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Losing Morale and Numbers
Hi everyone. This is my first time posting here. My sorority house is suffering with house morale along with dwindling numbers for recruitment. The two situations are very closely related; a lot of girls are down on the house because we cannot recruit more girls. Another reason for low morale is some girls just don’t care to be involved in the house and treat it as a somewhat bearable place to live. Other girls live and breathe our letters and do their best to improve on everything. We are not the most “popular” sorority but we do not have a bad reputation either, we are just in the middle really which is frustrating in itself. We have had sisterhood retreats and specified chapters to address these problems. We seem to be able to pinpoint all the problems and brainstorm possible solutions but they are never carried out. How are we to boost morale? Does anyone have any ideas? It seems as though these girls want to change their attitudes but when new ideas are tested, they work for about a week or so, and then it is back to the old ways of grumbling about going to house events. We want people to be excited to be there. What can we do?
One of the best spring boards we had was that we recently won a lot of other house’s philanthropy events. We thought that this would make for good talk during RUSH as well as a high point in our chapter life. This helped a few girls find their love a bit while other’s opted not to participate and take the fine. The quality of our girls is slipping. Sadly, during fall RUSH we do tend to give a few girls bids who we just semi-like because we need to fill our quota which is about 25. This of course is a huge window of not getting quality girls. Case and point, last fall recruitment we got 20 girls and 6 of them are no longer in the house. 2 we lost to school transfers while the other 4 stopped caring and were either kicked out or dropped out. Getting a lot of girls to join the house is a high point and since we have not met our quota in some time now, the negative attitude of a “bad sorority” is affecting girls’ opinion of their own house. Our house beats their brains out coming up with new skits and ideas for recruitment but every year we seem to come up short. We do the letters days, we do tons of RUSH rehearsals, and we always have the most positive and house-loving girls trying to inspire the other girls. What more is there that we can do? We are in desperate need of help. It’s almost as though our whole chapter needs a make-over and an attitude adjustment.
Everyone knows that as much passion as a few people have for something, it is hard to inspire about 40 other girls to feel it too. Please help. Any ideas are more than welcome. Thank you so much.
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