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I think APO is not doing well on the diversity level. There are to problems i think are facing APO today, Diversity at indivdual chapters and the lack of male interest in the faternity as a whole.
Diversity:
Chapters are suppose to reflect the school as far as divesity and im many cases it doesnt. On campuses where there is a good minority population, the chapters are either mostly white or all white. Chapters are not reflecting the demographics on there campus. And im noticing that aot of chapter are having major diversity issues.
Male issue:
Most of the chapters in the US are mostly females now. The undergrad membership is about 71% female. Men are not interested in pledging APO because all they see is women and if they do pledge its to get a girl. This is not in every case but in most. The real fraternity feel has left alot of chapter to the point where some chapter just give away memebership, you will never retain membership espeically men with that non-fraternal attitude.
In both issues, there are chapters crying for help and there is not formular to help this. Minorities (especially blacks) are not attracted to an org that they either dont know about or either have an ideal that its all white. We need to promote APO as a multicultural org which we dont. We emphasis CO-ED so much that people only take our org for that. When you look on the national website you dont see one minority on there. Why is that? The black or asian chapter are never advertise on any of our national publications. why is that? People have suggested that the women get more men by flirting with them or intising them with ideal that if they become APO they will get a girl which sickens me, The APO women are not whores or cattle to be branded for the purpose of recruitment. We need to sit down and find a better way of recruitment and bring that more fraternal feel back to the fraternity, that will be the only way we will become more diversity and get more male interest in my opinion.
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