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We had a sisterhood event where we had a virtual trivia night with Kappa history facts and facts about the Delta Upsilon chapter. We also held Initiation on Founders Day!
==Highlights of 2021==
This past year our chapter attended a virtual convention, a handful of our chapter council attended including our President, DEI chair and other members. They came back with great new knowledge and ideas for the chapter. We did our cutting of the ivy ceremonies for our seniors in May and other ritual events in the fall including new member pinning, inspiration period, initiation and others. In the spring we did our annual crawfish boil and next week is our Biscuits for Books fundraiser. The profits of these events go to the Fraternity's philanthropy for mental health and our local philanthropy, Books for Keeps. Our chapter goals for the year have mostly been focused around continuing to keep a strong sisterhood while using safe protocols due to the pandemic.
'''Philanthropy'''
Our local organization that we support is called Biscuits for Books. They help underprivileged children stay up to date with their reading levels. They donate their time, books and other resources to help young students develop and maintain their reading skills. We support them because we truly believe that they do great work and we have always supported reading development through Kappa‘s Reading Is Fundamental mission.
Our Kappa Krawfish Boil and Biscuits for Books fundraisers are fully in support of our philanthropy charities. We have split our funds this part year with a percentage to our local charity but a large amount of our profits going towards the Fraternity's mental health mission.
'''Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion'''
During our previous election cycle (the one that I was elected in) we added a DEI chairman. Her name is Sophia and she has done a great job. As a chapter we have brought DEI speakers into chapters, done modules to learn more about being inclusive. We also did training during recruitment to acknowledge any questions about how our chapter feels about DEI. I feel that in only a short year we have done a lot to be more inclusive even though this is a topic we believe everyone can always work on improving.
'''Operating in a Pandemic'''
Last semester especially we did almost everything virtually. I lived in our house last year and even living in a community style living we were as a chapter always very Covid conscious. Last semester we did mostly virtual chapter, even some virtual chapters this semester. We never require in person events if individuals are uncomfortable. We followed national and University of Georgia specific guidelines during our recruitment period with inclusion of smaller groups, masks and other protocols. For our initiation I conducted multiple ceremonies so that all participants could socially distance.
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