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- Amazon: The Fraternity Leader: The Complete Guide to Improving Your Chapter
- Amazon: The Chapter President: Preparing Sorority and Fraternity Leaders for the Unexpected
- Amazon: Getting Great in the Door: The Ultimate Guide for Fraternity Recruitment
- Amazon: How to Join a Fraternity
- Amazon: Hazing 101: How We Did It and Why We Did It
- Amazon: Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking
Links of interest
- The Fraternity Advisor - How to Start a Fraternity
- GreekChat - How to start a frat
I was a colonizing member of my chapter. We're part of an international GLO. Here's what we had to do.
Get together 30+ of your campus's leaders and somehow get them to become friends/brothers before they butt heads so much that they start killing eachother.
Establish a constitution and bylaws that everyone can agree on.
Elect an executive board and establish committees.
Figure out what that entire brotherhood thing is all about.
Really figure out what brotherhood is all about.
Make a budget and figure out dues. Fight over dues and budget. Make a new one.
Realize that you had brotherhood wrong.
Figure brotherhood out again.
Devote more time to your burgeoening fraternity than you do to schoolwork and your other organizations combined all the while maintaining your chapter's, your national's and your campus' academic standards.
Study for your GLO's exam (ours was freakin' hard).
Suddenly develop an understanding of brotherhood.
Recruit. A lot.
Establish your presence on campus.
Come to the sudden realization that every single one of these guys will be at your wedding and you, even if you have to fly back early from vacationing in Guam in order to attend a brother's wedding in the snowiest place in Canada, will be at every single one of theirs.
Fight with the administration (a lot. My campus' administration has been becoming infamous for their efforts to quash the fraternities).
Plan events. Lots of events. Get people to come out to your events.
Work on getting your charter (our manual on chartering is freakishly long and is filled with detailed checklists of stuff to have done).
Continue studying for your GLO's exam.
Truly become a brother.
Ritual.
Chartering.
Finding a way to avoid the post chartering slump (your chances of failing are highest immediately after chartering).
Still finding yourself devoting more time to your GLO than to school or other organizations.
It's not easy stuff. Don't try to start a new chapter unless you are willing to put in the work and are willing to risk failure. More importantly, understand that the chapter you attempt to start will most likely not succeed unless it somehow fulfills a need on your campus. A clone of Delta Sigma Phi or Sigma Phi Epsilon simply won't succeed. Each fraternity had similarities, sure, but the Theta Chi chapter at my campus is in no way my fraternity nor is mine Theta Chi. Especially at a school with a small Greek population, starting a clone will only cause one of the organizations to suffer. Given that yours would be the newer and weaker one, you can imagine which organization would be more likely to survive.
The North-American Interfraternity Conference - Member Fraternities