Catholic Founded/Based Colleges and Universities

[pinkyphimu]

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.
Thank you for all of your messages, I wasn't sure if it was a universal thing!! I'm glad that its not!! Now all I have to do is TRANSFER

i grew up there!! my mom was soooo mad that i wouldn't even apply to dah u. i know that wilkes won't host fraternities because they are exclusive, but they do have professional fraternities. i know some people who were in the pharmacy fraternity. kings has something like them...but they are religious based and i don't think they are part of any national organization. most of the schools in that area are commuter schools. of the people i graduated from high school with, about 50% of those going to college went to those schools...and commuted. i only know one person who actually lived at misericordia.

[blueGBI]

Originally posted by Senusret I
I decided that I would make a listing of Jesuit Colleges and Universities to see which ones have a traditional greek system or not. Since most BGLOs and LGLOs can function through metropolitan chapters, I won't note them. If there is an "unrecognized" chapter of a national GLO on a campus that does NOT have a recognized system, I will note it.


Boston College
Canisius College, YES
College of the Holy Cross
Creighton University, YES
Fairfield University
Fordham University
Georgetown University, NO but has a chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi
Gonzaga University
John Carroll University, YES
Le Moyne College
Loyola College in Maryland
Loyola Marymount University, YES
Loyola University Chicago, YES
Loyola University New Orleans, YES
Marquette University, YES
Regis University, NO
Rockhurst University, YES
Saint Joseph's University
Saint Louis University, YES
Saint Peter's College
Santa Clara University, YES
Seattle University
Spring Hill College
University of Detroit Mercy, YES
University of San Francisco
University of Scranton, NO
Wheeling Jesuit University
Xavier University

Of course this is incomplete, I will edit the post as we get more info. And FYI, I only included Jesuit Universities because 1) the ones that ban them seem to say that frats/sorors are against the Jesuit mission, and 2) because I went to one and worked for one!

If you're talking about St. Joseph U, Philly, then yeah, they have greek life. I know that they have chapters of Alpha Phi and Tri-Sigma there. (I visited there when I was choosing colleges)

[Janerz222]

Originally posted by aurora_borealis
Senusret, I believe there are people from Santa Clara here on GC. I am about to head off to work so I can't search now. If you don't find it I will do a quick look when I get home.

The University has SAE, Sigma CHi, Pika, and Sigma Pi mentioned, I am sure there are more.

I want to say Theta is putting a colony in there, but I could be wrong. One of my sisters went to University of San Francisco, but if there was greek life she never mentioned it.

Theta just installed its Eta Lambda chapter at Santa Clara 3 weeks ago.

[Janerz222]

What about Pepperdine and Univ. of San Diego? I know both have GLOs.

OK - Pepperdine is Christian but not Catholic- my bad. USD is Catholic.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

There is a chapter of DPhiE at St. John's University in NYC.

[Munchkin03]

No for Fordham. Mr Munchkin's aunt went there, and because they have no "frats," that was one of the reasons she went.

[Zetagymnast]

Originally posted by WenD08
Xavier University in New Orleans, the only predominately Black college in the US, has NPHC sororities and fraternities. Xavier University in Cincinnati, a Jesuit school, also has NPHC sororities and at least one fraternity. at XU/Cincy, i don't know about non-NPHC orgs on campus

If I read you quote correctly did you say that Xavier was the only predominately Black college in the US. That's not right.

[Zetagymnast]

Questions- I noticed that some schools have national chapters but are not recognized by the school. I thought in order to be national you had to be recognized by a school. Can someone explain this to me?

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by Zetagymnast
Questions- I noticed that some schools have national chapters but are not recognized by the school. I thought in order to be national you had to be recognized by a school. Can someone explain this to me?

I think that you'd be able to find answers to lots of your questions by searching.

Anyway, this happens because some schools flat-out outlaw Greek life, but national organizations say that it's okay to have a chapter there. Ex: AEPi at Georgetown, everybody at Harvard, everybody at Princeton...

[Peaches-n-Cream]

Just doing a little searching.

Iona: Yes
Fordham has Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity.
Manhattan College: Yes
Marist College: Yes

[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

[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