[19904] in APO-L
Re: role of new community advisor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David O'Leary)
Mon Jan 18 21:54:51 1999
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:24:57 -0500
Reply-To: David O'Leary <doleary@JUNIPER.NET>
From: David O'Leary <doleary@JUNIPER.NET>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990112161503.13197D-100000@alycia.dementia.o rg>
At 04:20 PM 1/12/99 -0500, Thomas W. Strong Jr. wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Frank Goodhew wrote:
>> Can someone please explain what the new community advisor is supposed to
>> do. What exactly is the role of the community advisor? Can it be anyone
>> from the community or are there restrictions on the person you have to
>> choose to be your new community advisor?
The two questions are really coupled - it is very important to recruit
and work with advisors who have an intended role. Just like the
Faculty/Staff advisors are intended to be a resource relative to
campus activities, and Scouting advisors are intended as a resource
for Scouting and youth service projects, the community advisor should
be someone who has contacts in the community and can provide input
and information regarding community service and perhaps public
relations in the community.
dave
>Anybody from the community that the chapter feels is acceptable as an
>advisor is the interpretation that I'd use.
>
>You do, of course, have the usual restriction that advisors may not be
>undergraduates, but other than that, there was nothing added in the
>legislation to limit the chapter's choice in the matter.
>
>A community advisor could easily also qualify for one of the other
>requirements (don't the professors live in the community? aren't the
>people you would consider as scouting advisors also a part of the
>community?), or could be an alumnus that stayed in the area, or a city
>councilman, or nearly anyone else that's not an undergraduate and who the
>chapter thinks should be an advisor.
>
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