Fraternity Leadership

Fraternity Exec Boards vs the Brotherhood

This question was submitted by one of our readers. If you have a question you want me to answer go here to submit it: Fraternity Advice. Question: Our fraternity has several problems: morale, feeling like the Fraternity Executive Committee makes decisions without the majority’s wishes in mind (aka brothers have no say and that several [...]

50 Best Summer Ideas for a Fraternity Leader

I asked those on my email list the following question: What is your single best piece of advice for a fraternity leader this summer? Below is a compilation of the 50 best answers I received.  Thanks to all those who responded. 1. Just because it’s summer time doesn’t mean your work stops. The summer affords [...]

How to Get Your Fraternity Ideas Supported

I’m going to start with a short story about fraternity ideas and how they get supported. Luke is a true fraternity guy. He attends every event and holds the Director of Fundraising position in his chapter. He loves the fraternity. But one day, Luke has a problem. Grad Night, a highly anticipated and special event [...]

An Overwhelming Sorority Experience

I had a special honor last night – I was invited to speak to the women of Kappa Delta Sorority at NC State. This was a first for me, and to be honest I wasn’t quite sure what to expect.  I have given my keynote presentation to men several times, but never to women.  I [...]

Should I Quit or Rebuild My Fraternity?

This question was submitted by one of our readers. If you have a question you want me to answer go here to submit it: Fraternity Advice. Question: I have been with my fraternity at a smaller college for about 2 years now and it seems like the end of the road is nearing. When I [...]

Why Teams Win

I love college hoops. I am from Tobacco Road, and college basketball isn’t life or death around here. It is much more important than that… In this post, I’m going to tell you exactly why teams win. There are basically two ways to win in modern day college basketball. The Kentucky Method First, you can [...]

6 Steps to Take Your Fraternity From Awful to Awesome

This question was submitted by one of our readers. If you have a question you want me to answer go here to submit it: Fraternity Advice. Question: Our chapter is and has been falling apart and I’m concerned about our future.  Many of our brothers do NOT agree with our exec board’s decisions because of [...]

5 Reasons Why Your Fraternity Does NOT Need Committees

This question was submitted by one of our readers. If you have a question you want me to answer go here to submit it: Fraternity Advice. I hate to be the guy that tells you what you want is wrong, but that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Unless your chapter is REALLY big, fraternity [...]

How Does a Fraternity Get Rid of an Exec member?

Question: I’m the newly elected president of my fraternity and with that we have a new exec. They are all studs except for one. He got elected because no one else ran (A problem within itself). Anyways, he’s extremely busy and struggles to make exec meetings and other fraternity events. He’s very stubborn and it’s [...]

How to Handle Brothers Who Quit After Losing Fraternity Elections

This question was submitted by one of our readers. If you have a question you want me to answer go here to submit it: Fraternity Advice. Question: After elections, people who don’t get elected often deactivate from our fraternity. How do we stop this? Answer: This is very sad. Just to clarify though, I hope by deactivate [...]