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Originally posted by AXORissa
At Rutgers, if chapter closes here, it must wait at least 4 years before it is allowed to recolonize. I find it distasteful to re-colonize so soon.
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I think what AXiD did may be fairly common. It's called reorganizing, not recolonizing. An org will give the chapter one last chance to stay alive on the campus they're at, and they make the women alumnae perhaps because their reputation was bad on campus, they weren't living up to the expectations of the org, they were bad recruiters, etc. Then they advertise to PNMs on campus the chance to start a whole new organization from scratch.
An org tried this on my campus and it didn't work, I think mostly because we had deferred recruitment and by the time formal recruitment came around most PNMs already knew about reputations of that chapter and others on campus, and wanted to join one of the "it" chapters on campus. It was unfortunate, however, because the failing org took a fall new member class, so they only had one semester as XYZs.
I saw it work quite well with one of the fraternities, however they didn't make everyone an alum, they just culled the dead weight.