A new way to determine the best Greek Campuses?
 

As always there are various media outlets that post what colleges have the best greek system, basing it on things like % of students that are greek, the popularity of greek parties, the # of greek parties, the lack of antagonism between GDI's/Greeks, whatever.

Why is there not a ranking that uses what we as Greeks really value...

Now I know that many, if not all, GLO's have conventions in which awards are given out to exemplrary chapters, and most have some form of "Top" award given to either one or a handful of chapters. In an effort to determine what Greek system is fulfilling the goals of our Organizations the best, I'm asking GC'ers to post which chapters won their GLO's top award at your most recent convention.

For Beta Theta Pi, four chapters won the John Reily Knox award for Chapter Excellence at the 163rd Annual Convention.


Nebraska
Kansas State
Northwestern
Miami (OH)

Our Crown of Excellence award went to Beta Nu chapter at Murray State U in Murray, Kentucky.

Re: A new way to determine the best Greek Campuses?
 

This is from our 1999-2001 Biennial Convention awards listing, as posted on our website.

Jessie Wallace Hughan Award : To honor one collegiate chapter with the most outstanding service to college or community and fulfillment of obligations to Alpha Omicron Pi. This Founders' Award is given to AOII's top chapter from those receiving the Ruby Award for Distinguished Chapters.

Delta Omega
Murray State University, Murray, KY

Lambda Sigma
University of Georgia, Athens, GA


Christin

Our Xi Achievement Award went to Theta Gamma, Univ. of Delaware.

Sigma Nu's Rock Chapter award went out to several schools. Oklahoma State, Purdue and Ole Miss were some that come immediately to mind. There were a few others.

Kappa Sig's top chapter's...
 

At last year's national convention these chapter's won Kappa Sigma's highest honor.

Founder's Award for Chapter Excellence (F.A.C.E) 2000-2001

Nu-Omicron, U of Texas-Dallas
Lambda-Tau, Baylor
Epsilon-Mu, U of Tulsa
Theta-Zeta, Eastern New Mexico
Delta-Pi, SMU

An update (and to bump this up)...out of nowhere my Leadership professor (who is one of the chapter advisors for Gamma Phi Beta) told my leadership class that 4 sorority chapters at Nebraska received top honors at recent National Conventions.

They are:
Gamma Phi Beta
Chi Omega
Kappa Alpha Theta
Alpha Phi

I think that puts Nebraska at a total of 5 with these 4 and my own Beta chapter...anyone else care to post?

I'm proud to say that my own chapter came home with the most honors at the last convention. We dont have an actual award for the "best" chapter, but we came home with the most awards, including: most philanthropies, most spirit, most attending sisters, most attending alumni, leadership, and kindness, among others. PROUD TO BE A SISTER OF KAPPA UPSILON!
Interesting fact: in my sorority it is perfectly fine to wear your chapter designation on shirts as well as your national letters.. so some days i wear kdPhi, some days i wear kappa upsilon. all of our sorority chapters start with Kappa, as well, so we have kappa iota, kappa gamma, and so on. the guys, though, can be just iota, gamma, or upsilon. :) just thought i'd share.

Our Top Chapters
 

Gamma Sig has Conventions in odd-numbered years, so these are from '01:

Margaret M. Linton Award (Outstanding Undergraduate Chapter):

Delta Chi Chapter, East Carolina University
Beta Psi Chapter, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Zeta Xi Chapter, North Georgia College & State University

Barbara V. Ferraro Award
(Outstanding Undergraduate Service Program):

Tau Chapter, Pennsylvania State University
Delta Xi Chapter, Southwest Missouri State University
Zeta Iota Chapter, Prairie View A & M University

We also have District Awards. My chapter came in 2nd Place just one full year after chartering! I was shocked!

He forgot to mention that the Delta Eta Chapter ( Nebraska) has recieved the Rock award 3 times in a row now (6years) so that gives Nebraska six top house awards

The last JWH Cup went to the AOIIs of Cal Poly.

I don't think her forgot - this thread is from 2002.

The biennium before last JWH Cup went to Kappa Tau at Southeastern Louisiana University. Small school but AOII rules the roost. My little brother went there and would tell everyone that his sisters (My older sister and I were at another school) were AOIIs. He said that AOIIs were the pretty girls and everyone was always impressed that he had AOII sisters! Ha! I always thought that was funny!!

At the 2006 KKG Convention, the Most Outstanding Chapter Award went to:

Epsilon Epsilon at Emory University!

My chapter and my pledge class as seniors!!

are you AOII from southeastern? my (fantastic!) sister-in-law is a sister there. jackie rodriguez...now jackie holcomb.

No...my sister and I were at Lambda Tau in Monroe! Kappa Tau is a great chapter, though!

Gamma Phi Beta's top collegiate awards at convention 2006 went to our chapters at:

University of Idaho (Xi)
Cal State Fullerton (Delta Delta)
Colgate (Delta Tau)
Kansas State (Beta Upsilon)
Indiana (Beta Phi)

Very interesting assortment of chapters, I think.

From the Alpha Sigma Phi Tomahawk: "The Grand Senior Presidents Award is awarded biennally during every Grand Chapter. This award recognizes our two premier chapters accomplishments during the previous two-year period."

2006 Winners:

Bowling Green State University, Gamma Zeta Chapter:)

Ohio Wesleyan University, Epsilon Chapter:)

ADPi's highest award is the Maxine Blake Golden Lion Hall of Fame, and it is sure hard to get!

This award is presented during each Convention to chapters that excel in all areas of chapter operations and programming for a minimum period of six years. The chapters that are presented this award must have received Diamond Four Point 5 of the past 6 years, qualify for the Excellence Award for the current year, have received the Stanard Leadership Award or the Maxine Blake Golden Lion Award within the past six years, have received six Excellence awards in programming since the last Convention, and are considered Alpha Delta Pi’s first and finest on their respective campus.

Golden Lion - Thirteen total awarded at the 2007 Convention

Beta Tau - University of Akron
Alpha Eta - Kansas State University
Epsilon Nu - Ashland University
Kappa - Samford
Beta Omega - Auburn University
Alpha Kappa - University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Zeta Nu - Clemson University
Eta Xi - Presbyterian College
Delta - University of Texas
Eta Epsilon - Miami University (Ohio)

Delta Phi - University of Missouri, Kansas City (first time winner!)
Zeta Sigma - College of Charleston (first time winner!)
Gamma Theta - Mount Union College (first time winner!)

Phi Kappa Psi at LSJU
The student paper at LSJU has an article about the Phi Kappa Psi chapter there that has again won a top national award:
http://www.stanforddaily.com/article...dNationalAward

Congratulations to them all! And since there's been mention of campuses, not just chapters, I notice that both ADPi and GPhiB at Kansas State have achieved "top" recognition. So congrats to Kansas State, too.

Two "Top" Chapters at UNC-Chapel HIll in 2007

http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/me...-3007652.shtml

The article focuses on an NPC sorority, Kappa Delta, but notice that toward the end a multicultural fraternity's "top" award is mentioned, too (Psi Sigma Phi, Inc.).

Apparently :rolleyes:, the Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter at Central Arkansas won the national Top Chapter award this summer at convention. :cool:

No apparently about it. A quick check of the Sig Ep national web site shows that the Arkansas Zeta chapter at the University of Central Arkansas was one of the recipients of the Buchanan Outstanding Chapter Award in 2007.

U. of Arkansas: "Top" Pi Beta Phi Chapter

See the university's press release about the upcoming (October 14, 2007) presentation of the award, the Balfour Cup:

http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/11560.htm

2007 Presentation of Pi Phi's Balfour Cup
 

Thanks for letting us know, exlurker. I guess that I don't look at the national website or Convention results enough. It's really impressive that the U. of Arkansas chapter has won the Balfour Cup not once, but twice. :)

umm... actually he did because we have won it three times in a row now and the prize is given out every two years. we won in 2006 for the third time so u do the math=P

I found this thread and thought I'd add a few more Kansas State chapter awards to the list. Gamma Alpha chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma won the national award for Most Outstanding Chaper (only one chapter named each year) in 2004, and FarmHouse Fraternity won the Ruby Cup for the top chapter in the nation in 2007. (I know FH is not greek letter, but they are a member of IFC and have won the K-State Top Fraternity Award out of 26 fraternities for the last two years as well.)

Go 'Cats!!:)

The highest award a Sigma Kappa chapter can win is Three Stars in the Standards of Excellence program. It is given to chapters who excel in a wide variety of areas including sisterhood, academics, programming, Panhellenic relations, recruitment, leadership, etc. It's not so much of a competition among chapters, but just chapters challenging themselves. Theoretically, every chapter COULD get three stars since there are outlined criteria (far above minimum standards) of what a chapter must achieve to get the award.

There were 11 Three Star chapters last year:

Alpha Sigma, Westminster College (PA)
Alpha Chi, Georgetown College (KY)
Beta Zeta, University of Maryland:D
Delta Chi, University of Central Oklahoma
Epsilon Delta, Susquehanna University (PA)
Epsilon Tau, California State University, Fullerton
Epsilon Chi, Virginia Tech
Theta Zeta, University of Virginia
Theta Theta, Albright College (PA)
Kappa Zeta, Elon University (NC)
Kappa Iota, University of Pennsylvania

There are other awards that include one chapter as the best in a specific category, and a few (3-5) honorable mentions. Plus, there are recognition awards for sisterhood (19 chapters recognized) and academic achievement (36 chapters recgonized). Beta Zeta, University of Maryland won more of these awards/honorable mentions than any other Sigma Kappa chapter:), including:

Best Public Relations
Honorable Mention for Excellence in Recruitment
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Implementation of the Promise Program (Our NM program)
Honorable Mention for Best Member Development Programming
Sisterhood Recognition Award
Academic Achievement Award

I really don't think I am being biased when I say my chapter is awesome.

The Sigma Chi chapter at Kansas State would get the Peterson Award every year for the past 17 years (could be wrong, just know they had the most total) until 2007. But it's still a good chapter