This document provides fraternity recruitment tips and advice. It discusses different types of recruits, formal recruitment events, and how fraternities can differentiate themselves. It emphasizes showing prospective members how the fraternity can benefit them and make their college experience more enjoyable. It also stresses that people join people, and shares stories of members who joined due to personal connections with current members or advisors. The document encourages fraternities to authentically care about recruits and be the best hosts.

3. Types of Recruits

4. Types of Recruits Source: North American Interfraternity Conference Always Joiners Maybe Joiners Never Joiners

5. Types of Recruitment Always Joiners Maybe Joiners Never Joiners Formal Recruitment Year Long Recruitment

6. Formal Recruitment

7. Formal Recruitment Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Kappa Sigma Sigma Alpha Epsilon IFC Pool Party Event Bids Tuned in Pi Kappa Phi Kappa Sigma Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi Kappa Phi UC Theater

8. What are we? Sigma Alpha Epsilon

9. What are we? Sigma Alpha Epsilon Brotherhood The True Gentlemen

10. What are they saying? Sigma Alpha Epsilon Kappa Sigma Pi Kappa Phi Brotherhood The True Gentlemen

11. What are they saying? Sigma Alpha Epsilon Kappa Sigma Pi Kappa Phi Brotherhood Brotherhood Brotherhood The True Gentlemen Star and Crescent Pi Kapp Creed

12. What are they saying? Sigma Alpha Epsilon Kappa Sigma Pi Kappa Phi Brotherhood Brotherhood Brotherhood The True Gentlemen Star and Crescent Pi Kapp Creed Social Events Social Events Social Events Intramurals Intramurals Intramurals Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Values Values Values

13. How We Can Be Different

14. TJ Sullivan “ Stop telling prospective members what your organization does. Start showing them what your organization can do for them. Start suggesting ways that they can make a difference, immediately, within your organization. That’s your challenge. Get me excited about your club, your council, your committee, or your chapter. Let me see why you love it. Help me understand how it would make me enjoy my college experience more. Help me see myself in it.” Source: The Hungry Student Leader Blog (TJSullivan.com)

15. People Join People

16. Casey Lang “ I hate Frats. My first two years of college were miserable. I went from class, to work, and then home...One day I met this goofy kid named Manfred Mecoy who asked if i wanted to go to play broomball with some of his friends. I didn’t realize until I got there that it was a recruitment event for SAE. I met a lot of people that changed my view of Fraternities...I still hate Frats, but I love my Fraternity.

17. M. Todd Buchanan “ When I arrived at Ol Miss in 1986, there was only one Fraternity I could join, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Working to put myself through school, I could not accept the bid that was given to be... Joe Clark , the advisor at Miss. Sigma, saw something in me. One night, when i returned to my dorm room, i found an envelope. In it, was a check for my first semesters dues, and a note that said “Pledge Meeting Tuesday at 7.” It is because of Joe that I am an SAE today.

18. What is your story?

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