Benefits
When your student belongs to a fraternity or sorority, they enjoy a wide range of benefits:
- Scholarship - FACT: 74 percent of Case's Greeks have a G.P.A. of 3.00 or better. To maintain these high levels of excellence in the Greek system, members must have a minimum G.P.A. of 2.0 to be eligible.
- Leadership - Greek members have many opportunities to gain valuable leadership experience. Chapters generally have 8 to 10 officers plus a variety of committees which students can join. Through it all, your son or daughter gains important knowledge and experience in organizing and working with people. This experience also can help them become involved with other organizations and find a job upon graduation.
- Friendship - College life can leave students feeling alone, but the Greek system helps connect students to campus. Greek Life promotes the development of close ties between members by working toward common goals, living, and having fun together.
- Programming - Greeks at Case sponsor events throughout the year to allow members to meet new friends and relax after a week of classes. Functions include trips, workshops, interfraternal mixers, Campus activities, and small private gatherings of chapter members.
- Community Service - Fraternities and sororities work to support local charities, such as Rainbow Babies' and Childrens' Hospital, and national philanthropies such as The American Heart Association. In 2007-2008, the Greeks at Case helped donate clothes, books, pints of blood, $53,649 in cash, 15,354 cans of food, and 648 days of work (15,555 hours). They worked together as individual chapters and as a united team, to help dozens of local charities.
For more information about the benefits of Greek Life, please read our recruitment section.