A new way to determine the best Greek Campuses?

[Ilaria Ame]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

The biennium before last JWH Cup went to Kappa Tau at Southeastern Louisiana University. Small school but AOII rules the roost. My little brother went there and would tell everyone that his sisters (My older sister and I were at another school) were AOIIs. He said that AOIIs were the pretty girls and everyone was always impressed that he had AOII sisters! Ha! I always thought that was funny!!

are you AOII from southeastern? my (fantastic!) sister-in-law is a sister there. jackie rodriguez...now jackie holcomb.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Ilaria Ame

are you AOII from southeastern? my (fantastic!) sister-in-law is a sister there. jackie rodriguez...now jackie holcomb.

No...my sister and I were at Lambda Tau in Monroe! Kappa Tau is a great chapter, though!

[PeppyGPhiB]

Gamma Phi Beta's top collegiate awards at convention 2006 went to our chapters at:

University of Idaho (Xi)
Cal State Fullerton (Delta Delta)
Colgate (Delta Tau)
Kansas State (Beta Upsilon)
Indiana (Beta Phi)

Very interesting assortment of chapters, I think.

[Alpha Sig Scott]

From the Alpha Sigma Phi Tomahawk: "The Grand Senior Presidents Award is awarded biennally during every Grand Chapter. This award recognizes our two premier chapters accomplishments during the previous two-year period."

2006 Winners:

Bowling Green State University, Gamma Zeta Chapter

Ohio Wesleyan University, Epsilon Chapter

[azureblue]

ADPi's highest award is the Maxine Blake Golden Lion Hall of Fame, and it is sure hard to get!

This award is presented during each Convention to chapters that excel in all areas of chapter operations and programming for a minimum period of six years. The chapters that are presented this award must have received Diamond Four Point 5 of the past 6 years, qualify for the Excellence Award for the current year, have received the Stanard Leadership Award or the Maxine Blake Golden Lion Award within the past six years, have received six Excellence awards in programming since the last Convention, and are considered Alpha Delta Pi’s first and finest on their respective campus.

Golden Lion - Thirteen total awarded at the 2007 Convention

Beta Tau - University of Akron
Alpha Eta - Kansas State University
Epsilon Nu - Ashland University
Kappa - Samford
Beta Omega - Auburn University
Alpha Kappa - University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Zeta Nu - Clemson University
Eta Xi - Presbyterian College
Delta - University of Texas
Eta Epsilon - Miami University (Ohio)

Delta Phi - University of Missouri, Kansas City (first time winner!)
Zeta Sigma - College of Charleston (first time winner!)
Gamma Theta - Mount Union College (first time winner!)

[exlurker]

Phi Kappa Psi at LSJU
The student paper at LSJU has an article about the Phi Kappa Psi chapter there that has again won a top national award:
http://www.stanforddaily.com/article...dNationalAward

[exlurker]

Originally Posted by azureblue

ADPi's highest award is the Maxine Blake Golden Lion Hall of Fame, and it is sure hard to get!
. . .

Golden Lion - Thirteen total awarded at the 2007 Convention

Beta Tau - University of Akron
Alpha Eta - Kansas State University
Epsilon Nu - Ashland University
Kappa - Samford
Beta Omega - Auburn University
Alpha Kappa - University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Zeta Nu - Clemson University
Eta Xi - Presbyterian College
Delta - University of Texas
Eta Epsilon - Miami University (Ohio)

Delta Phi - University of Missouri, Kansas City (first time winner!)
Zeta Sigma - College of Charleston (first time winner!)
Gamma Theta - Mount Union College (first time winner!)

Congratulations to them all! And since there's been mention of campuses, not just chapters, I notice that both ADPi and GPhiB at Kansas State have achieved "top" recognition. So congrats to Kansas State, too.

[exlurker]

Two "Top" Chapters at UNC-Chapel HIll in 2007

http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/me...-3007652.shtml

The article focuses on an NPC sorority, Kappa Delta, but notice that toward the end a multicultural fraternity's "top" award is mentioned, too (Psi Sigma Phi, Inc.).

[ealymc]

Apparently , the Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter at Central Arkansas won the national Top Chapter award this summer at convention.

[AOIIalum]

Originally Posted by ealymc

Apparently , the Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter at Central Arkansas won the national Top Chapter award this summer at convention.

No apparently about it. A quick check of the Sig Ep national web site shows that the Arkansas Zeta chapter at the University of Central Arkansas was one of the recipients of the Buchanan Outstanding Chapter Award in 2007.

[exlurker]

U. of Arkansas: "Top" Pi Beta Phi Chapter

See the university's press release about the upcoming (October 14, 2007) presentation of the award, the Balfour Cup:

http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/11560.htm

[barbino]

Originally Posted by exlurker

U. of Arkansas: "Top" Pi Beta Phi Chapter

See the university's press release about the upcoming (October 14, 2007) presentation of the award, the Balfour Cup:

http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/11560.htm

Thanks for letting us know, exlurker. I guess that I don't look at the national website or Convention results enough. It's really impressive that the U. of Arkansas chapter has won the Balfour Cup not once, but twice.

[Tygerj11]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

I don't think her forgot - this thread is from 2002.

umm... actually he did because we have won it three times in a row now and the prize is given out every two years. we won in 2006 for the third time so u do the math=P

[wildcatfan]

Originally Posted by Betarulz!

For Beta Theta Pi, four chapters won the John Reily Knox award for Chapter Excellence at the 163rd Annual Convention.


Nebraska
Kansas State
Northwestern
Miami (OH)

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Gamma Phi Beta's top collegiate awards at convention 2006 went to our chapters at:

University of Idaho (Xi)
Cal State Fullerton (Delta Delta)
Colgate (Delta Tau)
Kansas State (Beta Upsilon)
Indiana (Beta Phi)

Very interesting assortment of chapters, I think.

Originally Posted by azureblue

ADPi's highest award is the Maxine Blake Golden Lion Hall of Fame, and it is sure hard to get!

Golden Lion - Thirteen total awarded at the 2007 Convention

Beta Tau - University of Akron
Alpha Eta - Kansas State University
Epsilon Nu - Ashland University
Kappa - Samford
Beta Omega - Auburn University
Alpha Kappa - University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Zeta Nu - Clemson University
Eta Xi - Presbyterian College
Delta - University of Texas
Eta Epsilon - Miami University (Ohio)

Delta Phi - University of Missouri, Kansas City (first time winner!)
Zeta Sigma - College of Charleston (first time winner!)
Gamma Theta - Mount Union College (first time winner!)

I found this thread and thought I'd add a few more Kansas State chapter awards to the list. Gamma Alpha chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma won the national award for Most Outstanding Chaper (only one chapter named each year) in 2004, and FarmHouse Fraternity won the Ruby Cup for the top chapter in the nation in 2007. (I know FH is not greek letter, but they are a member of IFC and have won the K-State Top Fraternity Award out of 26 fraternities for the last two years as well.)

Go 'Cats!!

[violetpretty]

The highest award a Sigma Kappa chapter can win is Three Stars in the Standards of Excellence program. It is given to chapters who excel in a wide variety of areas including sisterhood, academics, programming, Panhellenic relations, recruitment, leadership, etc. It's not so much of a competition among chapters, but just chapters challenging themselves. Theoretically, every chapter COULD get three stars since there are outlined criteria (far above minimum standards) of what a chapter must achieve to get the award.

There were 11 Three Star chapters last year:

Alpha Sigma, Westminster College (PA)
Alpha Chi, Georgetown College (KY)
Beta Zeta, University of Maryland
Delta Chi, University of Central Oklahoma
Epsilon Delta, Susquehanna University (PA)
Epsilon Tau, California State University, Fullerton
Epsilon Chi, Virginia Tech
Theta Zeta, University of Virginia
Theta Theta, Albright College (PA)
Kappa Zeta, Elon University (NC)
Kappa Iota, University of Pennsylvania

There are other awards that include one chapter as the best in a specific category, and a few (3-5) honorable mentions. Plus, there are recognition awards for sisterhood (19 chapters recognized) and academic achievement (36 chapters recgonized). Beta Zeta, University of Maryland won more of these awards/honorable mentions than any other Sigma Kappa chapter, including:

Best Public Relations
Honorable Mention for Excellence in Recruitment
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Implementation of the Promise Program (Our NM program)
Honorable Mention for Best Member Development Programming
Sisterhood Recognition Award
Academic Achievement Award

I really don't think I am being biased when I say my chapter is awesome.