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I stumbled upon this thread and thought I should weigh in and make a point or maybe to ask for help as well.
In terms of diversity APO is lagging behind the times, especially if we refer to multi-cultural diversity. There are whole chapters who do primarily draw members from under-represented minorities but look around at any convention and you will see that the majority of the brothers are white. The cause is probably not that we don't recruit minorities but that our active chapters are located at predominantly white schools. I think the chapters around my school do a great job in recruitment but when your school only has a 5% minority population and the rest are from NJ the chapter will be likewise. If we want more minority members look to new chapters
As for the issue on women. I'm not quite sure why men are no longer joining APO. I know it's a problem, my home chapter will have one man after I graduate and that's out of a chapter of fifty active brothers. I'm afraid the organization may come to reflect this change and it will further hurt recruitment but I'm at a loss as to how to recruit more men. My one suggestion is that we need to better define ourselves on the campuses where we exist, we need to tell everyone who we are and make that presence known.
On my campus my chapter is fully accepted and respected by the sororities on campus, they see it as a good path for a girl to choose. However, every fraternity in the school questions who we are, what we do and how can we be co-ed. I believe that if we better define ourselves and align our policies with those of predominantly male organizations we may see some turn around in this trend. But it's only an idea so I doubt I'll ever try it out. Any one else has suggestions I'd love to hear them though.
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