Should chapter charters expire?

It's no secret that SigEp is becoming more and more like a business. We are goal driven and we are focused on results. None of this is a bad thing. It's also not a business secret that if you cut out the bottom 10 percent, the averages for the whole will look much better. Some leaders among the fraternity have been discussing the idea of having existing chapters recharter as one way to possibily eliminate the bottom 10 percent.

Think about how much better the average GPA for SigEp nationally would be if the bottom 10 percent of the chapters weren't included. Or, think about how much our manpower average nationally would be if the bottom 10 percent of the chapters were not included. Naturally, these decisions get harder to make when it deals with people that you know. Not many of our chapter leaders would be able to tell the bottom 10 percent of their chapter to hit the road. But I know there are some 'leaders' in the fraternity that would be happy to tell the bottom 10 percent of the chapters to hit the road.

But, perhaps there is a compromise to this in the air. It is something that I have heard talked about recently at the Ruck Leadership Institute. I have even heard this idea may find its way in some form of legislation at Conclave. The proposal is to have charters that would expire and be regranted upon a review by headquarter's staff. From what I have heard, chapters would have their charter extended if they met the standards that are required of a SigEp colony chapter. Which raises the question, shouldn't we hold every one of our chapters to the same standard that we require our colony chapters to have in order to get a charter?

Some of these requirements are:

1.) Have a chapter GPA above the all campus average and above a 2.8
2.) Chapters must have a minimum of 40 members and be in the top quartile on campus.
3.) Implement the Balanced Man Scholarship.
4.) Have chapter programming that relates to the ideas of Sound Mind and SoundBody.
5.) Have at least $500 in the Educational Foundation and $500 in chapter savings.

The thought process here is that chapters would be forced to meet the standards or else they would lose their charter. Hopefully this would make all of our chapters stay goal oriented and realize that success does matter. There was debate as to whether charters would come under review on a three, five, or ten year basis.

Just to say it again: none of this is happening right now. None of it is scheduled to happen either. It's just an idea that seems to be coming up more frequently in discussion groups. I'm not making a personal opinion on this just yet. What do the readers think?