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I think that there is some room to manuever, from where we are now, to where I would like to see us be.
What I mean is that it is widely recognized that we baby our colonies. The typical colony process is usually at 2-3 year process from founding fathers to charter. As far as I know we are the only organization that takes that long (might be an interesting poll in Greek Life forum). I know from UIFI and talking with the equivalents of our Leadership consultants found that some other orgs grant charters within as little as 8-12 weeks of colonization. I'm NOT arguing for such a policy, but I think that we could continue to expand that the 4-5 chapters annually AND help our struggling chapters more, if we were to sped up the process of our chartering. However, I realize that I came into a chapter that won a Knox the summer before I pledged, and have no idea what it's like to charter a chapter, so I could be wrong. I have a ton of respect for the amount of work that must be done to get a chapter off the ground. Also, I do realize that we have a much higher success rate for colonies sticking around as chapters and success in new chapters (Miami as an extreme example) after recolonization. For those guys who are parts of colonies/new chapters, you're perspective might be more appropriate.
But either way, expansion is important. The 3 and 7 have meant the world to me and I hope that as many as possible who deserve to know them, get that oppurtunity.
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