The Holland Report in Blog Format

Since 2005, the Holland Report has been your source for Recruitment News and Notes from the Theta Chi International Headquarters. During this time, the newsletter has seen many changes, going from being released once or twice a semester to being released once a week during the peak recruitment season. Now is the time for one more change.

The Holland Report has moved to a blog format. There are a few reasons for this change:

1) The Holland Report becomes more accessible. In the past, we had to have your email address to send you the Holland Report.With our new blog format, the Holland Report is available for all members of Theta Chi to see at their convenience. Also, you can send Prospective New Members to our blog so that they can see just how well Theta Chi is doing.

2) You can view old Holland Report articles. People are always asking for articles that have to do with recruitment. Now you have an online resource to be able to use! There are some great articles in the blog that has to do with accountability, the importance of recruitment, and why men join Theta Chi. Make sure to look through the different categories.

3) More up to date changes. Your chapter just bidded 25 men but the Holland Report doesn't come out for another 5 days; how will Theta Chi Nation know how great your chapter is?! Now with the Holland Report blog, we will be updating the content throughout the week, which means that we will have more up to date figures for all of our chapters during the semester. This also lets us upload more recruitment videos, rush t-shirt designs, and great links that you, a Brother of Theta Chi, should be aware of. You are also able to sign up for an email alert so that you know when new articles are posted.

Now that you're caught up on the Holland Report Blog, go check it out. It's located at: http://thehollandreport.wordpress.com/

Also, when reading an article, leave a comment! Let us know if you like it, hate it, think we need to expand upon it, or should follow up with another article like it soon. The Holland Report Blog is for you; help us make it better.

You are what makes this Fraternity great gentlemen. Keep it up!

Fraternally,

Phillip Burns
Senior Expansion Coordinator

Deranian Presidents Conference - Theta Chi Marketplace

This years Deranian Presidents Conference will feature the Theta Chi Marketplace where participants will be able to browse around with several different companies and organizations. The following companies and organizations will be in attendance:

Campus Classics - Campus Classics has always been in attendance at this conference. They will be selling Theta Chi memorabilia and merchandise.

Easy Dues & Omega Financial - These companies offer both similar and different services to chapters in the area of dues collection.

Herff Jones - Herff Jones offers a unique variety of jewelery products such as class rings, bracelets and charms for significant others, as well as graduation related items and other accessory items.

John Hanes - John Hanes, one of the keynote speakers for the event will be selling his book, Change Focused Leadership.

Theta Chi IHQ - IHQ will be selling Theta Chi history books and coffee mugs pricing at $15 and $10 respectively.

HazingPrevention.Org - Brother Chad Ellsworth was just elected President of HazingPrevention.Org. Brother Ellsworth sent some promotional materials that will be given away at the marketplace.


The Theta Chi Marketplace will be open on Friday January 8, 2010 from 5 - 7 PM and Saturday January 9, 2010 from 12:15 - 1:20 PM. The marketplace will be located on the second floor of the lobby right up the stairs outside of all the breakout rooms.

Deranian Presidents Conference - Keynote Speakers

For the first time ever Theta Chi Fraternity's Deranian Presidents Conference will feature keynote speakers! There will be three keynote speakers at this years conference, Richard Smith, John Hanes, and Mel George. Below are each of their respective biographies. Theta Chi is very excited for each of these men to speak to our brothers. We hope this gives you a glimpse of what to expect from these outstanding men.

Richard W. Smith - Friday January 8, 2010 7:25 PM

Richard W. Smith is a depth-educator and organizational development specialist. Richard graduated from the University of Notre Dame and has a graduate degree in Family Therapy from Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana. For the past 40 years he has been helping individuals, teams, and organizations develop more fully. He has facilitated more than 1000 searching conversations, seminars, workshops and learning sessions and has spent more than 45,000 hours working with for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. His work includes, but is not limited to: Searching Conversations, Leadership Development & Renewal (Executives, Managers, and Supervisors), Manager/ Executive Coaching, Building High Performing Teams, Board Development, Renewals for Professionals (Educators, Nurses, Clergy, Physicians) & Organization Development/Re-Structuring. In 1975, Richard was introduced to Robert K. Greenleaf’s concepts of the Servant as Leader and he has been studying, applying and living these concepts ever since. During the past 33 years he has helped a number of organizations adopt the servant-as-leader concepts.

The following is a short list of organizations that Richard has worked with regarding servant-leadership (see a more complete list of higher education institutions below):

The Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership, Indianapolis, Indiana
Starbucks Coffee Company, Seattle, Washington
The Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, North Carolina.
United States Air Force, Senior Officer Leadership Development, Wright-Patterson AFB.
KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines), Hilversum, The Netherlands
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan.
Eli Lilly and Company, London, England & Indianapolis, Indiana.
Bank One, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Leadership Institute, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Baylor Medical School, Houston, Texas.
The American Association for Higher Education, Washington, D.C.
The Foundation for Integrative Leadership, Annapolis, Maryland.
Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia
Center for Leadership & Executive Development, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio.

Program/Course Development * Developed and delivered a series of lectures in servant-leadership for Oxford University, Oxford, England

Some of the Higher Education Institutions that have utilized Richard’s skills to help them explore the concepts of Servant-Leadership include, but are not limited to MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana Virginia Polytechnical University, Blacksburg, Virginia University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida De Paul University, Chicago, Illinois



John W. Hanes - Saturday January 9, 2010 9:00 AM
Beta Omicron/University of Cincinnati ‘76

John W. Hanes, Ed.D has always had a missionary zeal to help leaders and organizations improve their effectiveness. He is one of the nation’s most dynamic facilitators, known for his fast paced, hard hitting delivery. John is a sought after consultant to executive groups and is noted for his "real world" application of concepts. Since 1986 he has been president of Effectiveness Dimensions International, a southern California based leadership development and consulting firm.

John has personally trained over 24,000 managers from over 800 organizations in his nationally acclaimed 3 day seminar, Team Top Gun. He has conducted over 1,500 executive candidate assessments and is the author of 11 psychological instruments and 7 training simulations.

Prior to starting Effectiveness Dimensions, John held leadership positions at Caterpillar and Key Bank and was a Visiting Senior Scientist with the world renowned Battelle Memorial Institute and The Center for Creative Leadership.

John lives and works in both Lake Arrowhead and Irvine, California. He holds a doctorate in leadership from The University of San Diego along with bachelors and masters degrees in management. His diverse client list includes Fortune 100 corporations, federal, state and local governments, prestigious "think tanks", internet companies, sports teams and the military.
John is passionate about most major sports and enjoys an active year round sport oriented lifestyle.

John was the chapter president for two consecutive years at Beta Omicron Chapter. After graduation, he served as a Field Representative for the International Fraternity from 1976 -1977.



Melvin D. George
Delta Iota/Northwestern University

Melvin D. George is President Emeritus of the University of Missouri, President Emeritus of St. Olaf College, and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia. He was an undergraduate at Northwestern University, where he became a member of Theta Chi (Delta Iota Chapter) in 1953 and received a BA in Mathematics in 1956. After receiving a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1959, George joined the faculty of the University of Missouri in 1960. He became Associate Dean of the Graduate School in 1967, then moved to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1970 as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He returned to the University of Missouri as systemwide Vice President for Academic Affairs in 1975, serving as Interim President in 1984 before moving to St. Olaf College in Minnesota as President in 1985. Following his retirement from St. Olaf, George returned to Missouri in 1996 and then served a second time as Interim President of the University of Missouri system, retiring again in 1997. Over the years, he has been active in efforts to improve mathematics and science education, serving on many committees and panels for the national Science Foundation and for the National Research Council. He was the author of a major 1996 report on science education for the National Science Foundation, entitled “Shaping the Future.” Since retiring, he has several times taught courses in the Honors College of the University of Missouri-Columbia, and he currently participates in an NSF-funded project based at the University of Wisconsin relating undergraduate science education and sustainability issues. He is married, with 2 daughters and one granddaughter. He loves the outdoors, has been down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in wooden dories 3 times, and he recently completed a quest to see all 17 species of penguins in the wild. The installation of the Iota Mu Chapter of Theta Chi at Missouri was a 2009 highlight for him.