinate,
plan, and implement a successful
recruitment program.
• In conjunction with the recruitment
committee set a recruitment goal for
the chapter.
• Develop a written calendar of yearround recruitment events.
• With the committee, plan and
implement events which utilize the
chapter membership.
• Train chapter members on effective
recruitment techniques through
regular recruitment workshops.
• Compile and maintain a list of
prospective members using all
available resources including
undergraduate and alumni
members, university admissions
and Greek affairs offices,
International Headquarters,
non- Greeks and other campus
organizations.
• Track the progress made on each
recruitment contact and follow
up regularly with the prospective
member or ensure that regular
follow up is being made by the
membership.
• Present candidates for membership
to the chapter and determine
strategy for delivering bids.
• Coordinate and oversee the bidding
process.
• Work with the associate member
educator to ensure that all paper
work and fees have been sent to
Fraternity Headquarters for each
new member.
• Develop recruitment materials and
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utilize available resources designed
to educate potential members and
their families about the benefits of
membership in Delta Upsilon.
account of recruitment activities
committee members.
APPENDIX C:
THE CONSTITUTION
OF DELTA UPSILON
FRATERNITY
SECTION 5: THE GENERAL
POWERS
The Fraternity shall have full power
and authority to do all acts that are in
furtherance of its purpose. Specifically,
but not by way of limitation, the
Fraternity shall have full power and
authority to collect, receive, hold and
disburse funds and property from gifts,
devises, bequests and otherwise for
the general purposes of the Fraternity
and to collect, receive, hold and
disburse funds and property from gifts,
devises, bequests and otherwise for the
benefit of any Undergraduate Chapter,
Associate member or Alumni Chapter.
SECTION 6: THE LAWS
The Laws of the Fraternity shall consist
of the Fraternity’s Constitution and
By-Laws, and all amendments thereto,
adopted into law by the Convention
and the Assembly of Trustees and
the Fraternity’s Policies adopted and
published by the Board of Directors.
To the extent that any provisions
ARTICLE I.of the Fraternity’s By-Laws or the
THE FRATERNITY
Fraternity’s Policies are inconsistent
with any provisions of the Fraternity’s
Constitution, the provisions of the
SECTION 1: THE NAME
Constitution shall control. To the
This society, founded at Williams College
extent that any provisions of the
in 1834 and incorporated in 1909 in
Fraternity’s Policies are inconsistent
New York State as a not-for-profit
with any provisions of the Fraternity’s
corporation, shall be called the Delta
By-Laws, the provisions of the ByUpsilon Fraternity.
Laws shall control.
SECTION 2: THE FOUNDING
PRINCIPLES
The principles of the Fraternity shall be:
The Promotion of Friendship
The Development of Character
The Diffusion of Liberal Culture
The Advancement of Justice
SECTION 3: A NON-SECRET
FRATERNITY
The Fraternity shall be non-secret.
SECTION 4: THE PURPOSE
The purpose of the Fraternity shall be to
establish and promote Undergraduate
Chapters to enhance the development
and education of Undergraduate
Members.
ARTICLE II. THE MEMBERS
SECTION 1: MEMBERSHIP BY
INITIATION
The Fraternity shall consist of all
Members duly initiated by taking the
Oath of Initiation in accordance with
the Fraternity’s Ritual. All Members so
initiated shall share equally the rights
and responsibilities of Membership in
the Fraternity.
SECTION 2: THE UNDERGRADUATE
MEMBERS
(a) Any male undergraduate enrolled
in a college or university at which an
Undergraduate Chapter of the Fraternity
is chartered, who is in good standing
with the college or university and who
has been elected to Membership
in the Fraternity by the Members of
CONSTITUTION
that Undergraduate Chapter, may be
initiated by taking the Oath of Initiation
in accordance with the Fraternity’s
Ritual. Such Member shall be an
Undergraduate Member of the Fraternity.
(b) Any member of a Associate
member of the Fraternity who is a male
undergraduate enrolled in the college or
university at which the Associate member
is located, who is in good standing
with that college or university and who
has been elected to Membership in the
Fraternity by an installation committee
in connection with the installation of the
Associate member as an Undergraduate
Chapter of the Fraternity, may be
initiated by taking the Oath of Initiation in
accordance with the Fraternity’s Ritual.
Such Member shall be an Undergraduate
Member of the Fraternity.
(c) Any Member who is enrolled in
a graduate or professional program
at a college or university at which
an Undergraduate Chapter of the
Fraternity is chartered, who has been
elected to affiliate with that Chapter
by its Undergraduate Members, shall
remain an Undergraduate Member
of the Fraternity until he graduates
or withdraws from the graduate or
professional program.
SECTION 3: THE ALUMNI
MEMBERS
(a) Any Member who graduates or
withdraws from the college or university
at which is located the Undergraduate
Chapter of the Fraternity at which he was
initiated or with which he has affiliated
as an Undergraduate Member, or who
has been declared to be an Alumni
Member by a reorganization committee
in connection with a reorganization of
an Undergraduate Chapter, shall be an
Alumni Member of the Fraternity.
(b) Any male person who had been a
member of a Associate member and
who has been elected to Membership
in the Fraternity by an installation
committee in connection with the
installation of the Associate member
as an Undergraduate Chapter of the
Fraternity, may be initiated by taking the
Fraternity’s Ritual. Such Member shall
be an Alumni Member of the Fraternity.
(c) Any male person who has
distinguished himself as a civic, cultural,
educational, religious, business or
professional leader, who has provided
or may provide valuable contributions
to any Undergraduate Chapter,
Associate member, Alumni Chapter
or the Fraternity and who has been
elected to Membership in the Fraternity
by the Members of an Undergraduate
or Alumni Chapter or the Board of
Directors, may be initiated by taking the
Fraternity’s Ritual. Such Member shall
be an Alumni Member of the Fraternity.
SECTION 4: THE ASSOCIATE
MEMBERS
Any male undergraduate enrolled in
a college or university at which an
Undergraduate Chapter of the Fraternity
is chartered or a Associate member
of the Fraternity is established, who
is in good standing with that college
or university, may be invited by the
Members of that Undergraduate
Chapter, the members of that Associate
member or by an organizing committee
in the establishment of a new Associate
member, to pledge to Membership in the
Fraternity. Anyone so pledged shall be
an Associate Member, but shall not be
a Member of the Fraternity nor have the
rights of Membership in the Fraternity
until he is initiated by taking the Oath
of Initiation in accordance with the
Fraternity’s Ritual.
SECTION 5: NOT A MEMBER OF
ANY OTHER SOCIETY OR FRATERNITY
No Member of the Fraternity shall also
belong to any society, membership
in which shall be inconsistent with
the principles of the Fraternity, nor
shall any Member also belong to any
other fraternity, except honorary or
professional fraternities.
SECTION 6: SUSPENSION FROM
MEMBERSHIP
For cause, an Undergraduate or Alumni
Chapter or the Board of Directors, by
a vote of a majority of the Members of
that Undergraduate or Alumni Chapter
present at a meeting of that Chapter
or the Directors present at a meeting
of the Board, in accordance with the
procedures provided in the Fraternity’s
By-Laws, may temporarily suspend
a Member from Membership in the
Fraternity for a period not to exceed one
year. An Undergraduate Chapter may
suspend only an Undergraduate Member
of that Chapter. An Alumni Chapter
may suspend only an Alumni Member
of that Chapter. A Member suspended
from Membership in the Fraternity by
his Chapter or the Board of Directors
may appeal such suspension to the next
Assembly of Trustees, whose decision
shall be final.
SECTION 7: EXPULSION FROM
MEMBERSHIP
For cause, an Undergraduate or Alumni
Chapter or the Board of Directors,
by a vote of three-fourths of the
Members of that Undergraduate or
Alumni Chapter present at a meeting
of that Chapter or the Directors
present at a meeting of the Board,
in accordance with the procedures
provided in the Fraternity’s By-Laws,
may permanently expel a Member
from Membership in the Fraternity. An
Undergraduate Chapter may expel
only an Undergraduate Member of
that Chapter. An Alumni Chapter may
expel only an Alumni Member of that
Chapter. A Member expelled from
Membership in the Fraternity by his
Chapter or the Board of Directors may
appeal such expulsion to the next
Assembly of Trustees, whose decision
shall be final.
SECTION 8: RESIGNATION FROM
MEMBERSHIP
A Member of the Fraternity may resign
his Membership in the Fraternity by
sending a notice of his resignation to
the Secretary of the Fraternity and to his
Undergraduate or Alumni Chapters.
ARTICLE III.
THE UNDERGRADUATE
CHAPTERS, THE COLONIES AND
THE ALUMNI CHAPTERS
SECTION 1: THE ORGANIZATION OF
THE FRATERNITY
The Fraternity shall be organized into
Undergraduate Chapters chartered by the
Fraternity, Colonies established by the
Fraternity and Alumni Chapters formed to
support each Undergraduate Chapter or
Associate member and the Fraternity.
CHAPTERS
Each Undergraduate Chapter chartered
by the Fraternity shall be established
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to enhance the development and
education of its Undergraduate
Members. An Undergraduate Chapter
shall consist of all Undergraduate
Members of the Fraternity initiated
and Associate Members pledged at
that Chapter and any other Member
of the Fraternity who is enrolled in
the college or university at which that
Undergraduate Chapter is chartered,
who is in good standing with the
college or university and who has been
elected to affiliate with that Chapter
by its Undergraduate Members. Every
Undergraduate Member shall share
equally the rights and responsibilities of
his Chapter.
SECTION 3: THE COLONIES
Each Colony shall be established with
the intent to become an Undergraduate
Chapter of the Fraternity and to enhance
the development and education of its
members. A Colony shall consist of all
Associate Members pledged at that
Colony and any Member of the Fraternity
or member of another Colony who is
enrolled in the college or university at
which that Colony is established, who
is in good standing with the college or
university, andwho has been elected to
affiliate with that Colony by its members
or by an organizing committee in the
establishment of a new Colony. Every
member of the Colony shall share equally
the rights and responsibilities of
the Colony.
SECTION 4: THE ALUMNI CHAPTERS
Each Undergraduate Chapter chartered
by the Fraternity or Associate member
established by the Fraternity shall have
an Alumni Chapter formed to advise,
counsel, support and encourage the
Undergraduate Chapter or Associate
member in its several operations
and activities or to assist in the
organization or the reorganization
of such Undergraduate Chapter or
Associate member. An Alumni Chapter
shall consist of all Alumni Members of
the Fraternity initiated at the related
Undergraduate Chapter or that Alumni
Chapter or any other Alumni Member
of the Fraternity who has been elected
to affiliate with that Alumni Chapter
by its Alumni Members. Every Alumni
Member shall share equally the rights
and responsibilities of his Chapter.
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CHAPTERS’ AUTHORITY
(a) Except as otherwise provided in the
Fraternity’s Laws, each Undergraduate
Chapter (i) shall have full power and
authority to do all acts that are in
furtherance of its purposes; (ii) may adopt
such by-laws and such organizational
requirements and may undertake such
operations as it deems appropriate,
subject to certain minimum organizational
requirements provided in the Fraternity’s
By-Laws; and (iii) shall have exclusive
control over its separate assets and
funds and the uses and disposition of
such assets and funds, subject to the
supervision and direction of the related
Alumni Chapter, except that the Chapter’s
membership and financial records shall
be the property of the Fraternity.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), no
alcoholic beverages may be purchased
through the Undergraduate Chapter’s
treasury or with Undergraduate Chapter
funds, nor may the purchase of
alcoholic beverages for Undergraduate
Members, Associate Members, or
guests be undertaken or coordinated
by an Undergraduate Chapter, or any
Undergraduate Member or Associate
Member in the name or on behalf of the
Undergraduate Chapter.
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (a),
the Board of Directors may establish
insurance and loss prevention programs
and policies, require Undergraduate
Chapters to fully comply, and levy
assessments to fund such programs
and policies as provided by the
Fraternity’s By-Laws.
(d) Notwithstanding subsection (a),
the Board of Directors may establish
minimum standards for Undergraduate
Chapters and may specify, in the
Fraternity’s Policies, further causes
for which the Board may institute a
reorganization of a Chapter, or seek to
suspend or revoke a Chapter’s charter
and operations.
SECTION 6: THE COLONIES’
AUTHORITY
(a) Colonies shall be under the
supervision, direction and control of the
Board of Directors. For each Associate
member, the Board of Directors shall
appoint a associate member committee
which may include the Fraternity’s
professional staff and local area Alumni
Members. The associate member
committee shall have full power and
authority to supervise, direct and control
any and all operations of the Associate
member until it is installed as an
Undergraduate Chapter.
(b) No alcoholic beverages may be
purchased through the Associate
member’s treasury or with Associate
member funds, nor may the purchase
of alcoholic beverages for Associate
Members or guests be undertaken or
coordinated by a Associate member, or
any Associate Member in the name or
on behalf of the Associate member.
(c) The Board of Directors may establish
insurance and loss prevention programs
and policies, require Colonies to fully
comply, and levy assessments to fund
such programs and policies as provided
by the Fraternity’s By-Laws.
SECTION 7: THE ALUMNI
CHAPTERS’ FUNCTIONS AND
AUTHORITY
(a) The Alumni Chapter’s functions
shall be to: (i) provide counselors
to advise and assist the officers
and Undergraduate Members of the
related Undergraduate Chapter or
members of the related Associate
member; (ii) furnish competent and
qualified corporate officers to serve a
corporation, which shall own or lease
and exclusively manage any real or
personal property for the use and
benefit of the related Undergraduate
Chapter or Associate member; and (iii)
solicit, promote and encourage alumni
interest in and support for the related
member and the Fraternity as a whole.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in
the Fraternity’s Laws, each Alumni
Chapter (i) shall have full power
and authority to do all acts that
are in furtherance of its purposes;
(ii) may adopt such by-laws and
such organizational structure and
requirements and may undertake such
operations as it deems appropriate;
(iii) shall have exclusive control over
its separate property and funds and
the uses and disposition of such
property and funds, except that the
Chapter’s membership and financial
records shall be the property of the
Fraternity; and, (iv) such other duties
such as reporting to the Board of
Director on the status of the related
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Undergraduate Chapter and Alumni
Chapter and the collecting and
remitting of fees, as the Board may
establish in the Fraternity’s Policies.
SECTION 8: ESTABLISHMENT OF A
ASSOCIATE MEMBER
The Board of Directors, by a vote of
the majority of Directors present at a
meeting of the Board, may establish
and organize a local group at any
college or university in the United
States of America or Canada as a
Associate member of the Fraternity.
the majority of the Directors present
at a meeting of the Board, may
recognize a petitioning group at any
college or university in the United
States of America or Canada seeking
to affiliate as a Associate member of
the Fraternity. The Board of Directors
shall appoint a committee to organize
the Associate member. The organizing
committee shall have authority to
pledge Associate Members and to
establish the initial organizational
requirements for the Associate member.
SECTION 9: CHARTERING OF AN
UNDERGRADUATE CHAPTER
two-thirds of the Directors present at
a meeting of the Board, may grant a
charter to and authorize the installation
of an Undergraduate Chapter of the
Fraternity located at any college or
university in the United States of
America or Canada that meets the
minimum requirements for such charter
as provided in the Fraternity’s By-Laws
and Fraternity’s Policies. The Board of
Directors shall appoint a committee to
install the Chapter. In connection with
the installation of an Undergraduate
Chapter of the Fraternity, the installation
committee may initiate as a Member
of the Fraternity any member of that
Associate member or any male person
who had been a member of that
Associate member.
SECTION 10: REORGANIZATION OF
AN UNDERGRADUATE CHAPTER
For cause, the Board of Directors,
by vote of a majority of the Directors
may institute a reorganization of any
Undergraduate Chapter. The Board
of Directors shall appoint a committee
which may or may not include Alumni
Members of the related Alumni Chapter
to undertake such reorganization. The
reorganization committee shall have
full power and authority to direct and
manage any or all of the operations
of the Undergraduate Chapter. In
connection with the reorganization
of any Undergraduate Chapter, the
reorganization committee may declare
any Undergraduate Member of that
Chapter to be an Alumni Member.
SECTION 11: SUSPENSION OF AN
by vote of a majority of the Directors
may temporarily suspend the charter
and any or all of the operations of any
Undergraduate Chapter of the Fraternity.
Any Member of that Undergraduate
Chapter, member of that Associate
member or Alumni Member of the
related Alumni Chapter may appeal such
suspension to the next Assembly of
Trustees, whose decision shall be final.
SECTION 12: REVOCATION OF
AN UNDERGRADUATE CHAPTER OR
ASSOCIATE MEMBER
by vote of two-thirds of the Directors
may revoke the charter and dissolve
the operations of any Undergraduate
Chapter of the Fraternity. Any Member
of that Undergraduate Chapter, member
of that Associate member or Alumni
Member of the related Alumni Chapter
may appeal such revocation of the
charter to the next Assembly of Trustees,
whose decision shall be final.
SECTION 13: THE PROVINCES AND
THE CANADIAN CONFERENCE
The Undergraduate Chapters and
Colonies shall be further organized into
Provinces to facilitate and enhance
the administration of services by the
Fraternity to the Undergraduate Chapters
and Colonies. The Board of Directors
may designate such Provinces and the
Undergraduate Chapters and Colonies
to be located in such Provinces.
Additionally, the Undergraduate Chapters
and Colonies located in Canada shall
be further organized into the Canadian
Conference to facilitate and enhance
the administration of services by the
Fraternity to the Undergraduate Chapters
and Colonies located in Canada.
SECTION 14: THE ALUMNI CLUBS
The Board of Directors may provide for
the establishment of Alumni Clubs for
the social and educational purposes of
the Alumni Members of the Fraternity
residing in a geographical area.
ARTICLE IV.
THE CONVENTION AND THE
SECTION 1: THE LEGISLATIVE
AUTHORITY
The legislative authority of the Fraternity
shall be vested jointly in the Convention
and the Assembly of Trustees. They
shall have full power to adopt, amend
or repeal the Fraternity’s Laws and to
do all things necessary and proper to
carry out the operations and to effect
the purpose of the Fraternity. Except as
otherwise provided by the Fraternity’s
Laws, no action shall be law until both
the Convention and the Assembly of
Trustees have approved it.
SECTION 2: THE CONVENTION
The Convention shall meet annually
at such date, time and place as the
Board of Directors may determine. The
Convention shall consist of one Delegate
from each Undergraduate Chapter that
is in good standing with the Fraternity.
Each Undergraduate Chapter shall
select its Delegate to the Convention;
provided that such delegate shall be an
Undergraduate Member of the Fraternity
and that Chapter.
SECTION 3: THE ASSEMBLY OF
TRUSTEES
The Assembly of Trustees shall meet
annually at such date, time and place as
the Board of Directors may determine.
The Assembly of Trustees shall consist of
one Trustee from each Alumni Chapter of
a related Undergraduate Chapter that is in
good standing with the Fraternity. Each
Alumni Chapter shall select its Trustee to
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the Assembly of Trustees; provided that
such Trustee shall be an Alumni Member
of the Fraternity and that Alumni Chapter.
In the event that any Alumni Chapter
does not select a Trustee or the Trustee is
unable to attend the Assembly of Trustees,
the Board of Directors may appoint an
Interim Trustee to represent that Alumni
Chapter, who shall be an Alumni Member
of the Fraternity but need not be a
member of that Chapter. No Trustee or
Interim Trustee may represent more than
one Alumni Chapter at the same Assembly
of Trustees.
SECTION 4: THE PROVINCE
MEETINGS AND THE CANADIAN
CONFERENCE MEETINGS
(a) The Undergraduate Chapters and
Colonies within each Province shall
meet annually at such date, time and
place as the Board of Directors may
determine. Each Province Meeting
shall consist of a delegate from each
Undergraduate Chapter and Associate
member in that Province. Each
member shall select its delegate to the
Province Meeting; provided that such
delegate shall be an Undergraduate
Member of that Chapter or a member
of that Associate member. During such
Province Meetings, the Undergraduate
Chapters in each Province that are in
good standing with the Fraternity shall
elect one Undergraduate Member to the
Undergraduate Advisory Board. The
in that Province shall consider such
other business as that Province or the
Board of Directors may prescribe.
(b) Additionally, the Undergraduate
Chapters and Colonies in Canada
shall meet annually at the Canadian
Conference at such date, time and
place as the Board of Directors may
determine. The Canadian Conference
shall consist of one delegate from
each Undergraduate Chapter and
Associate member in Canada. Each
member shall select its delegate to
the Canadian Conference; provided
that such delegate shall be an
Undergraduate Member of that Chapter
or a member of that Associate member.
During the Canadian Conference, the
Undergraduate Chapters in Canada
that are in good standing with the
Fraternity shall elect one Undergraduate
Member to the Undergraduate Advisory
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Board. The Undergraduate Chapters
and Colonies in Canada shall consider
such other business as the Canadian
Conference or the Board of Directors
may prescribe.
ARTICLE V.
THE OFFICERS AND THE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
SECTION 1: THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
The Board of Directors of the Fraternity
shall be an odd number neither fewer
than 9 nor more than 21 members, as
fixed in the Fraternity’s By-Laws. The
Board of Directors shall consist of (a)
each of the Officers of the Fraternity
elected by the Assembly of Trustees; (b)
three Undergraduate Directors, when
the Directors on the Board number
15 or more, or two Undergraduate
Directors, when the Directors on the
Board number fewer than 15, elected
annually at the Convention; and (c)
the other Directors elected by the
Assembly of Trustees for staggered
terms of two years. The President and
Treasurer shall be elected concurrently
to a two-year term by the Assembly
of Trustees in even-numbered years.
The Chairman of the Board and the
Secretary shall be elected concurrently
to a two-year term by the Assembly
of Trustees in odd-numbered years.
Any Director who has served on the
Board for six or more immediately
preceding consecutive years shall
not be eligible for renomination to the
Board, provided however that time
served or to be served as President,
Chairman, Secretary or Treasurer shall
not be taken into consideration in such
limitation.
DIRECTORS’ AUTHORITY
The executive and administrative
authority of the Fraternity shall be
vested in the Board of Directors. The
Board of Directors shall manage the
affairs of the Fraternity and shall report
to and be under the direction and
control of the Assembly of Trustees.
All power and authority exercised by
the Board of Directors or any Officer or
Director shall be in accordance with the
Fraternity’s Constitution and By-Laws.
SECTION 3: THE OFFICERS
The Officers of the Fraternity shall
be the President, the Chairman of
the Board, the Secretary, and the
Treasurer, each of whom shall be
elected by the Assembly of Trustees.
The President and Treasurer shall be
elected concurrently to a two-year term
in even-numbered years. The Chairman
of the Board and the Secretary shall be
elected concurrently to a two-year term
in odd-numbered years. In addition, the
Board of Directors may appoint from
its number one or more Vice Presidents
and a Vice Chairman of the Board.
SECTION 4: THE PRESIDENT
The President shall be the Chief
Rituals Officer of the Fraternity, shall
appoint the Nominating Committee
with the approval of the Board, as
shall preside at the Assembly of
Trustees, shall make an annual report
to the Convention and the Assembly
of Trustees as to the state of the
Fraternity, and shall perform such other
duties as the Assembly of Trustees or
the Board of Directors may require.
SECTION 5: THE CHAIRMAN OF
THE BOARD
The Chairman of the Board shall be the
Chief Executive Officer of the Fraternity,
shall preside at all meetings of the
Board of Directors, shall appoint all
committees of the Board of Directors,
with the approval of the Board, and
shall perform such other duties as the
Assembly of Trustees or the Board of
Directors may require.
SECTION 6: THE SECRETARY
The Secretary shall be the Chief
Recording Officer of the Fraternity,
shall keep the records of the Fraternity
and the minutes of the Assembly of
Trustees, and meetings of the Board of
Directors, shall attest to all contracts
executed by a duly authorized officer
of the Fraternity and affix the seal of
the Fraternity when so required, and
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SECTION 7: THE TREASURER
The Treasurer shall be the Chief
Financial Officer of the Fraternity, shall
collect, receive and have the care and
custody of all moneys and securities of
the Fraternity, shall have responsibility,
under the direction of the Board of
Directors, for managing the financial
affairs of the Fraternity in accordance
with the Fraternity’s Laws, shall make
an annual report to the Convention
and the Assembly of Trustees as to the
financial condition of the Fraternity, and
SECTION 8: THE VICE PRESIDENTS
If the Board of Directors should appoint
one, the Vice Presidents, during the
absence or disability of the President and
in the order of precedence established by
the Board of Directors, shall perform the
duties of the President and shall perform
such other duties as the President or the
Board of Directors may require.
SECTION 9: THE VICE CHAIRMAN
OF THE BOARD
If the Board of Directors should appoint
one, the Vice Chairman of the Board,
during the absence or disability of the
Chairman of the Board, shall perform
the duties of the Chairman of the Board
and shall perform such other duties as
the Chairman of the Board or the Board
of Directors may require.
SECTION 10: SUCCESSION OF
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
In the event of a vacancy in the office
of any elected Officer or Director, the
Board of Directors, by a majority vote of
the Directors present at a meeting of the
Board, may fill such vacancy until the
next Assembly of Trustees at which an
election shall be held to fill the unexpired
term of such office.
SECTION 11: REMOVAL OF
OFFICERS OR DIRECTORS
For cause, the Assembly of Trustees or the
Board of Directors, by a two-thirds vote
of the Trustees present at the Assembly
of Trustees or the Directors present at a
meeting of the Board, may remove from
office any elected Officer or Director.
SECTION 12: THE
UNDERGRADUATE ADVISORY BOARD
The Undergraduate Advisory Board shall
meet at a date, time and place as the
Board of Directors may determine. The
Undergraduate Advisory Board shall
consist of one Undergraduate Member
from each Province elected annually
by the Undergraduate Chapters in
that Province and one Undergraduate
Member from the Canadian Conference
elected annually by the Undergraduate
Chapters in Canada; provided that no
Member of the same Chapter as the
Undergraduate Advisory Board member
elected by the Canadian Conference
may also serve as the Undergraduate
Advisory Board member elected by any
Province during the same year. The
Undergraduate Advisory Board shall
advise the Board of Directors on matters
of importance to the Undergraduate
Members and the Undergraduate
Chapters and Colonies, shall elect
from its members the Undergraduate
Directors, shall elect from its members
the officers of the Convention, and shall
approve concurrently with the Board of
Directors the amount of any fees, dues
and assessments.
SECTION 13: THE EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR
The Board of Directors shall select
the Executive Director who shall
serve at the will of the Board. The
Executive Director shall be the Chief
Operating Officer of the Fraternity,
shall be a full-time employee of the
Fraternity, shall organize, train and
manage the Fraternity’s professional
and permanent staff, shall manage
the day-to-day operations of the
Fraternity, shall carry out the policies
and directives of the Board of Directors
and shall perform such other duties as
the Assembly of Trustees or the Board
of Directors may require.
SECTION 14: THE CHAPLAIN
The chairman of the Board, with the
approval of the Board of Directors shall
appoint a volunteer alumni member to
serve as the Chaplain of the Fraternity.
The Chaplain shall be responsible for
the spiritual care and counseling of the
Fraternity and shall perform such other
duties as the Assembly of Trustees or
the Board of Directors may require.
SECTION 15: THE PROVINCE
GOVERNOR
The Chairman of the Board, with the
approval of the Board of Directors, shall
appoint for each Province, and the
Canadian Conference, one volunteer
Alumni Member to serve at the pleasure
of the Chairman as Province Governor for
a term of two years. Appointments shall
occur in even-numbered years for evennumbered provinces, and the Canadian
Conference, and in odd-numbered years
for odd-numbered provinces. Province
Governors shall solicit, promote and
encourage alumni interest in and support
for Undergraduate Chapters, Colonies
and Alumni Chapters and the Fraternity
as a whole. Province Governors shall
report to the Board of Directors on the
status of Undergraduate Chapters,
Colonies and Alumni Chapters in their
Province, and such other duties as the
Board of Directors may assign.
PROVINCE GOVERNORS
The Board of Province Governors shall
consist of one Province Governor
from each province, and one Province
Governor for the Canadian Conference.
The Board of Province Governors shall
meet at a date, time and place as the
Board of Directors may determine.
The Board of Province Governors
shall advise the Board of Directors on
matters of importance to the Provinces.
ARTICLE VI.
THE FINANCES
SECTION 1: THE FUNDS
The funds of the Fraternity shall be
obtained by means of fees, dues
and assessments to Undergraduate
Chapters and Colonies, as provided for
in the Fraternity’s By-Laws, and placed
in the Fraternity’s Operating Fund,
except for the Loss Prevention Fees
which shall be placed in the Fraternity’s
Loss Prevention Fund and used to fund
the Fraternity’s loss prevention and
insurance programs. All fees, dues and
assessments shall be collected by the
Treasurer of the Fraternity. The amount
of such fees, dues and assessments
shall be established concurrently
by the Board of Directors and the
Undergraduate Advisory Board and
published in the Fraternity’s Policies.
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SECTION 2: ANNUAL FINANCIAL
REPORTING
The Treasurer of the Fraternity shall
submit to the Convention and the
Assembly of Trustees an annual
report on the financial condition of
the Fraternity. Such report shall
include the appropriate financial
statements, including but not limited
to, the statement of revenues and
expenses, the statement of fund
balance, the statement of changes in
fund balance, and other appropriate
financial statements. The Treasurer’s
report to the Convention and the
Assembly of Trustees may include
preliminary unaudited year-end financial
statements. The complete annual
report on the financial condition of the
Fraternity, including the appropriate
financial statements and the report
of a Certified Public Accountant who
has audited the Fraternity’s financial
statements, shall be published in the
Delta Upsilon Quarterly.
SECTION 3: ANNUAL AUDIT
The Board of Directors or a committee
of the Board, which shall not include
the Treasurer of the Fraternity, shall
arrange for the Fraternity’s financial
statements to be audited annually at the
end of the fiscal year by an independent
Certified Public Accountant who shall
issue a report to the Board regarding
the Fraternity’s financial statements.
SECTION 4: FIDELITY BOND
Each of the elected Officers and Directors
of the Fraternity, as well as each of the
Fraternity’s professional and permanent
staff, shall be insured under a blanket
fidelity bond at the Fraternity’s expense.
ARTICLE VII.
AMENDMENTS
SECTION 1: AUTHORITY AND
NOTICE OF AMENDMENTS
This Constitution may be amended by
two-thirds vote of the Delegates present
at the Convention and the Trustees
present at the Assembly of Trustees;
provided that, at least 90 days prior to
either such vote, notice of any proposed
amendments shall have been provided to
each Undergraduate and Alumni Chapter.
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UPSILON
FRATERNITY
ARTICLE I.
THE FRATERNITY’S INSIGNIA
AND HERALDRY
SECTION 1: THE RITUAL AND
OATH OF INITIATION
The Board of Directors or a Ritual
Committee appointed by the Board shall
establish and publish the Fraternity’s
Ritual of Initiation and other rituals. The
Ritual of Initiation shall include the Oath
of Initiation as follows:
I, of my own free will and accord, in the
presence of God and of these witnesses,
do hereby solemnly declare that the
principles of this Fraternity as they have
been explained to me accord entirely with
my own views; and I solemnly promise
that as a member of this Fraternity I
will faithfully adhere to those principles
endeavoring in every way to perfect
myself morally, intellectually and socially,
and endeavoring also to act toward
others according to that high standard of
conduct required by the Fraternity.
I solemnly promise that I will be loyal
to the Delta Upsilon Fraternity and to
this chapter, abiding by their rules,
discharging my obligations to them
faithfully and using all honorable means to
promote their interests.
I solemnly promise that I will share with
my brothers the duties of my chapter; that
I will uphold and encourage them in all
that is honorable and right; that I will ever
extend to each brother the right hand of
sympathy; and that at all times and in all
circumstances I will endeavor to cultivate
those sentiments which should ever exist
between brothers.
All this I solemnly promise upon my
honor, without any equivocation, mental
reservation, or secret evasion of mind
whatsoever.
SECTION 2: THE SEAL
The Seal of the Fraternity shall be as
follows: within a circular band bearing
the words “Delta Upsilon Fraternity
1834-1909,” a shield bearing or a
balance scale proper on chief azure
seven mullets of the first, four and three.
SECTION 3: THE COAT OF ARMS
The coat-of-arms of the Fraternity shall
be as follows:
DELTA UPSILON beareth; or a balanced
scale proper on chief azure seven mullets
of the first, four and three. Crest, on a
knight’s helmet with visor raised, the
badge of the Fraternity all proper. Motto,
the words Δικαια Υποθηκη. Supporters,
the bannerets of the arms of the
Convention and the Assembly of Trustees.
The CONVENTION beareth; or an oak
tree rooted, branched and leaved proper
on a chief azure five linked rings of the
first in fesse.
The ASSEMBLY beareth; azure a
chevron between five coronets or, two,
one and two.
The arms of the Fraternity shall be
uniform throughout the Chapters.
SECTION 4: THE COLORS
The colors of the Fraternity shall be Old
Gold and Sapphire Blue.
SECTION 5: THE BADGE
The badge of the Fraternity shall be
a monogram of the letters Delta and
Upsilon overlapping, and shall bear
upon the arms of Upsilon in Greek
letters the motto Δικαια Υποθηκη. The
badge shall not be worn by any person
other than a duly initiated Member of
the Fraternity, or the mother, wife, or
fiancée of such a Member.
SECTION 6: THE RECOGNITION PIN
The recognition pin of the Fraternity
shall be a miniature of the badge. The
recognition pin shall not be worn by
any person other than a duly initiated
Member of the Fraternity or the mother,
wife or fiancée of such member.
SECTION 7: THE FLAG
The flag of the Fraternity shall be in the
following proportions: length of fly, 30
parts, length of hoist, 20 parts, end stripes
each 9 parts wide and Sapphire Blue in
color, middle stripe 12 parts wide and
Old Gold in color. Upon the middle stripe
there shall be the monogram of the letters
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Delta and Upsilon 10 parts high and 9
parts wide and Sapphire Blue in color.
SECTION 8: OTHER INSIGNIA
The Board of Directors may authorize
and approve other official insignia of the
Fraternity and may proscribe limitations
on its uses and displays.
SECTION 9: FOUNDERS’ DAY
The fourth day of November shall be
known as Founders’ Day and should
be appropriately commemorated by the
and the Alumni Chapters.
SECTION 10: THE DELTA UPSILON
QUARTERLY
The Fraternity shall publish and
distribute at least quarterly a magazine
for and about the Fraternity, the
Members, the Undergraduate Chapters,
Colonies and Alumni Chapters, and
matters of importance to each of them.
The magazine shall be called the Delta
Upsilon Quarterly.
ARTICLE II.
THE MEMBERS
SECTION 1: MEMBER’S
RESPONSIBILITIES
Each Undergraduate, Alumni and
Associate Member of the Fraternity shall:
(a) Uphold and abide by the Oath of
Initiation and Founding Principles of
the Fraternity, to preserve and promote
by all honorable means the interests
and good name of the Fraternity, its
Members and its Chapters;
(b) Uphold and abide by the Fraternity’s
Laws and the rules and regulations of his
Chapter and discharge his obligations
to the Fraternity, other Members and
his Chapter faithfully and share in the
duties of the Fraternity and his Chapter,
including all financial obligations to the
Fraternity or his Chapter; and
(c) Abide by applicable federal, state,
provincial and local laws, ordinances,
rules and regulations.
To the extent not inconsistent with the
Fraternity’s Laws, the Board of Directors
may specify, in the Fraternity’s Policies,
further Member’s responsibilities
and the causes for which a Member
may be suspended or expelled
from Membership in the Fraternity.
SECTION 2: NON-DISCRIMINATION
In any membership decision, including
rushing, pledging, suspension,
expulsion, or electing one to
Membership in the Fraternity, a Member,
Associate Member, Undergraduate
Chapter, Associate member, Alumni
Chapter or the Board of Directors may
not discriminate against any person on
the basis of his race, color, age, religion,
sexual/affectional orientation, national
origin, citizenship or physical disability.
SECTION 3: ANTI-HAZING
No Member, Associate Member,
Undergraduate Chapter, Associate
member or Alumni Chapter may haze
or cause another person to haze
another Member, Associate Member or
person. “Hazing” includes, but is not
limited to, taking any action or creating
any situation that produces in another
person mental or physical discomfort,
embarrassment, harassment or ridicule.
SECTION 4: PROCEDURES FOR
SUSPENSION OR EXPULSION FROM
MEMBERSHIP
(a) No Member may be suspended or
expelled from Membership in the Fraternity
except upon written notice of the cause
and an opportunity for a hearing.
(b) The Undergraduate or Alumni
Chapter or the Board of Directors,
whichever is to consider the matter,
shall provide the Member written notice
setting forth a statement of the alleged
cause, the possibility that he may be
suspended or expelled, the date, time
and place at which the Undergraduate
or Alumni Chapter or the Board of
Directors shall meet for a hearing on
the matter and a statement of the rights
and procedures to which the Member is
entitled at such hearing. The Board of
Directors may prescribe a form of written
notice to be used in the Fraternity’s
Policies. An appropriate officer of the
Undergraduate or Alumni Chapter or the
Secretary of the Fraternity shall cause
the written notice to be delivered to the
Member at least 14 days prior to the
scheduled hearing.
(c) The Undergraduate or Alumni
Chapter or the Board of Directors
may appoint a committee to present
the alleged cause at the hearing. The
Member shall be entitled to the aid
and assistance of any other Member
to respond to the alleged cause. The
Member shall be entitled to present
such witnesses or other evidence as
he feels appropriate and necessary to
respond to the alleged cause. Should
the Member fail to appear at the hearing
as set forth in the written notice, the
alleged cause shall be deemed admitted
and conclusively established. During
the course of the hearing and at all
times, the Undergraduate or Alumni
Chapter or the Board of Directors shall
extend to the Member every assistance
to establish the truth or to present any
mitigating circumstances.
(d) At the conclusion of the hearing the
Undergraduate or Alumni Chapter or
the Board of Directors shall vote first
upon the alleged cause and, if found
to be established, then upon whether
to suspend or expel the Member from
Membership in the Fraternity. If a
Member is suspended or expelled, an
appropriate officer of the Undergraduate
or Alumni Chapter shall provide to
the Secretary of the Fraternity or the
Board of Directors shall record in its
minutes a statement setting forth the
cause found to be established, the
vote and whether the Member was
suspended or expelled. Until such
statement is received by the Secretary
of the Fraternity no suspension or
expulsion shall be effective. Upon
receipt of such statement, the Member
shall be suspended or expelled from
Membership in the Fraternity effective
immediately, irrespective of whether any
appeal has been or may be taken. A
suspended or expelled Member’s rights
in the Fraternity shall not be reinstated
unless and until the period of suspension
expires or the Assembly of Trustees
reverses the suspension or expulsion
and reinstates the Member.
(e) Within 30 days of the vote of the
the Board of Directors, the Member
may appeal the decision by sending a
notice of appeal to the Secretary of the
Fraternity setting forth a brief statement
of any substantive or procedural reason
why he should not be suspended or
expelled. The appeal shall be heard
at the next Assembly of Trustees. The
Board of Directors and the suspended
or expelled Member each may appear
and may make a statement. The
Assembly of Trustees by majority vote
may affirm, reverse or modify the order
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of suspension or expulsion and to
reinstate the Member. The Secretary
of the Fraternity, at the direction of the
Assembly of Trustees shall provide
written notice of the decision of the
Assembly of Trustees to the suspended
or expelled Member and to his Chapter.
ARTICLE III.
THE UNDERGRADUATE
CHAPTERS, THE COLONIES AND
THE ALUMNI CHAPTERS
SECTION 1: UNDERGRADUATE
CHAPTERS IN GOOD STANDING
Each Undergraduate Chapter
chartered by the Fraternity shall be
in good standing with the Fraternity,
except during any period in which:
(a) the Chapter is in reorganization
under the direction of a reorganization
committee; (b) the Chapter’s charter
and any or all of its operations are
suspended by the Board of Directors;
(c) the Chapter’s charter is revoked
and its operations dissolved by the
Board of Directors; or (d) the Chapter
is four months or more late in paying
any fees, dues, or assessments due to
the Fraternity.
SECTION 2: MINIMUM
ORGANIZATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
FOR UNDERGRADUATE CHAPTERS
(a) The Officers of an Undergraduate
Chapter shall include, but not be
limited to: President; Vice PresidentMember Education; Vice PresidentLoss Prevention; Vice President-Public
Relations; Vice President-Rush; Vice
President-Scholarship; Treasurer; and
Secretary. No person shall be elected
as an officer of a Chapter who is not an
Undergraduate Member in good standing
at the college or university where the
Chapter is located. If an officer of a
Chapter shall cease to be qualified, his
term shall terminate immediately and his
office shall become vacant.
(b) The President of the Undergraduate
Chapter shall preside at all meetings
of the Chapter, shall ensure that the
Chapter and each of the Undergraduate
and Associate Members observe and
uphold the Fraternity’s purposes and the
Founding Principles, and shall perform
such other duties as may be prescribed
by the Fraternity’s Laws or the Chapter.
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(c) The Vice President-Member
Education shall coordinate the Chapter’s
pledge education and Member
education programs and such other
activities that educate Members about
and promote the Fraternity’s purposes
and the Founding Principles and shall
perform such other duties as may be
prescribed by the Fraternity’s Laws or
the Chapter.
(d) The Vice President-Loss Prevention
shall ensure that the Chapter and each
of the Undergraduate and Associate
Members complies with the Fraternity’s
Loss Prevention programs, shall educate
Members about such programs and
shall perform such other duties as may
be prescribed by the Fraternity’s Laws or
the Chapter.
(e) The Vice President-Public Relations
shall plan, direct and coordinate the
Chapter’s public relations program,
including, but not limited to, relations
with the college or university at which
the Chapter is located, the community,
the Chapter’s Alumni Members, other
fraternities, other Undergraduate
Chapters of the Fraternity, and parents,
shall plan direct and coordinate the
Chapter’s philanthropy programs and
community service projects, and shall
perform such other duties as may be
prescribed by the Fraternity’s Laws or
the Chapter.
(f) The Vice President-Rush shall plan,
direct and coordinate the Chapter’s
rushing, recruiting and pledging of new
Associate Members and shall perform
(g) The Vice President-Scholarship
shall plan, direct and coordinate the
Chapter’s scholarship programs and
be prescribed by the Fraternity’s Laws
or the Chapter.
(h) The Treasurer shall manage and
maintain the Chapter’s financial affairs,
subject to the supervision and under
the direction of the Alumni Chapter, and
be prescribed by the Fraternity’s Laws
or the Chapter. The Treasurer shall be
elected by the Undergraduate Members
of the Chapter for a term of not less
than one year, subject to the approval
of and removal by the Alumni Chapter.
(i) The Secretary shall keep all Chapter
records, shall keep written minutes of
all Chapter meetings, and shall perform
(j) To the extent any Undergraduate
Chapter seeks to deviate from the
minimum organizational requirements
set forth in this section, the Chapter may
petition in writing to the Board of Directors
for specific approval of a proposed
alternative organizational structure.
SECTION 3: INVESTIGATION OF A
CHAPTER OR ASSOCIATE MEMBER
The Board of Directors may institute
an investigation of any Undergraduate
Chapter or Associate member. In the
case of an emergency, the Executive
Director with the concurrence of the
Chairman of the Board may institute
an investigation of any Undergraduate
Chapter or Associate member. In such
case, the Board of Directors shall the
approve of such investigation as soon
as practicable. The Board of Directors,
or in the case of an emergency the
Chairman of the Board, shall appoint
a committee, which may or may not
include the Fraternity’s professional
staff or Alumni Members of the
related Alumni Chapter, to conduct
such investigation. When in the best
interests of the Fraternity or others,
the Board of Directors, or in the case
of any emergency the Chairman of the
Board, may order that certain of the
Undergraduate Chapter’s or Associate
member’s operations or activities
specifically related to an alleged
harassment, physical assault, sexual
assault, and/or alleged contravention
of a municipal, county, provincial,
state, and/or federal law be temporarily
suspended without a hearing pending
an investigation. The length of such
suspension shall be the earlier of
90 days or the next regular meeting
of the Board of Directors at which
a hearing could be held. For any
investigation instituted, the Secretary
Board, shall provide written notice to
the Undergraduate Chapter or Associate
member and the related Alumni Chapter
that an investigation has been instituted,
the purpose of the investigation and the
members of the investigating committee
who will conduct the investigation,
and if any operations or activities are
temporarily suspended pending the
investigation. Upon completion of
any investigation, the investigating
committee shall provide the Board of
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Directors a written report of its findings
and recommendations. The Secretary
of the Fraternity, at the direction of
the Board, shall provide a copy of the
investigating committee’s report to the
member and the related Alumni Chapter.
SECTION 4: PROCEDURES
FOR REORGANIZATION OF AN
If the Board of Directors institutes a
reorganization of an Undergraduate
Chapter, the Secretary of the
Fraternity, at the direction of the Board,
shall provide written notice to the
Undergraduate Chapter and the related
Alumni Chapter that a reorganization
is underway, the purpose or reason for
the reorganization and the members of
the reorganization committee, which
may or may not include the Fraternity’s
professional staff and may or may not
include local area Alumni Members, who
will undertake the reorganization. The
reorganization committee shall have
full power and authority to direct and
manage any or all of the operations
of the Chapter. In the course of a
reorganization, the reorganization
committee may interview each of the
Undergraduate Members and Associate
Members of such Chapter who wish to
participate in the reorganization. Based
on those interviews, the reorganization
committee may declare any
Undergraduate Member to be an Alumni
Member or any Associate Member to
be no longer affiliated with that Chapter.
Upon completion of the reorganization,
the Board of Directors, on its own
recommendation or the recommendation
of the reorganization committee, shall
declare the reorganization completed
and return the Chapter’s authority to the
Undergraduate Members.
SECTION 5: PROCEDURES FOR
SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF AN
(a) The Board of Directors shall not
suspend or revoke an Undergraduate
Chapter’s charter or any or all of its
operations, except upon written notice of
the cause and an opportunity for a hearing.
(b) The Board of Directors shall
provide the Undergraduate Chapter
and the related Alumni Chapter written
notice setting forth a statement of the
alleged cause, the possibility that the
Chapter’s charter and operations may
be suspended or revoked, the date,
time and place at which the Board
of Directors shall meet for a hearing
on the matter and a statement of the
rights and procedures to which the
Chapter is entitled at such hearing.
The Secretary of the Fraternity, at the
direction of the Board, shall cause the
written notice to be delivered to the
Undergraduate Chapter and related
Alumni Chapter at least 14 days prior
to the scheduled hearing.
(c) The Board of Directors may appoint
a committee to present the alleged
cause at the hearing. Either or both the
Alumni Chapter may appear at the
hearing. The Undergraduate Chapter
and related Alumni Chapter shall be
entitled to the aid and assistance of any
Alumni Member or any other Member of
the Fraternity to respond to the alleged
cause. The Undergraduate Chapter or
related Alumni Chapter shall be entitled
to present such witnesses or other
evidence as it feels appropriate and
necessary to respond to the alleged
cause. Should a representative of
the Undergraduate Chapter or related
Alumni Chapter fail to appear at the
hearing as set forth in the written notice,
the alleged cause shall be deemed
admitted and conclusively established.
During the course of the hearing and at
all times, the Board of Directors shall
extend to the Undergraduate Chapter
and related Alumni Chapter every
assistance to establish the truth or to
present any mitigating circumstances.
(d) At the conclusion of the hearing
the Board of Directors shall vote first
upon the alleged cause and, if found to
be established, then upon whether to
suspend or revoke the charter and any
of the operations of the Undergraduate
Chapter. If the Undergraduate Chapter
is suspended or expelled, the Secretary
Board, shall record in the minutes a
statement setting forth the cause found
to be established, the vote and whether
the Chapter was suspended or revoked.
The Secretary of the Fraternity, upon
the direction of the Board shall provide
written notice of the decision to the
Alumni Chapter. Upon a decision to
suspend or revoke an Undergraduate
Chapter, the Chapter shall be suspended
or revoked effective immediately,
irrespective of whether any appeal has
been or may be taken. A suspended or
revoked Chapter shall not be reinstated
unless and until the period of suspension
expires or the Assembly of Trustees
reverses the suspension or expulsion
and reinstates the Chapter.
(e) Within 30 days of the vote, the
Alumni Chapter may appeal the decision
by sending a notice of appeal to the
Secretary of the Fraternity setting forth
a brief statement of any substantive
or procedural reason why the Chapter
should not be suspended or revoked.
The appeal shall be heard at the next
Assembly of Trustees. Any Member of
the Undergraduate Chapter or related
Alumni Chapter or any member of the
Board of Directors may appear and
may make a statement. The Assembly
of Trustees by a majority vote of the
Trustees present may affirm, reverse
or modify the order of suspension
or revocation. The Secretary of the
Fraternity, at the direction of the
Assembly of Trustees shall provide
written notice to both the Undergraduate
Chapter and the related Alumni Chapter
of the Assembly of Trustees decision.
ARTICLE IV.
THE CONVENTION AND THE
SECTION 1: NOTICE OF THE
CONVENTION AND THE ASSEMBLY OF
TRUSTEES
The Secretary of the Fraternity, at the
direction of the Board of Directors,
shall notify each of the Undergraduate
Chapters, Colonies and Alumni Chapters
of the date, time and place of the regular
annual sessions of the Convention
and the Assembly of Trustees at least
six months in advance. The Secretary
of the Fraternity shall provide each
Undergraduate Chapter, Associate
member and Alumni Chapter the
agenda of legislation to be considered
at the Convention and the Assembly of
Trustees at least 90 days in advance.
SECTION 2: THE CONVENTION
QUORUM AND VOTING
Delegates representing a majority of
the Undergraduate Chapters that are in
good standing with the Fraternity shall
constitute a quorum of the Convention.
Except as otherwise provided in the
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Fraternity’s Constitution, all actions by
the Convention shall be by a majority
vote of the Delegates present at the
Convention. The right of any Delegate
to exercise his judgment on any matter
before the Convention and to vote
accordingly shall not be affected by
any instructions from his Chapter nor
shall he be held to answer for any
deviation from any such instructions.
Only Delegates present may vote at
the Convention. No Undergraduate
Chapter may grant its proxy to any other
Undergraduate Chapter’s Delegate.
SECTION 3: THE ASSEMBLY OF
TRUSTEES QUORUM AND VOTING
Trustees representing thirty-three
percent (33%) of the Alumni Chapters
of related Undergraduate Chapters
that are in good standing with the
Fraternity shall constitute a quorum of
the Assembly of Trustees. Except as
otherwise provided in the Fraternity’s
Constitution, all actions by the
Assembly of Trustees shall be by a
majority vote of the Trustees present at
the Assembly of Trustees. The right of
any Trustee to exercise his judgment
on any matter before the Assembly of
Trustees and to vote accordingly shall
not be affected by any instructions from
the Alumni Chapter that he represents,
nor shall he be held to answer for any
deviation from any such instructions.
Only Trustees present may vote at
the Assembly of Trustees. No Alumni
Chapter may grant its proxy to any
other Alumni Chapter’s Trustee.
SECTION 4: THE OFFICERS OF THE
CONVENTION
The officers of the Convention shall be
the Chairman and the Recorder and
such other officers as may be required.
The Convention Chairman shall be
elected by and from the Undergraduate
Advisory Board, shall preside at the
Convention and shall perform such other
duties as may be required of such office.
The Convention Recorder shall be
elected by and from the Undergraduate
Advisory Board, shall keep the records
of the Convention and shall deliver them
to the Secretary of the Fraternity upon
adjournment and shall perform such
other duties as may be required of such
office. Other officers of the Convention
shall be elected by the Undergraduate
Advisory Board.
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SECTION 5: THE OFFICERS OF THE
The President of the Fraternity shall
preside at the Assembly of Trustees.
The Secretary of the Fraternity shall
keep the records of the Assembly of
Trustees. Other officers of the Assembly
of Trustees shall be appointed by the
Board of Directors.
SECTION 6: ELIGIBILITY
The Delegates present at the Convention
and the Trustees present at the
Assembly of Trustees shall be the sole
judges of the eligibility of any Delegate
or any Trustee to vote on any matter
brought before the Convention or the
Assembly of Trustees.
SECTION 7: THE ORDER OF
BUSINESS
The Convention and the Assembly of
Trustees shall determine the rules of their
proceedings and the order of business
to be brought before them. Except
to the extent other rules are adopted,
the Convention and the Assembly of
Trustees shall be governed by Robert’s
Rules of Order Revised.
SECTION 8: RESOLUTIONS
All resolutions offered at the
Convention or the Assembly of
Trustees shall be submitted in writing
to the Convention Recorder or the
Secretary of the Fraternity. The
Convention Recorder shall submit
to the Secretary of the Fraternity all
resolutions adopted by the Convention.
present all such resolutions to the next
Assembly of Trustees.
SECTION 9: OPEN SESSIONS
The Convention and the Assembly of
Trustees shall be open. Any Member of
the Fraternity may attend the Convention
or the Assembly of Trustees. The
privileges of the floor, but not the right to
vote, shall be extended to all Members
on any matter brought before the
Convention or the Assembly of Trustees.
SECTION 10: RECESS,
ADJOURNMENT AND RECALL
The Convention or the Assembly of
Trustees may recess to another date
and time for any purpose including
awaiting action by the other body on
any proposed legislation or otherwise
to continue its business; provided that
it shall not recess for more than three
days. If the Convention or the Assembly
of Trustees recesses, the Delegates or
Trustees shall continue to serve. The
Convention or Assembly of Trustees
may adjourn sine die upon completion
of its business, except that the Board of
Directors may recall within three days
of such adjournment either or both the
Convention or the Assembly of Trustees
for any purpose.
SECTION 11: MINUTES OF THE
CONVENTION AND THE ASSEMBLY OF
TRUSTEES
provide to each of the Undergraduate
Chapters, Colonies and Alumni Chapters
the minutes of the Convention and
the Assembly of Trustees, including all
resolutions adopted by both and the
names of the Officers and Directors
elected by the Assembly of Trustees,
within 90 days after adjournment.
SECTION 12: SPECIAL SESSIONS
Ten percent or more of the
Undergraduate Chapters that are in
good standing with the Fraternity or
ten percent or more of the Alumni
Chapters of the related Undergraduate
Chapters that are in good standing with
the Fraternity may require the Board
of Directors to call a special session of
either or both of the Convention and
the Assembly of Trustees by providing
the Secretary of the Fraternity written
demand setting forth the purpose
for such special session. The Board
of Directors shall call such special
session within 90 days of receipt of
the written demand. No business shall
be considered in a special session
except that which is set forth in the
written demand. The Secretary, at the
direction of the Board, shall provide
written notice of the date, time and place
of any special session to each of the
Undergraduate Chapters, Colonies and
Alumni Chapters.
SECTION 13: JOINT SESSIONS
The Board of Directors may convene
a joint session of the Convention and
the Assembly of Trustees, if it finds it
expedient, to hear Officer and committee
reports or for other informational
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purposes. No legislation may be
considered or approved in such joint
session, but may only be considered
and approved when the Convention and
the Assembly of Trustees are in their
separate sessions.
SECTION 14: THE LEADERSHIP
INSTITUTE
A Leadership Institute for officers and
members of Undergraduate Chapters,
Colonies and Alumni Chapters shall be
held annually at such date, time and place
as the Board of Directors may determine.
SECTION 15: THE REGIONAL
LEADERSHIP ACADEMIES
The Board of Directors may provide for
Regional Leadership Academies for the
officers and members of Undergraduate
Chapters and Colonies in one or more
Provinces to be held in conjunction with
Province Meetings.
ARTICLE V.
THE OFFICERS AND THE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
SECTION 1: THE NUMBER OF
DIRECTORS
The Board of Directors shall consist of
thirteen (13) Directors constituted as
provided in the Fraternity’s Constitution.
The number of Directors may be changed
by amendment to these By-Laws;
provided that no decrease in the number
shall have the effect of shortening the
term of any incumbent Director.
SECTION 2: THE NOMINATING
COMMITTEE
(a) At least six months prior to the next
Assembly of Trustees, the President
of the Fraternity, with the approval of
the Board of Directors, shall appoint a
Nominating Committee of five members
to solicit, evaluate, and nominate
candidates to stand for election for
the office of each elected Officer and
Director. To the extent practicable, the
members of the Nominating Committee
shall be constituted as follows: no two
members of the Nominating Committee
may be from the same Alumni Chapter
and related Undergraduate Chapter
or Associate member; at least one
member of the Nominating Committee
must be from each country in which
the Fraternity has an Undergraduate
Chapter that is in good standing with the
Fraternity; at least one member of the
Nominating Committee must be a past
President or Chairman of the Board of
the Fraternity; and at least one member
of the Nominating Committee must be
a president of an existing and active
Alumni Chapter.
(b) In soliciting, evaluating and
nominating candidates to stand for
election for the office of each elected
Officer or Director, the Nominating
Committee should give strong
consideration to Alumni Members who
have had direct experience recently with
an Undergraduate Chapter or Associate
member, have served as an officer of
an Alumni Chapter, or have served as a
member of the Fraternity’s professional
staff. The Nominating Committee should
seek to nominate Alumni Members
who will provide the Board of Directors
the greatest ethnic, generational,
geographical, national, professional,
occupational and Chapter diversity that
is, nevertheless, consistent with the
highest quality of leadership available to
serve the Fraternity.
(c) The Nominating Committee shall
publish its report to each of the
Undergraduate Chapters, Colonies and
Alumni Chapters at least two months
prior to the Assembly of Trustees.
SECTION 3: NOMINATIONS FOR
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Notwithstanding section 2 of this
Article, the Assembly of Trustees shall
not be bound in any respect by the
report of the Nominating Committee.
Nominations for election to the office
of any elected Officer or Director
shall be opened to the floor of the
Assembly of Trustees. Any Member
may nominate any Alumni Member of
the Fraternity as a candidate to stand
for election to any office of any elected
Officer or Director.
SECTION 4: REGULAR MEETINGS
OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Board of Directors shall meet
regularly at such date, time and
place as the Chairman of the Board
may determine. The Secretary of
the Fraternity, at the direction of the
Chairman of the Board, shall provide
written notice of such meetings to each
Officer and Director.
SECTION 5: SPECIAL MEETINGS OF
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Any three Officers and Directors may
require the Chairman of the Board to
call a special meeting by providing
the Chairman of the Board and the
Secretary of the Fraternity written
demand setting forth the purpose for
a special meeting. The Chairman of
the Board shall call a special meeting
within 30 days of receipt of the written
demand. The Secretary, at the direction
of the Chairman of the Board, shall
provide written notice of the date, time
and place and the purpose of such
special meeting to each Officer and
Director. Special meetings of the Board
of Directors may be conducted by
telephone.
DIRECTORS QUORUM AND VOTING
A majority of Directors shall constitute
a quorum of the Board of Directors and,
except where otherwise provided by
the Fraternity’s Constitution, all actions
by the Board of Directors shall be by a
majority vote of the Directors present
at a meeting of the Board. The Board
may also act by a vote of a majority
of Directors sent in writing by e-mail,
fax or mail to the Chairman of the
Board. All Directors must be notified
of such votes and such votes must be
recorded in the minutes of the next
regular or special meeting of the Board
of Directors. Except to the extent that
other rules are adopted, meetings of the
Board of Directors shall be governed by
Robert’s Rules of Order.
SECTION 7: EX OFFICIO MEMBERS
OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Every Past President of the Fraternity
shall be a member ex officio of the Board
of Directors, without the right to vote.
SECTION 8: COMPENSATION OF
THE OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
The Officers and Directors shall receive
no compensation for their service, except
that the Fraternity may reimburse the
Officers and Directors for reasonable
expenses they incur in performing their
duties on behalf of the Fraternity, under
written guidelines approved by the
Board of Directors and published in the
Fraternity’s Policies.
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BY-LAWS
SECTION 9: THE COMMITTEES
(a) The Board of Directors may
establish such Committees as it deems
necessary to assist it in its duties,
which may include the Committee
on Administration, Alumni Chapter,
Expansion, Finance, Graduate
Activities, Housing, and Undergraduate
Activities. The Board of Directors shall
designate the duties to be performed
by the Committees. Except as
otherwise provided in the Fraternity’s
laws, the Board of Directors may not
delegate its constitutional duties or
functions to a Committee of less than
the whole Board.
(b) The Secretary of the Fraternity
shall provide to all the Undergraduate
Chapters, Colonies, and Alumni
Chapters notice of appointment of all
committees of the Fraternity, including
names of the committee members,
upon their appointment or election
or upon the establishment of the
committee, within 30 days after the
appointment, election or establishment
of such Committees or the naming of
new members to such Committees.
1 Comment: it is intended that
“Committees of the Fraternity” shall
include any committee named by
the Convention, Assembly, Board,
any Officer of the Fraternity, or under
Constitutional mandate, such as the
Nominating Committee.
SECTION 10: QUALIFICATIONS
AND COMPENSATION OF THE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The Board of Directors shall conduct
an open search for selection of the
Executive Director. The Executive
Director shall be qualified by
education or experience for such
position and who has demonstrated
(a) a commitment to the purpose of
the Fraternity, (b) an ability to work
with Undergraduate and Alumni
Members, and (c) an ability to manage
the operations of the Fraternity.
The compensation of the Executive
Director shall be specifically approved
by the Board of Directors. The
Fraternity may reimburse the Executive
Director for reasonable expenses he
incurs in performing his duties for the
Fraternity, under guidelines approved
by the Board of Directors.
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ARTICLE VI.
The Board of Directors shall establish
an annual budget for the Fraternity’s
operations. The Board of Directors shall
set forth in the Fraternity’s Policies
written procedures for the preparation,
review and approval of an annual
budget and for the management and
control of expenses.
payable at the time of initiation. Each
Undergraduate Chapter or Colony to be
installed shall report to the Secretary
of the Fraternity the name of each
man to be initiated as a Member of the
Fraternity at least seven days before
the initiation date. The Fraternity
may assess a late fee in an amount
established by the Board of Directors
and the Undergraduate Advisory Board
concurrently, to any Undergraduate
Chapter or Colony to be installed that
fails to pay timely the Initiation Fees.
SECTION 2: THE ASSOCIATE
THE FINANCES
SECTION 1: THE BUDGET
MEMBERSHIP FEES
The Fraternity may assess each
Undergraduate Chapter and Colony
an Associate Membership Fee
for each person pledged as an
Associate Member, in an amount
and the Undergraduate Advisory
Board concurrently. The Associate
Membership Fee shall be payable at
the time of pledging. No Undergraduate
Chapter or Colony may initiate an
Associate Member as a Member of
the Fraternity unless the Associate
Membership Fee has been paid.
Each Undergraduate Chapter and
Colony shall report to the Secretary
of the Fraternity the name of each
man pledged within seven days after
pledging. The Fraternity may assess
any Undergraduate Chapter or Colony
that fails to pay timely the Associate
Membership Fee a late fee, in an
amount established by the Board
of Directors and the Undergraduate
Advisory Board concurrently.
SECTION 3: THE INITIATION FEES
Undergraduate Chapter, in an amount
Board concurrently. The Fraternity may
assess a Colony an Initiation Fee for
each Member initiated at the time the
Colony is installed as an Undergraduate
Chapter of the Fraternity, in the
same amount as the Initiation Fees
for Undergraduate Chapters. The
Fraternity may assess an Initiation
Fee for each Graduate Member
initiated as a Graduate Member by any
Undergraduate or Alumni Chapter or the
Board of Directors in the same amount
as the Initiation Fee for Undergraduate
Chapters. The Initiation Fee shall be
MEMBERSHIP FEES
Undergraduate Chapter and Colony
Undergraduate Membership Fees
for each Member and Associate
Member of that Undergraduate
Chapter or Colony, in an amount
Board concurrently. Undergraduate
Membership Fees may be payable in
two installments as established by the
Board of Directors. Each Undergraduate
Chapter and Colony shall report to
the Secretary of the Fraternity the
name of each Member and Associate
Member annually. The Fraternity may
assess any Undergraduate Chapter
or Colony that fails to pay timely the
Undergraduate Membership Fees
installments, a late fee in an amount
and the Undergraduate Advisory Board
concurrently.
SECTION 5: THE LOSS
PREVENTION FEES
Undergraduate Chapter and Colony an
annual Loss Prevention Fees for each
Member and Associate Member of that
Undergraduate Chapter or Colony, in
an amount established by the Board
Advisory Board concurrently. The
Loss Prevention Fees may be payable
in installments as established by the
Board of Directors. The Board of
Directors may vary the Loss Prevention
Fees between Undergraduate Chapters
and Colonies based on insurance
underwriting criteria and other risk
factors. The Board of Directors may
waive all or part of the Loss Prevention
Fees for any Undergraduate Chapter
or Colony that can demonstrate that
BY-LAWS
it has purchased insurance coverage
that is equal to or better than the
insurance coverage provided through
the Fraternity’s loss prevention
program. The Fraternity may assess
any Undergraduate Chapter or
Colony that fails to pay timely the
Loss Prevention Fees a late fee, in
an amount established by the Board
Advisory Board concurrently.
SECTION 6: THE LOSS
PREVENTION FUND
and maintain a Loss Prevention Fund to
be funded by the Loss Prevention Fees
to the Undergraduate Chapters and
Colonies. The Loss Prevention Fund
shall be used to fund the Fraternity’s
loss prevention and insurance programs
including insurance coverage. Any
excess funds in the Loss Prevention
Fund at the end of the fiscal year
may be retained to fund future loss
prevention and insurance programs or
may be refunded to the Chapters and
Colonies, as the Board of Directors may
determine.
SECTION 7: THE PERMANENT
TRUST FUND
and maintain a Permanent Trust
Fund as an endowment fund for the
Fraternity’s future. The Permanent
Trust Fund shall be funded by gifts,
devises or bequests to the Fraternity or
other contributions, which may include
contributions from the Fraternity’s
Operating Fund as the Board of
Directors may determine. Any use of the
principal of the Permanent Trust Fund
shall require the approval of the Board
of Directors by a three-fourths vote of
the Directors present at a meeting of
the Board of Directors. The Treasurer of
the Fraternity shall provide a complete
accounting of the use of any principal
of the Permanent Trust Fund during
the prior fiscal year in his report to
the Convention and the Assembly
of Trustees and the Fraternity’s
financial statements published in the
Delta Upsilon Quarterly. Any interest,
dividends or other income earned on
the principal of the Permanent Trust
Fund during any fiscal year may be
used to fund the Fraternity’s Operating
Fund and the general operations of
the Fraternity or for other purposes
or may be retained as principal in the
Permanent Trust Fund, as the Board of
Directors may determine.
SECTION 8: OPERATING FUND
and maintain an Operating Fund to
account for the income and expenses
from the Fraternity’s general operations,
and to provide funds for the Educational
Fund. The Operating Fund shall be
funded by Initiation Fees, Associate
Membership Fees and Undergraduate
Membership Fees and by gifts, devises
or bequests to the Fraternity or other
contributions, which may include
Permanent Trust Fund as the Board of
SECTION 9: EDUCATIONAL FUND
and maintain an Educational Fund to
be used exclusively for educational
programs, purposes and activities of
the Fraternity. The Educational Fund
shall be funded by interest, dividends or
other income earned on the Permanent
Trust Fund and by gifts, devises or
bequests to the Fraternity or other
contributions, which may include
Operating Fund as the Board of
SECTION 10: OTHER FUNDS
The Board of Directors may establish
and maintain such other funds in
addition to the Fraternity’s General Fund,
Insurance Fund and Permanent Trust
Fund and may establish the uses and
limitations on the uses of such funds.
ARTICLE VII.
AMENDMENTS
SECTION 1: AUTHORITY AND
NOTICE OF AMENDMENTS
These By-Laws may be amended by
a majority of the Delegates present
at the Convention and a majority of
the Trustees present at the Assembly
of Trustees; provided that, at least
90 days prior to such vote, notice of
any proposed amendments shall be
provided to each Undergraduate and
Alumni Chapter.
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“I will absolutely be back to serve again, but
until I do, I issue a challenge to the brothers
of Delta Upsilon, Don’t come to Jamaica to
‘feel all right’, come to Jamaica to serve.”
Matt Lucciola, Rutgers, ’14
Photo: Grant Weeks, Bucknell, ’13 playing with school children
during the January 2013 GSI trip.
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