How many years? COB question

[honeychile]

Also, there are chapters which, for some reason or another, the Powers That Be have decided that they will keep that chapter open at almost any cost. One of them was my own chapter. Its numbers have been up and down for years, but in the past 10 years, they have become a major force! When they won Alpha Delta Pi's most honored award, The Maxine Blake Chapter Excellence Award (aka The Golden Lion), the officers affectionately referred to it as "The Little Chapter That Could". It's been the largest chapter on campus for a while now - but it's because they became the best COB chapter I've ever seen, and they wanted it badly enough.

[33girl]

This is NOBODY'S decision but that of the [inter]national office and the chapter. If girls don't want to go through formal rush for fear of being matched with the chapter, I guess they won't be Greek then. Oh well. When a chapter is told that they are too small to have a "positive sorority experience," many times it's the haranguing and pressure from HQ or their advisors/alumnae that are really what is causing the lack of a positive experience...not their size. If they can pay for whatever their housing situation is and have enough members for offices, all's good.

However, if the chapter is being a jagoff and continually voting against expansion, that's another kettle of fish. Their [inter]nationals might want to explain to them why this will make them social pariahs...or vice versa.

[KSUViolet06]

Also, depending on the school, it is possible for a chapter to do really well at COR and go from being the smallest on campus, to a competitive size. I work with a chapter that went from being smallest of 4 to largest of 4 in one school year.

Additionally, there are schools at which you can have one good recruitment during FR that can change things for the chapter. This tends to be true at schools where reputation and social standing are more fluid.

Ex: The chapter I spoke of went from "chapter no one wants" to cross preferencing with the top dogs on campus because the school is such that a change in size made PNMs view them differently. I recognize that there are places where XYZ could go from 40 to 200 and no one would want to join it because the reputational structure is ingrained in PNMs, rather than being flexible and based on size.