Functionalize The Fraternity Family Tree
We exist to facilitate relationships, and family trees can be a defining quality of college fraternity and sorority organizations.
We exist to facilitate relationships, and family trees can be a defining quality of college fraternity and sorority organizations.
It seems as if the primary responsibility of most fraternity advisers, advisors, and consultants is to enforce rules. Call it another side effect of ED Delegation Syndrome.[1] Let’s make sense of those terms. Technically, “advisor” and “adviser” mean the same … Continued
Fraternity education is highly centralized and generally wasteful. Focusing funds and learning decisions at the chapter level may increase fundraising and program efficacy.
Can education exist without communication? Whether through spoken language or body language, we have evolved to learn by observing and tweaking, and that natural process seems almost entirely absent from the programming provided by fraternities and sororities, and education … Continued
The 8 week maximum placed on pledging a fraternity was put in place to curb hazing. In practice, however, chapters adjusted by continuing to haze “JI’s” (Just Initiated) through their first year.
Reveal ceremonies, paddles, nicknames and pairings: Those are the things people most often search for when they type any combination of “fraternity” and “big brother” into a Google search. These relationships should be more than that.