The Fraternity Advisor

It is becoming harder for chapters to find chapter houses. When a chapter does find a new home, there are 5 common mistakes they typically make. The Chapter Can’t Fill […]

Figuring out the recruitment process is extremely difficult for those wishing to join a fraternity. It happens quickly (thus the name rush), and is masked with confusion for those not […]

My chapter is having major issues like talking trash, high tensions, brothers forming cliques and we even had a physical fight. I was wondering what steps should be taken to improve these […]

I am a student of a state school of about 15,000 students that has a relatively small Greek culture. About 12% of my school is Greek. Of course chapters are […]

I recently stumbled upon your website while I was planning on running for president of my fraternity. Your website became very helpful during that process and ultimately helped me become […]

Thanks for providing this great resource for keeping college fraternities going strong across America. I am a 2013 graduate of a small liberal college in the Northeast where I was […]

Our standards board is inconsistent and unfair. How should I go about addressing this? Answer: I hate standards and judicial boards. The reason I dislike them is they typically serve […]

I want to drop the fraternity I am pledging but I don’t want to make 100+ enemies on campus. I actually really like a few of the guys in the […]

As I am sure you know, SAE recently decided to eliminate the new member program from their fraternity. This move has been critiqued extensively the past few weeks, and people […]

My son was pledging a fraternity at Ole Miss and he thought he was “in” though we never received any dues statements which I thought was odd. After returning back […]

We’re having an increasingly hard time getting people to live in the fraternity house. It’s the cheapest place to live on campus, and living in the house gives you cheaper […]

My fraternity is in the process of getting our suspension lifted. I am a newly corporate board member and the rest of corporate board felt that previous active members put […]

I have recently been voted in as my chapter president and little did I know what I was inheriting. I had a meeting with the Greek director at my school […]

So after some troubles our chapter ended up second smallest by the start of our previous fall semester. Our fall rush went really good doubling us in size. Now one […]

My local fraternity is fairly large with 60-70 people. We have a house that holds about 30 men, so we are very close among each other (all pledge classes) and […]