Schools that (should) open for expansion

[Cookiez17]

This is actually a followup to an irishpipes thread from a while back
https://greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?t=195512

If you were to pick a school that should open for expansion, who would you pick? Here's my list (I will note that schools that have opened recently, added a chapter within the last 4 years, or plan to open are not included.)

Colgate University (quote 60, last colony Tri Delta 1996)
University of Utah (quota 109, total 262, last colony Aphi 2012)
Georgia Southern University (quota 77, total 262, last colony Chi O 2016)

Also if there are potential hurdles to a school opening like needing a house and there not being land available, that can also be discussed in here.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by Cookiez17

Georgia Southern University (quota 77, total 262, last colony Chi O 2016)

Also if there are potential hurdles to a school opening like needing a house and there not being land available, that can also be discussed in here.

A GSU sorority would have to find land to build a house and might struggle because they wouldn't be on Greek Row anyway. Also, they would have to put up with being the newest, therefore having to rush all the time. It's rough being the newest chapter on a Southern campus.

[Cheerio]

All this summer, media have explored and explained the Enrollment Cliff colleges will soon experience. Any upcoming expansions will need to include those thoughs.

[navane]

Originally Posted by carnation

A GSU sorority would have to find land to build a house and might struggle because they wouldn't be on Greek Row anyway. Also, they would have to put up with being the newest, therefore having to rush all the time. It's rough being the newest chapter on a Southern campus.

I struggle to understand why some campus cultures are so brutal. It's a part of human nature to get caught up in a survival of the fittest mindset and a desire to be seen as the top. But man......some campus locations just eviscerate newer or smaller chapters.

About 7 years back at SDSU, we were dying over the gigantic pledge classes. At one point, our Gamma Phi Beta chapter was so huge that we had to purchase extra folding tables and chairs to set up in the *living room* just to make enough seats for all of the members for Monday night formal dinner. The girls were overwhelmed and we had members up to the rafters. We needed a new chapter on campus and we were relieved when one finally came on (DZ). We were GLAD to have that new chapter on campus!

[jolene]

The Chi O chapter is thriving at Southern, though. I personal know some parents of Chi O's active and alum from that chapter.

[carnation]

Well, let's just say they're not up there where they were before they folded. You have 4 entrenched chapters--ADPi, Phi Mu. KD, and Zeta.

[shadokat]

There are spots there for someone who wants to join at Kappa. They're less than half the size of the other chapters.

And, as a DPhiE, trust me, this campus is HELL to establish on.

Originally Posted by carnation

Well, let's just say they're not up there where they were before they folded. You have 4 entrenched chapters--ADPi, Phi Mu. KD, and Zeta.

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by shadokat

There are spots there for someone who wants to join at Kappa. They're less than half the size of the other chapters.

And, as a DPhiE, trust me, this campus is HELL to establish on.

Wait, isn't recruitment a two-way decision process? I'm not a Kappa, but you don't know if Kappa may have chosen to formally recruit a smaller class due to PNMs not meeting Kappa standards.

I understand your not appreciating the GSU greek life culture due to the eventual failure of DPhiE's GSU chapter establishment. But chapter failures at that same level for similar reasons have occurred at NPC chapters elsewhere in the U.S, too.

[mlanderson]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Wait, isn't recruitment a two-way decision process? I'm not a Kappa, but you don't know if Kappa may have chosen to formally recruit a smaller class due to PNMs not meeting Kappa standards.

I understand your not appreciating the GSU greek life culture due to the eventual failure of DPhiE's GSU chapter establishment. But chapter failures at that same level for similar reasons have occurred at NPC chapters elsewhere in the U.S, too.

"Greek Life culture"? You mean racism. People like to cover up GSU and its very apparent problem with racism. Getting called n*ggers and n*gger lovers = eventual failure. If you say it's a sore spot, that's the understatement of the century.

[Titchou]

Amen and amen, Carnation.

[Cheerio]

The University of Kentucky.

I'd add University of Kansas, but that may be impossible.

Throwing in LOL the University of Colorado.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

University of Arizona should open, but again housing is the elephant in the room

[33girl]

No. No one else needs to make the same mistake we did.

[Cookiez17]

I will bring up a few that (could) open depending on trends and overall #'s

Ole Miss (yes A Chi O just came on but they are quickly catching up and total is currently 615!!!)
Sacred Heart University
Mississippi State University
Clemson University
Cornell (though Phi Sig just left they are already looking at if a chapter will need to be added)

University of Arizona is one that I totally have as one that should open, but hearing about how tough the housing situation is, it might not happen.

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by Cookiez17

Ole Miss (yes A Chi O just came on but they are quickly catching up and total is currently 615!!!)

SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN??!?! Initiation must take forever! If total is 615, quota has got to be somewhere north of 150. If you added up the membership of every NPC chapter at my alma mater, you wouldn't even get close to 615. Then again, MIT isn't Ole Miss.

Edit: Just tripped over this year's Ole Miss recruitment thread. AOII got 279 new members. Yowza.