2023/2024 New Chapters/Expansions/Charters/Closures

[shadokat]

KD is closing their chapter at John Carroll University at the end of this spring semester. Closure appears to be due membership declines.

[PKT4LIFE]

Originally Posted by shadokat

KD is closing their chapter at John Carroll University at the end of this spring semester. Closure appears to be due membership declines.

And this occurred:

https://carrollnews.org/232400/campu...ity-on-campus/

FYI: In the early 2000's, all the JCU locals were required to affiliate with national organizations. I was involved with the JCU "local" affiliating with my organization. Our chapter closed a few years later due to RM issues. As I recall, there were 5 fraternities on campus, now they are down to one.

[Cookiez17]

Sigma Alpha Epsilon will be colonizing at Sacred Heart University in Fall 2024. https://www.instagram.com/p/C5TZ3b8O5YE/?img_index=2

[33girl]

Originally Posted by PKT4LIFE

And this occurred:

https://carrollnews.org/232400/campu...ity-on-campus/

FYI: In the early 2000's, all the JCU locals were required to affiliate with national organizations. I was involved with the JCU "local" affiliating with my organization. Our chapter closed a few years later due to RM issues. As I recall, there were 5 fraternities on campus, now they are down to one.

I've said before and will say it again, I don't think local to national conversions work in the long run if the groups are forced into it.

[Cookiez17]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I've said before and will say it again, I don't think local to national conversions work in the long run if the groups are forced into it.

Funny enough Iona University was thinking of nationalizing all the orgs (there is 1 NPC sorority and 2 IFC fraternities on campus, with 4 local sororities and 1 local fraternity.) but the alumni and members of the locals put up such a fight that it didn't happen. I've also seen some schools that'll have separate councils for the locals and national organizations like Montclair State has.

Sacred Heart University is one case where all the locals went national and it ended up going extremely well for the school, with the overall greek membership going up to a point that they've had multiple expansions for both in the last couple of year.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I've said before and will say it again, I don't think local to national conversions work in the long run if the groups are forced into it.

It worked well at Shorter with one group, and the other one finally gave in years later--I guess their membership had really shrunk because the kids saw the advantages of a national organization.

It hasn't worked so well at other colleges. We dumped our group at one because the old group continued to haze badly. Everyone had been so excited to get them because they were the oldest local. Another sorority almost dumped their chapter but I think they hung in there.

[PKT4LIFE]

Originally Posted by carnation

It worked well at Shorter with one group, and the other one finally gave in years later--I guess their membership had really shrunk because the kids saw the advantages of a national organization.

It hasn't worked so well at other colleges. We dumped our group at one because the old group continued to haze badly. Everyone had been so excited to get them because they were the oldest local. Another sorority almost dumped their chapter but I think they hung in there.

This is what happened to our JCU chapter, they refused to give up "traditions" (AKA Hazing) they did as a local chapter.

[Cookiez17]

Delta Chi will be colonizing at the University of Utah in Fall 2024.

https://deltachi.org/utah-expansion/

[Cookiez17]

Delta Chi will also be colonizing at Purdue University in the fall.

https://deltachi.org/delta-chi-annou...ons-at-purdue/

[PKT4LIFE]

Our Grand Valley State University colony was installed today. A big welcome to our Zeta Sigma chapter brothers.

[PKT4LIFE]

UC Santa Barbara is currently open to fraternity and sorority establishment proposals with the exception of National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) organizations.

https://seal.sa.ucsb.edu/fraternity-...shment-process

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by PKT4LIFE

UC Santa Barbara is currently open to fraternity and sorority establishment proposals with the exception of National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) organizations.

https://seal.sa.ucsb.edu/fraternity-...shment-process

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.

[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.