Requirements

Hour Requirements

Actives: 15 per semester. At least one hour must be from each field of service

Pledges: 12 total. At least one one hour must be from three fields of service

Attendance Hours

Every active starts out with 4 hours (3 for pledges) for meetings. If the VP Membership is not contacted with a reasonable excuse for an absence, it is considered unexcused, and you lose half (½) of an hour for each absence. If you miss one quarter (1/4) of the total number of meetings without being excused, you go into bad standing with the chapter.

Actives must also attend at least one pledge meeting, or they will lose 2 of their attendance hours.

Personal Hours

Personal hours are those that are done outside of APO projects, and are not required.

-Cannot be from an internship or a paid job.

-Cannot receive any form of credit from another organization (i.e. Greek chapter requirements, Circle K requirements)

Actives can receive 5 personal hours that count towards a field and for the 15 required hours.

Pledges can receive 4 personal hours that count towards a field and for the 12 required hours.

You can receive any amount of personal hours, but only one third (1/3) of the total needed each semester can count towards your requirement. Any over this amount become lifetime hours.

Lifetime Hours

Hours that are from any source.

The VP Membership will keep track of personal and APO hours and will count them all as lifetime hours. It is for your own record and personal count.

Fields

Some projects can count for more than one field, such as an American Red Cross blood drive, which can count for national or community hours. If you are in need of hours in a certain field, the VP Membership can see if any of your projects can cover this field.

Hour Submission

The VP Service usually provides a sign-in sheet for any project. This is given to the VP Membership for the records.

There will be a list of hours on the webpage for everyone in the chapter. Please keep track of your hours so no errors are made. Mistakes will be made, you need to email the VP Membership about them.

If you have hours that are not on a sheet, such a donating blood, humane society trips, personal hours, etc, please use the email submission feature on the APO website

The VP Membership will also collect personal hours at the end of the semester. Please keep track of all you have.

Committees

You must serve on at least one committee. The chair of each committee will be the authority on how much each member should participate.

Fellowship Events

All members are required to attend at least two fellowship events during the semester.

*For this semester the fellowship requirement was increased to 3 fellowship activities, of campus activities being worth 2 of those 3.  Qualifying fellowship events are up to the discretion of the Fellowship VP and the Exec Board.

What if I have a project idea?

Great! But you must check it with the VP Membership and VP Service before telling the chapter or offering hours. Make sure you know that actives can receive the hours and that they count for a field.

Excerpt from the By-Laws...how to stay active!

Section 3.5: Active Membership.

An Active Member shall:

A) be a student of Illinois Wesleyan University;

B) have completed a period of pledgeship including participation in the Initiation Ceremony;

C) have paid all dues and fees specified by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the members whom otherwise fill these requirements;

D) have fulfilled a service requirement--this requirement shall be fifteen (15) hours. In the event that an adequate amount of service hours are not offered, then the total required number of hours an active must fulfill will be two-thirds (2/3) of the total offered hours;

    1) All Brothers will begin with four (4) attendance hours. One half (1/2) hour will be deducted for every unexcused             absence. The first unexcused absence will cause no deduction of hours. Validity of all excused absences is left to the discretion of the VP Membership.

    2) The maximum number of personal service hours counted towards the 15 hour service requirement for an active member is 5, or 1/3 of the total number of hours.

E) have completed any additional requirements set at the beginning of each semester by two-thirds (2/3) vote of the members;

F) promote the spirit of fellowship during all activities and signify the spirit of brotherhood; **Added for Fall semester 2001: All members must attend at least two fellowship activities during the semester.**

G) be a committee member of at least one (1) committee.