Requirements for Membership:
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- Must be a declared Accounting major
- Have at least six (6) hours of accounting
- Have at least a 3.0 GPA in upper level accounting (all 3000 level or above)
- Have at least a 3.0 overall GPA in all classes attempted at the University of New Orleans /or 3.25 overall GPA during last thirty (30) hours attempted at the University of New Orleans
- Must be enrolled in at least six (6) credit hours
- Must not graduate the same semester pledging/initiating Beta Alpha Psi
- Pay the semester membership fee plus a one-time initiate fee
- Complete eight (8) hours of professional activities sponsored by Beta Alpha Psi
- Complete eight (8) hours of community service activities sponsored by Beta Alpha Psi
- The remaining four (4) hours can be either professional or communitty service hours but must not exceed 2.5 of each being non-Beta Alpha Psi sponsored events.
- Actively participate in at least one (1) committee
What is a professional activity?
Beta Alpha Psi sponsors at least five (5) professional meetings during the semester. These will typically be held on Thursdays and the times will always be from 4:30PM to 5:30PM. (See Calendar of Events attached.) Each meeting will count as one (1) Beta hour. In addition, office tours will count towards professional hours. You can also attend non-Beta sponsored professional meetings (see officers for more details). For each non-Beta hour of professional activity, you must have one corresponding Beta hour of professional activity.
What is a community service activity?
Each semester, Beta Alpha Psi sponsors several community service activities. Some past community service events include: Children’s Hospital Radiothon, Second Harvest Food Drive, Boo at the Zoo, MS Walk, Clean Up of City Park, New Orleans Festival of Neighborhoods, and Volunteer Income Tax Assistance. Participation in non-Beta sponsored community service activities is also encouraged. For example, there is Habitat for Humanity, Big Brother/Big Sister, and Junior Achievement, just to name a few. For each non-Beta hour of community service activity, you must have one corresponding Beta hour of community service activity. In addition, Accounting Tutoring will also count towards community service hours. For each Beta tutoring hour, you must have one corresponding off-campus Beta community service hour to match.
What is a committee?
We have several committees that help our organization run smoothly. Examples include the tutoring committee which provides accounting tutoring services to UNO students and the e-mail notification committee which sends out e-mails to members and initiates regarding events, scholarships, and/or work opportunities.
According to the Gamma Sigma Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi by-laws, Article IV, Section 4, Qualifications of Active Membership, all Gamma Sigma Chapter Activities will be measured by the hour, where a 50 minute meeting equals one hour towards a member’s quota. It is the sole responsibility of the member to keep track of their hours and accumulate enough hours to be considered active. New members will also have the responsibility of earning active status. Pledges/Initiates are required to earn their minimum of twenty (20) hours of participation before they are initiated. Initiated Members failing to maintain this level of activity shall be deemed inactive and shall have one semester to re-establish their active status. Failures to re-establish active status in the prescribed time of one semester will result in a recommendation to the National Council for expulsion.