Kevin Coffey, Oregon State ’16, (right) solicits feedback from Faculty Fellow Scott Paja at the Oregon Alpha Residential Learning Community.
The road to the top SigEp faculty fellows weigh in on what it will take to become the premier student organization By Tyya N. Turner
Competition among fraternities is as old as the Greek system itself. Attract the top students. Provide the best experience. Win the most campus awards. The formula has stayed roughly the same for more than a century. Now, SigEp is raising the bar even higher. The new target: surpass its position as the No. 1 college fraternity and become the leader among all collegiate organizations. But what does the road to the top look like when the competition includes non-Greek organizations?
To help answer this question, we turned to SigEp’s faculty fellows, specifically faculty fellows at our Gold Buchanan Cup-winning Residential Learning Communities. These volunteers—among the most accomplished in their respective fields—provide a crucial link between chapters and their host institutions, and their chapters are models for sustained success and partnership with higher education. SigEp’s Residential Learning Communities combine fraternal and institutional missions to provide students with unparalleled academic support and co-curricular experiences. And the Gold “Buc Cup”—reserved for groups that have performed at the highest level for at least five consecutive Conclaves—means that each of these chapters has spent a decade or more at the top of SigEp’s leaderboard. With SigEp’s new vision of excellence in mind, the 12 faculty fellows at these chapters shared their thoughts on the path forward.
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