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The primary assignments of the committee will be to:
Review and recommend action on a petition for a chapter at the American University of Sharjah.
Review and recommend action on a petition for a chapter at the Texas A&M University at Qatar.
Engineering Honor Society at The American University of Sharjah
Texas Delta Qatar at Texas A&M University at Qatar
Petitions Committee General Information
Establishing a Tau Beta Pi Chapter website
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This committee will hold its first meeting at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 12, in the Valdosta room on the 2nd floor. Some District Directors will serve as advisors to this group. One will preside over the opening meeting and will ask the group to select the chair, who must be an appointed member of your committee and an official Convention voting delegate.
Preliminary petitions for new chapters of Tau Beta Pi were received from the local honor societies at the American University of Sharjah and Texas A&M Qatar. The petitioners were visited by inspection teams, and the petitions were approved by the Executive Council for presentation to the 2023 Convention.
Links to the complete inspection report, final petition, and school/college websites are included to the left. Any addendums to the final petitions shall be found at the end of the petitions. AUS is being represented by a faculty advisor, and Texas A&M Qatar has two student representatives and a faculty advisor. The official representatives of the petitioning societies have been instructed to attend your initial committee meeting on Thursday morning.
The committee should first discuss among themselves the procedures they plan to follow in interviewing the petitioner's representatives. Next, they should request the petitioner to attend the meeting, make short presentations, discuss their qualifications, and answer questions that may not be fully explained in the petition and college catalog. The committee should review any and all conditions stated in the report of inspection.
The Convention Chair will call for the report of your committee at the beginning of the Second Business Meeting on Friday afternoon. The committee chair should make a few introductory remarks describing the work that the committee has done. This report will not describe the details of petitioning, but it will indicate where those details appear in the Constitution and Bylaws. The committee will then make individual recommendations to the Convention during the Second Business Meeting with respect to approval of the petition. The committee's motion with regard to the establishment of a new chapter at an institution opens the Convention to discussion. The committee is responsible for examining and discussing the details of the petition and identifying the most important information so the Convention can make a wise decision. The committee chair should request that the Convention Chair recognize a representative from each petitioning school to make a short presentation to Convention PRIOR to making the motion to approve the petition.
Tau Beta Pi's Constitution requires that a petition be granted by at least a three-fourths favorable vote of the Convention. The results will be immediately reported to the Convention. If the Convention acts to grant a petition, Executive Director Gomulinski will meet with the representatives on Friday evening to discuss the details of membership elections, fees, and chapter installation arrangements.
Additional information, guidelines, and procedures are available on the website. A delegate at the 1996 Convention recommended that this committee ensure petitioners understand the family educational rights and privacy act or include a statement of awareness in their petition.
Please provide electronic copies of all files, motions, reports, and proposals to the Convention Chair and Executive Director via email (tbp.convbus@tbp.org) prior to the Business Meeting when a report will be presented.
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