VSU’s 12 fraternities and 10 sororities comprise of around 15% of the entire student body. Joining a Greek organization allows you the unique opportunity to make lifelong friends from all walks of life. Politicians and Hollywood celebrities, world leaders and local activists, captains of the football team and captains of the chess team, all call a fraternity or sorority home.

Did you know?

• Forty-three of 50 of the nation's largest corporations are led by Greeks?
• Three Fourths of Congress is Greek?
• Two-thirds of all Presidential Cabinet members since 1900 have been Greek?
• 63 percent of the U.S. President's cabinet since 1900 have been fraternity men.
• Of Supreme Court Justices since 1910, 85% have been Greek?
• Since fraternities began in 1825, all but three US Presidents belonged to a fraternity?
• Twenty-five United States Presidents have belong to Greek-letter organizations.
• Eighty-five percent of the Fortune 500 chief executives belong to a fraternity?
• Today, 65 fraternities with over 6,000 chapters on more than 800 campuses in the U.S. and Canada, include 400,000 undergraduates and a total living membership of over 4.5 million?
• Similarly, there are 26 sororities with over 2,660 chapters in the U.S. in Canada and a total membership of more than 2.5 million women?
• Well over 7 million dollars and a million man hours are contributed to charities and social service agencies each year by fraternities alone?
• Fraternities and sororities have maintained a higher grade point average than the undergraduate average at most universities.
• Greek organization members have a higher graduation rate than non-members.
• A study by the Center for the Study of College Fraternities found that fraternity and sorority members we significantly more satisfied with their college experience than non-members.
• 77 percent of Who's Who in America are Greek.

Fraternity men represent about 2% of the male population of America. What is happening to that 2%? They are leading this nation! Approximately 80% of the executives of the 500 largest corporations in America are fraternity men. More than three fourths of our U.S. Senators are fraternity men, as are a majority of the men listed in Who's Who in America. Of the sixteen U.S. Presidents who had a chance to join a College Fraternity, thirteen took advantage of the opportunity. So many College Presidents have been fraternity members that the total would run into the thousands.

How and why are fraternities able to produce such a large percentage of our nation's leaders? The easiest way to answer this question is to examine just what happens in a Fraternity.

A college fraternity provides a young man with the opportunity to learn how to work together with people, whether it be for the highest grades, the best homecoming float, a community service project, or merely to keep the house clean. A fraternity provides a unique combination: family, home away from home, social organization, business and organization in which students can develop confidence as they acquire competence. The opportunities for leadership are unlimited and the most important thing is that the principles of leadership are learned through experience.

This experience teaches Fraternity men that success is not automatic, but rather, that knowledge and performance are what count most. A Fraternity man learns how to develop sensitivity regarding the desires, goals, and aspirations of others; how to communicate, how to inspire, how to motivate; the importance of setting an example; how to delegate responsibility; and how to accept failure as well as success and glory. He learns that a true leader must have the courage to stand up for his beliefs, while also being attentive, interested, and responsive to those who may disagree.

Too many students come to college, sign up for classes, study from test to test memorizing material and feeding it back at test time. They may get good grades and graduate, but it is surprising how many college graduates are wandering around looking for jobs because they did not develop the ability to work with people or the basic qualities of leadership while they were in college. The qualities of leadership must be tested and developed by each person and a fraternity provides the opportunity for students for just that.