Catholic Founded/Based Colleges and Universities

[breathesgelatin]

Originally posted by WenD08
my mistake. i meant to say that Xavier University in New Orleans is the only predominately Black Catholic university in the US.
excuse my bad typing

One of my best friends from high school goes to Xavier.

/hijack

[AchtungBaby80]

Originally posted by AOIIalum
Georgetown College in Georgetown, KY (just outside Lexington) is a Christian school with greek life.

Yes. Georgetown has four sororities, and I'm not sure how many fraternities.

Bellarmine University (also Louisville) does have greek life. They have a Phi Mu chapter, which I believe is the only sorority.

That's true. One of my best friends from my DZ chapter transferred there, and that's what she told me...she was really bummed she had to go alum.

[naraht]

And sometimes it depends on how the no-greek clause is written as to what groups other than NIC/NPC/NPHC groups are there. Harvard's is probably the strictest in that no groups that are controlled by a group outside the university may exist on campus. This means everything from Circle-K to the Young Republicans are out. Some schools ban just socials, allowing groups like Alpha Phi Omega and the honoraries on campus...

Now as for Wilkes, it *really* depends on how the rule is written. And the clubs web page for Wilkes is not the place to find out. It states

"At Wilkes, we take an egalitarian approach to student organizations: All clubs are open to all students. Because the Greek system excludes, you won’t find any fraternities or sororities. "

However I *really* doubt that the first sentence is true. The following clubs exist on campus (as listed on the clubs and organizations page). AFROTC (which won't allow gays), Women's Field Hockey (Excludes Men) , Men's Football (excludes women), and the Tri-beta Honor Society (which has requires 3 biology courses and other criteria to be a regular member. (any student can be a non-voting associate member).

I love it. All of our clubs have to allow everybody. Unless you are male, female, gay or haven't take 3 biology courses. So of course we don't allow fraternities & sororities. Sheesh.

Randy Finder

[Ndigayenza]

Originally posted by LadyBug103
This may not be the appropriate forum for this Question, but I'm hoping that it is...so here it goes!

I live in an area where there are an abundance of Catholic founded colleges and universities. None of these institutions support Greek Letter Organizations. Many even state on their websites under "campus organizations" that they do not support Greek organizations because of the exclusivity of the nature of the groups. I was wondering if this is consistent with all Catholic Institutions or if it is just the geographical area. Does anyone here attend a Catholic founded university that is in a GLO? I know that other denominational based universities support GLO's such as Methodist (That's the only one that I know of actually). Does anyone have any insight into this topic?

I go to a Catholic founded college and Greeks are not recognized although they exist. They are there because at one point they were recognized and at some point through the years, the recognition was revoked. Why? who knows, exclusiveness, hazing, rivalry...I have heard all of it but the truth

[scuthetagirl]

Originally posted by LadyBug103
This may not be the appropriate forum for this Question, but I'm hoping that it is...so here it goes!

I live in an area where there are an abundance of Catholic founded colleges and universities. None of these institutions support Greek Letter Organizations. Many even state on their websites under "campus organizations" that they do not support Greek organizations because of the exclusivity of the nature of the groups. I was wondering if this is consistent with all Catholic Institutions or if it is just the geographical area. Does anyone here attend a Catholic founded university that is in a GLO? I know that other denominational based universities support GLO's such as Methodist (That's the only one that I know of actually). Does anyone have any insight into this topic?

I don't know if anyone's said anything about this, so I'll just respond. I go to Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA. We used to have a Greek system that was started/maintained/supported by the school, but it got kicked off campus, so now we're not affiliated. But I'm still a Greek at a Catholic University.

[IheartAphi]

I think the size of the school plays a decision. My parents went to Belmont Abbey in NC (Catholic). The school was already very small and having GLO kinda divided the school (my dad's opinion) While everyone would go to parties, groups would often be mean and cruel about pledges

My Aunt was president of the Sig Ep Sister group (Golden Hearts) She black balled my mom, her sister, and her best friend all because they were dating Sig Eps (My dad and my mom's friends husband). Its not a big deal now, but it really hurt my mom at the time. All the girls in all the little sister organizations treated them differently and were snobby. Then the sister group got mad at my dad because they would not break up with the "black balled" pledges.

That was in the late 70's and things have changed. They have small local groups that are made to be more inclusive. I think they have a few small fraternities that don't have campus housing. I think they have changed the system to fit the size of the campus. Everything happens off campus, except on St Patricks day the school has a big party with beer (Gotta love being Catholic)

[Markasm70]

Originally Posted by LadyBug103

I live in the Northeast PA area, and attend Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, which is adament about not supporting greek life because of the reason that I have stated. The institutions surrounding me don't support greek orgs. , such as Kings College, College Miseracordia, The University of Scranton (which is a Jesuit University), Johnson College, Bible Baptist College, Penn State Branch Campuses (which is a state university obviously, but don't have greek systems because only the main campus does), Marywood University, Lackawanna County Community College. Not ALL of these are Catholic based but the majority are, and it seems as though its consistent that they don't support greek orgs. due to many reasons, which I dont agree with.

I went to Duquesne University, which was mentioned above as having social Greeks (and has had social Greeks since the early 1920s). I live in southcentral PA, and used to work at the national headquarters of a coed honor fraternity. One thing that may be preventing many of those schools from incorporating Greek life is student population size. Where I used to work, we [generally] would not consider starting a chapter at an institution with fewer than 3000 students. While the organizations discussed above are social and leadership-oriented (aside from the professional orgs mentioned at Gergetown), they also must consider the financial side of the organzation and its ability to thrive on a campus. Yes, fraternities too are businesses!

Oh, and many PSU branch campuses are two-year schools, precluding them from approval by many (not all, many!) national charters. However, PSU Harrisburg is now a four-year institution and is seriously contemplating bringing Greek life to that campus.

[khlkcca]

Xavier University (Cincinnati) considers itself a non-greek campus, but there are NPHC groups.

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by khlkcca

Xavier University (Cincinnati) considers itself a non-greek campus, but there are NPHC groups.

? How can that not be consider a Non Greek Campus? Are They not members of the greek community?

[CZAXOTerp]

Having grown up in the area I can confirm:
Loyola College in Maryland NO

Also the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (that's right- CONDOM) is all women and they don't have any GLOs.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

? How can that not be consider a Non Greek Campus? Are They not members of the greek community?

If you read the thread, you will see plenty of examples of the aforementioned.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by CZAXOTerp

Having grown up in the area I can confirm:
Loyola College in Maryland NO

Also the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (that's right- CONDOM) is all women and they don't have any GLOs.

Do you think they got confused, and protected themselves from GLOs?

[AOIIalum]

Originally Posted by honeychile

Do you think they got confused, and protected themselves from GLOs?

Honey, you owe me a new keyboard!

Since I'm sure I wasn't the only one curious: College of Notre Dame of Maryland

[ADPiLove]

To answer the question about the University of San Diego that was posed, oh, 4 years ago, yes, they do have recognized sororities and fraternities, and are Catholic. But, for being a Catholic university, it is quite liberal at times.

[AOE2AlphaPhi]

There are several Jesuit Schools that a lot of students from my high school attend. University of San Francisco, University of San Diego and Santa Clara University. USF and USD both have active greek sytems, although I don't think either have houses. SCU has a greek system but it isn't recognized by the university.

Edit: Santa Clara even sent letters to parents of new students this year warning against the risk behaviors they claimed the Greek system encouraged.