All AFA volunteers are expected to abide by general AFA volunteer expectations outlined in volunteer training modules and to promote and champion the strategic direction of AFA in alignment with AFA Board of Directors and Central Office Staff.Â
Strategic Responsibilities
- Serve as a convener and connecter between AFA data analysis needs and scholar/researcher talent.
- Identify both the mechanism and content delivery of educational programming at the AFA Annual Meeting designed to increase the research knowledge and expertise of AFA members.
Execution Responsibilities
- Participate in a minimum of quarterly meetings (or more frequently as needed) led by the chair.
- Coordinate the review and selection recommendation [to the AFA Awards and Recognition Committee] for AFA’s Dissertation of the Year Award.Â
- Plan and facilitate programming at the AFA Annual Meeting to discuss current research within the sorority & fraternity industry.
- Participate in initiatives as directed by the AFA staff or board of directors.
Qualifications
- Research Advancement Workgroup members must be professional, graduate, affiliate, or emeritus members of the association.
- Members should be well versed in the issues facing fraternity/sorority professionals as well as the extant research done on them.
- Experience with and methodological knowledge of how to conduct research so as both to better assess what is viable and also to assist graduate students, as needed, in advising their projects.
- Members should have a desire to advance the understanding of empirical research within the fraternity/sorority advising profession and to create connections designed to bring said research to fruition.Â
Commitment Required
Committee members can expect to spend 1-2 hours per week on committee activities.