Panhellenic Housing-Info needed
 

We are forming Greek Row on our campus and are looking into the possibility of a Panhellenic house to house our 3 (soon to be 4) sororities on campus.

Does anyone know of campuses where there are Panhellenic Houses and if so how well they have thrived?

I only know of Jacksonville State University, University of British Columbia and Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

SMU sororities have individual houses - I don't think that's what you meant.

Jacksonville State University sororities live in dorms and each chapter has a floor. There are a few schools that do this.

Are you refering to university owned houses like at the University of South Alabama or Washington and Lee?

Appalachian State University has something similar. The university purchased a closing hotel and transformed it into the "Panhellenic Hall." Each sorority has beds for around 30 women and each sorority has space in the building. It's actually a pretty nice set-up because the chapters can use the ballrooms for meetings and chapter events!

would you describe what exactly you mean by panhellenic housing?

TCU has dorms arranged in a circle that have a wing designated for each fraternity and sorority.

I think they are working on building actual houses sometime in the next 10 years or so... that's the rumor, anyway.

I was wondering the same thing???

The sororities at UNT (minus ChiO) each have their own houses on Sorority Row, but they are all built together (i.e. they all share a wall at the ends of the houses where the stairwells are). So they are like really giant townhomes in a way. On the outsides and insides they look like seperate houses, but they are all connected.

It's hard to describle.

Structurally they are connected, but there aren't any doors that you can go through inside the houses that will take you from one house to the next.... if that makes sense.

Probably not. hehehe

Chi O has a seperate lodge somewhere close to campus. I *think* the University is building a house for DG?

You " think" right. KD's house is also in the works. I believe they both will be finished around the same time.

I think Southern Mississippi also has new university owned sorority houses.

I know what you mean by Jacksonville State's Panhellenic House. It's not the PH Dorm, in which each sorority has a floor, it's a separate (and gorgeous) house in which several members of each sorority can live. My daughter, an AOII, lived there two years ago.

The premise was a good idea but I'm pretty sure there were only members from 2 sororities living there that year, although it was full. Oh well, they learned a lot about each others' groups.

All the sororities held various parties there during the year.

The sorority housing at University of BC is owned by the local panhellenic association. http://www.vapa.bc.ca/housing/
You might want to contact them directly for first hand information.

Note: the land is owned by the university and the Panhellenic Association owns the house. In the US, land leases can get messy when trying to take out a mortgage. It can be done, but you have to jump through a lot of hoops

At SMU, we have individual sorority houses and two Panhellenic sorority houses -- women from all sororities have members living in the house and they are very popular. Apparently, you have to sign up during the fall semester of your freshman year (before you are even in a sorority) to get in for your sophomore year. It works great because there is limited room, if any, for sophomores in the sorority houses.

Yep. The Panhellenic House is the old ATO house. We had our Bid Day party there a couple of years ago.

I LOVE this idea!!!

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has a Panhellenic building built around 1964. The building houses only big meeting rooms, with storage and small kitchens. A dorm has floors...or half-floors...designated for sororities. That will change in the next few years. Sororities are now being allowed to build houses.

University of CA, Irvine has University-owned townhome sort of housing. They are really nice. They have different sizes to accommodate different sized houses. It is not my school, but I had a friend who went there.

Hope this helps.