2022/2023 New Chapters/Expansions/Charters/Closures

[carnation]

Middle Georgia keeps trying but I don't know...

[Cookiez17]

Has there been previous expansion attempts that have never panned out?

[carnation]

Oh, they've been looking for about a zillion years with no takers. I get that. It's almost all commuters.

[Cookiez17]

That tends to happen. My alma mater must have been an outlier, as it was a huge commuter school yet had a vibrant greek system.

[PKT4LIFE]

Today we recolonized our Alpha Xi chapter at West Virginia University with 30 founding fathers. This chapter was dormant since 1943 (80 years). A huge WELCOME BACK!!!!!

[ZTA72]

Originally Posted by PKT4LIFE

Today we recolonized our Alpha Xi chapter at West Virginia University with 30 founding fathers. This chapter was dormant since 1943 (80 years). A huge WELCOME BACK!!!!!

Congratulations!!

[SuzyInMD]

Originally Posted by GatorGirl04

Phi Sigma Sigma at Cornell is closing due to low numbers. They're following on the heels of Phi Mu closing.

Cornell had a few closings in the early 2000s, with Chi Omega, Delta Phi Epsilon, and Alpha Omicron Pi all leaving around the same time.

Why do so many groups struggle at Cornell?

I am a Cornell alumna and my daughter is a current undergraduate. When I was an undergraduate in the 1980s, and shortly after, there were several colonizations in a short period of time, approximately one every two years. All of those organizations, including those you mentioned above, have closed. Phi Sigma Sigma and Phi Mu are more recent chapters, I believe both opened sometime in the 2010s. Most of the sororities at Cornell are long established chapters and those are not struggling. I believe only one organization that has opened since 1982 has prospered. It is the new chapters that struggle, they have successful colonies, then the chapters struggle after a short period of time when being the new group is no longer attractive. In my opinion, the question should be why it is difficult to establish a new group at Cornell.

[LaneSig]

Alpha Epsilon Pi at Northwestern University(IL) has been closed due to RMF issues.

[Cookiez17]

Alpha Delta Chi at UCLA will be closing at the end of the semester. This is actually the Alpha chapter of the sorority.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5V4gpuY7J/

[navane]

Originally Posted by Cookiez17

Alpha Delta Chi at UCLA will be closing at the end of the semester. This is actually the Alpha chapter of the sorority.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5V4gpuY7J/

Founded in 1925, the chapter was awfully close to their 100 year anniversary.

[fmanning]

Phi Mu Delta has established a provisional chapter, Mu Omega, at Temple University. There are 15 founding fathers for this new chapter. The installation was conducted by brothers from the Phi Mu Delta chapters at Susquehanna University and Stockton University.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by SuzyInMD

I am a Cornell alumna and my daughter is a current undergraduate. When I was an undergraduate in the 1980s, and shortly after, there were several colonizations in a short period of time, approximately one every two years. All of those organizations, including those you mentioned above, have closed. Phi Sigma Sigma and Phi Mu are more recent chapters, I believe both opened sometime in the 2010s. Most of the sororities at Cornell are long established chapters and those are not struggling. I believe only one organization that has opened since 1982 has prospered. It is the new chapters that struggle, they have successful colonies, then the chapters struggle after a short period of time when being the new group is no longer attractive. In my opinion, the question should be why it is difficult to establish a new group at Cornell.

From the NPC Chapter listing thread, for reference:

Originally Posted by shadokat

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
January 16-29, 2023
Quota=
Campus Total=183
Quota last year=
******************
Kappa Alpha Theta Iota 1881-1965/1980 (42)
Kappa Kappa Gamma Psi 1883-1969/1977 (44)
Delta Gamma Chi 1885 (42)
Alpha Phi Delta 1889-1998/1998
Alpha Omicron Pi Epsilon 1908-1962/1989-2008
Delta Zeta Beta 1908-1932
Delta Delta Delta Alpha Beta 1913 (40)
Kappa Delta Omega Chi 1917-1969/1975 (42)
Sigma Delta Tau Alpha (Founding Chapter) 1917 (46)
Chi Omega Theta Alpha 1917-1963/1987-2003
Alpha Xi Delta Alpha Beta 1918-1964/2005 (44)
Pi Beta Phi New York Delta 1919 (41)
Alpha Epsilon Phi Kappa 1920 (41)
Sigma Kappa Alpha Zeta 1921-1955
Phi Sigma Sigma Beta Xi 1954-1969/2011 (17)
Delta Phi Epsilon Delta Rho 1960-1988/?-2003
Iota Alpha Pi Beta Delta 1966-1971
Alpha Chi Omega Zeta Phi 1984 (40)
Alpha Gamma Delta Zeta Xi 1985-1990
Phi Mu Phi Xi 2014-2021

[LaneSig]

Sigma Phi Epsilon has had their recognition revoked by the University of Tennessee. Action was taken due to violations of student code of conduct.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/...y/70046556007/

[g41965]

DY reinstalled their Purdue Chapter this last weekenkend.

[Cookiez17]

Sigma Delta Tau at UT-Austin is listed as inactive as of this past summer.

https://sigmadeltatau.org/chapter/ta...sity-of-texas/