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To remain competitive not only as a fraternity but also as a premier student leadership organization, Delta Tau Delta is developing a comprehensive member development program. This program will give our undergraduates a complete four-year experience that is engaging, exciting and fulfills their changing need as they go through college.

What is member education?

Are your chapter brothers ready to take on the real world?  Do they have the skills that will give them a competitive advantage?  Are they getting everything they can out of the Delt experience? The answers to these questions are the definition of member education.

Imagine a chapter of Delta Tau Delta where every man who graduates:

• Knows how to tie a necktie
• Can change a tire
• Boasts a resume he's been updating since his first year in college
• Knows his credit score and has started saving for retirement
• Keeps a daily planner and sets goals for the day, week, month and year
• Thinks about what he's eating and exercises regularly
• Recites his Fraternal Oath from memory and understands what he's sworn to
• Developed his career plan by talking with Delt alumni

Member education is about creating a culture in your chapter that produces men committed to lifelong learning and growth.

For quite some time, the pledge period was viewed as the primary time for education and development.  After initiation though, there is generally another three to four years as an undergraduate.  The fraternity is developing a program to provide chapters the resources to utilize the time after pledging to develop their members further to prepare them for the real world and for life long membership in Delta Tau Delta.

How member education prepares undergraduates for the real world

Based on a survey of current undergraduates, Delta Tau Delta has outlined six key elements to focus on for our members' development.

1. Alumni networking
2. Personal leadership
3. Personal finance
4. Time management
5. Men's health
6. Ritual education

Chapters participating in member education are encouraged to develop programs to meet these six elements. Program development is coordinated with Central Office staff, but ultimately is in the hands of the undergraduate chapter. Delivery mechanisms vary from guest speakers from the campus community, peer-to-peer education, Central Office staff, or alumni volunteers.

The Pilot Program

Twenty chapters around the nation are sampling membership education curriculum and helping develop this program for fraternity-wide release at the 2008 Karnea. These chapters are:

*denotes colony as of September 1, 2007

For more information about what the pilot chapters are doing click here.