Recruit more girls to think about pledging

[lDoCvOe]

Ok well yea I go to Alfred State and mostly everyone at the school lives an hour away. so no one really stays around cause they say there is nothing to do on the weekends. I love my weekends at school but its the same people that stay every weekend.
And alot of you said to try and recruit girls by advertising that we do alot on the weekends but to tell you the truth we only have 4 actives. Thats not a whole lot. and all the sororities on my campus dont have houses so that kinda makes people not want to join either cause they say its nothing special.

The main thing is at my school ALL the numbers are going down. This past semester each sorority (3) only had about 2 pledges. With numbers like these im scared were going to die out. We are only a local college. We used to have a chapter at a community college but they died out. So i feel as next semesters president I need to figure out a way to keep us alive.

[barbino]

To the OP:

Being from Illinois, I feel for all the chapters (fraternity or sorority) after the shootings. Now is the time to call your alumnae so that they can help. This is the time for your alumnae to become really active so that the undergraduate chapters can continue to function. Tell your alumnae that you need their help- now. You still have 2/3 of the summer to arrange for a successful rush.
After reading your post, I'd be calling my national's NIU chapter president with an offer to help in any way that I could, but my national does not have a chapter there. I can appreciate your concern-make sure that you express it to your alumnae. If you don't have a "Slightly Older Sister" program or something like it, it would help to implement it. This is when alumnae relations become important. Let us know how it goes.

[lDoCvOe]

See were pretty much on our own, people told me to post a thread in the recruitment forums so i did If you would like to help more, I posted a little more about my sorority in there.

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...96#post1671096
thats the link so if you have any ideas for like rush parties,
see we dont do the bids and stuff at my school we just have a rush parties and if a girl is interested in that sorority they come to the rush party and then about 2 weeks later we start the month pledging process

Thanks
<3
Sister of Delta Chi Omega

[SoCalGirl]

Originally Posted by barbino

To the OP:

Being from Illinois, I feel for all the chapters (fraternity or sorority) after the shootings. Now is the time to call your alumnae so that they can help. This is the time for your alumnae to become really active so that the undergraduate chapters can continue to function. Tell your alumnae that you need their help- now. You still have 2/3 of the summer to arrange for a successful rush.
After reading your post, I'd be calling my national's NIU chapter president with an offer to help in any way that I could, but my national does not have a chapter there. I can appreciate your concern-make sure that you express it to your alumnae. If you don't have a "Slightly Older Sister" program or something like it, it would help to implement it. This is when alumnae relations become important. Let us know how it goes.

Is this even related to this thread? It feels like your responding to a completely different topic.

[barbino]

Thanks, chan815, for correctly interpreting my response. It should have been directed to you, not the "op." I know that many people here in Illinois, me included, are all still very emotional over the shootings. I was concerned about its effect on the Greek population at NIU, one of my favorite campuses because of its close proximity. It has always been a popular choice for anyone in my immediate area, and I know quite a few people that went there. I hate to see the population, (Greek or just the general campus population) there affected in any way.

Question -- How big are the sorority houses at NIU, and have all chapters always filled them in the past?