Interfraternity Council recruitment numbers increased slightly this spring, compared to last year’s process, which a council leader attributed to potential new member retention.

Assistant Dean of Student Life Brian Joyce said 132 students registered and attended recruitment events, and 91 students accepted bids from fraternities out of the 93 offered this spring, marking an 8.3 percent increase from last spring’s 84. IFC President Henry Lau said the council focused on promoting recruitment through tabling and social media posts to boost the number of new members.

“We’ve focused more of our efforts into marketing as well as promotion and heavily encouraged and communicated to our chapters to do the same,” Lau said in an email.

Lau said the IFC retained potential new members throughout the weeklong recruitment process last month. He added that the council established guidelines regarding recruitment and promoted events through tabling and social media posts to ensure the process guaranteed all participating chapters had an equal opportunity to get to know each potential new member.

“Recruitment went pretty well this semester with no challenges and went smoothly with every chapter doing their part to contribute to a successful and fair recruitment cycle,” Lau said in an email.

Joyce said the increase can be attributed to this year’s larger number of initial participants compared to the fall’s 51, as well as higher retention from Orientation Day to Bid Day. Joyce said Kappa Sigma had the highest number of accepted bids with 16, while Sigma Alpha Epsilon was the only fraternity with zero accepted bids.

Joyce said 10 students accepted bids from Alpha Epsilon Pi, seven from Beta Theta Pi, 15 from Delta Tau Delta and two from Phi Gamma Delta. He added that 15 students accepted bids from Sigma Chi, 11 from Tau Kappa Epsilon and 15 from Zeta Beta Tau.

The IFC’s boost in recruitment came in the wake of an overall dip of almost half last semester compared to fall 2023, due to scheduling conflicts and a lack of consistent communication between IFC and chapters.