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		<title>Integrating Information Technology (IT) in Your Greek Organization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Integration of Information Technology can prove to be an irritating and time consuming task in any organization. However, when implemented properly, IT can have profound effects on the efficiency of an organization as well as their bottom line.  After talking with many National Fraternities, I have found the most common IT tools that are being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achieveapp.com/blog/integrating-information-technology-with-the-fraternal-organization/</link>
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		<title>Online Reporting Platforms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More and more Greek organizations are making the plunge from paper to electronic.  The largest incentive for a fraternity to engage in the online platform is that it cut costs while streamlining processes.  People always say you need to be where your customers are, and in the case of fraternities, their &#8220;customers&#8221; are their members. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achieveapp.com/blog/online-reporting-platforms/</link>
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		<title>Questioning the Greek System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the UNC website, the first IFC fraternity founded on UNC&#8217;s campus was in 1851.  Since then the Greek system has expanded to 55 organizations, with 2900 undergrad students and over 70,000 hours of community service.  While it&#8217;s obvious they are proud of their Greek system, why have they had 4 Greek Reviews since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achieveapp.com/blog/unc-chapel-hill/</link>
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		<title>Hazing and the University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What price would a University put on being able to prevent fraternity hazing instances from happening?  Universities employ Greek staff with the sole intent to reduce fraternity occurences which would put the University&#8217;s image in jeopardy.  Often times however, the staff working with the Greek system has a high turnover rate and have little control [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achieveapp.com/blog/hazing-and-the-university/</link>
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		<title>Are alcohol-related deaths higher for Greek members?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Utah State University. Last August the lawsuit which was held against USU was reviewed and the terrible events from the previous year were relived.  A grippingly sad story which tells the tale of a not so unfamiliar event.  This was the case for the young 18 yr old freshman at USU, Michael Starks.  What began as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achieveapp.com/blog/hazing-at-utah-state/</link>
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		<title>Fraternities: Social or Educational?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The perception of fraternities has been constantly transforming since the beginning of their establishment.   Fraternities began as a means to further mankind and serve others. While this still holds true at the core of their foundation, many fraternities have taken advantage of the social atmosphere that accompanies &#8220;brotherhood&#8221;.   It is no wonder that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achieveapp.com/blog/fraternities-social-or-educational/</link>
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		<title>Accreditation: What&#8217;s the point?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the purpose of standards in any organization or industry?  I often think about the validity of enforcing standards in certain industries.  For some, such as in the oil industry, healthcare, the environment that are invested heavily in the public interest, it is imperative that guidelines exist.  On the other hand, there are other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achieveapp.com/blog/accreditation-whats-the-point/</link>
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		<title>The information from our chapters has been collected, now what?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those who work at the National level collect thousands of undergraduate members information.  I am certain that the task is daunting for a variety of reasons, especially if you are trying to read chicken scratch written by 18-22 year olds.  I spoke with a National staff member at another fraternity today about what they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achieveapp.com/blog/delts/</link>
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		<title>The Role of the Advisor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reporting process, accreditation, assessment; any way you put it, every Greek organization has some system in place that allows the National to determine &#8220;checks and balances&#8221; among their chapters. If the National weren’t monitoring the operations in their chapters, there would be almost no guidelines for a chapter to host a philanthropy or pay their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achieveapp.com/blog/accreditation-in-the-eyes-of-advisors/</link>
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		<title>Defining Accreditation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spoke with a consultant at a fraternity recently and  was surprised by the amount of work that this guy has put into Triangle’s system to make it more efficient.  He has created a system that allows him, as a consultant, to travel from chapter to chapter and record to a T how well that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.achieveapp.com/blog/triangle/</link>
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