2023/2024 New Chapters/Expansions/Charters/Closures

[oncegreek]

Originally Posted by AZTheta

I read the asterisked statement in the original post from UCSB which was at the bottom of the detailed post about expansion. It says that NPC expansion is pursuant to NPC regulations, not what the Greek Life office is requiring. I am interpreting this to indicate that the campus IS open for another NPC chapter. Paging TLLK for her knowledge about the campus. Thanks(Go Gauchos!).

Personally I’d like to see Chi Omega and Tri Delta return. I have great memories of Chi O as their facility was right next door to ours on El Colegio. So many fun things happened during recruitment. I think Tri Delta may have used that same facility; they were after my time on campus.

So many sororities have closed at UCSB; when I was there, in the eighties, girls would drop out if they did not get their first choice. Housing is so expensive in IV, it would be difficult for a new chapter to get established.

[Cookiez17]

Originally Posted by oncegreek

So many sororities have closed at UCSB; when I was there, in the eighties, girls would drop out if they did not get their first choice. Housing is so expensive in IV, it would be difficult for a new chapter to get established.

Man that stinks. I hate when PNMs have the mentality of "oh if I don't get ABC, then I'll drop."

On the other hand, I wrote in the off topic thread that schools that I never thought would expand did, so maybe if any of the sororities still own their houses/land (which I have no idea,)it could maybe lead to something.

[Low D Flat]

Originally Posted by oncegreek

Housing is so expensive in IV, it would be difficult for a new chapter to get established.

This is part of what's surprising to me. When housing is expensive and hard to find, and has to be signed a year in advance, I would expect PNMs to join sororities just to know they'll have somewhere convenient to live as sophomores. I've known students who joined at Michigan in part for this reason.