Best Practices Topics for 2005-2006
Professional/Service Goal: Engage in a successful project to increase the financial literacy of high school and/or college students in your community.
Help getting started: Find resource materials and ideas on the AICPA’s 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy website (www.aicpa.org/financialliteracy) and Junior Achievement’s website (www.ja.org). Many financial institutions also offer materials and ideas related to financial planning for students – for example, see Citibank’s Student Planning Center.
Chapter
Operations
Goal: Design and successfully implement a plan to either: (1) increase your
chapter membership among underrepresented students, or (2) broaden the range
of technical programs offered by your chapter.Help getting started: For (1):
Ask your faculty advisor to gather data on the number of students who meet your
chapter’s eligibility requirements broken down by various categories such as
class year, major, part-time vs. full-time, or ethnicity. Compare this data
to your current membership distribution to discover areas for potential gains.
For (2): Review recent regional and annual meeting programs for ideas on broadening
the range of technical program topics; analyze your chapter’s programs for the
past few years.
Strategic
Planning
Goal: Help improve our organization by suggesting ways Beta Alpha Psi can improve
the chapter awards program. Explain the reasons why you believe your suggested
changes would help achieve the organization’s goals.
Help getting started: See the BAP website for the current Program of Chapter Activities and chapter awards information. See the most recent annual report for a listing of chapter awards.
Changes to Best Practices at the 2006 Regional Meetings
and the 2006 Annual Meeting listed below.
With the goal of improving the Beta Alpha Psi Best Practices program that is sponsored at the regional and annual meetings by Deloitte, the Beta Alpha Psi Board of Directors approved several modifications at its August meeting:
REGIONAL MEETINGS
(1) Abstract:
Abstracts of all best practices presentations must be submitted to the Host chapter of the Regional Meeting according to the timetable and procedures established by the Host chapter. These abstract will be reviewed by a committee established by the Host chapter and Regional Director and chapters will be notified if their proposal (abstract) has been accepted.
Meeting the submission guidelines and the quality of the abstract are to be considered by the judges in evaluating the Best Practices competition.
(2) Number of categories in which a chapter can compete:
Only one presentation per topic per chapter is permitted at the Regional Meeting (i.e., the maximum number of presentations any chapter can give is limited to three, one in each topic.).
(3) Number of winners:
There will be only ONE winner in each category per region. Even when the competition is very keen there will be only one winner.
(4) Other:
There also will be an emphasis on enforcing the following existing best practice guidelines:
The presentation should adhere to the allocated time of 10 minutes.
The presentation should be pre-loaded on the computer prior to actual presentation.
The Best Practice project presentations should, at a minimum, be something the chapter is doing in the current year (not just an idea, but something that is actually being done or has already been done). For 2006, there is an exception for one of the topics which is strategic.
The chapter is responsible for identifying the appropriate category placement of their presentation at the time the abstract is submitted.
ANNUAL MEETING
Show case winners of best practices by having the winning chapters make their presentations to all in attendance at the Annual Meeting. The program for the 2006 Annual Meeting will be set up so that the Best Practices winners give their presentation to everyone attending.
For
information on judging etc. visit the BAP website at the Best
Practices link.
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