Recruitment/Expansion Observations

The fraternity and sorority community at Ball State needs to create a more intentional, and targeted recruitment program that focuses on the values of the community and targets students who buy into those values. An expansion plan to bring in strong new fraternities is also necessary in order to create an orderly and systematic way to deal with any attrition of chapters.

SOA and the councils should consider an expansion plan that looks forward in 3 to 5 year intervals.
SOA and the councils need to work with Orientation staff, Residential Life, and other departments to discuss opportunities for facilitated access to desired students at crucial times in order to educate those students about the right reasons to join a fraternity or sorority.
Alcohol needs to be eliminated from the fraternity recruitment process completely (as well as in the new member period).
Greek leaders should identify opportunities to interact with non-Greek students throughout the year.
Work with the assessment office to conduct market research to determine specific reasons why students are not joining Greek organizations.
SOA and community leaders should create open, year long values based recruitment plan and train members on how to recruit properly.
Councils and chapters must work together to have a large impact. Chapters are all trying to make noise on their own, instead of all the groups coming together and unifying their voices.
IFC and Panhellenic should identify the chapters that need the most recruitment help and provide them with additional education and training.
Panhellenic should consider several critical areas in their formal recruitment process that need revisions: the location, timing, content, etc. PHC needs to figure out a way to fix their worst PR problem: sorority recruitment in the residence halls.