2022/2023 New Chapters/Expansions/Charters/Closures

[ChioLu]

Originally Posted by Cookiez17

Alpha Delta Chi at UCLA will be closing at the end of the semester. This is actually the Alpha chapter of the sorority.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5V4gpuY7J/

ADX was actually housed - they rented half of the former AEPhi house (The engineering sorority rented the other half, so both were able to have meetings and live as a group.)

And more sad news from UCLA, AGD will be closing at the end of the Spring quarter, due to low numbers. And even worse, they’ve found a buyer for the house, so it appears recolonization won’t be in future plans.

UCLA used to have the strongest Greek advisers. Numbers went way up (chapter size total went from 125 to 200 in a few years). But they decided to let go the great advisers and hire people with less experience for less money, and numbers have gone down since. I was told that they had a rookie Greek advisor to do recruitment with little help this past year. That advisor has already quit.

[Cookiez17]

Originally Posted by ChioLu

ADX was actually housed - they rented half of the former AEPhi house (The engineering sorority rented the other half, so both were able to have meetings and live as a group.)

And more sad news from UCLA, AGD will be closing at the end of the Spring quarter, due to low numbers. And even worse, they’ve found a buyer for the house, so it appears recolonization won’t be in future plans.

UCLA used to have the strongest Greek advisers. Numbers went way up (chapter size total went from 125 to 200 in a few years). But they decided to let go the great advisers and hire people with less experience for less money, and numbers have gone down since. I was told that they had a rookie Greek advisor to do recruitment with little help this past year. That advisor has already quit.

Sad that this and the USC chapter closed after being recolonized recently. I had no idea about the advisor situation, that sounds terrible!

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by ChioLu

ADX was actually housed - they rented half of the former AEPhi house (The engineering sorority rented the other half, so both were able to have meetings and live as a group.)

And more sad news from UCLA, AGD will be closing at the end of the Spring quarter, due to low numbers. And even worse, they’ve found a buyer for the house, so it appears recolonization won’t be in future plans.

UCLA used to have the strongest Greek advisers. Numbers went way up (chapter size total went from 125 to 200 in a few years). But they decided to let go the great advisers and hire people with less experience for less money, and numbers have gone down since. I was told that they had a rookie Greek advisor to do recruitment with little help this past year. That advisor has already quit.

UCLA also had at least one NPC group, chosen within past decade to recolonize, that never did. Do you know their reasons for never recolonizing?

[lake]

Originally Posted by ChioLu

UCLA used to have the strongest Greek advisers. Numbers went way up (chapter size total went from 125 to 200 in a few years). But they decided to let go the great advisers and hire people with less experience for less money, and numbers have gone down since. I was told that they had a rookie Greek advisor to do recruitment with little help this past year. That advisor has already quit.

Dumb question...I thought chapter advisors were volunteer positions? Or do some receive a stipend? Or are you talking about the positions in the FSL office?

It p!sses me off that this is just the normal way things work now: "Let's do it as cheaply as possible and say we care about quality, while letting quality tank." That seems to be the standard that everyone follows, or is forced to follow.

[*winter*]

-Let’s do it as cheaply as possible

(While continuously raising tuition)

Sorry to hijack

[LaneSig]

Lehigh University(PA) is open for IFC expansion.

[ChioLu]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

UCLA also had at least one NPC group, chosen within past decade to recolonize, that never did. Do you know their reasons for never recolonizing?

AXiD was to recolonize after AGD, but it had to be within three years of AGD recolonizing and numbers didn’t support that. DDD closed due to low membership in 2017. They were supposed to recolonize as early as 2022 but the chapter total numbers on the row has not supported that either.

Of the 10 remaining chapters at UCLA, I believe two are under total. With the lackluster 2022 fall recruitment, I hope they readjust total (lower) before recruitment this fall to keep the system healthy.

[ChioLu]

Originally Posted by lake

Dumb question...I thought chapter advisors were volunteer positions? Or do some receive a stipend? Or are you talking about the positions in the FSL office?

It p!sses me off that this is just the normal way things work now: "Let's do it as cheaply as possible and say we care about quality, while letting quality tank." That seems to be the standard that everyone follows, or is forced to follow.

The FSL office. When the strong FSL advisors left, UCLA hired someone with 1 year experience, but at a lesser salary. You can’t financially live in LA for what they wanted to pay.

[Cookiez17]

Delta Upsilon will be colonizing at Villanova University in the fall! By the way, does anyone know what happened to the Gamma Phi Beta colony? It was suppose to happen last year.

To add Delta Upsilon will also be colonize at Virginia Tech in the fall too.

[navane]

Originally Posted by ChioLu

The FSL office. When the strong FSL advisors left, UCLA hired someone with 1 year experience, but at a lesser salary. You can’t financially live in LA for what they wanted to pay.

Are you talking about Troy? He was an amazing Greek Life Coordinator at San Diego State and we lost him to UCLA. He is now at CSU Dominguez Hills.

[TLLK]

Originally Posted by navane

Are you talking about Troy? He was an amazing Greek Life Coordinator at San Diego State and we lost him to UCLA. He is now at CSU Dominguez Hills.

Is Troy the FSL advisor at CSUDH now? Asking as my son will start as a transfer student this upcoming fall.

[LaneSig]

Phi Kappa Theta has been invited to establish at Christian Brothers University(TN) in Fall '23.

[Cookiez17]

Phi Kappa Theta has several expansions slated for the next year.

Univ. of Texas at San Antonio (Spring 2023)

Slippery Rock University (Spring 2023)

Purdue University (Spring 2024)

University of North Carolina Wilmington (Fall 2024)

Louisiana State University (Fall 2024)

[Cookiez17]

Congrats to Lambda Theta Nu for becoming the first Latin-based sorority at Pepperdine University! They had 10 charter members.

[navane]

Originally Posted by navane

Are you talking about Troy? He was an amazing Greek Life Coordinator at San Diego State and we lost him to UCLA. He is now at CSU Dominguez Hills.

Originally Posted by TLLK

Is Troy the FSL advisor at CSUDH now? Asking as my son will start as a transfer student this upcoming fall.

Yes, he has been for a number of years now.