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Originally posted by sdbeta1
In terms of Beta, most colonizations commence with a Recruitment through Scholarship program that yields many applicants. A rule of thumb, is that about 1 in 5 applicants will be interested in the fraternity. The men are then explained the mission, vision and goals of the Men of Principle initiative. If they are worthy, then bids will be extended to the men. The GF will then provide many resources for the men to succeed.
In some instances the fraternity already has plans to begin/re-instate a chapter at a college.
I heard earlier this week from a friend that he approached an organization two years ago. The organization told him to find 20 men that would be interested and then they would approach the university.
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Just to add to this.
Beta's current expansion policy is NOT to colonize via pre-existing groups, pretty much for the exact reasons you are bringing up in quality. Further, our expansion is currently focusing on re-chartering chapters that existed reletively recently (a la Ok St., IU, and Iowa). Any expansion to a new campus has coincided with requests from the administration of that university. Surprisingly, that has been more successful than one would imagine.
From there, our Leadership Consultants lead the recruitment process of info sessions, interviews and bidding along with alumni in the area - in some cases nearby undergraduate chapters help. Obviously if it is a recolonization, then alumni of that chapter are usually interested in the efforts.
Beyond that, I will say that Beta "babies" our expansions. It will often take 2-3 years before they will have reached the criteria necessary for a charter. Recent trends have had some chapters that were very close, close enough that their petition would have been accepted, deciding to wait one more year to really sure everything up. I know that when I was at UIFI and talked to some to the facilitators there about how their org colonized, most were semester long colonizations, or even shorter.