Colby ;) -hey, this is a wishlist, right?

I would love to see KD back at the University of Oklahoma. I was so sad when I heard the chapter had closed.

I'll go work for them in Student Affairs so I can restart their Greek life, there shouldn't be any problem doing that:p

My wishlist:
SMU
Oklahoma
Purdue
Ohio State
Maine
UConn
Colorado
Oregon
Utah
Lawrence University (WI)-I think it's our only closed single-letter chapter at a school that still has Greek Life

And for at Clemson, I would love to see our three closed chapters of DG, Pi Phi and AGD return.

When this thread was first started, we had several single letter chapters that were closed and have since recolonized, or will recolonize soon:

Michigan (Beta)
Barnard/Columbia (Iota)
WUSTL -- recolonizing this coming year (Phi)
Oregon State -- next in stack (Chi)

That leaves:
Goucher (Zeta)
Stanford (Mu)
Hollins (Upsilon)

So, I've got to go with Stanford as my #1 "wish" since that's the only viable option to round out the single letter chapters.

I would also like to see more SEC chapters, more Ivy League chapters, and Texas. And Washington and Lee, but I think they're at optimal capacity and I don't see that changing.

I would absolutely love to see Alpha Gan reopen our chapter at McGill University- I think it would do well! Also, UND would be fantastic- nice and close!

Alpha Phi Omega:
Alpha at Lafayette College
Omega Omega at Gallaudet University

I didn't know that about Helen and the Nu chapter! That is a very interesting piece of information. :)


Like Sciencewoman, I think it would be nice to see some of our other currently inactive single letter chapters come back. The ones I believe are currently inactive are:

Stanford (Lambda)
Northwestern (Rho)
DePauw (Theta)
Kansas (Phi)
Tulane (Pi)
NYU (Nu)
Cornell (Epsilon)
Syracuse (Chi)
UPenn (Psi)
Brown (Beta)
Randoph-Macon (Kappa)
Wisconsin-Madison (Eta)


I would also like to see us at more schools in the Boston area--MIT, Harvard, BU, Northeastern.

I'm excited about all of our re/colonizations, though. I love to see and hear about the Alpha Love spreading to different campuses! :)

South Carolina (Epsilon Chi)
Arkansas (Alpha Omega)

I'd love to see our Lambda Chapter at UConn come back. For a while, our presence in the northeast was dwindling. But now with strong chapters at Boston U and Penn State and the recolonization at Rutgers, a UConn chapter would have some good support in the region.

For new colonizations, I'd love to see growth in the midwest (esp Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, and Kansas) and in the far west (esp southern Cali and U of Arizona).

^^^^^YES!

I almost feel late to this thread, but I want to ultra, extra, super, extremelyyyy stress that I would LOVE for Chi chapter to recolonize at Michigan State University.

My alma mater was "supposed" to be the location for MSU way back when but my lil' ol' LAC ended up there instead. Alpha Gam has been gone for about 12-13 years... let's recolonize after the upcoming groups!!

As soon as their Panhellenic votes to expand, we're next. Just before we closed, Alpha Xi Delta closed and Phi Mu closed just after us. There was an agreement that when the campus was ready to expand, we would have options to return in the order we closed. Alpha Xi Delta recolonized in 2013 so we are next. It's just a matter of making sure the recruitment numbers remain stable.

Ha - I love it. I was reading through the thread and thinking about doing the exact same thing, but then I got to your post and thought "clemsongirl beat me to it!"

DITTO!

Edit, because I spend too much time thinking about these things. My general categories are "Top 50ish schools", SEC, and well-known schools in major conferences:

Harvard
Yale
Princeton
MIT
Stanford (Mu)
U of Chicago
U Penn
Dartmouth
Johns Hopkins
Cornell
Vanderbilt (Alpha Theta)
Wake Forest
Tufts
UNC
NYU
Georgia Tech
UC San Diego
UC Davis
Tennessee (Gamma Xi)
Arkansas
LSU (Gamma Lambda)
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
Baylor
Texas (Alpha Zeta)
West Virginia University (Alpha Pi)
Arizona State (Beta Kappa)

Our Mu chapter at Stanford is also my number one wish, largely because that chapter was integral in the founding of Nu.
A little history: Nu chapter at Oregon began as a local, Tau Pi, which was the first sorority at UO. The members wished to affiliate with a national organization and began to petition Kappa Alpha Theta for a charter. During the process one of Tau Pi's founders transferred to Stanford where she was initiated into Gamma Phi. At her behest and with her help Tau Pi withdrew their petition to Theta and sought a charter from Gamma Phi. In 1908 Gamma Phi Beta became the first NPC org at Oregon and Kappa Alpha Theta followed a year later becoming the second. Both organizations still thrive on campus today!

^^^ I never heard that story...thanks for sharing!

LAblondeGPhi, could you add (Beta Kappa recolonization) to Arizona State? I like your list! I can never remember if we do or don't have chapters at UC Davis and UC San Diego, but you probably have much better awareness of the California chapters!

I would love for Gamma Phi to recolonize our closed chapters, particularly the ones in Texas, and especially our beloved Alpha Zeta chapter at UT-Austin. Stephen F. Austin and Texas Tech would also be great recolonizations, although when Tech offered extension a couple of years ago, we didn't submit for consideration. If Baylor ever expands, I bet we'd do well there.

So many of us want Gamma Phi back in Austin--I wonder if UT will ever decide to expand, and what it will take to bring any sorority back to what has become a very expensive place to maintain a house...

My (long) wishlist for Alpha Xi Delta (re)colonizations...


Samford
Troy
Alabama
Arizona State
Northern Arizona
Arizona
Cal State – Fresno
San Diego State
UC – Berkeley
USC
Quinnipiac
Sacred Heart
FGCU
Florida State
Florida
GCSU
Georgia Southern
UGA
North Georgia
Valdosta State
Knox
Drake
Kansas
Kentucky
LSU
Central Michigan
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
Central Missouri
Mizzou
Wash U – St Louis
Princeton
Rutgers
Duke
UNC
Wake Forest
Wittenberg
Oklahoma
Oregon State
Oregon
UPenn
Pitt
Villanova
Clemson
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Texas A&M
TCU
North Texas
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Washington State

Yes, one of the PDs from my chapter has said this as well. I still think about it too much though. :)

I would like to see Kappa back at UConn and to colonize at University of Delaware.

Phi Mu
 

I would LOVE to see Phi Mu re-colonize at Rollins (Alpha Omega) and Stetson (Alpha Xi). We had a chance with Rollins last fall when they were open for expansion, but we were ultimately not chosen. One can always dream, though!

I'd also like to see us colonize at UCF and University of Tampa.

My wish list is University of Texas, Vanderbilt, Stephen F. Austin, Baylor, and Stanford.

As to UT - the biggest problem is real estate. No sorority could compete without a house, and there is simply no property to be had near campus. (There are other obstacles, but that's the biggest.) I know of another sorority which has an endowment specifically set aside for if they ever return to campus. They desperately need to have more chapters, but I don't see it happening in the immediate future.

Clemson
Rollins
Wake Forest
UTC
UALR

Carnation, isn't the NC Beta chapter of Pi Phi still active at Duke?

Whoops! I mean Wake Forest, I'll correct that! I'm told that that chapter insisted on continuing some pretty bad traditions from when they were a local, as did several of the sororities who used to be locals.

Phi Mu Delta
 

It would be nice to have our dormant chapters in Pennsylvania re-opened. And some of our dormant chapters in the Big 10 universities that closed in the 1930s-1940s, especially our first colonization at Northwestern after our founding.
And then colonize in the Midwest and more south in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and other nearby areas. New England doesn't seem to be fertile ground for fraternities at this time.

I think Texas has a culture problem that needs to be remedied before they can be a truly healthy greek system

Just a quick correction that Chi Omega was colonized at the University of Rochester, not Rochester Institute of Technology!

Please explain.

I miss them too.
 

[QUOTE=Rose&WhiteAlum;2323776]I would LOVE to see Phi Mu re-colonize at Rollins (Alpha Omega) and Stetson (Alpha Xi). We had a chance with Rollins last fall when they were open for expansion, but we were ultimately not chosen. One can always dream, though!

I'd also like to see us colonize at UCF and University of Tampa.[/QUOTE
I have dreamed of UCF and University of Tampa too.

Whoops, my bad! Too many Rochesters and not enough memory:)

Well, the dance party for one... things like that shouldn't be allowed. And I could be wrong, but from what I hear, sororities tear down other sororities A LOT there. I think the current groups would have to be supportive of a new group and right now, I'm not sure they would be.

The history book sold during our Centennial has lots of interesting chapter histories.

Brown is an interesting case. We have that chapter because we absorbed a local that had chapters at UMaine, Brown and Tufts, but Beta never actually functioned. The story is that Greek life was being closed at Brown so those women were initiated and immediately made alumnae. If you look at irishpipes' thread, though, you'll see that KAT and SK were on campus until 1912 after Beta closed in 1908.

Kappa was at Randolph Macon Women's College in Lynchburg (now Randolph College.) Randolph College doesn't have NPCs. Per Wiki, "The college [Randolph Macon] has a historical relationship with Randolph College (formerly known as Randolph–Macon Woman's College) in Lynchburg, Virginia. The former women's college was founded under Randolph–Macon's original charter in 1893 by the then-president William Waugh Smith; it was intended as a female counterpart to Randolph–Macon. The two schools later separated to become distinct institutions governed by two separate boards. Randolph–Macon College became co-educational in 1971 with the enrollment of 50 women and the first full-time female faculty member. (Randolph College became co-educational in 2007.)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph–Macon_College

My take - 1. The real estate issue I previously mentioned 2. the heavily tiered system 3. campus culture is not pro-Greek 4. some Panhellenic leadership and finally, what I've always called the "UT mentality", which results in the tearing down of other chapters G&Q referenced.

What a shame (UT Austin)

Interesting! Of these we have re-colonized at Wake Forest and Oregon, with Virginian Tech in the works for the future. We did colonize at Louisville. As for the rest noted above, I've changed my mind regarding Dartmouth, Arkansas, and Transylvania.

Recolonize
UCLA
Southern California
Ole Miss
Kentucky
Illinois
Ohio State
Oklahoma
GW
(I wouldn't mind seeing any inactive chapter recolonize.)

Colonize
Wake Forest
Emory
Delaware
Cornell
Arizona State
MIT
Dartmouth

I'm sure there are others I'm missing.

I would personally love to see more organizations colonize/recolonize in Canada! There is a huge demand that is currently being filled by local organizations, which I have nothing against. I simply think the NPC organizations are missing out on a ton of growth opportunities!

West Virginia University. Mostly so I have a local chapter I can support and watch.

Yes! I'd love to see Alpha Chi in Canada, but at the same time I'm also happy to see distinctly Canadian sororities flourish. There are a couple Canadian orgs that are fun to see growing and evolving.

I believe Alpha Chi used to have a chapter at the University of Toronto!

Alpha Phi
 

Recolonize:
Texas A&M
Illinois State

Colonize:
Oklahoma State
Arkansas