Hi all,
I am here looking for advice. My sorority has been declining in membership a lot the last few years and it's mostly due to the covid-19 pandemic and this new stigma surrounding sororities and frats. This year we are so below total that nationals could close our chapter. We have primary recruitment coming up this fall and there will be international officers present. I am terrified that if we don't have a good recruitment year we will close.
It's so hard to recruit because normally my school is so small. Normally we have around 200 PNM's and last year they had about 105 and my chapter being the smallest got by far the smallest PC. Informal Recruitment is also so hard because so many people have dropped our chapter that we just sort of have this elephant in the room with our student body? My college is small so everyone knows everyone.
I know Ive just been going on and on about the factors working against us but the last one is that our chapter morale is just pretty low. We'll only have about 23ish recruiting members due to having folks on panhel/RC's. Our VP Recruitment is pretty pessimistic and is putting a lot of work in but sorta has an attitude that "we won't have a good recruitment year." Also with the bama rush documentary dropping soon people are even more worried we won't have good PNM turnout and that'll be it for us.
Has anyone been in a similar situation and managed to turn things around? Any success stories you can share?? I would so greatly appreciate it because as a leader in my chapter it's becoming harder to motivate folks and I know none of us want to close but I don't know what to do at this point.
Thank you
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