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Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life
OFFICE OFFRATERNITY & SORORITY LIFE
Mission Statement
The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life advocates for the American fraternal values movement by providing quality, education, advising, and outreach that empowers values-based decisions and fosters the betterment of the USF students, chapters, and councils.
Accomplishments & Achievements
• Welcomed 1,012 new members into the fraternity and sorority community, • Added one new Interfraternity Council chapter, Sigma Pi. • Established the first fraternity and sorority Bulls Service Break in partnership with the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, with 19 students volunteering for service work in Memphis, TN with a focus on values-based leadership. They packed 672 food boxes at the Mid-South Food Bank, yielding more than 5,000 meals, and visited St. Jude Children’s Hospital. • Launched a new program titled Convocation, which focused on orienting students interested in joining Multicultural Greek Council and National Pan-Hellenic
Conference fraternities and sororities. More than 700 students attended. • Reported higher GPAs in the Greek community as compared to the GPAs of all
USF students • Fall: all-Greek GPA 3.01 vs. all-USF GPA 2.96 • Spring: all-Greek 3.02 vs. all-USF GPA 2.97 • The Panhellenic Association at USF was one of only 14 in the nation (and the only one in Florida) to receive a College Panhellenic Excellence Award from the
National Panhellenic Conference.
All fraternities and sororities raised $177,932.50, which was an increase of 16 percent over the amount raised by all chapters in 2012-2013.
