Chapter Reorganization?!?!
 

Hi, I am Asst. to the VP of Recruitment for Panhellenic Council at my school. One of our chapters is going through a reorganization right now. The Chapter's National Organization is doing a good job at letting us do what we think will work best at our school. We're at a loss for ideas right now so if anyone has experience with this sort of thing, I am open to ALL new ideas! We really want to save this chapter!!!

Thanks!

- Greek Sisterhood Socials and Community Service Events with XYZ
- Wear "Ask me about XYZ buttons" and direct anyone who asks to an XYZ chapter contact
- Write letters to their nationals from the chapters expressing why it is important to keep XYZ at your school
- Start a buddy program where the chapter presidents, new member coordinators, and other officers of the various chapters on your campus buddy up with other chapters to help one another, including XYZ
- Help XYZ with a recruitment workshop by mock recruiting one another so they can learn for the next formal recruitment
- Make an effort to get to know the members and be their friends. Join campus organizations together and form study groups for members in your chapter and in XYZ who are in the same major
- Help XYZ plan a large-scale philanthropy event and promote it to the campus at-large
- Help XYZ get their name out by wearing those buttons, helping staff XYZ recruitment tables, wearing their event t-shirts from your sisterhood socials, and encouraging them to mount a PR campaign to get their name out and wear letters frequently. Express these sentiments at your Panhellenic meeting and encourage the Panhellenic reps to take these sentiments back to the chapters. Incentivize the chapters to promote XYZ through a spirit contest and host a social with XYZ for the winners.

First off congratulations on trying to keep a Chapter that is having problems. It must be a pretty great college. You must have the heart for GLOs on campus!


adpiufc gave some good advice.

One thing would be to open Recruitment to them alone.

I have found that many times whether it be a guy or girl Organization, many times there are those women on Campus who wish to join something not so big or be in a certain nitch of GLOs.

You may want to try something like joining a National Organization that has all of the backing, name, and rebuilding for the future. Be a part of that and be someone important! You can build and remold something for the people who follow you.

Pleas keep us updated and hope it comes out for the best!:)

Awesome suggestions. One might also be to hold off on informal recruitment. I doubt there's a way to open recruitment only to them. I mean I don't know, I'm just betting there's some kind of regulation against that...and I also doubt other chapters are willing to do that (and yeah, it would be too much to ask). BUT if y'all's chapters require some COB-ing during the "off season", maybe the other chapters could start sending out invitations at least two weeks later...just to let them have a leg up and have the focus long enough to recruit some women before everyone else starts.

Excellent post, ADPiUCF! I think that every school could strengthen the Greek system if there were some randomly paired or randomly grouped socials every year, instead of the groups all fending for themselves to line stuff up. These could be in addition to whatever else goes on, ideally.

It might only be for a recolonization and not a reorganization. I've heard that when chapters recolonize that they usually participate in one day of formal then drop out. Then the week after formal, they get an entire week that they get to recruit. During that week no other chapter can hold any recruitment events. Now because it's reorganization I'm not sure if they can do this. If they can this could be a suggestion.