2020/2021 New Chapters/Expansions/Charters/Closures

[JayhawkAOII]

The AOII chapter at Washington University in St Louis has been closed due to the Abolish Greek Life movement. The chapter was no longer viable.

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by JayhawkAOII

The AOII chapter at Washington University in St Louis has been closed due to the Abolish Greek Life movement. The chapter was no longer viable.

Abolish this, students with an inflated sense of yourselves

[carnation]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Abolish this, students with an inflated sense of yourselves

YES.

[navane]

Originally Posted by JayhawkAOII

The AOII chapter at Washington University in St Louis has been closed due to the Abolish Greek Life movement. The chapter was no longer viable.

Can you explain what you mean? Did the chapter elect to relinquish their charter because they no longer support Greek life or did AGL proponents disrupt this chapter's ability to have successful operations?

[JayhawkAOII]

The atmosphere for Greek life has become toxic at Wash U. It has been particularly hard on sororities with all of them down to membership numbers in the 20s and 30s. AOII did have members who wanted to continue but it was not viable for them to be able to. What makes me the most sad about this is the bullying and sheer vile that all of our chapter members are enduring and a University that has seemingly washed its hands of it.

[navane]

Originally Posted by JayhawkAOII

The atmosphere for Greek life has become toxic at Wash U. It has been particularly hard on sororities with all of them down to membership numbers in the 20s and 30s. AOII did have members who wanted to continue but it was not viable for them to be able to. What makes me the most sad about this is the bullying and sheer vile that all of our chapter members are enduring and a University that has seemingly washed its hands of it.

What a shame. Thank you for clarifying.

[LaneSig]

Originally Posted by JayhawkAOII

The atmosphere for Greek life has become toxic at Wash U. It has been particularly hard on sororities with all of them down to membership numbers in the 20s and 30s. AOII did have members who wanted to continue but it was not viable for them to be able to. What makes me the most sad about this is the bullying and sheer vile that all of our chapter members are enduring and a University that has seemingly washed its hands of it.

Looking at WUSL's Fall '19 Greek Grade Report, the sororities had membership numbers from 93-133 range. This was before new members joined in Spring 2020.

That's quite a drop, even with the normal graduation numbers.

https://students.wustl.edu/wp-conten...19-2-20-20.pdf

[LaneSig]

Two local sororities at the University of Texas-Permian Basin are looking to affiliate with NPC sororities. The campus is open for expansion.

There are currently no NPC, NPHC, or MCGO sororities at UTPB. There is one NIC, Kappa Delta Rho.

[PGD-GRAD]

I have a friend (sorority member) whose young adult daughter (non-Greek) is pursuing a graduate degree at Wash U. She told her mom that she’s teaching some classes as an adjunct and that she’s heard that the current sorority memberships run “between 5 and 25-30”. If that’s right—GOOD GRIEF! She also told her mom that a faculty member told her all the sororities bled members over the summer and are badly compromised (if that’s true).
So why has the Greek Life Office not stepped in to help? They MUST know that a good % of alumni/ae donation come from Greek members.

JayhawkAOII is correct—the atmosphere MUST be toxic! How do you even recruit in that environment?

[FSUZeta]

Not to mention, that if Greek Life dies, the Greek Life admin have to look for jobs, and with Wash U on their resume', a new job might be difficult to find.

[Cookiez17]

Sigma Kappa has closed their chapter at Rutgers University- New Brunswick. Closure is due to low membership numbers. Here is the press release. https://sigmakappa.org/globalassets/...ease_final.pdf

[DEVODUDE]

Greetings. I hope everyone is well and staying safe during this difficult time. Just an update on the following colonization/recolonization for Zeta Beta Tau......


Fall 2020:
College of Staten Island (NY)

Emory University (re-colonization of Eta Lambda)


Spring 2021:
University of California-Berkeley (re-colonization of Alpha Eta)


Also, for Fall 2021, ZBT has been invited to re-colonize the Alpha Iota Chapter at University of Kentucky.

[ForrestGrump]

Delta Gamma has announced that the Fraternity Council voted to suspend the charter of the Epsilon Nu chapter at James Madison University, effective at the end of the spring semester. The chapter, chartered in May 1982, was considered "no longer sustainable" by the Fraternity.

[ZTAngel]

ZTA’s Lambda Tau chapter at LIU - Brooklyn was installed on November 20.

[Cookiez17]

Delta Delta Delta will be colonizing at Georgia Southern University in 2022. https://www.instagram.com/gsutridelta/