Formal Recruitment help!

[FSUZeta]

"If total has been unreachable for the majority of chapters for a number of years, consider lowering it by 5 or 10 women."

yes, yes, yes....great advice!

[Zeta_heart]

Thank you all for your help! I just ordered the I "heart" recruitment from amazon so hopefully that will get here soon. The water bottles are a FABULOUS idea, I will be adopting that thank you!

We have discussed down sizing the number for total. The problem remains that we have housing through the university, and they require a specific number to reside in the housing no matter what total is. So by lowering total we are end up having even less people to put in the housing. It is kind of a catch-22. So we really need to amp up our recruitment.

Inter Sorority issued have actually died down in the past couple of semesters, due to some big "trouble" makers leaving. Our panhellenic is VERY greek orientated and committed to uniting to make this an extremely successful recruitment for us all. Which make this a great opportunity for us to take it to another level.

Thanks again for the help, leave any other ideas if you have them. This thread has me very motivated for recruitment this fall!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Zeta_heart

We have discussed down sizing the number for total. The problem remains that we have housing through the university, and they require a specific number to reside in the housing no matter what total is. So by lowering total we are end up having even less people to put in the housing. It is kind of a catch-22. So we really need to amp up our recruitment.

How is the housing set up? Can sororities split floors or have independents live there?

Your housing should fit what is happening in the Greek life scene, not the other way around. It's not fair to you guys to continually be getting crap from your HQs for not meeting total, and to continually feel like you are failing when you don't meet it, when the only reason it's up there is to keep the housing full. I'm guessing that there's a fear of if you give up a floor/suite/whatever now, you'll never get it back?

[Jill1228]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

"If total has been unreachable for the majority of chapters for a number of years, consider lowering it by 5 or 10 women."

yes, yes, yes....great advice!

Yes! Now if we can get the panhellenic at the school I advise at to do this! There are 2 NPCs and neither one of them are at total (nor have been for centuries)