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Complete Report - Task Force on Campus Culture

Members on the Task Force on Campus Culture

Trustees
Patricia K. Applegate '74
William H. Browne '67
*Charles G. Carey '76
Christopher Clifford '67
John A. Golden '66
Mark H. Hayes '98
Robert W. Jones '72
Charles Karelis
Bruce Morser '76
*Karin B. Mueller '94
Jane L. Pinchin
Gergory A. Threatte '69
Ralph F. Verni '64 (chair)

*Resigned for Personal Reasons before completion

Students:
Virginia Crowe '02
Christian B. Johnson '02
Leanne Teager '03
Holly Teliska '02

Faculty:
Timothy A. Byrnes
Constance D. Harsh
Margeret Maurer
Bruce W. Selleck '71

Staff:
Michael A. Cappeto
James E. Leach
Janet A. Little

Staff to the Task Force:
James Terhune
Kim Waldron '81

Highlights from the Task Force on Campus Culture

The Task Force recommends:

  • that the University maintain consistent oversight and standards of governance of all residential units, including Greek-letter houses. Most members of the Task Force recommend that Colgate acquire all Greek-letter residential units as soon as feasible to facilitate their efficient operation and ensure standards of safety, amenities and appearance.
  • that the university not permit the establishment of any more new Greek-letter organizations.
  • promotion, outside the Greek-letter system, of opportunities for students to organize social functions within their residential units.
  • moving sophomore rush from September to February to give sophomores more time to bond with each other as well as to establish themselves at Colgate before having to select the major commitment of joining a Greek-letter organization for the rest of their Colgate experience.
  • that pledging, currently referred to as “new member education,” be banned.
  • that upper-class residential houses, including Greek-letter organizations, incorporate the elements of the Residential Adviser system.
  • that seniors be required to live in their respective Greek-letter houses, space permitting.
  • reaffirmation of the recommendation of the 1990 Special Committee on Residential Life (SCRL) that Colgate provide sufficient housing so that no more than 250 students would reside off campus.

In addition to the above recommendations, the following were recommended by many members of the Task Force:

  • half of the members of the Task Force recommend that membership in Greek-letter organizations and residence in houses be a matter of election by students through the campus residential life system, not selection by existing members.
  • a majority of the members of the Task Force recommend that membership in Greek-letter organization that maintain residential houses be coeducational.

 

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