Getting Greeks Involved

[AUGreekLiason]

I am the Greek Liason at AU and am in charge of Greek Week this coming spring. I have tons of great ideas for events, but that isnt the problem. The issue at my school is getting people to participate. No one seems to care and I dont know how to encourage people to get involved. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[EE-BO]

I would suggest you arrange meetings with officers of as many sororities as you can and find out what their participation interest might be. Perhaps you can create some fundraising activities associated with Greek Week that will benefit their chosen charities?

By doing this one-on-one you can also get a feel for what the best timing is so that you do not interfere with existing planned social commitments.

Sororities are the key. Get them on board and the fraternities will follow!

[adpiucf]

Engage the Greek groups with delegates from each chapter chairing an event.

Making participation mandatory to their university recognition helps.

But if a Greek Community doesn't want to have a Greek Week, why bother? They're the ones benefitting from a weeklong celebration of Greekdom!!!

[EE-BO]

Originally Posted by adpiucf

Engage the Greek groups with delegates from each chapter chairing an event.

That is an excellent idea. It never hurts to stage these kinds of things as a friendly competition. Many houses will work all the harder to ensure they put on the best event.

It also goes along with something that struck me as I was thinking about this further this morning- I think it is important to keep from being too elaborate to start.

You can require chapters to participate perhaps, but I think it could be tricky to try and go all out with floats, parades and events spread over several days.

By letting the individual chapters (or better yet- sorority and fraternity pairs) design and stage certain events (subject to approval of the event of course), I think you set the stage for this to grow into something even better in future years at the initiative of the chapters rather than you having to force everyone to do a set program you develop each year.

[FSUZeta]

you could check out greeklife websites on other college campuses to see how they stage greekweek.

[Greekopedia]

apathy sucks. its a general problem with any student organization.

the good thing about being greek is that for the most part, students who are greek want to get involved on campus. at least from my experience. good luck!!