Lehigh University: Alumni

Benefits of Volunteering
for Lehigh's Greek System

Lehigh's Greek system needs alumni volunteers to support individual chapters and members within those chapters, and to carry out the activities of the Greek Alumni Council (GAC). Many fraternity and sorority alumni already serve their chapters and the GAC. A number of chapters have a significant number of involved alumni, but for others, the alumni effort is limited to one or two individuals. This results in the chapter lacking sufficient alumni support, and the involved alumni suffer burnout.

A lesson learned each year is that chapters with significant alumni support perform much better in all phases of Greek life. Another lesson is that the addition of new alumni volunteers brings forth new energy and ideas.

Why get involved?

The unselfish reason is that you want to see your chapter and the Greek system at Lehigh prosper because your own Greek experience was beneficial and because you want to assist your chapter and its members prosper.

There are benefits to you personally as well:

1. You will get to know today’s Lehigh from the student the University perspective better. It’s a strong connection to Lehigh.
2. You will have increased opportunities to meet your old friends from the chapter, and to make new friends among brothers or sisters from classes before and after you.
3. You’ll meet some impressive Lehigh undergraduates.
4. You will have an opportunity to put your personal and professional experience to good use.
5. You’ll have an opportunity to build your skills in leadership, communication, and other various areas of personal and professional development.
6. You may learn something that will help you with your own children or grand children.
7. You’ll experience things from a different perspective.
8. You’ll have an opportunity for a change of pace and a different environment.
9. You’ll get a strong sense of personal satisfaction from seeing your chapter and Lehigh’s Greek System achieve success and excellence.