Geographical Breadth of early expansion?

[Griffins&Quills]

Alpha Xi Delta's first chapters were a bit all over the place.

Alpha - 1893, Illinois
Beta - 1902, Iowa
Gamma - 1902, Ohio
Delta - 1903, West Virginia
Epsilon - 1903, South Dakota
Zeta - 1904, Ohio
Eta - 1904, New York
Theta - 1905, Wisconsin
Iota - 1905, West Virginia
Kappa - 1905, Illinois
Lambda - 1907, Massachusetts
Mu - 1907, Minnesota
Nu - 1907, Washington
Xi - 1908, Kentucky
Omicron - 1909, California
Pi - 1911, Ohio
Rho - 1912, Nebraska
Sigma - 1912, Iowa
Tau - 1914, New Hampshire
Upsilon - 1915, Vermont
Phi - 1915, Michigan
Chi - 1915, Kansas
Psi - 1916, Ohio
Omega - 1917, Florida

[LAblondeGPhi]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

^^^ At the 2008 Convention, intl. President Linda Daniel Johnson spoke about the Sorority's early expansion. She said that early on, Sorority leaders were very selective in deciding where to charter new chapters, with one qualification being that the universities needed to be at least as prestigious/rigorous/well-known as Syracuse. This limited our early expansion, and we did not grow as quickly as a number of other groups.

That makes sense - when I was looking through the chapter rolls yesterday I noticed that almost all of the single-letter chapters are at major flagship state universities. I'm still a fan of that strategy. I think more prominent schools are *generally* more immune to the ebbs and flows of college enrollment numbers.