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The University of Akron is very much a LARGE commutter campus. Only 3% of our campus is Greek which when you truly think about it isn't alot (even though there are around 700 members in the Greek System). However....80% of the organizations on campus are led by Greeks.
All of our IFC and Panhellenic groups have houses...some are bigger, some are smaller. When it comes to women's recruitment, DG, ADPi, and Kappa are able to host Pref in their houses. Alpha Gam and Alpha Phi don't have large houses so they use rooms in the student center for their Pref parties. Our typical Formal Recruitment (usually in the Fall) is 4-5 days. Quota ranges from 10-15 and house total is 65. None of our groups at the moment are at total. DG hit total in Fall 01 due to our efforts (along with our nationals) to COB so much that we would increase our numbers. We hit quota during recruitment (which was 12) and the week later we took 20 women...taking us to 32 new members and making that the biggest pledge class in a long time. ADPi and Alpha Gam are very close to total along now with us considering we all lost many members to graduation and alumnae status. Alpha Phi is decent in numbers and Kappa has decreased enormously in the past couple years. They will be going towards the same thing that my chapter did last fall with their Nationals.
I can say...as a commuter student (soon to living in the DG house) it was nice to have a place to go to between classes, work, etc. I was very involved in high school and knew that this would be the one thing to keep myself involved. I have held a VP in my chapter and two Panhellenic Exec positions (PR last semester....President this semester). Its been a wonderful experience....and I wouldn't change any of my decisions...however, I would like to see more people like myself get involved on campus whether they live on campus or commute.
The men have it a little easier than the women. Their houses hold more members than the women (the most in our houses range from 4-16, the guys range from 10-30...i think) and there are also 11 fraternities compared to our 5 sororities.
In order to recruit more people, we have been trying to get out to more incoming freshman during orientation and by sending out fliers in the mail. Our PR chair (Panhel) has been working so hard in the past month, considering she just got the position in the middle of May since I moved up to Pres. So.....here's to crossing my fingers for a successful recruitment!!
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