Originally Posted by JonInKC (Post 2112719)

Actually Kevin, as a TKE alumni I am not a proponent of the OMG WE NEED CHAPTERS EVERYWHERE OR SIG EP WILL OVERTAKE US IN TOTAL CHAPTERS!!!11111 approach. TKE has focused so much on expansion at the expense of maintaining the chapters it has. Honestly I believe TKE has so many chapters that they don't have the manpower to keep track of them all. I would rather cut the bottom-feeder chapters and put the resources into decent chapters and colonies with potential. Not all our chapters suck, however. Not that you said that, but a lot of people don't know any better.

Originally Posted by rdogbob (Post 2112798)

Obviously the TKE and any other organization that failed prior to now (they been around 50 years) did not offer students an experience that was meaningful or valuable. When fraternities do not offer students some value for their time and effort, then they become irrelevant and die.

Originally Posted by Kevin (Post 2107810)

For NIC-type groups, there is a fixed cost for operating a chapter because national consultants have to be flown in annually or bi-annually

Originally Posted by 33girl (Post 2112833)

Again, this is NOT the case for all national organizations. Some women posters on here have said they never saw a national consultant in all their years as an active.