Brothers Adams and Elias Attend NIC IFC Academy
Brother Tom Adams (MD Kappa Chi) and Brother Mark Elias (MD Pi Phi) attended the 2009 IFC Academy. Academy brought student
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| Left to Right: Brother Mark Elias (MD Pi Phi and Brother Tom Adams (MD Kappa Chi) |
leaders together from across the country. Thirty-five fraternity communities were represented at the day long conference.
Academy is a one day, fourteen hour program which takes participants through curriculum pieces focused on how they can become high performing IFC’s, aligned with the NIC Standards, and serving the needs of their member fraternities. Participants leave academy with a task list for their return to campus, a renewed sense of commitment to the interfraternal community and a personalized assessment of their own council effectiveness. Attendees also they learned how to identify restrictive clauses in their own polices and, along with NIC professional staff, discussed ways to work with campus advisors and administrators to remove these restrictive policies.
NIC President & CEO, Peter Smithhisler commented on the IFC Academy, “The NIC’s commitment to Advocacy, Collaboration, and Education comes through with great clarity at IFC Academy. We are able to impress upon these men the importance and relevance of complete standards implementation. Our member fraternities depend on us to do this work and we are excited about its continued evolution.”
The 2009 IFC Academy featured special guest Josh Orendi, CEO of Phired Up Productions. Phired up and Josh specialize in values based recruitment programming. Their Academy program reiterated to the IFC officers the important role they play in removing restrictions and ensuring that fraternities can operate in environments that are conducive to their success.
The NIC does not formally recognize Interfraternity Council’s. The member fraternities which comprise campus IFC’s are part of national organizations that are NIC members. The NIC Standards are the agreed upon requirements for membership in the inter/national trade association. For more information about Academy or the NIC Standards please contact Ben Pendry via email at pendry@nicindy.org.
Congratulations to Brothers Adams and Elias.
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