Expansion Thread
 

What schools would you like to see ZTA colonize or recolonize at?

Here are my choices:

1. Ole Miss- It would be nice to see a recolonization although I don't think it will happen anytime soon.
2. University of Kentucky- We don't have any chapters left in the state. :(
3. UCLA, USC, San Diego- Compared to other sororities, we have very few chapters in California. Many of our Cali chapters are now defunct.
4. Ivy League- We don't have any chapters at Ivy League schools (although we had one at Penn that is now defunct).

Definitely the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL. That's where I'm from and the school has about 20,000 students and I want to make that happen when I become an alum

Also, Troy State University in Troy, AL.....if we had a chapter there and at South Al...Zeta would be all over the big schools in Alabama-

I completly agree about our chapters in Cali. I, myself, would like to see the University of Tampa open the ZTA chapter again. I doubt it will happen since we just had a chapter colonize at USF which is 20 minutes away, just on the other side of Tampa. But UT is a great school and ZTA would do very well there.

I "third" the vote for more chapters in Ca. It's frustrating when you tell people you're a ZTA and they've never heard of us before.....we're only at 3 Cali. schools now! Unfortunatly, I don't think its going to happen anytime soon....we recently sold our house at UCLA.

It would also be cool to have a chapter at an Ivy league school.

I don't want ZTA to recolonize at Ole Miss. It has been done numerous times, all to no avail. It was great that I became a ZTA at Ole Miss. But, having a charter pulled is one of the most painful things I have ever been through.

I truly believe that Ole Miss is one place we should not spend time and effort at trying to overcome the negative stereotype. I think we should focus our efforts elsewhere. Read the Ole Miss thread. We've been there and tried that several times. Mississippi is a very unforgiving place. (But, I must add that the Miss. State chapter is awesome.)


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Browneyedgirl,

I don't think it would be a bad idea to try and colonize at Southern Miss. The ladies at Miss. State could certainly help with rush and support. If ZTA is going to be successful in Mississippi, it would probably be at S. Miss. I am not sure if there has ever been a colony/chapter there... I don't think so. I know we used to have one at Delta State (don't quote me on the name still being the same...) in MS. One of our advisors was a ZTA there.

I would like to see expansion when possible and/or appropriate at:

Vanderbilt
U of KY
Western Kentucky University
California: a multitude of schools
U of TN- Chattanooga
Austin Peay State U.
Michigan schools

You never know...they could be looking at this thread. :)

I would love to see ZTA re-open the Alpha Kappa chapter at University of Illinois and Beta Rho in Manitoba, Canada. I miss having an active collegiate chapter in Canada!

Great thread!

I would like to see Omega chapter at SMU re-open and we definitely could use more Western chapters. Of course, we always need more chapters in Texas, right?! j.k.


So...which one of you is going to apply for the national extension director position? Hmm? I'm more focused on alumnae expansion so I'll leave collegiate for someone else.

LOL! :)

I definately second Krissy's suggestions for Chapters at Troy State and South Alabama. We will have all corners covered then! Plus Theta Nu could interact with Troy's chapter seeing as how we are't that far apart!

NYU
 

Please excuse me for crashing your forum. Has ZTA thought about reviving your old NYU chapter by getting one of the locals to affiliate?

The NYU sorority system had completely disintegrated by the late 70s. Starting in the 80s, sororities, mostly locals started to pop up. One of the locals recently affiliated with AST. There are still 4 locals. The greek life web site is: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/osa/greeklife/org.html

That wouldn't be a bad idea either. We only have 1 ZTA chapter in New York (Rochester Institute of Technology).

When ZTA looks for an area to colonize, I think our main criteria is alum support. Having a strong alum base is a huge necessity if a chapter is going to survive. I think this is the main reason why ZTA has concentrated on colonizing specifically in Florida, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia. We have a lot of alum support in these areas.

I'm going to guess that we don't have a big alum base in New York but I could be wrong.

It would definitely be nice to see a ZTA chapter at NYU. We have a lot of chapters in New Jersey and I'm sure they could help out!

Russell- I didn't know we had a chapter once at NYU. Do you happen to know when it was closed?

According to Baird's, the Beta Rho chapter of ZTA was active, at NYU, from 1961 until 1972.

How weird...it's not listed anywhere on our website. The Beta Rho chapter is listed as being at the University of Manitoba. Then again, our website is VERY outdated.

Baird's lists your Manitoba chapter as Beta Rho also. Must be a misprint in Baird's.

I would like to see Zeta colonize at Kent State. I went up there to visit some high school friends, and it just seemed so empty without ZTA... :cool:

I totally agree. I went to high school about 10/15 minutes from there (Hudson, Ohio) and a lot of my friends went to school there and I really think they should have been ZTA's! :D I also think that ZTA should be at Ohio State (Alpha Zeta) again. :)

Sorry to crash your board. I think ZTA would do well at Southern Miss as well. I just don't know if they need another sorority right now. Kappa Alpha Theta came in 97/98 I believe and I know they are the newest and they are doing great. I just don't think they need any more expansions. However, you never know. Also, I would love to see ZTA back at Ole Miss be/c I had some good friends who were ZTAs at Ole Miss.

I also am all about having more chapters in California. As a collegiate in South Carolina I got really spoiled. Zetas are everywhere in that state! But now I live in Santa Cruz. I drive over an hour sometimes just to get to alumnae chapter meetings (but it's totally worth it). And the nearest collegiate chapter to us is in Klamath Falls, Oregon! That's like a 6 hour drive! And a lot of the women in my alum chapter were collegiates at the long-defunct UC Berkeley chapter and I know that they would love to see that up and running again. (UCB may not be Ivy League, but it's darn close!) Another grad student here at UCSC is an Alpha Phi alum and she was a chapter advisor at UCB for awhile, and I'm so jealous!

And totally off the subject, Anne Snipes, how are you??? I haven't talked to you in forever! I hope you're doing well!

well, ladies, our expansion goes on. kappa tau colony at florida gulf coast university in estero(between ft. myers and naples) is here!! thursday nite 51 women signed bid cards with 6 more to sign when they complete their school required volunteer hours!

:D thats so exciting!!

I'm crashing your board!

Just wanted to say that sadly, ZTA is not at Western anymore. They closed their doors in 2002. Supposedly they are going to be able to come back in 2004 or 2005. But I don't know how true that is, or how effective that will be, since only 57 girls went through spring recruitment for 5 sororities!

One of my bridesmaids was a ZTA at Western...and I was friends with a few of the girls in that chapter who graduated before I did. Another one of my bridesmaids was a ZTA from Winthrop!

Anyways, sorry to crash, just wanted to give you an update.

How about the Northeast? ANYWHERE! Haha. We have really been thriving up here, and it would be great to see Zeta capitalize on the growing systems in the area! :)

*bump*

I'm bumping this thread because I know a lot of schools are opening for expansion this spring and fall.

Where would you like to see ZTA open or recolonize a chapter?

Since we have such a strong alumnae base in the South, I'd like to see us open chapters at Emory (which is currently open for expansion), Furman, and Vanderbilt.

A recolonization of the our chapters at big schools like Nebraska, Illinois, Southern California, Pittsburgh, SMU, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, UCLA, Boston and Syracuse would be nice too!

You mentioned the one that I'd like most...SMU!

I would like to see ZTA recolonize at Belmont Abbey College. It's located about 10 minutes away from Charlotte, NC in Belmont, NC. Since Winthrop University (Rock Hill, SC) and UNC-Charlotte (Charlotte, NC) are so close, I don't understand why we couldn't. In fact, when that chapter closed, a local sorority "took" ZTA's place with the girls that were new members and regular members of the ZTA chapter. I just wonder if they used any of our rituals?

Schools I'd like to see ZTA colonize is at Furman, Charleston Southern, and Coastal Carolina.

colonization wish list
 

wake forest, vanderbilt,smu,emory,university of the south,rhodes college, tulane,kansas state,iowa state,nebraska, washington u. of st. louis,pittsburg,kentucky, rollins,more california schools, oregon and oregon state,ohio state, illinois, u of michigan, wisconsin.

someone had mentioned recolonizing at duke.......well it appears that is happening!

*bump*

It looks like we've gotten a few on our wish list over the past couple of years. We've had recolonizations at both Duke and Northwestern and will be recolonizing our Michigan chapter in Fall 2009.

What other schools would you like to see ZTA at?

I'd love to see ZTA recolonize our chapters at Ole Miss (although that would be an uphill battle), University of Kentucky (Kentucky is the only Southern state that we don't have a chapter), Illinois, SMU, Arizona, UCLA, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Syracuse and Southern California.

I'd love to see a ZTA colonize a chapter at Emory, Furman, Wake Forest and Vanderbilt.

How about all of the above? ;) I too would like to see us back at Ole Miss and OK especially and I think we'd do well at Vandy :) I also think some out west chapters would be good since we've already saturated the south pretty well, lol.

Interesting to note Kentucky doesn't have any ZTA chapters. I think this would be a great state to expand into considering all the surrounding states have chapters. I also like the idea of expansion/recolonization in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Minnesota, Arizona, and Colorado would be nice to have chapters in. Interesting to note that convention is being held this year in Arizona and we have no chapters there.

Since it's close and very well regarded, I would love to see a ZTA chapter at William and Mary. If there was sufficient alumnae support, I would also like to see us expand further into NY.

I'm on the local housing board for the Omega house at SMU so I'd love to see our chapter come back there. We're working hard to put things in place (2010?!) but it really does depend on the campus & other NPC groups there.

I second that W&M. I'm actually kind of surprised we don't have one there considering VA is where we were founded and W&M was there long before Longwood!

I certainly would LOVE to see us expand here in the Empire state. But I don't know of another alumnae group other than the NYC, Buffalo, LI & Rochester (according to the website at least). A group mid-state might be a good idea, lots of colleges btwn here and Rochester!!

I would be thrilled to see the U of Penn rechartered. I would be first in line to help out there!! Also Syracuse in upstate NY. If PA gets one more chapter will be beat out TX for most active chapters!!

i would vote for any and all of the campuses you all listed and would add washington and lee, rhodes college(where we had a chapter long ago) and rollins college(located in orlando)-oh, and i think that we need some more chapters in california and the pacific northwest.

ZTA in Ky
 

Hello Zeta Sisters,
I pledged the Alpha Chi chapter at the University of Kentucky in the fall of 1990, initiated in February of 1991, and became an Alumna in May of 1991. The chapter closed at the end of the school year in 1991. From what I was told Zeta tried a couple of times to recolonize at UK, but didn't have much luck with each of the recolonizations. We didn't make quota, which other GLO's did during formal fall rush. In 1991 a decision was reached to de-activate the chapter. I cannot begin to put into words how this broke my heart. I never had a little sister, a candlelight, held an Executive Position, and missed several other experiences that other collegiates had. In 1991 there was an agreement between ZTA and UK that once another sorority on campus (PM me to learn which one) had successfully met quota during 3 consecutive formal fall rushes, then ZTA was to be considered for recolonization. Guess what? This other chapter also left UK, and to the best of my knowledge, there hasn't been any additional discussion about re-activating the Alpha Chi chapter.

I would like to see us recolonize at UK, hopefully it will happen when the time is right, Zeta will have the support of other GLO's, and we will have our house back.

~A Kentucky Zeta