This program is a successor to the AILG Accreditation Program, which began operation in 2007.
The Peer Visit Program organizes visiting teams of alumni volunteers who visit each of the FSILGs and meet with the alum and undergraduate leadership. They write a summary of their visit and the FSILG may edit the summary before it is forwarded to the AILG Peer Review Committee and the FSILG Office.
The program is focused on Peer Support, particularly support for the alum organizations of each FSILG. In advance of the visit, each FSILG fills out a short Peer Visit Questionnaire, which will help frame the discussion during the visit. Organizations are encouraged to set some goals and the Peer Visit Teams will offer assistance if they can. Assistance might come in the form of referrals to various alum peers, MIT, AILG, IRDF, or FCI resources, or it might come in the form of discussion of best practices that an organization can consider adopting.
The goal of this program is ultimately to visit each FSILG once every two years, to understand and share best practices and to identify challenges and goals. PVP is intended to be a support process, not an evaluation or accreditation process.
The Visiting Team is three alumni volunteers. From the host chapter, we request at least three alumni (house corporation/advisory board) and three undergraduate officers participate.
This is what is requested from volunteer reviewers:
- Visit the host chapter (or join by Zoom) at the scheduled time.
- Discuss any issues raised by the chapter, using the PVP Questionnaire as a guide
- Summarize the conversation with particular emphasis on describing best practices and suggested solutions to problems raised.
- Provide feedback to the PVP committee about the process so we can continue to improve it.
If you would like to volunteer as a reviewer, or advocate for your FSILG to participate earlier in the schedule, or simply want more information, please contact either of the Committee Co-Chairs Roy Russell and Mary Linton Peters: roy@alum.mit.edu and mlbt@alum.mit.edu. The committee email is ailg-pvp@mit.edu.
Other Resources:
See our collection of Best Practices. Please feel free to suggest changes to any of the collection of documents, they are mostly Google Docs which allow commenting by anyone.
If you would like to volunteer as a reviewer, or advocate for your FSILG to participate earlier in the schedule, or simply want more information, please contact either of the Committee Co-Chairs Roy Russell and Mary Linton Peters: roy@alum.mit.edu and mlbt@alum.mit.edu. The committee email is ailg-pvp@mit.edu.