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As New
Student Outreach (NSO) winds down, it's important to reflect on
how well your chapter captured the attention and imagination of
incoming students, so you can better prepare for next year. In
your leadership team or NSO Committee, ask yourselves the
following questions:
Planning Ahead
- Were people praying for NSO during the spring and
summer months?
- Did I-V members gather before students arrived on
campus to make final preparations and encourage one another? If
so, rate on a scale from one to five how beneficial you found
that time.
- How well did NSO participants seem to understand
their jobs?
- Were logistical responsibilities -- such as reserving
rooms or printing flyers -- completed on time?
Making Contacts
- How many chapter members were involved in
making one-on-one contacts?
- How many chapter members
participated in NSO overall? Did the chapter as a whole know what
was going on?
- Did publicity materials reach new students in time?
- How many new students were contacted?
- Were your goals realistic,
given the available resources and people?
- List your NSO events and where
they were held. On a scale from one to five, rate how effective
each event was in attracting and building bonds with new
students -- as well as how conducive each meeting-place was to the
event at hand.
Following Up
- About what percentage of the new students with
whom you came into contact were followed up within 48 hours?
What methods of follow-up were most effective?
- What did you do
at your first few chapter meetings to create a
warm and welcoming atmosphere for new students? What, if
anything, went on during chapter meetings that might have made
new students feel like outsiders?
- What were your total expenses? How did you raise the money to
cover them? Is that fund raising strategy worth
repeating next year?
- In what two areas of planning
or executing NSO is your chapter strongest? Weakest?
- What steps do you need to take during the coming year to
strengthen your next NSO?
- At what point during this school
year will you begin planning next fall's NSO?
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