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Procedures Manual Highlight: Job Placement Services
Higher education conferences, graduations, and college/university hiring cycles make spring a very busy time for AFA's job placement services. AFA offers both job and résumé posting services. Job postings include fraternity/sorority campus positions, inter/national fraternity/sorority organization positions, graduate assistantships, and other positions related to fraternity/sorority affairs. Members may post job descriptions for 90 days at a rate of $75. Any postings made to the Online Community regarding job openings will be removed. Résumés may be posted free of charge. For more information, see page 15 of the Standard Operating Procedures Manual or email the Central Office.
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Volunteer of the Month - Dan Bureau
Dan Bureau, CAS Liaison, has been selected as the February Volunteer of the Month. A long time volunteer, Dan has served on the AFA Executive Board as President-Elect, President, and Past-President, as well as other volunteer roles including (but not limited to!) Oracle Associate Editor, Perspectives Editorial Board member, Assessment/EBI Committee member, and Consultant Training Workgroup member. His nominator, Kelly Jo Karnes, states "I have been truly impressed with Dan's interest in the CAS Standards and how they relate to the profession of advising fraternities and sororities. I believe that the information that we will gain from his work will be invaluable." Thanks Dan!
Please contact the Central Office to recommend a Volunteer of the Month.
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The Informed Volunteer...Tax Time
While the Association of Fraternity Advisors strives to cover most of our volunteers' expenses in carrying out their duties for the Association, there may be instances when established budget allocations are not sufficient to entirely cover expenses related to your AFA duties. If you have incurred out-of-pocket expenses due to your involvement in AFA, these expenses may be tax deductible.
For tax purposes, members who have legitimate out-of-pocket expenses directly related to their participation in an AFA authorized initiative, and which are over-and-above program-allocated dollars, are urged to retain all receipts of expenditures and to seek tax counsel for applicable charitable exemptions on their personal tax returns.
As you prepare your tax documents, be aware that you may be eligible for deductions of any personal expenses incurred on behalf of AFA.
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Didn't you get my email?
Do you sometimes feel that communication via email is not working for you? Are your recipients truly absorbing all the information that you intended from your message? In a recent blog post Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a professor at the Harvard Business School, questions the effectiveness of providing information only once through email. In our volunteer and professional roles we may feel that sometimes we are lucky if we have time to read all of our emails. In order to improve our effectiveness, we should consider using a multi-dimensional communication plan: email, phone, webpage, and email again. Read more about Professor Kanter's ideas as well as follow-up posts on her blog.
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NASPA Annual Conference
AFA members attending the NASPA Annual Conference in Seattle this March will find several educational programs and other events related to fraternity and sorority life. Go here for a summary of those programs. One of these events is the Fraternity/Sorority Knowledge Community's Interfraternal Luncheon, for which AFA is a co-sponsor. While this event is invitation-only for senior student affairs officers, there may be an opportunity for AFA members to purchase luncheon tickets should any seats go unfilled. If you are interested in purchasing a luncheon ticket, please e-mail Linda Wardhammar, Executive Director, to be placed on the waiting list.
Be sure to visit Linda at the AFA Booth (#212) in the Exhibit Hall!
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Association of Fraternity Advisors | 9640 North Augusta Drive Suite 433 | Carmel, IN. 46032
Phone: (317) 876-1632 | Fax: (317) 876-3981 |
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