Changes

In the beginning of the year, Delta Beta laid out goals for the year including working on leadership styles to work together in the most efficient way possible, working better with advisers and understanding how they can help individual officer responsibilities as the leaders of the chapter, and using the committees more in order to increase chapter member involvement via specific tasks and projects. The main theme of these goals was to increase chapter unity and individual involvement. A challenge Delta Beta faced in order to successfully achieve all these goals was chapter attendance. While attendance has improved, some members missed more chapters than was acceptable. In order to remedy this issue, the Standards Committee continued to meet with any women with incomplete attendance to sort out any challenges they were facing and express how going to chapter meetings is something special. In order to make chapter meetings more meaningful, the sisters continued recognizing one member each chapter who had accomplished something that week by surprising her with a small gift, such as flowers or chocolates. This has created a positive and supportive environment that the sisters look forward to being a part of weekly.

Duke added a new sorority to its campus—Gamma Phi Beta, creating a total of ten Panhellenic sororities. The addition of this new sorority provides a great opportunity for unaffiliated juniors and seniors, as well as freshmen and sophomores, to become part of the Greek community.