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Originally Posted by alphaonui
Hello everyone,
I have so many questions about expansion and I figured this would be the best place to get some answers/experiernces with it. My sorority (AOPI) closed on my campus the year I joined back in 2006. Ever since then I have tried to see if we could come back or at least colonize before I graduated. My school's CPC recently (this past semster) voted not to expand on our campus. There are currently 7 sororities and 15 fraternities on our campus. A fraternity has come back every year since I have been at my school. I guess my biggest question is how can I go about this? I feel like I am basically at a standstill untill my school decides to expand. In my opinion the past 4 years have been really good with recuritment. Also if anyone has had any experience with a chapter closing how long did it take for your school to decide on expansion?
thanks so much for any help  |
Hi alphaonui! Come introduce yourself on the AOII forum. Decisions to open for expansion can be very tricky. In essence, the other groups on campus have to decide that it is something they want. Considering that AOII closed just 3 years ago for low numbers, they may not think that interest is high enough to support another group. Even if they did decide to open, there would be no guarantee that AOII would be chosen to recolonize or that IHQ would choose to recolonize, especially since we closed so recently. I know it is very difficult to lose your chapter, especially so soon after being initiated. I don't think there is anything, per se, that you can actually do to move things forward to get an expansion going.
Roses,
Angela