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” “ The year 2008-09 saw an approximate 4% decline in membership. Some chapters registering late may account for part of this. ” “ We have been inducting roughly the same amount of members for the past three years. ” “ Stable, sight increase from last year ” “ Annual membership has remained relatively steady for the last five years. ” “ Steady ” “ New memberships in Alpha Kappa Delta have remained general constant over the past few years. During the past year we have had a slight increase in the number of new chapters and we consider this a positive trend. ” “ Inductions are down. ” “ an increase of 4.9% in a year of a declining economy; These are the Millennial Generation students and they love recognition! ” “ membership has held steady ” “ Membership was up this year. ” “ Inducting more women than men Chapters increasingly using online appliations and internet communications ” “ 2008-09 academic year set a record for number of initiates. ” “ During the last fiscal year, Beta Kappa Chi Honor Society experienced an approximate 9% decrease in enrollment possibly due to changes in the economy and competition with other honor societies. This decline was apparent as well by the decreased number of medallions and subscriptions sold. At the national meeting, BKX Advisors and Sponsors decided to approach the increase in membership numbers more agressively for the upcoming year. Suggestions included partnering initiation ceremonies with other organizations that had similar objectives as well as soliciting university wide mailing lists of qualified students from the registrar's office. ” “ We continue to grow in new chapters, reactivation of inactive chapters, sustain record levels in renewal and new memberships in the Society. ” “ Slight decrease over past years. ” “ We continue to have strong growth annually. ” “ generally flat, though we may end up down this year ” “ Membership declined. ” “ slight decrease ” “ Growing at around a 1-2 % rate. ” “ Membership across all chapters has tended to be static. We have had no great loss of numbers, but no dramatic gains either. We have added onr new chapters this year which has helped, but we closed one other chapter at the same time. ” “ Steady rate of collegiate members with slight decrease in refusal rate Net increase 4% Chapters are selecting slightly greater numbers members within the selection criteria. Slightly more "gift" memberships ” “ * With marketing remaining one of the top majors in the country, our applicant pool has grown * We're also seeing more inductees in masters and Ph.D. programs * Our current members are taking greater advantage of the benefits offered to them * Our current members take great pride in their affiliation by purchasing more than one item of regalia. Instead of just an honor cord or stole, they seem to purchase both. ” “ holding steady ” “ The trend is increasing slightly. This matches the general trend of increasing student enrollment in chemical engineering that we see nationally. ” “ Flat. The number of chapters has not increased significantly in many years, and the total number of new members inducted per year has been flat. ” “ Cyclical highs and lows, but with overall slow, steady increase. ” “ Increased growth ” “ Membership is declining over the past decade. ” “ During the 2009-2009 school year, we had an increase of about 5% over the preceding year. This reversed a several year decline from our peak year of 2004-2005 and was our fourth best year. However, membership has held fairly steady over the past three years. ” “ Decrease from previous year ” “ Membership trends are consistent in that inductions are held mostly during the months of March through June inducting students before they graduate from college. There are some inductions that take place in the fall of the year, but most are done in the spring. There is an increase of students wanting to be a member of Pi Alpha Alpha. Because of the interest of students, we have had several of our member institutions that did not have a Pi Alpha Alpha chapter on their campus to establish one. ” “ There were fewer initiations last year, undoubtedly owing to low morale in colleges and universities, where students and academic programs are feeling financially pressed. We did have a very healthy response to our call for applications for our three summer scholarships in France - 18 applications. This is an opportunity that we sponsor and almost entirely fund, but the keen interest demonstrated by the number of applications is heartening. We saw, too, a steep rise in the amount of honor cords purchased last year - ca. 800, a sign that students value their associations with Pi Delta Phi. ” “ Membership trends are declining as business education programs are closed at universities around the United States. ” “ Significant falloff in last academic year (2008-09). We will watch closely throughout this one. ” “ Our membership enrollment continues to fluctuate in these economically turbulent times. ” “ Remaining flat. ” “ leveling off after several years of significant growth ” “ Increase of 13% over last academic year's total inductees. ” “ We do not see any increase in our annual membership, it should stay around 325 - 350 new members per year. ” “ Increased some ” “ Currently stable after a trough We have seen a few chapters provide up to five years of late membership materials, so there has been an added boost to our Grand Total membership (estimated). ” “ We continue to grow each year both in chapters and membership. ” “ Overall active membership remains steady, retention rates have declined slightly ” “ Trend of alumni members requesting active status continues; digitization of membership records has been completed so we can henceforth track more accurately. ” “ Slight increase from 2008. ” |
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