-Be a duly enrolled student in good standing at Southeast Missouri State University.

-Be currently enrolled at  full-time level (minimum of 12 hours).

-Meet or exceed the minimum grade point average either as a high school G.P.A. for first time students or as a cumulative college G.P.A. as a transfer student as listed below:

             -IFC:   at least a 2.5,

              All individual chapters retain the right to require a higher minimum G.P.A. standard for membership, in accordance with their national and local constitution and by-laws.

What Is Recruitment?

Recruitment is a mutual selection process of choosing a fraternity to join. Recruitment is about meeting people and making friends. Recruitment is about finding people with common interests and meeting people from different backgrounds. Common Recruitment events include barbecues, bands, and sporting events. If a fraternity decides it would like you to join, they will offer you a bid. You signify your desire to join a fraternity by signing your bid. After a successful period of learning about the fraternity (new member education) you will be initiated as a member.

Why Recruitment?

BROTHERHOOD - A campus as large as SOUTHEAST provides exceptional extra curricular activities. No other type of organization provides the level of camaraderie found in the fraternities. In fraternity houses, you will find a spirit of mutual helpfulness by which all brothers work together for the improvement of both the chapter and its members.

ACADEMICS - Fraternities provide many resources for academic excellence. Like the Residence Halls, many fraternities offer a study room or computer room. Many fraternities also encourage study hours for new members. Furthermore, many fraternities offer brother tutor programs and files of previous exams. Statistically, fraternity men are more likely to graduate than non-fraternity men and brothers living in-house have had higher GPA's than those living out.

ATHLETICS/INTRAMURALS - Fraternities also offer excellent opportunities for involvement in sports. Most chapters will field teams in a variety of sports including not only Football and Basketball but also Racquetball, Bowling, Inner-tube Water polo, etc. Many fraternities and sororities also sponsor charity sports tournaments.  Sporting events are also a part of Greek Week.

PHILANTHROPY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE - Fraternities offer many opportunities to serve the community. Many chapters organize direct service programs like tutoring, highway clean-up or encourage members to find individual service opportunities such as being a Big Brother.  Chapters also organize fundraising events like athletic tournaments and variety show. In all, Greek students raised over $40,000 and offer over 20,000 volunteer hours in 2002-2003.

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT - The Greek System provides the highest quality social programming on campus. Internally, living with a large group demands compromise, allows individuality, calls for leaders, and provides lifelong memories. Through serenades, Recruitment events, and social events you will learn invaluable presentational skills. Greek system events like Socials, Recruitment events, Formals and Brotherhood events provide opportunities to meet literally hundreds of people, including alumni brothers from around the country that provide a network of opportunities.

LEADERSHIP - The Greek System provides endless chances to develop leadership skills. Internally, chapters have officers, committee chairs, and committees in which to become involved. The college fraternity provides opportunities to learn and hone skills in program planning, sales, communications skills, risk management, debate, building maintenance, financial management, accounting, motivational speaking, arbitration, etc. In addition to the opportunities available internally, Greek System member are well represented in nearly all leadership positions on campus with 63% of Greek students belonging to at least one student organization outside their chapter. Greek Members are involved with the Student Government, Academic Honor Societies, Community Advisors, and have held the position of Student Regent of the Board of Regents for at least the past six consecutive years.

The Power of 2% - Since the founding of the American college fraternity movement in 1776, fraternities have grown to symbolize leadership, independence, scholastic achievement, and service to their various campuses and communities. Fraternity men represent a very small percentage, only 2% of the male population in the United States. However, the 2% is a very powerful group of individuals! Fraternity men have gone on to hold many top positions in our nation from the business world to the political arena.

Approximately 80% of the top executives of Fortune 500 companies are fraternity men. The majority (71%) of those listed in Who's Who in America are fraternity men. 76% of current United States Senators and Congressmen are fraternity men. 40% of the 47 Supreme Court Justices since 1910 have been fraternity men. 100 of 158 cabinet member since 1900 have been fraternity men. All but two United States Presidents since 1825 have been fraternity men.

It is certainly no surprise that today's college and university students express a keen interest in the Greek system. The opportunities are endless and the benefits speak for themselves. Each year thousands of you men enter the working world with the competitive advantage of fraternal experience and alumni contacts.

Explanation of Terms

Active - A man who has been initiated into lifelong membership of a fraternity and is currently in college.

Alumnus - An initiated member of a fraternity or sorority who is no longer in college.

Badge – Pin of an initiated member.

Bid - An formal invitation to join a fraternity, issued in writing directly from the fraternity to a potential new member and confirmed by the appropriate governing council.

Bid Matching – A system of computer matching a potential new member’s preference with a sorority preference.

Call – The verbal greeting members of NPHC organizations use to greet one another.

Chapter - The local chartered unit of a national fraternity.

Continuous Opening Bidding (C.O.B.) - Year-round period where fraternities invite men to their house for social, intramural, and other activities.

Formal Membership Recruitment – The period set aside for events, informationals, and membership selection during the first few weeks of fall semester.

Fraternity – The name applied to Greek organizations, including most sororities; informally it is applied to men’s groups.

Graduate Chapter – A chapter of a fraternity or sorority formed by and for persons beyond their undergraduate years.

Greek - A member of a fraternity or sorority.  These organization and members are named such because they were founded at a time when Greek Society was the epitome of civilized life.

Informal Recruitment – The period set aside for events, informationals, and membership selection during the first few weeks of spring semester, not all chapters are eligible to participate based on current membership numbers.

Intake – The process through which new members are admitted into a NPHC fraternity or sorority.

Initiation – a ceremony by which new members become active members.

Interfraternity Council (IFC) – The local central governing body of NIC affiliated or eligible fraternities.

Junior Panhellenic – An organization of new sorority members which unites and coordinates activities to promote unity and becoming involved in the system.

Legacy - A direct relative (brother, son, etc.) of a fraternity member.

National - The governing body and staff of each National Fraternity who oversees the local chapter.

National Inter-Fraternity Conference (NIC) – The national organization composed of fraternities, each of which is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter-society of college men, undergraduate and alumni.

National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) - The national organization composed of 26 women’s fraternities/sororities, each of which is autonomous as a social, Greek-letter-society of college women, undergraduate and alumnae

National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) – A national organization composed of nine historically African American fraternities and sororities.

New Member/Pledge - A man or woman who has gone through formal pin in ceremonies and is learning the history and purposes of his/her fraternity but has not yet been initiated into life-long membership.

Panhellenic (NPC) – The local coordinating and governing organization for NPC member sororities.

Pi Chi/Personal Recruitment Counselor – An active sorority member serving as a counselor to potential new members during recruitment who has no contact with her chapter during the recruitment period.

Philanthropy – An event or events, such as a sports tournament, that a chapter sponsors with the goal of raising money to donate to chapter’s charity.

Potential New Member – Any man or woman who is not and has never been a member of a recognized social, Greek-letter-society/fraternity or sorority.

Quota – A specified number of new members that each Panhellenic sorority may pledge.

Ritual - The traditional initiation ceremony of a chapter. This is usually the only secret part of a fraternity.

Sorority – The name informally applied to women’s fraternities.