A lot could go into lower membership, especially with the rising cost of going to college. There is only so much expendable funds people can afford.
Also when schools are so Anti Greeks it shows and the results show it. Then toss in things like hazing/Alcohol Deaths so widely report, parents get up set and tell kids no way do you Greek or you get 0 funds from us.
We have been in a Anti Greek war for years and it will be an ongoing battle as we know.
I look at the Cost of even the State Universities in Kansas and go, OMG, how do kids afford it today?
I see the cost of my Fraternity going up yearly so, they want more money.
We all know, there is only so much money out there for us to spend and it is not going up as does the cost of expenditure. Ergo, what has to go? Go Greek and eat less or just concentrate on one thing. Then that is the decision one has to make!