Gems from the FSL Consulting report

If you take this down then you're afraid to look at yourself and see the truth of your incompetence. Here's what some of the key points of that consulting report say:

-Fraternity and Sorority Life lacks direction. There does not seem to be a common mission, vision, values, or guiding perspective leading the programming, budgeting, decision making, and advising structure of the organization. This has led to disjointed advising and position structures and a perception by students that programming is haphazard.

-Their characterization of what a balance between work and life might be is limited and seems skewed towards life. The balance portion of work life balance indicates that both are done at relatively equal levels. However, in this case, work seems to suffer due to a consistent choice towards life when work and life schedules conflict.

-Students feel largely ignored by university staff. The students reported feeling as if they are a ‘dirty secret’ of the institution, while staff feel their guidance over the years has been to keep the community out of the press.

- Even when significant information was turned over to the office, either no process was completed, or partners are not informed of any outcome. This has led staff and faculty from across campus to question whether they should bother to report concerning behavior.

-Campus partners, faculty, staff, and advisors feel the Fraternity and Sorority Life staff are not interested in accountability and either ignore issues or delay any response long enough that the situation is already closed. The students see the currently accountability process as unconstructive.

-This is probably my favorite and points to the overall issue with greek life at this school and why FSL needs to be reworked to fix this:
The Greek Community is fractured between the Inter-Cultural Greek Council (ICGC) and Interfraternity Council (IFC)/Panhellenic Association (PHA), with culturally-based fraternal organizations advised by the Center for Multicultural Student Services (CMSS) and all other fraternal organizations advised by Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL). Many different stakeholders, including staff and students, commented they would like to see a closer relationship between the three councils. However, due to a lack of attendance by IFC/PHA members when ICGC hosts an event meant to bring them closer, there is a feeling within CMSS that the efforts are not valued, and the interest is empty rhetoric. While it is commonly seen as a best practice for all fraternal organizations to be advised by the same office and staff, in this case, the ICGC is getting outstanding support and guidance from the CMSS staff. The organizations would not receive the same advising level if they were brought under Fraternity and Sorority Life in its current structure and form.

It's so blatantly evident that FSL sucks at their job and David Chew and his egotistical lackeys need to get replaced with staff that actually care about greek life and want to see it thrive, instead of treating us like some dirty little secret part of student life. look at VCU, UVA, even VT, where organizations come together to support each other in times of need, for the betterment of the university community, and to create a superior greek experience. wanna know why being in greek life sometimes feels like something you have to hide? Because this office doesn't do a good job of fostering an environment where u can be proud of it.