RMF Subscription Fees Due Sept. 15
Earlier this month, the Risk Management Foundation (RMF) began to distribute statements to chapters for the 2015 to 2016 school year via email. By Sept. 15, 2015, chapters must pay their balances in full, schedule a payment plan, or notify the RMF and Sigma Chi International Fraternity Headquarters that they have secured insurance coverage elsewhere. […]
Foundation to Provide 76 New Donor Scholarships
In recognition of the organization’s 75th anniversary in 2015, the Sigma Chi Foundation declared its goal last year to endow 75 new donor-scholar awards for the 2015 to 2016 school year. At the 80th Grand Chapter in San Diego, Foundation representatives announced that they had exceeded that goal by endowing 76 additional scholarships for the […]
Fraternity Launches Preparation For Brotherhood Program
This fall, 42 undergraduate chapters will pilot the Preparation for Brotherhood program, which gives more structure to the Fraternity’s pledging practices by providing an eight-week model for chapters to follow that culminates with the initiation ceremony. Perhaps most notably, the program repackages the I-week component of pledgeship as lessons presented throughout the entirety of the […]
Sigma Chi Hosts 2015 Balfour LTW
The Fraternity welcomed more than 1,800 brothers, including 1,400 undergraduates, to last week’s 2015 Balfour Leadership Training Workshop (LTW) at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. It is the 11th time the Fraternity has hosted Balfour LTW at the university, and the first since 1995. “Balfour LTW is Sigma Chi’s signature annual event, […]
Grand Chapter Elects Mike Ursillo Grand Consul
Undergraduate and alumni delegates voted Mike Ursillo, BROWN 1978, to become Sigma Chi’s 69th Grand Consul, or international president, at the Fraternity’s June 25 to 27 Grand Chapter convention at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina. Ursillo previously served as Grand Pro Consul alongside his predecessor, 68th Grand Consul Mike Greenberg, ILLINOIS WESLEYAN 1982, from 2013 […]
Headquarters Offers Tips to Balfour LTW Attendees
In four weeks, Sigma Chis from across the United States and Canada will begin migrating to Bowling Green State University to attend Balfour Leadership Training Workshop, taking place from July 30 to Aug. 1 in Bowling Green, Ohio. To that end, Director of Leadership Programs Matthew Coffin, DEPAUW 2013, offers a few ideas as to how you can […]
Fraternity Invites Interest Group to Balfour LTW
The Balfour Leadership Training Workshop (LTW) has long been one of Sigma Chi’s biggest annual events, and in 2015, organizers hope to make it even more inclusive by inviting members of the interest group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to attend. According to Sigma Chi International Fraternity Headquarters staff, theirs is only the second […]
Legislation Affecting Grand Trustee Term Lengths Passed
After several rounds of vigorous debate and deliberation, the voting delegates to the June 25 to 27 Grand Chapter in San Diego amended the Fraternity’s constitution in a way that will reshape the role played by the Grand Trustees. Previously, Sigma Chi’s 18 Grand Trustee positions were filled by brothers serving six-year terms, with […]
Kelsey Maggard Elected 34th International Sweetheart
After hearing her name announced as the 2015 to 2017 International Sweetheart, it didn’t take long for the tears to begin falling from Kelsey Maggard’s eyes. “It’s hard to describe just what it means to be one of 34 women who have been chosen to represent Sigma Chi,” says Maggard. “Being an International Sweetheart […]
Sigma Chi Foundation Leads Annual Fund Drive
Between now and the end of its fiscal year on June 30, the Sigma Chi Foundation is leading a drive for contributions to its annual fund. Unrestricted donations to the Foundation are used to support programs such as the Journey chapter retreat program, Balfour Leadership Training Workshop, and the Mission 365 recruitment training program, among […]
Important Due Dates for RMF Materials Approaching
By June 30, Sigma Chi’s House Corporations and undergraduate chapters must respond to the Risk Management Foundation (RMF)’s Total Insured Value (TIV) worksheets. TIV worksheets were originally distributed to chapters in May, and must be completed in order to qualify chapters to be eligible to receive the blanket limits of the RMF’s property program. […]
Help Sigma Chi to contribute its next $1 million to HCI
As of June 3, Sigma Chis across the United States and Canada had contributed more than $936,000 to the Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) in the July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2015, fiscal year. Fraternity leaders hope to make a strong push during the remainder of the month to lift that total past the $1 […]
Horizons Rechristened as the Huntsman Leadership Summit
In response to his $5 million donation to the Fraternity’s freshman and sophomore leadership development program, Sigma Chi has announced it will rename its Horizons program as the Horizons Huntsman Leadership Summit in honor of Order of Constantine Sig and Significant Sig Jon M. Huntsman, PENNSYLVANIA 1959. Fraternity leaders joined Huntsman to make the announcement at […]
Risk Management Foundation Looking for Account Manager
The Risk Management Foundation (RMF) is looking to hire a new full-time staff member as its account manager and education and finance coordinator. The opening has a target start date of July 15 and will be based at the Fraternity’s International Headquarters in Evanston, Ill. The position is in lieu of the previously announced summer intern […]
Sigma Chi Lends Support to the AFA Foundation
On April 15, Sigma Chi announced it would give a one-time gift of $20,000 to the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors Foundation’s (AFA) First 90 Days program, which launches this fall and will deliver training sessions and supplemental educational materials to advisors of Greek-letter chapters across North America. “This is a historic commitment and partnership […]
