Evanston, Illinois | Sept. 17, 2024 — Undergraduate Sigma Chis at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, have surrendered their charter and the International Fraternity's Executive Committee (EC) has accepted it, placing the chapter on suspended status effective immediately. The chapter's members made the decision due to due to low membership and recruitment challenges.
It is the Fraternity's goal to eventually return the chapter to campus; however, it has not produced a timetable for doing so. The Fraternity also will partner with the university to ensure that future members of the chapter will have a positive environment where they can be successful in their endeavors.
Undergraduate members of the chapter have been moved to “suspended active status” and will be unable to participate in anything that could be conceived of as a Sigma Chi activity.
“I am certainly saddened to receive this surrender, just as I am with the circumstances underpinning the reasons for doing so. Yet, I am also appreciative of the collaborative manner in which the undergraduate brothers engaged with the International Fraternity throughout the time leading up to this decision,” says 73rd Grand Consul Bob Wilson, FORT HAYS 1981.
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Sigma Chi is one of the largest collegiate fraternities in North America with undergraduate chapters at 230 universities and colleges and more than 355,000 all-time members. Sigma Chi provides a welcoming environment for young men of different temperaments, talents and convictions to enjoy a unique lifelong bond that extends far beyond college. Through world-class leadership training, extensive mentoring programs and a strong focus on academic achievement, Sigma Chi sets itself apart as the preeminent collegiate leadership development organization, challenging members to live by its core values and exemplify Character-in-Action™ in every aspect of their lives, and the lives of others.
