2024/2025 New Chapters/Expansions/Charters/Closures

[Cookiez17]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Where do Alabama SK chapter members plan on living/hosting recruitment this year? Have they more recently held equal to other campus chapters in NM numbers?

I guess for now they’ll stay in that swing house until something happens. Via the last grade report they have 215 members compared to the 400 ranger that the other houses have, and they got 82 new members compared to the 100’s the others got.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by Cookiez17

I guess for now they’ll stay in that swing house until something happens. Via the last grade report they have 215 members compared to the 400 ranger that the other houses have, and they got 82 new members compared to the 100’s the others got.

It shows that they are still int he old ADPi swing house.

[shadokat]

My BFs daughter is a SK at Alabama, and I think they're staying the house they've been in. Her mom sent me photos when they went to visit her, and while it may not be the palace that others live in, it's a pretty house. SK deserves so much more respect on that campus than they get.

Originally Posted by Titchou

It shows that they are still int he old ADPi swing house.

[TLLK]

Originally Posted by Cookiez17

I guess for now they’ll stay in that swing house until something happens. Via the last grade report they have 215 members compared to the 400 ranger that the other houses have, and they got 82 new members compared to the 100’s the others got.

Here's a photo of the swing house that SK is currently occupying. I've read that it's either the former ADPi or AGD house.


https://www.google.com/maps/@33.2066...oASAFQAw%3D%3D

[Pinkmagnolia921]

Originally Posted by TLLK

Here's a photo of the swing house that SK is currently occupying. I've read that it's either the former ADPi or AGD house.


https://www.google.com/maps/@33.2066...oASAFQAw%3D%3D

Thanks! Is the house nice inside? I wonder if it's appealing enough to help them continue to grow at Alabama?

[TLLK]

Originally Posted by Pinkmagnolia921

Thanks! Is the house nice inside? I wonder if it's appealing enough to help them continue to grow at Alabama?

I've not seen any interior photos the house at this point in time. However, I would expect that it is well maintained.

[shadokat]

Again, my BF's daughter lived in the house at Alabama in 2021-22 maybe. It's not nearly as nice as the other houses, but it's still gorgeous. It won't help them grow. They've sort of stalled out around 200-220 members. They usually pull between 50-75% of quota.

Originally Posted by Pinkmagnolia921

Thanks! Is the house nice inside? I wonder if it's appealing enough to help them continue to grow at Alabama?

[Pinkmagnolia921]

Originally Posted by shadokat

Again, my BF's daughter lived in the house at Alabama in 2021-22 maybe. It's not nearly as nice as the other houses, but it's still gorgeous. It won't help them grow. They've sort of stalled out around 200-220 members. They usually pull between 50-75% of quota.

Sorry to hear this, this must be so distressing to the SK collegians at Alabama who believed they were getting their own mansion and thus housing parity with all of the other Sororities. I wonder if they can stay in the swing house indefinitely?

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by shadokat

My BFs daughter is a SK at Alabama, and I think they're staying the house they've been in. Her mom sent me photos when they went to visit her, and while it may not be the palace that others live in, it's a pretty house. SK deserves so much more respect on that campus than they get.

Originally Posted by shadokat

Again, my BF's daughter lived in the house at Alabama in 2021-22 maybe. It's not nearly as nice as the other houses, but it's still gorgeous. It won't help them grow. They've sort of stalled out around 200-220 members. They usually pull between 50-75% of quota.

Originally Posted by Pinkmagnolia921

Sorry to hear this, this must be so distressing to the SK collegians at Alabama who believed they were getting their own mansion and thus housing parity with all of the other Sororities. I wonder if they can stay in the swing house indefinitely?

The campus is pretty well stuck with what they currently have as far as sorority housing and availability.

It's no fault by SK that their first few recolonizing years occurred during a worldwide pandemic AND a well-planned, decade-long general rebuilding of Greek homes by nearly every campus group. In addition, any plans made in 2018 by SK and Alabama to build a new SK home by 2024 changed dramatically due to wildly increased costs for labor and materials.

IMO it isn't logically feasible to close this SK chapter and try colonizing yet another NPC group. Monetary cost is one reason. Another is the Alabama Greek Campus isn't going to magically change by having a different new group to possibly and/or automatically garner more members.

[shadokat]

I couldn't agree more. I don't think they'll close them. They're hanging in there, and they have a great group of women.

Originally Posted by Cheerio

The campus is pretty well stuck with what they currently have as far as sorority housing and availability.

It's no fault by SK that their first few recolonizing years occurred during a worldwide pandemic AND a well-planned, decade-long general rebuilding of Greek homes by nearly every campus group. In addition, any plans made in 2018 by SK and Alabama to build a new SK home by 2024 changed dramatically due to wildly increased costs for labor and materials.

IMO it isn't logically feasible to close this SK chapter and try colonizing yet another NPC group. Monetary cost is one reason. Another is the Alabama Greek Campus isn't going to magically change by having a different new group automatically garner more members.