NIC Resolution
Resolution to Foster Academic Achievement
WHEREAS, the members of the North-American Interfraternity Conference believe in supporting the academic achievement of our student members;
WHEREAS, our own Basic Expectations of Fraternity Membership state we will strive for academic achievement and practice academic integrity;
WHEREAS, many of the creeds & mottoes of NIC member fraternities reflect their organizations' commitment to assisting their members in the acquisition of a sound education and becoming learned individuals;
WHEREAS, the fraternity community is in a cooperative relationship with institutions of higher education;
WHEREAS, fraternities exist in an academic setting and in accord with a tradition of scholastic concern;
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the member fraternities support the North-American Interfraternity Conference in its continuing efforts:
- To foster academic achievement among the membership of the 63 NIC member fraternities by offering educational resource materials such as Making the Grade ... Getting the Job .
- To provide recognition by presenting the NIC Academic Awards Program to Interfraternity Councils and their chapters that demonstrate academic achievement.
- To explore the establishment of a recognition program for faculty members who advise fraternity members toward academic achievement.
- To support and enhance the leadership role played by national Greek academic honorary organizations such as Gamma Sigma Alpha and the Order of Omega.
- To sponsor continuing education for NIC member fraternity scholarship chairmen such as the NIC Academic Achievement Forum on April 5, 1997 in the O'Hare Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.
Approved by the NIC House of Delegates, December 7, 1996