2025/2026 New Chapters/Expansions/Charters/Closures

[g41965]

DU just announced a new interest group at Michigan St. DU existed at Michigan St from 1949-2007 and has significant alumni base.

[LaneSig]

The Sigma Chi chapter at the College of Idaho has voted to surrender their charter. This decision was due to low membership numbers. Sigma Chi was the only current active men’s fraternity on campus.

[summer_gphib]

Gamma Phi's Epsilon Chapter at Northwestern was installed and initiated! Single-letter chapters returning always feels like such a big win! <3

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by LaneSig

The Sigma Chi chapter at the College of Idaho has voted to surrender their charter. This decision was due to low membership numbers. Sigma Chi was the only current active men’s fraternity on campus.

Four years ago one of their three NPC chapters closed, too. Seems like more than a few smaller U.S. colleges are losing student population as well as greek numbers.

[Small laneswerve: Just before I joined GreekChat, I was
hooked on watching a student-produced YouTube program filmed at The College of Idaho, The Idaho Mole, based upon the nationally broadcast ABC television program The Mole.]

[Cookiez17]

Originally Posted by summer_gphib

Gamma Phi's Epsilon Chapter at Northwestern was installed and initiated! Single-letter chapters returning always feels like such a big win! <3

I am so happy for them, especially after what happened at Northwestern during the abolish greek life movement. I hope a few of the other chapters that folded can return in the future.

[Cookiez17]

https://rhodycigar.com/2026/03/12/al...r-11-year-ban/

So turns out the reason Alpha Phi got delayed to return to URI was soil!

The organization is also planning to build a new sorority house in the Fraternity Circle area, according to Renee Zainer, international executive director of Alpha Phi. However, construction will take a few years to complete. Soil studies delayed the organization’s earlier return.

“We had an agreement with the university when we left to come back, and the earliest we could have returned was 2025,” Zainer said. “But we had to figure out if we could actually build on the lot because there was a lot of sludge in the soil.”

The new house should hopefully be ready by 2028.