Catholic Founded/Based Colleges and Universities

[Markasm70]

Originally Posted by LadyBug103

I live in the Northeast PA area, and attend Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, which is adament about not supporting greek life because of the reason that I have stated. The institutions surrounding me don't support greek orgs. , such as Kings College, College Miseracordia, The University of Scranton (which is a Jesuit University), Johnson College, Bible Baptist College, Penn State Branch Campuses (which is a state university obviously, but don't have greek systems because only the main campus does), Marywood University, Lackawanna County Community College. Not ALL of these are Catholic based but the majority are, and it seems as though its consistent that they don't support greek orgs. due to many reasons, which I dont agree with.

I went to Duquesne University, which was mentioned above as having social Greeks (and has had social Greeks since the early 1920s). I live in southcentral PA, and used to work at the national headquarters of a coed honor fraternity. One thing that may be preventing many of those schools from incorporating Greek life is student population size. Where I used to work, we [generally] would not consider starting a chapter at an institution with fewer than 3000 students. While the organizations discussed above are social and leadership-oriented (aside from the professional orgs mentioned at Gergetown), they also must consider the financial side of the organzation and its ability to thrive on a campus. Yes, fraternities too are businesses!

Oh, and many PSU branch campuses are two-year schools, precluding them from approval by many (not all, many!) national charters. However, PSU Harrisburg is now a four-year institution and is seriously contemplating bringing Greek life to that campus.

[khlkcca]

Xavier University (Cincinnati) considers itself a non-greek campus, but there are NPHC groups.

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by khlkcca

Xavier University (Cincinnati) considers itself a non-greek campus, but there are NPHC groups.

? How can that not be consider a Non Greek Campus? Are They not members of the greek community?

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

? How can that not be consider a Non Greek Campus? Are They not members of the greek community?

If you read the thread, you will see plenty of examples of the aforementioned.

[AOE2AlphaPhi]

There are several Jesuit Schools that a lot of students from my high school attend. University of San Francisco, University of San Diego and Santa Clara University. USF and USD both have active greek sytems, although I don't think either have houses. SCU has a greek system but it isn't recognized by the university.

Edit: Santa Clara even sent letters to parents of new students this year warning against the risk behaviors they claimed the Greek system encouraged.

[ADPiLove]

Yeah, USD Greeks do not have school sponsored housing. The only school in San Diego to have houses is San Diego State.

Btw, I don't know if you meant to include them under the category of Jesuit schools, AOE2APhi, but USD is not a Jesuit school.

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

St. Louis University is Jesuit and they have a greek system. I did not attend the school, so I'm not sure about the sentiments on campus.

[BSUPhiSig'92]

Greek Life at Saint Louis U. is pretty strong, with 12 fraternities and 5 sororities.

[OleMissGlitter]

I'm from New Orleans and there are sororities and fraternities at Loyola. Also, my cousin attend Regis in Colorado, it is a Catholic University run by the Jesuit Order of Priests and they do not have Greek Life there. My cousin said that there are some groups that meet, but they are more like social/religious groups there.

I am Catholic by the way and the majority of my family is Greek. Also, most of my sorority sisters are Catholic. I did have a friend from high school tell me it was against the Catholic Religion to be in a sorority. I don't think I'm breaking any rules by being an AOII. If anything, it has made me become a better person and much more charitable person.

[AOIIBrandi]

I don't know about Catholic Universities, but I do know that The University of the South or "Suwannee" as it's commonly referred to has greek life. The school is affiliated with the Episcopal Church.

[sueali]

BYU does not support greek life, and it's not catholic but very religious. I don't attend there, but their in our conference.

[DolphinChicaDDD]

Originally posted by LadyBug103
I live in the Northeast PA area, and attend Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, which is adament about not supporting greek life because of the reason that I have stated. The institutions surrounding me don't support greek orgs. , such as Kings College, College Miseracordia, The University of Scranton (which is a Jesuit University), Johnson College, Bible Baptist College, Penn State Branch Campuses (which is a state university obviously, but don't have greek systems because only the main campus does), Marywood University, Lackawanna County Community College.

I know that area...my brother went to UofS.
Doesn't Kings College have frats? Not recognized by the school.I distinctly remember a friend who said he was a Kappa Sig there...but i could just be making that up in my head.

[GeekyPenguin]

OK, I'm sorry but why are we talking about schools that aren't Catholic in here? There's a big difference between Marquette and BYU.

[shadokat]

I'm not sure why, but none of the schools in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton have Greek Life. Once you get out of that area, and over to like Bucknell, Lycoming, Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, Susquehanna, then the schools have Greek Systems. Once you get south of there, to like ESU, Lehigh, Lafayette, etc., you get Greek Systems again. I don't know what the reason is, but it's always been that way.

Originally posted by LadyBug103
I live in the Northeast PA area, and attend Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, which is adament about not supporting greek life because of the reason that I have stated. The institutions surrounding me don't support greek orgs. , such as Kings College, College Miseracordia, The University of Scranton (which is a Jesuit University), Johnson College, Bible Baptist College, Penn State Branch Campuses (which is a state university obviously, but don't have greek systems because only the main campus does), Marywood University, Lackawanna County Community College. Not ALL of these are Catholic based but the majority are, and it seems as though its consistent that they don't support greek orgs. due to many reasons, which I dont agree with.
Thank you for all of your messages, I wasn't sure if it was a universal thing!! I'm glad that its not!! Now all I have to do is TRANSFER

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
OK, I'm sorry but why are we talking about schools that aren't Catholic in here? There's a big difference between Marquette and BYU.

OMG KATH YOU ARE SUCH A BIATCH!!!1!!

I WISH THE KAPPA SIGS WOULD THROW YOU IN THE LAKE.