Inventory

Outcome

Target class

Additional Experiences

Descriptive notes regarding learning and practice

2.

Student will demonstrate personal, organizational, and academic examples of self-discipline

Philanthropy Week

IFC President

  Throughout my career at the University of Rhode Island I have prided myself on my involvement with being active in the community along with maintaining a strong academic gpa.  A few great examples of my self-discipline on the organizational, personal and academia include, helping plan philanthropy week, taking a average of 18 credits the past two years, managing my everyday schedule.

     For the philanthropy week planning I was tasked with creating many time frames that needed to be met to allow for the event to run.  Through setting these deadlines it also meant that I was attending many meetings during the week to check up with committees, these meetings made it difficult to find time to work with groups on projects for school.  To make sure I stayed on my academic requirements I made sure that I planned group projects early on and when working on them my group stayed on topic to work as efficiently as possible. 

     On the academic level through the last two years of my academic career I have been taking 6 or 7 classes a semester.  This rigorous class schedule has forced me to make sure that I maintained a strong use of my time so that I do not fall behind in the classes.  I have also worked with this discipline to allow myself to still be a college student and see my friends and have a good time/

   Lastly my personal example of self-discipline involved my drive to balance both of these tasks.  Like I have said for both of the other areas, I have focused on staying well organized with agendas and when things need to be submitted or meetings needed to be attended.  I have also created a list of easy to complete forms for chair positions to do post event evaluations for improvement.  My final example of personal self-discipline was through how I strive to have my work done the weekend before the actual date to allow myself time in case something comes up.  (for evidence I have attached the philanthropy week rule book)

82.

Student will describe examples of giving and accepting feedback.

BUS 345

Interfraternity Council

In my business in society class much of the work that we do is in a team, from having such a large amount of team work being required it leads to differences in work ethic and quality being seen.  Do to this our professor took a class to sit us down and teach the class how you should deal with taking feedback.  Each team member of the group was required to write down three pros and cons that each team member was committing.  After doing this our professor described what you do when your receive your feedback, you sit smile and say thank you because the feedback is just describing what you are doing not attacking you.  After our professor went through this we went through and gave out our feedback for the team members. 

Another example of giving and accepting feedback is for the Interfraternity board we ran end of the semester reviews on what is being done.  With these reviews we clearly outline what needs to be improved upon as a chair positions for them next semester.  I also ask each position to give me an evaluation of my performance and where they would like to see change.  By doing reviews in this manner I am able to avoid my members feeling like they are being attacked from me just reviewing them and working towards improving how the board functions.  (evidence is the evaluation form)

109.

Student will describe personal examples related to maintaining accountability as a leader

Bus 404 (Audit)

IFC Standards board

Maintaining accountability as a leader is a task that is always relatively difficult.  During this school year as a member on the IFC standards board I have held meetings to punish fraternity for missing events or other various incidents.  When we are holding the standards we ask the chapters their side of the story and look for as much detail as possible.  After hearing their side of each incident we then ask a round of questions to answer any last concerns.  Once this process is over we then have the defendants leave the room and discuss the punishment for the offense.  We later bring the defendants in and let them know if we found them guilty with a punishment or let the issues go.  By doing this we have been able to keep many of the chapter in line and out of trouble, because of this my board and the fraternities have gained a better experience this year. 

In my business 404 class which is Audit, we are currently talking about maintaining accountability with companies when we are holding audits.  During the class our professor has talked about if you are performing the audit and not being given what you expect you have the right to hold them accountable and say “I am the auditor and I get what I want”.  By acting in this manor it ensure you gain all information that is needed to make sure there are no material misstatements in the financial statements.  (for evidence I have attached the ifc constitution)

112.

Student will describe how credibility applies to leadership, as well as the characteristics and skills of a credible leader

Maintaining a sense of credibility as a leader is extremely important.  To be seen as credible it means that you are believable, reliable, trust worth and confident.  In today’s world people are much more likely to follow someone that they find credible.  Traits that people look for when deciding if you are credible are, trust, worthiness, discretion, confidence, and the most important integrity.  To show that you carry the before listed traits really break down into a series of actions.  When working on a project having an overall vision of where you would like to take the project while also keeping it very positive.  You should also be competent meaning that you should not just talk you also have to take action.  Stay consistent and true with those decisions you are making along with knowing your values and the group values. Let others also contribute and give you feedback on what you are working out.  Then use the suggestions that you’re given for change.  If you ever do lose your credibility you will most likely lose the trust of the people working with you.  For evidence I have attached an article about politicians losing credibility and then support. 

117.

Student will describe personal examples related to being a peer leader and being led by peers

HDF 290

Sigma Chi Derby Days Chair

In my fraternity we have a national philanthropy event; the event is called Derby Days.  Derby days is typically an event that runs for 3 to a week long.  I was our past derby days chair, this meant that I was tasked with creating a committee to help me with this process of working on all the logistics.   With this system I was responsible for leading my brothers and making sure we booked all of the correct locations and had approval that we needed.  I was also tasked with during the week making sure that if someone had a question about the event for that particular day I knew the answer for them.  Our Derby Days ended up being a huge success and we were able to raise a total of about $3,000 dollars in 3 days.  (for evidence I have included one of our flyers)