Shout out to those Recruitment Committees!

Vermont, Nu Gamma, at this year's Greek awards

As the National Council will be meeting in a few days, our executive director, Tom, has been working to compile statistics on this last academic year.

Guess what. Recruitment was good. 

For the first time since Tom can remember, every chapter/colony has either had positive growth or no growth.

Out of 17 chapters, only two remained the same, others grew as much as 46%!!!

Even the lowest growth margin occurred at 10%, a healthy growth!

What were some big picture reasons for this growth on our campuses? Comment below.

Here's one of my favorite recruitment videos.

P.S. Thanks for being patient about the new website, each day more content is added, feel free to email me or call Tom if you all have questions.

derrick.dubois@phimudelta.org

Regional Leadership Consultants

Evening all!

As you may, or may not, know I will not be returning as your Director after this year. It has been an honor to serve you all and to help give back to the organization that has given me so much. I have made countless connections, been able to travel to all of our chapters, learned amazing bits of history, restarted a chapter, and been given the opportunity to leave my mark on a great organization...And somehow I was paid to do all of it!

Video credit: Jake Dubois, Nu Gamma

Next year this position will split into two, one man will cover the Nu district and the other will cover the Mu/Sigma districts. These men will spend less time on the road and more time helping our chapters. They will also have the opportunity to run expansion efforts!

I have full faith that the men I met on the road will be able to lead this fraternity on a national level in the near future. If not you, who?  

Email questions, comments or concerns to me at derrick.dubois@phimudelta.org

Frostburg State University -- Mu Omicron

Courtesy of FSU Alumni Association, Facebook

FSU is located in the pan handle of Maryland. Its student body and alumni have heavy connections with Baltimore and Washington D.C.

Frostburg State University Greek Life has a long history of local organizations. In fact, there are more local groups than national fraternities currently. This provides an interesting challenge for our men. No, we do not want the men that join these local organizations, as they have a tumultuous reputation. We may want their friends or roommates. Mu Omicron, like many of our chapters, consistently battles the poor reputation that is shed on the Greek Life community.

Courtesy Andy Krehbiel, Facebook

I had the privelege of speaking with Father Ed, Doug B., and Dr. Bowling (all of which are members who joined as professionals). Each of them spoke of the community's remarkable change and growth but that there is a long way to go. They all recognized that Phi Mu Delta was central to that growth.

Prior to the end of winter break, Mu Omicron ran into some grade troubles with several officers. Our men were quick to fix the issue and move forward. Two gentlemen stepped forward to fill those roles and put in place a concrete plan which included chair binders, effective meeting agendas and the reworking of the organization's work-flow.

Problem solving and efficient meetings are definitely a strong suit in Maryland, along with a laundry list of others.

Founder's Day -- A reminder that we are still relevant?

What are we doing? What is this thing we are a part of? There are academics, national headquarters staff, writers, television hosts and professional speakers who are all paid for their professional opinion on the matter.

And you know what? They all have different answers. Many change their definition of fraternity and some of them even have trouble defining what fraternity is. (If you are going to recruit, you better shape up your answer...and don't just say: brotherhood. People benefit much more from your experiences than some generic answer.)

For 96 years, this fraternity has operated, succeeded, failed and, most importantly, continued on. This year alone we will take more new members than we had active just 8 short years ago! Our ideals are present in each chapter and we are growing. This semester we are working on chartering three colonies.

The question of relevancy is answered. Fraternity is relevant. People are joining us and there is an interest from campuses nationwide. But why? What is it that we offer and, as always, how can we improve with the times?

Happy Founder's Day, please take time to reflect and celebrate the ideals of this fraternity (and the men who brought this gift to you).

Here's brother Marpheen, Nu Xi, speaking about his why.
(Edit 3/4, I realized I had used the above video in an earlier post)

So here's another..

Dan J. of Nu Xi, speaking about his why.

Derrick Dubois

Director of Chapter Services

derrick.dubois@phimudelta.org