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Originally posted by TSteven
While most of these suggestions are good, they may not be applicable with respect to how fraternity rush currently works at UNLDelt's college - The University of Nebraska-Lincoln...
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Yes,
Thank you TSteven. While those ideas are great for some schools...it's just not applicable to the University of Nebraska's Greek System or my chapter.
My chapter does do some of the things Little E and gpb1874 mentioned (i.e.-maintain lists of guys friends and hold regular recruitment events through the year so as to pick up the interest of those guys and others) but, we cannot move to do our entire recruitment that way due to the fact the over 90% of those who rush are incoming freshmen that apply for SUMMER recruitment. Year round rec. is just not established on my campus. As I said before...we do get two or three guys mid-semester, on average.
The focus on freshmen is also the reason that we cannot afford to only recruit only guys with collegiate academic backgrounds already like sophs. or transfers. We average maybe 1-2 upperclassmen pledges each year...that's out of an average class size of 25 (my pledge class had 36 guys in it...only 4 of which were upperclassmen, the rest of us were freshmen).
I'm all for year round recruitment...actually I think having the mix of a solid summer recruitment program and still being open to and working on a year round strategy is great. Best of both worlds. But back to the major issue we had was...
Is there anything wrong with having an academic standard to initiate, and offering those who do not appear to meet that standard (or perhaps another initiation standard that our national office allows, such as a test on the history and ideals) after one eight week program another eight weeks (essentally the rest of the semester) to achieve? We recognize that it may take some men a little longer to become adjusted, but we don't want to cut them for that reason...nor do we want to lower the chapter's standards by taking them in before they are ready to assume and reflect the responsibilities of membership, which is essentially what the pledge period is intended to teach and allow them to demonstrate.