Georgia Recruitment

[GeorgiaMom]

I'm the proud mom of a Gamma Phi!

[GPhiBLtColonel]

Originally Posted by GeorgiaMom

I'm the proud mom of a Gamma Phi!

oooooh! somehow I just had a feeling... The chapter is wonderful IMHO!

I was up there to help with rush during prefs last fall (in the kitchen though...nothing glamorous) and was also there two weeks ago to present an academic achievement scholarship from our Southern Crescent area alum chapter. Then several of the UGA Gamma Phis came to help install our new chapter at Kennesaw this past Saturday. There are four girls in the UGA chapter from my hometown.

[NUBlue&Blue]

Two girls from our HS are UGA Gamma Phis.

And wow, I heard about KSU's colonization. They did a great job.

[GeorgiaMom]

Give them all a hug the next time you're at UGA. One could be my daughter!

As far as writing recs again for PMNs down the road, I probably would. They could get stacked up somewhere and never see the light of day or they could give someone an opportunity to have a great recruitment experience. Better to have that base covered.

[breathesgelatin]

I am really late to this thread but wanted to pitch in an idea about a chapter being at total and still doing formal recruitment thing.

I know that at W&L the total was set unnaturally low. It was at 70, which represents the "ideal size" the university would like to see for chapters but just based on two (much less four) quota-sized pledge classes the chapter would be at that. In fact some chapters were nearly double total.

One thing that was experimented with there was allowing groups that had already made quota either via formal recruitment/COB to continue COB up to the average chapter size. Which is a tough call at W&L since there are hardly any non-Greek women.

I'm not saying this was used at UGA; in fact it doesn't sound like it was. But it's a possibility that this would happen in some cases and solve confusion that people had.

Also, at big schools like UGA/UT/etc, a LOT of people graduate in December. That could be a factor too.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by breathesgelatin

I know that at W&L the total was set unnaturally low. It was at 70, which represents the "ideal size" the university would like to see for chapters but just based on two (much less four) quota-sized pledge classes the chapter would be at that. In fact some chapters were nearly double total.

One thing that was experimented with there was allowing groups that had already made quota either via formal recruitment/COB to continue COB up to the average chapter size. Which is a tough call at W&L since there are hardly any non-Greek women.

Is W&L hoping to lower chapter size by adding ADPi?

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Is W&L hoping to lower chapter size by adding ADPi?

Yes.

They first began the stop-and-go process of adding a sixth sorority my senior year (spring 2005). Ultimately that failed because of inadequate preparations on Panhel's part to get the money cleared for a sixth sorority house. In response Panhel submitted a proposal as part of the W&L strategic plan to add a sixth house and bring the size down. The W&L houses were designed with a total of 70 in mind. At this point some of the larger houses cannot even fit all their members into their chapter meeting rooms. 70 is seen as a good number for W&L in terms of the house size and also in terms of the fact that W&L Panhel would like sororities to be a small, "personalized" experience just like W&L in general.

The strategic proposal document used to be on the W&L website, but I can't find it anymore after the Greek Life site redesign a month or two back. I'll keep looking for it. In it the writers discussed how the sixth group would bring the size down, but that based on the exponential growth of Greek life at W&L (a larger and larger percentage of women keep pledging), there would probably even need to be a seventh group to really get the size down to 70. However there isn't a spot for a seventh house on sorority row, which would lead to a whole other set of problems/questions. Some of the options were discussed in that document. I'll keep looking for it.

/sidetrack