WELCOME! 

Hello Fraternity and Sorority Life!

We hope that you have had a great kickstart to your Fall Quarter, whether this is your first time at DePaul or your final Fall Quarter. We are thrilled to introduce our new monthly newsletter for Fraternity and Sorority Life. It is our hope that through this newsletter, we can connect with our FSL community in its entirity to share out news, programs, information and resources! 

We cannot believe that the Fall Quarter is almost complete! If you have any questions about what is presented in the Newsletter, please reach out to your Chapter/Council President or connect with your Council Advisor. 

The Fraternity and Sorority Life Team
Office of Student Involvement 
 

Welcome Tito Castañeda! 

Tito Castañeda is our new Coordinator for Student Organizations and Fraternity & Sorority Life. In his role, Tito will oversee student organization and Fraternity & Sorority Life policies and procedures including annual re-registration, new student organization registration, event submissions and their intersection with university requirements, and oversight of university policies and their applicability to student organizations. He will also advise the Interfraternity Council and National Pan-Hellenic Council, within the FSL community. Be sure to stop by the office to welcome Tito!

FSL Staffing Roles

Mary Osbourne: MOSBOUR1@depaul.edu
Associate Director OSI 

• Fraternity and Sorority Life 
• Student Organizations 

Tito Castañeda: ACASTAE1@depaul.edu
Coordinator, Student Orgs and FSL

• Interfraternity Council (IFC) 
• National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC)

Patrick Rezek: PREZEK@depaul.edu
Coordinator, FSL and DemonTHON

• Multicultural Greek Council (MGC)
• Panhellenic Council (PHC)

Kate Dybas: FSL@depaul.edu
FSL Specialist

CAN CAN 4 CANS

FSL is so excited to announce that we are hosting our first annual food drive for the DePaul Basic Needs Hub this November! There will be boxes in the Lincoln Park Student Center Atrium with pictures of our CANdidates from various FSL chapters. Place your donations in the box(es) of the CANdidate you think you know (there will be clue sheets to help you guess)! The event will take place from November 6th through November 9th and will have a total reveal of who the CANdidates are and how much we collected on November 10th! Follow our FSL Instagram at @depaulfsl for more information! 

FSL DeHUB Website

We have just updated our FSL DeHUB website. This website was created to provide chapters with a one stop shop for all things you may need for FSL as a member or an officer. The website has information on overviews of our councils, a resource page for FSL forms & surveys (which is linked on the side) as well as a helpful resource page for things such as SAF-B and CAF-B funding, catering from chartwells, and more. Save the links to your computers or devices and reference them as often as you'd like!

FSL 101 is BACK! 

FSL 101 is an educational program that offers newly initiated/inducted members an opportunity to gain more knowledge and understanding on what it means to be a part of the Fraternity and Sorority community here at DePaul. In this module series, newly initiated/inducted members will be introduced to campus partners such as the Office Health Promotion and Wellness, the Office of Gender and Equity, and our 4 Cultural Centers at DePaul. Newly initiated/inducted members will also engage with vital information surrounding hazing prevention work, social norms, alcohol and other drugs, and learning more about the governing structures and makeup of our FSL Community.

This is a required educational program from FSL and is necessary for newly initiated/inducted members to complete to be in good standing as a FSL chapter. Chapters with Members who fail to complete FSL 101 within the allotted time frame will be unable to host events and make space reservations on campus until FSL 101 has been completed by all new initiates/inductees. For more information, please refer to the FSL Policy and Resource Guide on the sidebar of this newsletter!

Officer Leadership Series (OLS)

Over the past year, FSL staff have worked tirelessly to program opportunities to better place members and chapter leaders in positions of success around organizational management. We are thrilled to announce our educational training series called Officer Leadership Series (OLS). This educational training series offers chapter leaders and members direct support, guidance and solutions to organizational management services such as booking spaces on campus, managing chapter membership rosters, and completing quarterly reports. Each training series is equipped with step-by-step video tutorials led by FSL staff to best support your experiences! Looking to train executive board members on how to create DeHUB events- there is a video for that! Looking to teach out FSL policies and resources for your members- there is a video for that!

OLS can be accessed by all FSL leaders and members through our FSL DeHUB website. The link is provided below. As we see the needs grow and develop for our FSL community, we will continue to grow OLS programming. If there is programming that you would like to specifically see, we would love to know!