Summer is almost over. Wow that went quick. Potential new members are doing all the research they can ahead of recruitment to make sure they get into one of their top houses. For the last several years we have put together the GreekRank rankings of the best fraternities and sororities in the country in the in each of our categories. Here are GreekRank’s Fall 2017’s top sororities and fraternities in the categories of Sisterhood/Brotherhood, Involvement, Classiness, Popularity, Looks, Fun, And Overall Highest Ranked...
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The 96th Miss America pageant, will be held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Sunday, September 11, 2016. In total, there are 52 young women competing for the title of Miss America 2017. 17 of the 52 are currently or were recently active in a sorority. Let’s highlight the sisters who are representing their chapters on the grand stage....
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The Big Ten consists of 14 schools that compete with one another in a large conference and all have impressive backgrounds. Each school has something they excel in or what they are most known for. It’s the first thing that pops into your head when you hear the school’s name....
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We are highlighting one quintessential sorority chapter or each state in our nation. We’ve already selected the chapters for the first 25 states. Here are numbers 26-50. These sororities are being recognized for their philanthropy work both on and off campus. Each chapter is a proud representation of their respective states....
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You have made one of the biggest decisions of your life to go to college. Congratulations! However, that’s not the only decision that you’ll have to make when it comes to college life. Another important decision that you’ll probably make is the decision to go Greek in college.
Greek life has lots of benefits to offer to its members – opportunities to build a network, social/community activities to participate in, a strong brotherhood bond to maintain, and many more! However, one of the biggest challenges college guys face at the beginning of their Greek life is choosing the right fraternity for themselves....
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Every chapter has one. An alumni advisory board - a group of women who graduated years ago, still show up to meetings, still read your bylaws, still send emails when something looks off. And most active members treat them like a necessary inconvenience. I was one of those members. I was wrong.
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A civil lawsuit out of San Luis Obispo is making the rounds, and it involves a former Cal Poly student accused of hitting multiple victims and leaving them behind. The plaintiffs' description - "left like run-over garbage" - is not the kind of language you forget. And when a story like this gets attached to a name connected to Greek life, whether directly or by proximity, it raises a question worth sitting with: what does accountability actually look like inside these organizations, and does Greek membership change anything about how it plays out?
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Every chapter has that one position that nobody really campaigns for during elections. The social chair gets the hype. The president gets the respect. The treasurer gets the headaches. But the academic chair? He's just the guy who sends reminder emails before midterms and maybe puts a sign-up sheet on the whiteboard for study hours. That's the reputation, anyway. And it's completely wrong.
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Southwestern University just introduced a new Associate Director for Fraternity and Sorority Life, and honestly, my first instinct was the same one most Greeks probably have when administration shuffles around FSL staff: mild panic, followed by a lot of "what does this mean for us?" vibes. But after sitting with it for a minute, I think that reaction says more about Greek life's complicated relationship with oversight than it does about any one hire.
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When I was a GDI freshman, I used to walk past the fraternity houses on a Friday night and assume I understood exactly what was happening inside. Loud music, zero oversight, total chaos. That was my mental model. Then I joined a chapter sophomore year and realized the actual experience was way more regulated than anything I'd imagined - and honestly, way more interesting to think about.
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