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Board of Fraternity Affairs: Bylaws

I. Preamble

The Board of Fraternity Affairs was established by the University of Illinois Senate Committee on Student Affairs on April 9, 1946, with its jurisdiction re-affirmed by the University of Illinois Senate Committee on Student Discipline, November 28, 1973. This Board shall have jurisdiction over all men's or coeducational social undergraduate fraternities operating on the Urbana-Champaign campus.

II. Purpose

The Board of Fraternity Affairs shall establish policy for all fraternity affairs and shall direct fraternity operation so that fraternities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus shall:

• be a part of the University of Illinois and under obligation to advance the intellectual, moral, physical, and social development of fraternity members;
• accept the responsibility for a positive contribution to the educational function of the University of Illinois;
• promote high academic standards of scholarship;
• demonstrate responsible discipline with justice;
• promote financial responsibility and stability.

III. Responsibility

• The Board of Fraternity Affairs shall be responsible directly to the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and shall function in accordance with the statues and general rules in the Code on Campus Affairs.
• The Board of Fraternity Affairs may delegate administrative and executive responsibility and carry out its function through the Black Greek Council, Interfraternity Council, and the United Greek Council and the Assistant Dean of Students with the approval of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.

IV. Membership

• The Board of Fraternity Affairs shall consist of the following appointed by the Chancellor upon the recommendation of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs:
  1. Six (6) alumni members, at least three of whom are faculty members. At least four of the six must be fraternity members. It is hoped that the alumni members represent the diversity of the three councils with oversight to mens or coeducational fraternities.
  2. Six (6) students representing the Black Greek, Interfraternity Council and the United Greek Council Composition of the students will include the BGC, IFC and United Greek Council presidents, and three chapter presidents chosen on a rotational basis. (The rotation will commence in 1995 with Acacia, Delta Phi, and Pi Lambda Phi fraternities.)
• The Assistant Dean of Students for Fraternity Affairs is an ex-officio member of the Board without a vote.
• The Dean of Students or his designated representative is an ex-officio member of the Board without a vote.
• Quorum for the Board of Fraternity Affairs shall consist of a majority of currently seated members.

V. Officers

• The Board of Fraternity Affairs shall select its chairman from among its alumni or faculty/staff fraternity members appointed by the Chancellor or his designate.
• An undergraduate student member of the Board shall be selected by the Board members as the vice-chairman.
• The Assistant Dean of Students (Fraternity and Sorority Affairs) shall serve as Secretary to the Board.

VI. Judicial Responsibilities

• The Senate Committee on Student Discipline, established by the Urbana-Champaign Senate, shall have original jurisdiction to hear and render decisions and has appointed the Subcommittee on Undergraduate Student Conduct to assume original jurisdiction, when deemed necessary, in instances involving undergraduate students.
• The Board of Fraternity Affairs has been designated by the Senate Committee on Student Discipline as the Board with original jurisdiction to hear and render decisions in all disciplinary cases involving group activities of the men's social undergraduate fraternities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, unless the Senate Committee on Student Discipline determines to exercise original jurisdiction.
• The Board of Fraternity Affairs shall report the action of such cases to the Senate Committee on Student Discipline through the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.
• Appeals from decisions of the Board of Fraternity Affairs will be referred to the Subcommittee on Undergraduate Student Conduct.
• Minority or dissenting reports of the Board of Fraternity Affairs shall accompany all reports made in an appeal to the Subcommittee on Undergraduate Student Conduct or to the Senate Committee on Student Discipline.

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