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Mission
We are a social organization that exists for the betterment of our members. We strive to not only to be better but to also improve the space within which we all exist as a result. Thus, our mission relies very heavily upon the improvement of our members.
As an International Fraternity, we are committed to the cultivation of general literature and social culture, the advancement and encouragement of intellectual excellence, the promotion of honorable friendship and useful citizenship, the development of a spirit of tolerance and respect for the rights and views of others, the maintenance of gentlemanly dignity, self respect, and morality in all circumstances, and the union of stout hearts and kindred interests, to secure to merit its due reward. As a chapter, we also place extreme importance on all of our members having integrity, a sense of adventure, perseverance, a sense of humor, and being a team player. In short, we strive every day to be gentlemen, scholars, and jolly good fellows.
Membership Benefits
Members of Delta Kappa Epsilon enjoy numerous networking, employment, social, leadership, service, and educational benefits that become inherent with one of the school's first Fraternal chapters.
We are a chapter that has very close ties with our expansive alumni network, boasting monthly luncheons and close mentorship relations. Our extremely active alumni are quite literally a text away, offering help with all matters. We even have a mentorship program where each of our EBoard members is paired with an Alumni to ensure our brothers are adequately supported to do their jobs. Our headquarters hosts a networking service, very similar to Linked In, for people to be able to connect between chapters.
With close connections to alumni, brothers from other chapters, and a headquarters, numerous lucrative opportunities follow closely behind. It is quite common to see brothers sharing job offers before they go public, to facilitate other professional connections, or refer clientele. Our headquarters also offers paid positions out of college and summer positions to our members, and unpaid leadership positions throughout the year. In both cases, positions are for all levels, from entry-level to careers.
As a social organization, we have a serious emphasis on social events, including outside of your college experience. In college, our members frequent open and closed social events, and have developed a rich social bond between ourselves. There are also social events the Alumni organize and enjoy, such as an annual Meliora Weekend / Football Homecoming Weekend meet-up, monthly luncheons, and the Tahou Cup. Lastly, our headquarters organize many social events, such at our 175th anniversary in June of 2019.
Members enjoy an increased political capacity to secure leaderships in organizations external to Greek Life, and also access to leadership roles within the organization. Among our members are presidents and coaches of sports teams, leaders of on-campus clubs, workshop leaders, and teaching assistants. The Board of Directors to our International Organization has even established an Undergraduate Advisory Board to receive feedback from undergraduates on important issues for our organization, and we are proud to have one of our members as a core member on that board, an honor that will hopefully be passed down to another Rochester Deke. We offer our members increased responsibility and access to help them make meaningful change.
Our members work to make the world around us a better place and are excitingly looking forward to our first major philanthropy event with our new service partner Willow Domestic Violence Center in October. Recently, we have been working with the Title IX office to lend a hand, and have also hosted a haunted house to benefit Willow. We are also known for our annual "20 Push-Ups for 20 Veterans" events on Veterans Day to benefit USO. Lastly, we are proud to be a frequent face at other philanthropy events for a wide variety of organizations and causes. We do our best to instill a sense of service into our members.
Another thing that we try to emphasize in our members is a love for learning. We look at this emphasis in many ways: curricular, fraternal, and applicable learning. We have recently constructed an academic success plan, to concretely offer additional services to our brothers to improve our over-all GPA, and have seen success in its first semester of implementation. We are also developing a continued education system to teach the current brothers things we are discovering about our fraternity, to increase their knowledge of our organization past what was possible during their new member process. Lastly, our members are also learning about bureaucracy, programming, collaboration, finances, negotiation, and numerous other real-world skills that aren't taught in most curriculums through their positions within the fraternity.
There are also a few other miscellaneous perks that are worth mentioning. Delta Kappa Epsilon has an organization-wide discount on Geico Insurance, and graduates are also able to have a membership to the Deke Club which is hosted inside the Yale Club in NYC.
