History of Loyola Marymount University's chapter Theta Epsilon
The idea of colonating DEI on the LMU campus originated during a conference attended by a CDS staff member in Summer 2006. LMU thought it would be a great way to promote career services among its honor students and establish a community of peers dedicated to actively participating and supporting one another in their career planning. The organization and implementation of this organization started in the Fall of 2006 by CDS staff and career counseling paraprofessional student employees. By the Spring of 2007, the first Executive Board members were selected, and a membership drive was initiated. The first president of DEI, Theta Epsilon, was Taylor Hahn, Class of 2009. Over 300 members were recruited in this first membership drive, and the first initiation dinner was held in September 2007.
Delta Epsilon Iota History
The Society was founded in 1994 by Andrew J. Bond, Associate Director of the University of Georgia Career Center, and Richard M. Drye, a student at the University of Georgia. The idea came together as a reaction to what Richard and Andrew saw as an explosion in “creative” recruiting tactics by employers. Time and time again, the top achievers were being recruited right out of the classroom without ever setting foot in the Career Center. Rich excelled academically at the University and was recruited Deloitte & Touche through some of these "creative" tactics. He returned to the University of Georgia to recruit other top students and during this process met Andrew and became acquainted with the University of Georgia Career Center. Despite the many great services offered by the Career Center, the top students seemed to have limited interaction. Andrew and Rich decided to team up to start an organization that would solve this problem.
The concept was simple. Let’s build a student organization that will attract the top students on campus and conduct the organization’s activities and programs around career development issues. Once these students are introduced to the career center staff and the importance of intentional career planning, they could spread the message to the other students at the University. In effect, the career center could help train student ambassadors while educating the organizational membership "beyond the classroom."
The organization was a success from day one with 117 new members from the first membership drive. The average member GPA was a 3.57 and they had completed an average of 62.3 credit hours. The students represented the vast majority of degree programs offered and were equally spread out among sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Quickly, the word around campus spread, and within 3 years, the career center was now actively involved in the second largest student organization on campus.
In 1999, The Career Center at the University of Michigan ( Ann Arbor ) wanted to start the organization on their campus and helped develop the “chapter” model which is still in use today. Once the model was perfected, the organization could quickly and easily be replicated at colleges and universities around the country. (Taken from the National DEI website, for more information go to www.deltaepsiloniota.org) |
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