Please Tell Me About Florida Atlantic

[Firehouse]

I am interested in hearing about Florida Atlantic University. Is there a good greek system there? What sort of student body do they have? Is the university supportive of greeks; are they trying to attract traditional residential students? Do they have a viable school atheltics program? Thanks for any information you can provide.

[ZTAngel]

I know there's a few ladies from FAU that can answer the question better than me but I'll try to answer the best of my knowledge since I grew up right by the school.
FAU is still very much a commuter school. From my understanding, this complicates recruitment a lot. They have a decent size greek system, though.
Here's a list of the current greeks:
Sororities-
Alpha Xi, DPhiE, Phi Sig, Theta Phi Alpha

Fraternities-
AEPi, ATO, Beta, Pike, Sammy, SigEp

Their football team is Division I. I'm not sure how they did last season.

[PhiPsiRuss]

We did some research into that school in 1999. At that time, the city of Boca Raton's zoning did not permit fraternity housing. I doubt that this has changed, but it could have. Also, there was talk of a university built greek row, but it was just talk. These two factors limit the dynamism of the greek system, but I've got a hunch that the school will eventually build an on-campus greek row.

Here's their web site for greek affairs:
http://www.fau.edu/student/greek/greek.htm