Student Centers’ Policies
Chartered Fraternity
and Sorority Recruitment
Chartered Fraternities and Sororities are allowed to recruit
on campus under the guidelines of formal and informal recruitment
as regulated by local and national governing bodies. Recruitment
of University freshmen is a privilege regulated by chapter standing
within the Chapter Assessment Program (CAP). You must be a Gold,
Silver or Bronze chapter to recruit first semester freshmen students.
All full-time undergraduate students wishing to be part of the
recruitment process must do so by registering for recruitment
on-line at http://www.udel.edu/student-centers/FandS/recruit/index.html.
Students also agree to pay any recruitment fees as set by the
local governing councils. Entering the recruitment process does
not guarantee an acceptance into any Fraternity or Sorority.
Selection of members (bid process) is at the discretion of individual
chapters and is not controlled by the University of Delaware.
The new member education (pledging) period of Fraternities and
Sororities may not be longer than six weeks from “bid” night.
A “Bid” is an invitation to a student to become a new member
of a fraternal organization. “Bid-night” is set by the local
governing councils and it is a formal event where the initiation/education
process begins. In an event where “bid-night” does not occur
through formal recruitment (for example, Continuous Open Recruitment
[COR] during informal recruitment) the six week new member education
period (pledging) is still in effect. A chapter that does not
initiate its new members within six weeks after “bids” are issued,
and reports this event and new members to their national organization,
will be in violation of University policy and charges will be
brought against the organization through the University of Delaware
judicial system for "Failure to Comply."
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