Moderator, Dr. Robert Massa: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to our second virtual town hall meeting, sponsored by the Implementation and Assessment Group on Greek Life, or IAGGL, as we have affectionately called it here at Lafayette. Thank you all for joining us. My name is Bob Massa. I am the vice president for communications at the College. And I’m pleased to host this event today. With me is Dr. Celestino Limas, who is the vice president for campus life and senior diversity officer. Also, with us today is a member of the IAGGL group, Dean Erica D’agostino. Erica is the dean of academic advising, member of the Class of ’95, and was also a sorority member here on campus. We will be joined shortly also by Stewart Umberger, who is the director of fraternity and sorority life, and we’re hopeful to have a student or two join us as well. They’re not here at this point. But let me turn it over to Dr. Limas to begin the process. Let me also say to you, actually, two things, if you will, before we begin. Continue reading
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Moderator, Dr. Robert Massa: Welcome to our first virtual town hall meeting to update alumni and others on the progress made by the Implementation and Assessment Group on Greek Life. My name is Bob Massa, and I have the privilege of serving as vice president for communications at Lafayette, a position I have held for the last three years, but the most proud affiliation that I have is as the parent of a graduate in the class of ’08 who had an extraordinary experience here, which led me to come to Lafayette. With us today is Dr. Celestino Limas, who is the vice president for campus life and senior diversity officer. He’s also the chair of what we affectionately call the IAGGL group here on campus and there are several members of the group with us as well. And I will ask them to introduce themselves in just a few seconds. The format for today: We’ll begin with a presentation and Dr. Limas will lead that presentation. He will update all of you for approximately 30 minutes. He will also, at times, ask members of the group to give their impressions of the progress made thus far by the Implementation and Assessment Group on Greek Life. After that, approximately 30 minutes or so into the town hall meeting we will field your questions. You can ask those questions right on the website as you will see in front of you. We will do our best, our very best to answer all of the questions; we can’t guarantee that we will get to all of them. We had several questions submitted earlier from alumni and friends who could not join us today. I will remind all of you that this is being recorded and within several hours after the presentation today we should have a link on this, on the IAGGL website, for you and for others, for those who are not here, for your friends if you want to tell them to be able to listen to the entire presentation. We also plan to send an email out today shortly after the presentation to all alumni notifying them that they can listen in on the virtual town hall meeting by going to the website. So now without delaying any longer let me just ask members of the group who are here to introduce themselves and I’ll begin with Dr. Childs on my left. Continue reading